Bidaya
How we work
Terms a firm that couldn't deliver would never publish
How we work
Most consultancies publish nothing and explain everything on a call. We publish the terms, because the terms are the proof: a firm that couldn't deliver against them wouldn't put them in writing.
The first month carries no notice
Every monthly engagement begins with a full month at the full monthly rate, and the thirty-day notice is waived for it. Finish month one and walk away owing nothing further. There is no setup fee and no weighted first month. The price of month one is the price of every month.
Every engagement can end on thirty days' notice
Rolling engagements have no term. Term engagements, for work that has to hit a date, run six or twelve months, reserve capacity and lock the rate, and can still end on thirty days' notice. Fixed-scope projects are paid at milestones, and the milestone is the exit. The cost is variable where a hire is fixed, and there is no asterisk.
Monthly engagements from AED 12,000
That is the published floor for the executive layer inside a business. What sits above it depends on scope: how many of the four functions, how much of each, how often. Project work is scoped and quoted after the call. Proposals set out the options by scope; the site does not.
Unpaid discovery ends at the thirty-minute call
Where you stand and the first call carry the discovery for most engagements, and most go straight to a proposal. When the scope isn't clear from those, discovery is paid work: the first phase of the engagement itself, or a standalone study scoped from the project floor. Nothing beyond the first call is free, and nothing beyond it is vague.
When you don't need us, we say so in writing
The read, the study and every proposal can conclude that a business doesn't need a monthly engagement. When that's true, it's written down, with what to do instead. One defined piece of work is a full outcome, not a consolation. So is doing it yourselves, with our method.
Handed back in a form that runs without us
Everything we build is documented and owned by the client: the reporting pack, the registers, the process, the systems. What can run on its own is set up to. If we leave on thirty days' notice, the business keeps working.
Payment
Monthly engagements are paid before the month begins. Projects are paid at milestones, typically at signing, at a mid-point deliverable and at handover, and work begins on the first payment. Quarterly and annual options exist; ask.
What past first months delivered
A company that did not exist on day one. Within about thirty days it held its trade licence, a ninety-day plan, a financial forecast, a feasibility study under way, a hiring plan, and the job posts for its founding team.
A marine consultancy, already trading. Over one engagement: free-zone licensing, corporate-tax registration and the FTA certificate, a financial review of the business as it stood, and the migration of its systems.
Neither is a promise of what a first month will deliver. Each is what one did.
Questions we're asked before the call
Is the first month a trial?
It is a full month of the engagement at the full rate, with the notice waived. Bidaya works the month as if it will be the first of many. The client decides at the end whether it is.
Why pay upfront?
Because the exit sits next to it. Thirty days' notice on every engagement, and no notice at all in month one. The pairing is the answer.
Do you charge for the first call?
No. It is thirty minutes, and it ends with a proposal, a scope for paid discovery, or the reason we're not the right firm.
What if the business is too early?
Then the read will say so, and so will we. Three things to do yourselves, with the method, and when it changes.
Who does the work?
Bidaya, with a bench of licensed specialists included in the fee where the work needs them. The client has one firm to call.