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A 90-day seat with Adnan Feroz for the decision that is too big for your current room: a deal that has to close, a market you have to enter, a company that has outgrown its structure, a board that needs a strategist. I bring the structure, the numbers, the principals and the signature.
USD 30,000 a month. Ninety days. Three to four seats a quarter.
The call fee is credited in full against anything you buy within 30 days, and refunded if I turn the file down. No custody of funds, no guaranteed returns, no spec work.
What the seat actually buys
Four practices, one desk. You hire the person who has founded, structured, financed, entered and sold, and who still sits in the room until it is signed.
Structure, counterparties, terms, governance, paper and the negotiation itself. The file goes from stuck to signed, with me on your side of the table.
From idea or inherited mess to an investable, operational, scalable company: business model, financial model, operating system, management controls and AI where it pays. I ran six McDonald's corporate stores with a combined 800+ crew before I structured my first deal; the operating discipline comes from the floor.
Validate the market, structure the investment, establish operations, win the first customers. Both directions, through companies I already operate on both ends of the corridor.
A continuing strategic counterpart to the founder or CEO: decisions, priorities, capital allocation, risk and execution, while your operating team stays accountable for the operating.
What you think you need
How a seat runs
Diagnose → Validate → Design → Implement → Scale. At day 30 there is a formal feasibility review; if the economics are not sound, the recommendation may be to change direction or stop. That is part of what you are paying for.
Decision memo, structure map, counterparty map, financial baseline. Your weekly principal call is fixed. First introductions where the file is a deal.
Feasibility review with numbers: does the deal, the market or the model hold? Go, redirect or stop, in writing.
Business architecture, deal structure or entry route, with terms drafted, operating system designed and the capital case built.
Negotiation, paper, dashboards, owners and deadlines. Principals in the room. The signature, or a documented reason why not.
Decision pack handed over. Continue month to month as fractional strategy counsel or a board seat, or close the file clean.
The maths, then the price
The seat is my rack rate bought in bulk: 30 hours a month at USD 1,000 an hour. You are not paying for hours; you are paying for the thousand calls you will not have to make.
Deposit refundable if the file is not accepted. Continue after day 90 month to month at the seat rate, 10-hour minimum, 30 days' notice.
40 hours a week × 52 weeks = 2,080 hours at USD 750 an hour. Billed monthly in advance.
I take this seat only where I can see a path to ten times the fee inside the first year. If I can't see it on the call, I'll tell you.
Rack rate USD 2,000 → 90-day seat USD 1,000 → annual seat USD 750 an hour. Volume and certainty buy the rate.
Prices in US dollars, exclusive of UAE VAT where applicable. Invoiced by Adnan Feroz Properties L.L.C., Dubai, UAE. Introductions, structuring, strategy and negotiation support only; nothing here is investment advice or a securities offering. Each client receives written interest disclosures before engagement. Online payments are processed by a third-party provider; card receipts show the invoicing entity.
Who gets a seat
Proof
We issued Adnan Feroz a written global mandate to represent the group, negotiate terms and finalise contracts on our behalf. That is not a decision we take lightly.
He designed the holding architecture for our international expansion and holds our financing mandate for India and Dubai. He asks the questions a board should be asked, and then he does the work between meetings.
Within months he had brought us into conversations with enterprise groups we had no route to. He closes the loop between a handshake and a signed scope.
Questions
A firm sells you a team: a partner for the pitch, then an assigned hire for the work. The seat is the opposite. You get me, one on one, and I run my own companies, hold my own mandates and sit on my own boards while I do it. I have carried the risk you are carrying. A consultant writes the deck and leaves; I stay through the negotiation and the signature, and the fee is a fraction of a firm's retainer for a fraction of the attention.
Because it filters. The people I want to talk to value their own time at more than USD 500, and the fee removes everyone else from the calendar. It is credited in full against anything you buy within 30 days and refunded if I decline your file, so a real client never pays for it.
My rack rate is USD 2,000 an hour. A 90-day commitment buys it at USD 1,000: 30 hours a month, tracked and reported. The seat replaces a chief dealmaker, a strategy consultant, a market-entry adviser, an introducer and a negotiator, and I only take files where ninety days of my attention is worth many multiples of the fee. If your file is smaller, I will say so on the call.
Volume and certainty. Two thousand and eighty committed hours let me plan a year around one company instead of a quarter around one file, so the rate drops from USD 2,000 to USD 750 and you get the whole desk, full-time. I take one annual seat at a time, and only where I can see a path to ten times the fee inside the first year.
Deals and restructurings die from silence. Thirty days gets you a memo. Ninety days gets you through the five gates: diagnosed, validated, designed, implemented and either signed or stopped with a documented reason. Shorter engagements produce advice, not outcomes.
Yes. The call, the decision session and the seat deposit are paid online by card or bank; you receive the scheduling link and paper automatically. The balance of a seat is settled by bank transfer against the engagement letter.
On some deal files, yes, agreed in writing before we start and credited against the retainer where appropriate. On architecture, market-entry and board seats, usually no. Everything is in the engagement letter.
No. I coordinate; your lawyers, bankers and escrow agents execute. I never take custody of client funds or assets.
You receive a documented decision pack: what was tried, what the numbers said, who said what, what it would take. Some of the most valuable outcomes are a clear "no" at the day-30 gate instead of a slow "maybe" over two years.
Core: Canada, India, the UAE, Qatar and Africa. Exploring: Africa and South-East Asia. I work in English, Urdu and Hindi.
Yes. I hold board and advisory seats in energy, healthcare and technology, and I take a small number of independent director and fractional chief strategy officer roles each year. Book the same call.
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Bring the file. Bring the decision-maker. I'll bring the structure and the room.
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