Clovantis helps corporates and growing enterprises open new markets across the GCC and Africa — from market strategy and entity setup, through launch, to scale. One accountable partner, full cost control, minimised risk.
Most firms hand you a strategy and leave. We stay through the licence, the first hire, the first invoice and the first hundred people — because the decisions in month one determine the economics in year three.
Know before you commit.
Sizing, segmentation, regulatory mapping and a competitive read you can defend to a board — ending in a go, no-go or go-differently recommendation.
A legal home, properly built.
Jurisdiction choice is the single most expensive decision to reverse. We structure for where your revenue, your people and your tax exposure actually sit.
Capacity where it pays.
Site selection, cost modelling and build-operate-transfer for delivery centres across North and West Africa — within reach of Gulf working hours.
Hire before you incorporate.
Put people on the ground in weeks, compliantly, while the entity is still in formation — then migrate them across when it is ready.
From beachhead to business unit.
Operating model, systems and governance that let the new market run without a founder on a plane every month.
Each stage ends in something you own — a decision, a licence, a running operation, a self-sufficient unit. No stage starts before the previous one has produced it.
We size the opportunity, map the regulation, read the competition and pressure-test your assumptions against what the market actually rewards. Where the answer is no, we say so early — a disciplined no is cheaper than a slow yes.
You end with A defensible go / no-go, a sized business case and a ranked shortlist of jurisdictions.
Jurisdiction, licence, shareholding, banking, tax and substance — designed together, because changing one later moves all the others. We file, we follow up, we chase the regulator so your team does not have to.
You end with A licensed entity, an open bank account and a compliance calendar someone is accountable for.
First hires, first premises, first systems, first clients. We run the opening ninety days alongside your team on the ground, so momentum does not depend on a handover document.
You end with A staffed, operating presence with a commercial pipeline already moving.
Delivery capacity in the right geography, governance that surfaces problems before they reach you, and a cost structure that improves as volume grows. Then we transfer it — fully.
You end with A business unit that runs without us, and the option to keep us only where we still add value.
Dubai gives the work what it needs: proximity to the capital and the clients across the Gulf, and the connectivity to be on the ground anywhere in Africa when a mandate calls for it.
The Gulf supplies the demand, the capital and the regulatory sophistication. Africa supplies the talent, the cost base and the growth. We operate the connection between them — not either side in isolation.
Our recommendations are written by the people who will have to execute them. That constraint removes a great deal of pleasant nonsense from a strategy document.
Strategy house, company formation agent, recruiter, outsourcing vendor — four contracts, four invoices, and nobody responsible for the outcome. We hold the whole corridor.
Fixed scopes, named deliverables and a cost model you can audit. Government fees are passed through at cost, with the receipts.
Success is your team running the market without us. We design the exit into the engagement from the first week, not the last.
You do not have to buy the whole corridor on day one. Most clients begin with a short, fixed-scope engagement and expand once the first answer is in hand.
A focused read on one market and one question: is this worth doing, and on what terms. Desk research, regulatory check, cost model and a decision memo.
3–4 weeksFixed feeStrategy through to a licensed, banked, staffed entity with a live commercial pipeline. Our most common mandate, run in stages with exit points.
4–9 monthsStagedSite selection across North and West Africa, then build-operate-transfer: we recruit it, run it and hand you the keys on an agreed date.
6–18 monthsB-O-TA retained senior team acting as your regional presence — board reporting, partner management and compliance oversight — until the volume justifies your own.
MonthlyRetainedShort, specific pieces on the decisions our clients are actually weighing — written for the person who has to sign off, not for a search engine.
The comparison tables online answer the wrong thing. What actually decides it is where your customers are incorporated and who signs your invoices.
Three credible options with genuinely different profiles. A comparison on talent depth, language, time zone, employer cost and regulatory friction.
A regional office is no longer a nameplate. We look at what qualifies, what it costs to maintain, and when it is still worth doing.
A thirty-minute call, no deck. You describe where you want to be in eighteen months; we tell you honestly what stands between you and it — and whether we are the right people to help.
