Boutique Advisory — Gulf & MEA
Procurement.
Technology.
Performance.
We help GCC enterprises cut through overpriced vendor contracts, fix broken procurement, and deploy AI where it actually moves the needle. Operator experience — not slide decks.
Our Conviction
Most advisory firms hand you a deck and leave. We’ve built the functions we advise on — hired the teams, run the sourcing events, signed the contracts, and lived with the results. When we tell a client their vendor is overcharging by 20%, it’s because we’ve sat on the other side of that table.
Services
What We Do
Procurement Transformation
CoreMost GCC enterprises over a certain size are bleeding money on procurement — they just don’t have the function to see it. We build procurement teams from a blank org chart: writing the policies, selecting the tools, hiring the people, and running the first sourcing events until the muscle memory takes hold. Vendor consolidation, spend-under-management targets, RFP/RFQ process design, and procurement technology selection — all from operators who’ve done it at a Fortune 500 BPO.
Enterprise Tech Advisory
Save 15–30%Enterprise software vendors price to what they think you’ll accept, not what the product is worth. We sit on your side of the table for vendor evaluations, contract negotiations, and technology roadmaps — and we know the playbook because our advisory partner spent fifteen years on the sell side. That means we know where the margin is buried, which SLA terms are negotiable, and when a vendor is bluffing. We also help with platform migrations, ERP selections, and build-vs-buy decisions where the wrong call costs years.
AI Adoption Advisory
2–4 week sprintEvery vendor is selling AI right now. Most of it is repackaged automation with a markup. We help you separate signal from noise: which processes actually benefit from AI, whether to build or buy, how to deploy local models that keep your data in-house, and how to negotiate with AI vendors who are still making up their pricing. Our advisory partner has deployed production AI systems — local LLMs, vision models, automated pipelines — so recommendations come from hands-on experience, not analyst reports.
Turnaround & Restructuring
100-day programmeWhen a PE firm acquires a company or a board decides something has to change, the first hundred days define the outcome. We run a structured operational assessment — what’s working, what’s costing you, and where the quick wins are — then execute: cost reduction, technology rationalisation, team restructuring, and process automation. Both founders have built functions from scratch in large enterprises, so we know what survives contact with reality and what stays on a slide.
Start-up Advisory
Sprint or retainerWe work with founders past the idea stage but hitting operational walls — hiring wrong, signing vendor contracts they’ll regret, or building tech stacks that won’t scale past Series A. We bring the enterprise playbook without the enterprise overhead: go-to-market sharpening, operational setup, procurement foundations so you stop overpaying from day one, and introductions across our Gulf network. Short sprint engagements or ongoing advisory, depending on where you are.
Our Approach
Diagnose. Design. Deliver.
Diagnostic
Two-week deep assessment of the current state — people, process, technology, and contracts. We identify the value at stake before prescribing action. No assumptions. No pre-built frameworks.
Design
We write the roadmap you’ll actually execute — sequenced, costed, with names next to every initiative. Nothing leaves our desk without a price tag and a deadline.
Deliver
We don’t hand off a PDF and disappear. We run your sourcing events, sit in vendor negotiations, and train your people so the results stick after we leave.
The best procurement advice comes from people who’ve signed the contracts themselves.
Leadership
Our Team
Managing Partner
Procurement & OperationsWalked into a company with zero procurement infrastructure and built a 30-person function from scratch — policies, systems, team, the lot. Has personally negotiated contracts north of $60M and knows what vendors look like when they’re padding margins. MBA Finance, University Topper BSc CS.
Advisory Partner
Enterprise Technology & AIRan enterprise tech sales and P&L across 7 countries — then went home and built AI systems that actually run in production. Knows both sides: what vendors promise in the pitch and what they deliver six months later. Fifteen-year network spanning the Gulf and Asia-Pacific.
Geography
Markets We Serve
GCC Enterprises
UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar — telecom, BPO, financial services, real estate, government and semi-government entities. We understand the regulatory landscape and business culture across the Gulf.
PE / VC Portfolio
MEA and APAC holdings requiring procurement optimisation to improve EBITDA post-acquisition. We work with fund managers to extract value from portfolio companies in the first 100 days.
Mid-Market & Start-ups
Companies in the $50M–$500M range and funded start-ups — large enough to benefit from strategic procurement, too lean for in-house capability. We scale with you.
Let’s talk.
Every engagement starts with a conversation — no pitch decks, no obligations. Tell us what you’re working on.
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