Strategy-first consulting

Business Strategy. Market Intelligence. Growth Execution.

We help organisations solve business and marketing challenges through research, strategy, and disciplined execution. We move you from diagnosis to action — with clarity, not noise.

UK-registered firm Operating across the Middle East 20+ years of operator experience
Brand promise

We help organisations make confident business decisions through research, strategy, and execution.

Research before recommendations. Strategy before execution. Knowhow before noise.

01
Strategy
02
Commercialize
03
Transform
04
Analytics
What are you trying to solve?

You don't always need another agency.

You may need a consultant if you recognize any of these:

We need a strategy.
Direction, priorities, fewer clearer objectives.
We need to understand our market.
Research, customer insight, competitive analysis.
We are entering a new market.
Market entry, feasibility, go-to-market strategy.
Our marketing isn't delivering.
Diagnosis, strategy, planning, performance improvement.
We need a marketing function.
Outsourced marketing leadership and operations.
Our team needs capability.
Training and knowhow transfer.

That's where we come in.

Book your free consulting session
Our philosophy

We diagnose before we prescribe.

Research before recommendations.
Strategy before execution.
Knowhow before noise.

We start with the customer, market, and competitive environment — not with the tactic.

How we work

A disciplined thinking process, not a tactics menu.

Four stages that turn insight into accountable execution. We are not selling tactics first — we are selling a structured way of thinking that makes the tactics obvious.

01

Strategy | Setting Direction

Understand objectives, business, industry, customer, and market.

We start with research. We map your business model, your objectives, your industry dynamics, and your customer — before any recommendation is made. This stage produces a clear strategic direction that everyone can align behind, and a sharp definition of the problem worth solving.

Example outputs
  • Strategic assessment
  • Market & competitor analysis
  • Strategic priorities
02

Commercialization

Translate strategy into practical action.

Strategy without execution is theatre. We convert the strategic direction into a sequenced, prioritised commercial plan — channels, offers, pricing, messaging, and the operating model needed to deliver. Every recommendation is pressure-tested against feasibility and value.

Example outputs
  • Marketing plan
  • Positioning & messaging
  • Go-to-market strategy
03

Transformation

Manage execution with discipline and accountability.

We mobilise your teams, build capability, and run disciplined execution rhythms. Pilots are launched, learnings are captured, and the operating system is refined in real time. The goal is momentum — visible, measurable progress against the plan, month after month.

Example outputs
  • Implementation roadmap
  • Marketing organization
  • Outsourcing support
04

Analytics & Insights

Measure, learn, and improve.

What gets measured gets managed. We instrument leading and lagging indicators, review them on a fixed cadence, and turn the data into decisions. The system adapts as your needs evolve — sustaining impact over time, not just at launch.

Example outputs
  • Measurement framework
  • Performance analysis
  • Recommendations

Practical by design. Human to the core. Built to last.

What we do

Consulting, outsourcing, and capability-building — anchored in strategy.

Three service lines, one consulting discipline. Every engagement starts with research and ends with accountable execution.

Consulting

We diagnose before we prescribe. Every engagement begins with understanding your business, your objectives, your industry dynamics, and your customer — before any recommendation is made. The output is a strategy you can actually execute, not a slide deck that gathers dust.

Strategy formulation
Define where to play and how to win, anchored in your real constraints and ambitions.
Export consultancy
Identify viable markets, build entry plans, and navigate the operational realities of going cross-border.
Feasibility studies & market research
Rigorous, evidence-based assessment of opportunities before you commit capital.
Digital marketing consulting
Channel strategy, funnel design, and measurement frameworks — built around your customer journey.
Marketing plan development
Practical, sequenced marketing plans with clear ownership, budgets, and leading indicators.
Why KnowHow

Evidence, not adjectives.

Research-led

We don't recommend before understanding the market, the customer, and the competitive environment.

Strategy-first

We focus on choices and priorities before tactics. A plan is not a strategy.

Operator-informed

The thinking comes from people who have actually managed, scaled, and built businesses.

Knowhow transfer

The objective isn't to make the client permanently dependent on the consultant. We transfer knowhow, not just knowledge.

Experience

Experience that goes beyond consulting.

We separate founder and operator experience from consulting engagements — so you know exactly where the results came from.

Founder & Operator Experience

FinTech / PaymentsEgypt
CowPay — CBE Payment Facilitator via Banque Misr

An Egyptian e-commerce payment gateway needed to break out of a crowded market. Standalone payments were a commodity; margins were compressing; and USD-transfer constraints during 2022 were limiting merchant growth. The company needed a re-positioning that justified premium pricing and unlocked new merchant segments.

10x
GMV growth in 8 months
2–10k
active merchants
2 raises
capital closed end-to-end
FinTech / PaymentsEgypt
Bee FinTech Solutions (Basata)

Bee was competing against Fawry for wallet and merchant payment volume in Egypt. Without a card-network partnership, Bee's growth ceiling was capped by cash-based rails. The challenge was to land a card-network partnership that would unlock online and card-not-present use cases.

Exclusive
Mastercard aggregator (vs. Fawry)
+30%
First Contact Resolution lift
+50%
NPS lift

KnowHow Consulting Engagements

B2B SaaSEgypt
An Egypt-based B2B software company

A B2B SaaS company with strong product-market fit was struggling to scale beyond early adopters. Sales cycle was 6+ months, win rate had plateaued at 22%, and the marketing function was ad-hoc — no positioning clarity, no funnel measurement, no content engine.

3.8 mo
sales cycle (down from 6.2)
34%
win rate (up from 22%)
3.2x
marketing-sourced pipeline
Mohamed Abu Khadra — Founder & Managing Consultant
Mohamed Abu Khadra
Founder & Managing Consultant
The thinking behind KnowHow

Built by a practitioner, not just a consultant.

20+
Years of hands-on experience
Marketing and business leadership across fintech, payments, telecom, and consulting.
Ed
Educator
Visiting professor, instructor, and public speaker on strategic marketing.
Meet the founder
How it works

What happens when you contact us?

No pressure, no sales theatre. Just a structured process that respects your time.

01

Discovery

We understand the challenge. An initial conversation to determine whether we can help — and whether we're the right fit.

02

Diagnosis

We research and assess the situation. Market, customer, competitive, internal capabilities — before any recommendation.

03

Recommendation

We agree on the appropriate scope and approach. You'll know what you're paying for before you commit.

04

Engagement

We work with your team to implement and measure. Knowhow is transferred so the capability stays with you.

We work best with organizations that are ready to make decisions, not just collect presentations.

Diagnostic framework

The KnowHow Diagnostic

A problem well defined is half solved. A 5-question diagnostic to clarify your business challenge before you spend money on solutions.

  • Five questions that force clarity
  • Built from 20+ years of operator experience
  • A tool, not a pitch

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Ready when you are

Have a business challenge worth solving?

Tell us what's happening. We'll take it from there — an honest perspective on whether we can help, and what the next step would look like. No pressure, no sales theatre.

We respond to every enquiry within one business day.

Let's talk

Start a conversation that moves your business forward.

Book your free consulting session or request a proposal. We respond within one business day — usually much faster.

Email
hello@theknowhow.uk
For all enquiries
Phone
+20 127 000 0811
Sun–Thu, 9am–6pm EET
Location
Cairo, Egypt
UK-registered · Serving the Middle East
Response time
Within 1 business day
Often the same day
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