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Timur El Ait

Services

What you can hire me to do

Each engagement is built around an outcome. I can work on a defined project, an intensive strategic sprint, or as an embedded fractional leader.

Who I work with

Built for businesses where product, operations and commercial reality meet.

F&B founders
Launching a restaurant, café, beverage or food concept and needing the full business logic behind it.
FMCG founders
Developing a packaged food/beverage product, improving unit economics, or preparing for retail.
Hospitality groups
Creating new concepts, improving underperforming concepts, or building a repeatable operating system.
Investors
Testing whether an F&B idea is commercially and operationally viable before committing further capital.
Manufacturers / production partners
Building stronger market-ready concepts, innovation pipelines or private-label propositions.
Established brands
Launching a new category, entering a new market, or strengthening product/commercial execution across Europe and MENA.

How I work

From ambiguity to execution

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Clarify the commercial problem, customer, constraints, economics and decision that needs to be made.

  2. 02

    Validate

    Test the hypothesis using market evidence, competitive context, unit economics and operating reality.

  3. 03

    Build

    Develop the concept, product, model, system, brief or roadmap required to move forward.

  4. 04

    Execute

    Support sourcing, suppliers, manufacturers, launch workflows, retail/distribution or team implementation where in scope.

  5. 05

    Measure

    Define the commercial and operating measures that determine whether the solution is working.

  6. 06

    Improve

    Iterate based on actual performance rather than assumptions.

The output is not a generic recommendation deck. The objective is a decision, system or launch plan your team can actually execute.

Engagement models

Ways to work together

Project

Use when: There is a defined outcome such as a concept, product, audit or launch.

A scoped engagement with clear deliverables, milestones and decision points.

Strategic sprint

Use when: There is one important question to solve quickly.

A focused engagement designed to reach a decision and an actionable next-step plan.

Advisory

Use when: Founder/management team needs recurring senior input.

Ongoing strategic support for product, commercial, operations or growth decisions.

Fractional leadership

Use when: Business needs embedded senior ownership without a full-time executive.

Senior F&B / product / innovation leadership integrated into your operating cadence.

Engagements are scoped by stage, complexity and the level of involvement needed — there is no fixed price list.

Not sure which engagement fits?

Tell me what you are building or what is not working. The first conversation is about the problem and the right way to structure the work.