What happens at each stage, what you receive, and which decisions are yours. Every stage is scoped and priced before it begins, and everything we produce is transferred to you as it is completed.
Before stage one
The first conversation.
We discuss the challenge you have in mind and the assets within your group a venture could draw on: distribution, customer relationships, licences, data. Our commercial terms are shared in full at this meeting. If the fit is not right, the matter ends there, in confidence.
Stage / 0101
Assess
The challenge and its ecosystem
Interviews with leadership and operating managers, a review of the assets a venture could inherit, and a map of the ecosystem around each challenge: customers, incumbents, regulators, national infrastructure. You receive a written assessment of the problems worth solving, in order of priority, and those we advise against.
Your decision
You choose which challenges, if any, proceed to validation. The assessment is yours in either case.
Stage / 0202
Validate
The solution, tested with customers
A working prototype in front of prospective customers. Pricing tested rather than assumed. The stage ends with our recommendation in writing: the customer evidence, the unit economics, the competitive position, and whether we believe your capital should build this.
Your decision
Proceed, stop, or re-scope. The decision is yours.
Stage / 0303
Build
The product, to enterprise standard, in your cloud
A senior product and engineering team from WeaveLines builds the product in your own cloud environment, with security, integration and local data requirements designed in from the start. Your product owner works inside the team from the first day. You receive a short written report each week, and everything we produce is transferred to you as it is completed.
Your decision
You judge launch readiness, against criteria agreed before the build began.
Stage / 0404
Operate and transfer
The business, run to first traction and handed over
We run the venture through its first commercial phase, report against targets agreed before launch, and help recruit and prepare its permanent team. At transfer you hold an operating company, its team and its documentation, with the option of ongoing support.
Transfer
An operating business, owned by you.
Each stage is scoped and priced before it begins. You may start at any stage where the prior work exists.
The commitment
What you can expect.
01
Terms agreed up front
Scope, deliverables and a fixed fee, in writing, before each stage. Commercial terms shared in full at the first meeting.
02
A written recommendation
What we find, including when the answer is not to proceed. Customer evidence, unit economics and competitive position, before capital is committed.
03
Owned by you
Everything we produce is assigned to you as it is completed. Our fees carry no equity.
04
A founder accountable
Each engagement has a founder as its accountable lead and a senior product and engineering team behind it.
05
Confidentiality
No client names, no case material, no references without your written consent.
Fees
How engagements are priced.
Fixed fee per stage, for an agreed scope, before the stage begins. No retainers by default, no success fees, no equity. Where a client would like us invested alongside them after transfer, our co-investment arm can consider it. That is agreed separately and is never a condition of an engagement.
Your side
The involvement we ask of you.
01
Throughout: an executive sponsor
A senior sponsor from your side, available a few hours a week for direction and for the decision at each gate.
02
During assessment: access to your operating managers
Interviews with the people who run your operations, so the problems we screen are the ones your group actually has.
03
Once a build begins: a product owner
A product owner from your side working inside the team, from the first day to transfer.
Delivery
Where the work is done.
Our founders lead each engagement. Research is done with buyers in the market. Product and engineering are in Tunis, inside the same business day as the Gulf. Builds run in your own cloud environment and are designed for PDPL and local data-residency requirements. Ventures are staffed locally at handover.
FAQ
Questions we are asked first.
Ownership and confidentiality
Who owns what is built?+
You do. Intellectual property is assigned to you as the work progresses, stage by stage. Our fees carry no equity.
Will our engagement be made public?+
No. We do not name clients or publish case material without your written consent. References are given privately, with your agreement.
Do you invest in the ventures you build?+
Case by case, and only at your invitation. Our services are equity-free by default. Where a client would like us invested alongside them, our co-investment arm can consider it. That is agreed separately and is never a condition of an engagement.
Process and decisions
Where do ventures come from?+
From a problem your group already has. Assessment begins with your challenges and the assets your operating companies hold, and maps the ecosystem around each one before any solution is proposed.
What happens if the problem does not hold up as a venture?+
Validation exists to establish that before a build is funded. If our recommendation is not to proceed, we say so in writing, with the evidence. The decision is yours.
Can we stop after any stage?+
Yes. Each stage is scoped and priced on its own, ends with a deliverable you keep, and the decision to continue is yours.
Can we start at the build stage?+
Yes, where validation already exists and holds up. We review it first.
What involvement do you need from our side?+
An executive sponsor for a few hours a week, access to your operating managers during assessment, and once a build begins, a product owner from your side working with our team.
Fees
How are engagements priced?+
Each stage is priced as a fixed fee for an agreed scope, before it begins. We share our commercial terms in full at the first meeting.
Are there retainers or success fees?+
Not by default. Fixed fee per stage. Ongoing support after transfer is agreed separately if you want it.
Delivery
Where is the work done?+
Our founders lead each engagement. Research is done with buyers in your market. Product and engineering are in Tunis, inside the same business day as the Gulf. Builds run in your own cloud environment and are designed for PDPL and local data-residency requirements.
Who actually builds the product?+
WeaveLines, the product and engineering firm founded in 2017 by our CEO. The same team, the same standards, on every venture.
Do you build in Arabic?+
Yes. Research is done in the language buyers use and the product is delivered in Arabic where the customer needs it.
What kinds of products do you build?+
B2B SaaS platforms, mobile applications, and AI-native products, integrated with local infrastructure. The industry is yours; the model is what we know.
About the firm
Is WeaveLines Works new?+
Yes. It is the venture-building arm of WeaveLines, a product and engineering firm founded in 2017. The firm is new. The people, the standards and the method are not.
Why have you not published case studies?+
Because we do not name clients without written consent, and because we would rather show you the method and the founders than a logo wall. References are available privately.
Assessment and validation
Can we start here without committing to a build?+
Yes. Each stage is scoped and priced on its own. Many groups start with assessment alone.
Do you need our data?+
We need access to your operating managers and to the information they use. Everything is handled under an NDA and PDPL, and it stays in your environment.
What if we already know the problem?+
Then assessment is short and validation starts sooner. We still confirm the problem with the people who have it before we test a solution.
Do you validate in Arabic?+
Yes. Research is done with buyers in the market, in the language they use.
The build
Can you build in our existing cloud accounts?+
Yes. That is the default. The venture is designed for your environment and your data-residency obligations.
Who owns the code during the build?+
You do, as it is produced. IP is assigned stage by stage.
Who from our side is in the team?+
A product owner from your side, inside the team from the first day. The venture's permanent team is recruited and prepared during operations and transfer.
What happens if we want to stop after the build?+
You keep everything built, documented and running in your cloud. Operations and transfer is a separate stage with its own scope and fee.
Operations and transfer
Do you take equity for running the venture?+
No. Operations is priced as a fixed fee for an agreed scope, like every other stage.
Who sets the targets?+
You do, with our recommendation, before launch. The targets are written into the scope.
Can you stay after transfer?+
Yes. Ongoing support is an option at transfer, on terms agreed separately.
Can we bring in our own leadership earlier?+
Yes. The earlier the permanent team joins, the smoother the transfer.