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Risk assessment, feasibility, valuation and financial reports for UAE companies. Seven days, fixed fee agreed up front, reworked free if it comes back.

For UAE companies asked to produce a report about their own business. Checking a supplier or partner instead? Call us and we will point you the right way.

From $2,600. Free 20-minute scoping call. One upload from you, we do the rest.

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What actually happens when a file comes back

A returned application rarely arrives with a clear reason. It comes back as a short line about insufficient supporting analysis, or a request for a further independent study, and no list of what was missing.

That is the part applicants find hardest. The business is sound, the numbers work, and there is still nothing in the letter that says what to fix. So the next attempt becomes a guess: a cheaper provider, a template bought online, a version put together in-house over a weekend.

Each guess costs weeks. The lease sits open, the facility gets repriced, the season moves. Most of the applicants who reach us have already been round that loop at least once.

"The reviewer is not assessing your business. They are assessing whether the document lets them defend saying yes."

Once that lands, what gets returned stops looking random. Reviewers mark the same things, in the same order, and almost none of them are about whether the business is a good idea.

The three sections below are what they mark. Read them and you will know whether what you are holding will clear.

The three reasons

Why documents come back, and it is almost never the business

Three beliefs cost UAE applicants more time than anything else. Each one is understandable. Each one is wrong.

1
The belief: "A good business speaks for itself"

Reviewers are not assessing your business. They are assessing whether they can defend saying yes.

A credit officer, a licensing officer and an auditor all share one incentive: not being the person who signed off on something that went wrong. They are not looking for a great opportunity. They are looking for enough documented, independently sourced evidence to justify the decision to whoever reviews it after them. A brilliant business with unsourced numbers is harder for them to approve than an average business with a properly evidenced file. That is not cynicism, it is how institutional decisions work everywhere.

2
The belief: "My accountant can put this together"

The whole point is that it does not come from you, or from anyone paid by you to agree with you.

Your accountant knows your business better than we ever will. That is precisely the problem. When the institution asks for an independent study, they mean a party with no stake in the answer. A projection prepared by the applicant, or by the applicant's own advisor, carries almost no evidentiary weight, not because it is dishonest, but because there is no way for the reviewer to know that it is not. Independence is not a formality. It is the entire value of the document.

3
The belief: "They all want roughly the same thing"

A bank, a free zone, an auditor and a court want four different documents.

A lender turns first to debt service coverage and the downside case. A free zone checks that the activity described matches the licence applied for. An auditor needs the methodology and inputs laid out for the working file. A court needs an independence declaration and a method the other side can attack. Send a bank-format study to an auditor and it comes back. Most of the returns we see are not bad work, they are the right work in the wrong shape for whoever asked.

See the difference

The same business. Two documents.

Reviewers are consistent about what they mark. Here is what separates the file that clears from the file that comes back.

Returned: typical template study
  • Market size quoted from a global report, no UAE data
  • Revenue projections with no stated basis
  • No downside case, only the plan working
  • No debt service coverage by year
  • Prepared by the applicant or their own advisor
  • Activity described does not match the licence applied for
  • Risks listed but no mitigation or owner
Accepted: independently prepared
  • Demand built from UAE registry and sector data, cited
  • Every material figure corroborated by a second source
  • Sensitivity at 20% lower revenue and 15% higher cost
  • Coverage ratio by year with covenant headroom shown
  • Issued by an independent third party with no stake
  • Written to the format the specific institution expects
  • Risk register with mitigation and named owner
  • Report, PDF
  • Financial model, Excel
  • Sources and workings

What the accepted version looks like as an artefact: the report, the model you keep, and the workings behind every figure.

The timeline

From first call to delivered report

About an hour of your time in total. We do the rest.

  1. Day 0

    Scoping call, 20 minutes

    You tell us who asked and what they said. We confirm which report is required, the fee and the delivery date, in writing. Nothing is payable to get to this point.

  2. Day 1

    You send what you have

    Licence or trade name, any numbers you already hold, and the request from the institution. A short list, not a homework assignment. Around an hour of your time in total.

