Lumitech launches Tolmete to show businesses where they are losing profit

Dubai-based software company Lumitech has launched Tolmete, an artificial intelligence platform designed to help service businesses identify where profit is being lost across active projects while managers still have time to respond.

Profitability has become a key test of business growth in the UAE. A company may gain more customers and increase revenue, but higher staffing costs, unplanned work, and project delays can reduce the profit behind that growth.

The pressure is especially important for small and medium-sized businesses. SMEs contribute 63.5 per cent of the UAE’s non-oil GDP, making stronger margins important for future investment, hiring, and growth.

The issue is often not a lack of data. Most service businesses already collect the information they need. The problem is that this data is spread across different systems. Task management tools track estimates and delivery, professional services systems handle time and billing, while financial software records invoices. Tolmete connects these records while projects are still active. It links delivery activity with the commercial plan and helps managers see when project spending starts moving ahead of completed work.

Tolmete focuses on a simple operational question:
Is a project using its budget faster than the team is completing the work?

The platform integrates with tools such as Jira, Asana, QuickBooks, and Zoho. Businesses can therefore continue using their existing project management, time-tracking, and accounting systems.

Tolmete compares planned effort, approved time, and task progress. For example, if a feature is 50 per cent complete but has already used 70 per cent of its estimated time, the platform can flag the difference. Managers can then investigate the issue and adjust staffing, scope, or project timing before the problem becomes larger.

The platform works with structured project records and does not read private communications, code repositories, or meetings. This can be useful for SMEs with small finance teams because they can gain better project insight from information they already use.

“Growth can hide weak delivery economics for a long time because revenue keeps moving in the right direction,” said Denis Salatin, Founder and CEO of Lumitech. “In a market growing as quickly as Dubai’s, finding out at month-end carries a higher cost.”

The launch also reflects Dubai’s growing focus on applied AI and digital transformation. The UAE’s Digital Economy Strategy aims to increase the digital economy’s contribution to GDP from 9.7 per cent to 19.4 per cent by 2031.

AI alone cannot improve a company’s profit margin. Reliable data, clear controls, and timely management decisions remain essential. Tolmete aims to improve the timing of those decisions by showing where project delivery and budgets begin to move apart before the project is complete.