The Reset Program
UAE SMB Acquisitions · Under AED 5M

Reset how you buy a
business in the UAE.

Most UAE SMB acquisitions are decided on broker decks, informal books, and gut feel. The Reset Program gives buyers a 48-hour, source-cited diligence report for any sub-AED 5M deal — before a dirham gets wired.

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ADGM-bound Hub71+ FinTech applicant Bilingual EN · AR
500+
Dubai SMBs listed for sale at any time
AED 50K+
Cost of traditional Big-4 diligence
4–8 wks
Typical broker-led turnaround
48 hrs
The Reset Program turnaround
The problem

Buying a business shouldn't
be a leap of faith.

The buyer pool in the UAE has tripled since the 2021 ownership reform. The Golden Visa programme is pulling in first-time investor-buyers every quarter. But the diligence layer hasn't moved — listings stay opaque, financials stay informal, and Big-4 advisory is locked behind AED 50K minimums.

That leaves ~80% of UAE SMB deals — every transaction under AED 5M — with no neutral, structured way to answer the only question that matters: should I actually buy this?

Where buyers fly blind today

  • DED, free-zone, FTA, and Ejari records sit in 7 different portals.
  • Cash-heavy books hide under-reported revenue and undocumented add-backs.
  • Broker decks are conflicted by definition — they're paid to close.
  • Mainland vs Free Zone is rarely understood before signing.
  • Arabic-language listings and reviews are ignored entirely.
The reset

A clean, source-cited "should I buy this?"
in 48 hours — for the price of a dinner.

Paste a Dubizzle, Bayut, or BusinessFinder listing — or a UAE trade-licence number — and we return a structured Buyer Brief™ covering identity, finances, lease, reputation, and operational risk. Every finding cites its source.

①

Identity & Licence

DED + free-zone authority verification, TRN/VAT cross-check via FTA, licence-activity-vs-actual mismatch detection.

②

Financial Grading

FTA corporate-tax filing benchmarks, P&L / bank / POS ingestion, under-reported revenue and add-back anomaly scoring.

③

Lease & Premises

Ejari verification (Dubai) and emirate-equivalents — tenor, escalation, transferability risk surfaced automatically.

④

Owner & Reputation

Owner-dependence concentration scoring + bilingual (EN/AR) Google Reviews and listing-platform NLP signal.

The Red Flag Engine™ — a proprietary heuristics layer tuned for cash-heavy MENA SMBs in food, retail, and services — surfaces the 8–12 deal-killers before LOI.
From listing to decision

Four steps. Forty-eight hours.

  1. 01

    Submit

    Paste a listing URL or trade-licence number. Optionally upload P&L, bank statements, or POS extracts.

  2. 02

    Verify

    Our Authority Mesh™ pulls DED, free-zone, FTA, and Ejari data in parallel — bilingual NLP normalises EN and AR.

  3. 03

    Score

    The Red Flag Engine™ scores 8 risk axes; an LLM-judge composes an auditable, source-cited diligence narrative.

  4. 04

    Decide

    You receive the Buyer Brief™ as a PDF + interactive web report — share it with co-investors, lenders, or your lawyer.

Why now

Three structural shifts converged
in the last 24 months.

Regulatory backbone

UAE corporate tax went live June 2023.

2025 is the first year with full filed FTA data. Real financial-quality grading of UAE SMBs only became technically possible in this window.

Buyer pool explosion

2021 → 100% foreign ownership.

Combined with the Golden Visa, the first-time-buyer pool has structurally multiplied. These buyers cannot afford Big-4.

AI cost curve

Agentic AI hit production economics.

Document-parsing LLMs, Arabic OCR, and agent workflows finally hit the unit-economics threshold to replicate AED 50K diligence at AED 1,500.

Pricing

Pay per Buyer Brief.
No retainers. No surprises.

Lite

AED 1,500/brief

For first-time individual buyers screening a single deal.

  • Full Authority Mesh™ checks
  • Red Flag Engine™ summary
  • PDF Buyer Brief™
  • 48-hour turnaround
Start with Lite
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Pro

AED 3,500/brief

For serious buyers running a deal pipeline.

  • Everything in Lite
  • Document ingestion (P&L, bank, POS)
  • Bilingual review NLP
  • Interactive web report + share links
  • 1 follow-up analyst call
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Plus

AED 7,500/brief

For boutique buy-side advisors and family offices.

  • Everything in Pro
  • White-label PDF
  • Lender-ready underwriting pack
  • Priority 24-hour SLA
  • Volume discounts available
Talk to us

Advisor & family-office subscriptions from AED 9,500/month — unlimited briefs, multi-seat, white-label.

AB
Founder

Built solo. Built for this.

Amey Birje — Cloud & AI Strategy Advisor with 16+ years across cloud, AI/ML, and enterprise platforms. Currently AI Enablement Lead at Alibaba Cloud (Global). Previously Sr. Technical Partner Trainer at AWS, featured at AWS re:Invent.

UAE Golden Visa holder, Dubai-based, Canadian. Already running the exact GenAI / RAG / agent stack The Reset Program is built on. No relocation drag, no learning curve, no cultural translation.

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Reset the deal.
Before it resets you.

If you're looking at a UAE SMB acquisition under AED 5M, get a Buyer Brief before you sign anything.

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