  3. Days 2 to 5

    We build it

    Market evidence gathered and sourced, model built, scenarios run, the document written to the format your specific institution expects. You are not needed during this stretch.

  4. Days 5 to 7

    Draft, then final

    You review the draft and we adjust. You receive the final report, the Excel model and the workings. If the institution comes back, so do we.

Where to start

You don't have to start at the top

Four ways in, depending on how far along you are. Most people start at step two.

Step 1

The Reviewer's Checklist

The 14 things UAE institutions actually mark against, in a two-page PDF. Read it and you will know whether what you have will clear.

CostFree
Step 2

Bankability Pre-Check

Send what you already have. In 48 hours you get a scorecard against your institution's criteria with every gap named. Credited in full if you go on to the report.

Starting from$4,000
Step 3

The full report

Feasibility study, valuation, market study or due diligence, written to the format your specific institution expects, in 5 to 7 working days.

Starting from$10,000
Step 4

Annual refresh

For anyone who needs this every year: audit valuations, ongoing counterparty monitoring, updated market data. Same team, consistent basis, no re-scoping.

Starting from$5,000
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Which one applies to you?

The answer changes what the report has to contain. Pick yours and you will see the fee, the timeline and what is inside.

?Who asked you for this report?

Not sure which applies? Skip this and just talk to someone →

After you send it

What happens next

  1. 1

    We read it, same working day

    A person, not an autoresponder. If anything is unclear we ask one question rather than send a brochure.

  2. 2

    You get a fee and a date

    In writing, within one working day: what the report will contain, what it costs, and when it lands.

  3. 3

    You decide, or you do not

    No follow-up sequence, no drip emails, no repeat calls. One reply, then it is your move.

Straight talk

Is this worth your time?

We would rather you found out now than after a call.

Worth your time if

  • An institution has asked you, in writing, for an independent report
  • You have a deadline inside the next six weeks
  • The decision behind it is worth six figures or more
  • You need it in the format one specific reviewer expects

Not worth your time if

  • You want a document that reaches a conclusion you have already chosen
  • You need it tomorrow, with nothing prepared
  • You are comparing on price alone and a template will do
  • Nobody has actually asked you for a report yet

If you are in the right-hand column, say so on the call and we will tell you straight. We would rather lose the enquiry than take the work.

Not ready for a report yet?

Take the Reviewer's Checklist instead. Fourteen things UAE institutions mark against, in two pages. No cost, no call.

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Before you ask

The questions everyone asks

Will this get my application approved?
No honest firm can promise that. Approvals turn on collateral, credit history, the institution's own appetite and factors no report controls. What a properly built report does is remove the document as a reason to say no, which, on the evidence of what actually gets sent back, is where most applications lose their time.
Do I need the full report, or is the Pre-Check enough?
If you already have a plan or a study and want to know whether it will clear, start with the Pre-Check, from $4,000. If you have nothing yet, or the institution has been explicit about wanting an independent third-party report, go straight to the full engagement. Either way the scoping call is free and we will tell you which you need.
How fast can you really deliver?
Five to seven working days for a standard engagement, from the point we have your inputs. Expedited 72-hour delivery is available at a premium. If your deadline is tighter than that, say so and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable rather than take the work and miss it.
What if the report does not say what I want it to say?
Then it says what it found. We do not write conclusions to order, which is the entire reason an institution wants an independent party rather than your own projections. A clear "do not proceed" has saved clients more than any positive report we have produced.
Who actually writes it?
Leads Dubai handles your enquiry and scoping. Reports are produced by licensed UAE advisory firms on our panel, analysts based in Dubai with direct access to UAE and GCC corporate registries, court records and regional sector data. You will be introduced to the team writing your report before you commit to anything.
Is my enquiry confidential?
Every engagement is covered by strict confidentiality. Your project, your figures and the fact of your enquiry are never disclosed to any third party, including the subject of any research carried out on your behalf.
Next step

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