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Software Development for Teams in Malta, Built with AI Agents

If the software you need will generate, capture, control or process essential regulatory records for gaming, a licence question sits beside the engineering one: the Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) requires a B2B critical gaming supply licence for supplying and managing it from Malta, to a Maltese person or through a Maltese legal entity. Outside gaming the common problem is quieter. Engineers in Türkiye viewing your production data can count as a GDPR transfer, so the paperwork belongs in place before access is granted, not after.

Curiosive is a studio in Ankara, Türkiye, giving teams engineering capacity: a product built end to end, or an embedded partner on monthly engagement. AI coding agents do the volume of implementation and tests, and a senior engineer reviews every change before it merges. Local clocks run one or two hours behind Ankara, so most of the working day is shared. The code is yours from the first commit, and there is no long contract to begin.

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Malta's Data Protection Act and engineers working from Türkiye

The national statute is the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta, Act XX of 2018), which replaced Chapter 440, and the supervisory authority is the Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) at idpc.org.mt. As of 2 October 2026, Türkiye is not on the European Commission's list of adequacy decisions. EDPB Guidelines 05/2021 treat remote access from a third country as a transfer when the three transfer criteria are met, even if it only means displaying personal data on a screen for support or troubleshooting. So if our engineers help run a system holding your users' data, that access needs a Chapter V tool, such as Standard Contractual Clauses under Decision (EU) 2021/914. They come in four modules, so pick the one that matches each party's role, and note that under Clause 14 both sides warrant they have no reason to believe the destination's laws prevent compliance. Keep personal data out of development environments where you can, and sign before production access is granted.

Working hours between Malta and Ankara in winter and summer

Ankara stays on UTC+3 all year because Türkiye does not use daylight saving time, while Malta runs on GMT+1 in winter and GMT+2 in summer. In winter Ankara is 2 hours ahead: our 09:00 start is 07:00 for you, our 18:00 finish is 16:00, and your 09:00 is 11:00 for us. That leaves 7 shared hours in a standard 09:00 to 18:00 day. In summer the gap narrows to 1 hour. Our day then runs from 08:00 to 17:00 your time, your 09:00 is our 10:00, and the overlap grows to 8 hours. Either way the one short weekly call fits easily inside both working days. Work runs on Türkiye business hours, so our day ends at 16:00 your time in winter and 17:00 in summer. Decisions are written down asynchronously and a releasable increment lands every week, so nothing waits on a conversation late in your afternoon.

Gaming licences and the MDIA sandbox for software built for Malta

Two national regulators can shape a software project before any code exists. Where gaming software falls under the MGA's B2B critical gaming supply licence described above, the cost is a one-time, non-refundable €5,000 application fee plus an annual fee of €25,000 for revenue up to €5,000,000, €30,000 up to €10,000,000 and €35,000 above that. For solutions built on innovative technologies such as blockchain and AI, the Malta Digital Innovation Authority, established in 2018, runs a Technology Sandbox with a residency of at most four years and phased assessments by MDIA-authorised Systems Auditors that can lead to full MDIA certification. Both affect scope: which entity supplies the system, which records it keeps and what an auditor will need to see. Settle these before the first task is written. It is worth confirming the licence position with a lawyer.

How agentic software engineering works for teams in Malta

Each task starts with an engineer writing acceptance criteria and the boundaries the agent must not cross. A coding agent such as Claude Code or Cursor reads the existing code, plans, implements, writes or updates tests, and runs the type checker, linter and test suite before proposing a change. A senior engineer reviews every diff, and agents never merge their own work. That gate matters more when agents write the volume: data models, authorisation, payment paths and anything touching personal data stay with engineers, as would the regulatory records a gaming system keeps. Agents make scaffolding, migrations and wide refactors cheaper; they do not make judgement cheaper. Our starting prices are in US dollars while the country uses the euro, so settle currency when scope and budget are agreed in writing. We rebuilt Zing Coach (zing.coach) from Webflow to Next.js, revived RateItAll and its 12M+ reviews, built AI vector search for Appster and maintained the Detailed SEO Extension, used by 600,000 SEOs, through its acquisition by Ahrefs.

Proof

Published project examples

design.computer

design.computer

Release Coach AI

Release Coach AI

Inspire Film

Inspire Film

Reveal Software

Reveal Software

Poppin

Poppin

Zing Coach

Zing Coach

AI-accelerated development
from$2,000
per month

Senior engineers building your product with AI coding agents: web, mobile, SaaS or browser extension, reviewed before anything ships.

  • Web, mobile, SaaS and browser extensions
  • AI-assisted delivery under senior engineer review
  • Scope and capacity agreed in writing, renews monthly

AI-accelerated development, billed monthly. We confirm scope, capacity and start date in writing before checkout.

Questions

The things people ask before starting.

Can a company in Malta outsource software development to a team in Türkiye under GDPR?

Yes, with a transfer tool in place. Türkiye has no EU adequacy decision as of 2 October 2026, and EDPB Guidelines 05/2021 treat remote access to EU-stored personal data from a third country as a transfer when the transfer criteria are met. Standard Contractual Clauses under Decision (EU) 2021/914 are one such tool, signed before engineers get production access.

What is the time difference between Malta and Ankara?

Two hours in winter, one hour in summer. Ankara is on UTC+3 all year, while local time switches between GMT+1 and GMT+2. That gives 7 shared hours in a standard 09:00 to 18:00 day in winter and 8 in summer, with our day starting at 07:00 or 08:00 your time.

Does gaming software for a Maltese operator need an MGA licence?

It can. The MGA's B2B critical gaming supply licence covers supplying and managing software that processes essential regulatory records for gaming, from Malta, to a Maltese person or through a Maltese legal entity. Work runs as AI-accelerated development, starting from $2,000 per month, with scope agreed in writing. Annual fees run from €25,000 to €35,000 by revenue, or a fixed €10,000 for providers supplying only Type 4 controlled skill games.

How much does a software development monthly engagement cost for a Maltese company?

Work runs as AI-accelerated development, starting from $2,000 per month, with scope agreed in writing. Our prices are published in US dollars as starting points, not quotes. Scope and budget are agreed in writing after a discovery call, with no long contract and no lock-in.

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How it starts

What happens after you write to us.

  1. 01

    You describe the product

    One paragraph on what you are building, roughly when you need it, and who it is for. No brief, no form with fifteen fields.

  2. 02

    You get a reply within a day

    From the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team. If we are not the right fit we say so, and where possible we point you somewhere better.

  3. 03

    You get a scoped plan

    Scope, price and timeline in writing before anything is committed. You decide with the numbers in front of you.

No long contract to begin, no lock-in to our tooling, and the code is yours from the first commit.

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