Service five

UAE Market Entry.

From licence to a functioning, properly priced operation.

Scoped per engagementFinancial model built before anything else

Priced on the entity structure, whether the products need regulatory approval, and how much of the operation we build rather than advise on.

The misconception

A plan built on twelve even months will miss badly.

Most businesses arrive with a home-market forecast. This market does not trade that way.

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Ramadan reshapes trading for a monthSummer takes a large part of your customer base out of the countryHeat changes logistics, storage and footfall for half the yearQ4 has to carry what the rest of the year cannot

A flat forecast assumes every month behaves the same way. Press the toggle to see what the year actually looks like, and what it does to a plan built elsewhere.

The numbers come first

There are hundreds of company formation experts in Dubai who will get you a licence and sometimes a bank account. We support all of that, but the licence is where we start rather than where we stop.

Before anything else we build a financial model with you: every assumption priced in, the investment required, the breakeven point and the expected return.

This is where most international businesses go wrong. They price for this market using home-market assumptions and end up busy but unprofitable.

What we build
  • Entity structure, licensing and regulatory approvals
  • A full financial model: investment, breakeven, return, and pricing built for this market
  • Product and regulatory compliance, so what you sell can legally be sold here
  • Commercial real estate and office fit-out
  • Hiring, with local market HR expertise
  • Manufacturing, logistics and supply chain
  • Brand localisation and go-to-market
  • The operating model, and the people to run it once you are live
Straight answer

We are not interested in launching a business here that will not make money here.

If the model says it will not, we would rather tell you before you spend the money than after.

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