Two months · weekly hours
The second level. Not a call about the problem — two months inside it.
A two-month retainer with dedicated weekly hours and direct access in between, for founders who have found the constraint and now have to operate their way out of it.
What it costs
Price on request
Scoped after a clarity call, because what two months should cover depends entirely on what the first hour finds. Agreed in writing before the first session and invoiced through BrainsMingle.
When an hour is not enough
A clarity call names the constraint. It cannot sit with you while you rebuild the thing the constraint lives in. Operating problems are rarely solved by knowing the answer — they are solved by someone holding the standard week after week while you make thirty small decisions that either compound or cancel out.
- You know what the constraint is. You have known for a month, and nothing has moved.
- Every fix you start gets abandoned halfway because something more urgent arrives.
- You are making decisions at a level you have never operated at, alone, with nobody to check the reasoning against.
- Your leadership team agrees in the room and executes differently once they leave it.
- You are the only person in the company who can see the whole board, and it is costing you the game.
What two months looks like
A fixed weekly cadence, direct access between sessions, and a standard held by someone outside the company who has no politics in it.
Two hours every week
A standing weekly session, same slot, for eight weeks. We work on whatever is actually blocking you that week — a GTM decision, a hire, a process breaking under growth, a founder-level call you cannot fully see from inside the business.
Direct access between sessions
WhatsApp, for the decisions that cannot wait seven days. A hiring offer that needs a second opinion today is worth more answered today than discussed on Tuesday.
A stage-anchored plan
Everything is worked against the 7-Stage MENA SaaS Growth Roadmap: what your stage requires, what it explicitly does not, and what you are currently spending on that belongs to a stage you have not reached.
The artefacts, not notes about them
Pricing models, hiring scorecards, a rebuilt forecast, an operating cadence — built in the sessions, in your own files. You leave owning the work rather than a deck describing it.
An end date
Two months, then it stops. If we extend it, it is because there is a new problem worth another block, not because the engagement has become a habit neither of us wants to cancel.
How the two months run
A clarity call first
Always. Two months scoped without an hour of diagnosis is two months of guessing, and neither of us should be paying for that. If the call finds a constraint you can fix alone, I will say so and you keep the money.
Scope and agree
We agree what the two months are for, in one page: the constraint, what changes by week eight, and what is explicitly out of scope. The price follows the scope and is fixed before we start.
Weeks one to eight
The standing session each week, direct access between them. Weeks one and two are usually spent making the problem measurable; the rest is spent moving the measurement.
Close it properly
The last session is a handover, not a goodbye: what moved, what did not, what the next stage will demand, and what you should be able to run without me. Extending is a decision made after that session, never before it.
Who this is for, and who it is not
This fits if…
- You are somewhere between finalising your MVP and fighting for product focus — Stage 2 to Stage 5 on the roadmap.
- You have revenue and a team, and the team rather than the market is now the bottleneck.
- You want a thinking partner and a pattern-matcher, and you have people to execute.
- You will show up weekly for eight weeks. The cadence is the mechanism; missing half of it is paying for half of nothing.
This does not fit if…
- You want a team executing on your behalf. This is advisory — I work on the decisions, your people work on the work.
- You need a full-time operator. A fractional advisor is not a cheaper version of a hire, and pretending otherwise fails slowly and expensively.
- You are pre-revenue. Start with the roadmap training; two months of my time is the wrong first purchase.
- You want an open-ended relationship with no defined problem and no end date.
Before you commit
- Why do I have to do the clarity call first?
- Because scoping two months from a website form is guesswork, and you would be the one paying for the guess. The hour either produces a scope worth buying or it produces a constraint you can fix alone. Both are good outcomes; only one of them takes more of your money.
- What does it cost?
- It depends on the scope, which is why it is quoted after the call rather than printed here. What is fixed is the shape: two months, two hours a week, direct access in between, and a price agreed in writing before the first session.
- Why two months and not a rolling retainer?
- Rolling retainers survive on inertia. Two months is long enough for a real operating change to take hold and short enough that both of us have to justify a renewal. If nothing has moved by week eight, an extension would not have fixed that.
- Can my leadership team join the sessions?
- Some of them, and it is often the right call — an operating change that only the founder understands is not an operating change. We agree which sessions are yours alone and which are the team's when we scope it.
- What if we need to stop early?
- Tell me. We close it at the end of the current month, I hand over what exists, and you are not invoiced for the remainder. An engagement that has stopped being useful should end, not run out its term.
- Do you sign an NDA?
- Yes, before the scope conversation. Nothing from an engagement appears in my writing or teaching without written permission, and I will tell you if I am already working with a direct competitor rather than waiting for you to find out.
What participants say
From participants in the MENA SaaS Foundation Masterclass, in their own words and their own language.
What I gained from this course goes beyond information. I acquired new skills, joined a lifelong community, and had the opportunity to engage in meaningful and open business discussions.
Shahd Mohamed
The course was very insightful and changed my perspective about a lot of aspects when it comes to validation and founder–market fit. The Coach prompts are amazing to help you and challenge you to refine the idea and the statements needed to make things straight.
Omar Youssef
Don’t be over optimistic about your idea, it might just be more of a burden than an actual money maker! Mr. Mohamed will challenge your idea for you, but you’ll have to defend it yourself! If you really want to go to the founders circle and live that messy life, FIGHT. Thanks Mr. Mohamed Elsherif for providing me with the knowledge, tools, awareness and POWER to move on.
Mohamed Ali
ممتنة لك بحجم السماء يا محمد الشريف، وكم خبراتك المميزة التي استفدنا منها على مدار الكورس.
Mariam Rabie
Start with the hour
Every one of these engagements starts the same way: one call, one constraint, and an honest answer about whether two months of my time is the right thing to buy next.