Make the existing path speak.

A 3D-printed clip that turns any handrail into braille, raised numbers and a glow in the dark. No app. No battery.

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The problem

Independence ends at the door.

Floor, exit, room: all on walls, out of reach of a hand.

21.8M

people in MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) live with moderate-to-severe vision impairment.

A hand resting on a bare steel handrail.
The handrail is already in their hand. It is completely blank.
A yellow DALIL clip on a grey rail, from the film.

A small clip that makes a handrail readable.

Slide along the rail. Your hand meets each clip without searching.

Nothing yet

Keep sliding.

  1. A yellow DALIL clip fitted around a steel stair handrail, people walking past below.
    1

    Clip

    Snaps on in seconds. No tools.

  2. A hand slides along a steel rail and meets a yellow DALIL clip.
    2

    Find

    A sliding hand meets it without searching.

  3. Render of a yellow DALIL module with a raised number 12 and braille dots.
    3

    Read

    Braille and a raised number: Floor 2. Exit left.

No app. No battery. No renovation.

One tactile grammar. Any message.

Ribs tell the hand first. Choose one to see which messages carry it.

  • Module with three ribs, a raised G and braille.

    Ground floor

    Safety
  • Module with four ribs and braille.

    End of stairs

    End of stairs
  • Module with three ribs, a raised arrow and braille.

    Exit, turn left

    Safety
  • Module with one rib, a raised arrow and braille.

    Lift ahead

    Information
  • Module with one rib, a raised P and braille.

    Prayer room

    Information
  • Module with one rib, raised numbers 201 to 215 and an arrow.

    Rooms 201 to 215

    Information

Designed for every level of sight.

Touch
Braille for people who are blind
Sight
Contrast and raised numbers for low vision
Darkness
Glow for everyone when the lights fail
A pale green DALIL clip on a steel rail in daylight. With the lights off it glows.
Visualisation: a person climbs a dark stairwell while DALIL clips glow green along the handrail.
Visualisation

One clip. Every place it can go.

The same module and the same tactile grammar work wherever a hand follows a rail or a handle.

  • Render of a stairwell with a DALIL clip on the handrail.

    Stairs

    Stair handrails, Ø30-50 mm

  • Render of a classroom door with a DALIL clip on the lever handle.

    Schools

    Classroom doors, lever handles

  • Render of a hospital corridor with a DALIL clip on a timber wall rail.

    Hospitals

    Corridor rails: flat, oval, timber

  • Render of a metro carriage with a DALIL clip on a vertical pole.

    Metro

    Carriage poles, platform rails

  • Render of a bus with a DALIL clip on a grab pole.

    Buses

    Grab poles, Ø32 vertical

  • Render of a terminal rail with a DALIL clip.

    Airports

    Terminal and boarding-bridge rails

  • Render of a tower balustrade with a DALIL clip, the city behind.

    Towers

    Stair-core doors, lever handles

  • Render of a mall gallery with a DALIL clip on the balustrade handrail.

    Malls

    Balustrade handrails

We welcome competition. Here is why we win.

DALILWall tactile signsApp and beacons
Found byThe hand, on the railSearching a wallA phone screen
CostAED 130AED 180-400Hardware and an app
Install time1 weekAbout 6 weeksWeeks
Works in a blackoutYes, it glowsNoOnly with a phone
Arabic brailleBuilt inOften English onlyAudio only

Cheaper. Faster. No apps, no batteries.

Financials

10k buildings. AED 170M market. UAE alone.

  • Towers3k buildingsAED 62M
  • Education2k buildingsAED 33M
  • Hotels1k buildingsAED 33M
  • Healthcare3k buildingsAED 28M
  • Government and culture700 buildingsAED 9M
  • Malls, airports and metro150 buildingsAED 5M

Priced per floor. Everything included.

AED 18k

an average building

AED 87k

a hospital

The same hospital, fitted out
DALIL AED 87k, installed
Imported wall signs AED 118k-263k, plus installation

Included

  • Site visit and measuring
  • Custom-fit clips and door tags
  • Installation
  • Accessibility map

Plus a yearly care plan

Our first 24 months.

  1. Month 1

    Set up

    Workshop and printers ready

  2. Month 6

    Certified

    Fire and braille approved

  3. Month 12

    First customers

    First paying buildings installed

  4. Month 24

    22 buildings

    AED 346k revenue in year 2

We are looking for our first customers.

Starting with our own campus, then Sharjah, then the UAE.

The people behind DALIL.

  • Portrait of Ahmed Nazar.

    Ahmed Nazar

    Founder

    Owns the product itself, from specifications and classification to marketing, production and the information behind every product we deliver.

  • Portrait of Mohammed Alarcon.

    Mohammed Alarcon

    Co-founder, sales and business development

    Handles sales, presentations and client relationships: positioning the product, communicating its value and turning opportunities into business.

Two founders. One city. Every handrail can speak.

We are building it in Sharjah, and we would like Sheraa and our investors to build it with us.

Help us make the UAE a more accessible country.

We designed, printed and fitted DALIL in Sharjah. Now let’s put it on every handrail in the Emirates.

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