The most expensive sentence in small-business tech: "we'll sort that out later."

I keep meeting Dubai businesses retrofitting privacy notices, consent steps and data-deletion processes under pressure — at triple the cost and none of the calm — because the rules stopped being optional while nobody was watching.

The boring truth about compliance: it's cheap exactly once, at the beginning. Every month of "later" quietly raises the price. The best time was at launch. The second-best time is before someone official asks.