Cash runwayLIVE
12months
↑ +1.4 mo · vs Q1
Corporate advisory · UAE / GCC
Strategic advisory that turns ambition into structured growth.
OutMazed® Services helps SMEs, founders and investors build stronger businesses through strategic advisory, finance transformation, capital readiness, market entry support and performance-led execution.
19+ yrsSenior finance · C-level
FCCA · ACAUK chartered
UAE / GCCAdvisory coverage
About OutMazed® Services
Professional services for businesses that need structure before scale.
OutMazed® Services is positioned to support SMEs, founders, investors and high-net-worth individuals across the UAE and GCC with advisory-led execution. The focus is practical: improve business structure, strengthen finance operations, prepare for capital, and support strategic market entry.
The brand sits within the OutMazed® Group ecosystem, extending the group's commercial, financial and operational mindset into a dedicated advisory and professional services vertical.
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Years of senior finance & C-level experience
FCCA
Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant, UK
ACA
Chartered Accountant · ICAEW, UK
Core Services
Advisory built around the real pressure points of growing businesses.
Each service line is designed to make leadership decisions clearer, finance functions stronger, and business growth more fundable.
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01 · BUSINESS CONSULTING4–6 wks
Business Consulting & Advisory
Strategic business advisory for SMEs covering business planning, growth strategy, operational efficiency, restructuring, and performance improvement.
What you walk away with
A 90-day operating plan with the trade-offs already made.
- Diagnostic of business model & constraints
- Growth-strategy framework & priorities
- Quarter-by-quarter operating plan
4–6 wksEngagement
1Senior advisor
02 · MARKET ENTRYUAE / GCC
Company Formation & Market Entry
End-to-end support for company setup, licensing, structuring, market entry strategy, and regulatory coordination across the UAE and GCC.
What you walk away with
An operational entity, banked and structured, in one quarter.
- Entity + license route scoped & filed
- Bank account opening support
- Tax + regulatory coordination
~90dTo operational
UAE+5GCC coverage
03 · FINANCE TRANSFORMATIONLive close
Finance Transformation
Setup and optimisation of finance functions including chart of accounts, financial systems, MIS reporting, SOPs, internal controls, and accounting process design.
What you walk away with
Monthly close in days, not weeks — board pack on a cadence.
- Chart of accounts & control framework
- Live monthly close (≤ 5 days)
- Boardroom-grade MIS reporting
14→4Close days
MonthlyCadence
04 · DUE DILIGENCEBuy-side
Financial Advisory & Due Diligence
Financial reviews, business diagnostics, due diligence, feasibility studies, valuation support, investor readiness, and transaction support.
What you walk away with
A red-flag report your investment committee will trust.
- Quality-of-earnings analysis
- Working capital + debt-like items
- Operational red-flag log
3–4 wksTurnaround
IC-readyFormat
05 · CFO ADVISORYFractional
Outsourced CFO & Performance
Fractional CFO services including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, KPI reporting, profitability analysis, and strategic financial oversight.
What you walk away with
A finance function built for boardrooms — not just bookkeeping.
- Rolling 13-week cash forecast
- Budget vs. actual variance pack
- Quarterly board reporting cycle
Mo.Reporting cadence
13 wkCash horizon
06 · CAPITAL ADVISORYDD-ready
SME Fundraising & Capital
Capital structuring, investor readiness, financial modelling, pitch support, debt advisory, and access to growth capital through banks, investors and partners.
What you walk away with
A capital pack built to survive a six-investor diligence.
- Investor narrative + model
- Structured, indexed data room
- Q&A bank from prior raises
200+DD questions mapped
1×Data room
07 · MORTGAGE & EQUITYHNWI
Mortgage Advisory & Property Equity Release
Advisory on mortgage structuring, refinancing, equity release, property-backed funding, and real estate leverage solutions for business owners, investors and HNWIs.
What you walk away with
Property equity unlocked, structured for business and HNWI clients.
- Mortgage / refinancing structuring
- Equity-release pathway & lender match
- Real estate–backed funding plan
UAEPrimary market
HNWISpecialism
Advisory Method
Diagnose. Structure. Build. Fund. Scale.
Professional services should not feel like a generic checklist. Our method turns complex operational, financial and capital questions into a sequenced advisory roadmap — each step with a single deliverable and an explicit handoff.
STEP 01 / 05
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01
Diagnose
Business model, finance function, current constraints and strategic priorities — captured in a one-page diagnostic and a sharp list of decisions to make.
Deliverable · Board-ready diagnostic02
Structure
Entity route, controls, reporting framework, capital plan and operating rhythm. Built around how you actually intend to grow.
Deliverable · Operating blueprint03
Build
Processes, dashboards, SOPs, financial models and management information systems — stood up with an outsourced CFO bench you can pull from on demand.
Deliverable · Live monthly close04
Fund
Investor readiness, bank discussions, debt options and equity-release pathways — diligence-ready capital pack.
Deliverable · Capital pack05
Scale
Performance management, cash discipline, KPI governance and leadership reporting. Advisory continues as a fractional function, not a one-off engagement.
Deliverable · Quarterly board cycleFinance & Capital Intelligence
From scattered numbers to boardroom-ready decisions.
For SMEs and growth businesses, financial clarity is not a back-office luxury. It is the difference between reactive survival and strategic growth.
The dashboard view below is illustrative of a typical OutMazed® engagement output — a CFO-grade summary updated on cadence, anonymised for display.
Sample CFO output · Q3 ’26
Cash runway
12mo
↑ +1.4 mo
Gross margin
26%
↑ +2.1 pts
DSO
38d
↓ −6 d
Cov. headroom
2.4×
on target
EBITDA trend
AED ’000 · monthly
Leadership
Led through a financial and strategic lens.
Aftab Nathani
Founder & Group CEO · OutMazed®
FCCA, UK
ACA (ICAEW, UK)
19+ Yrs Experience
Multi-Country C-Level
As Founder & Group CEO, Aftab Nathani leads the OutMazed® Group with a technology-first, financially disciplined and commercially structured approach. His leadership balances scale with governance, operational rigor, capital discipline and long-term strategic execution.
A qualified Chartered Accountant with multinational and C-level experience, his background spans financial strategy, commercial leadership, business setup, operational governance and growth execution across multiple industries and regions.
What founders say
Three sentences. From founders who've been through it.
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We arrived at our Series B with a data room our lead investor described as the cleanest he had seen this year. That was OutMazed's doing, not ours.
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Closed our monthly numbers in four days for the first time in the company's history. The board notices. So does the bank.
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I had worked with three of the Big Four. OutMazed was the first time I felt the partner was actually doing the work, not selling it.
Trusted across
UAE
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Bahrain
Oman
Kuwait
The Oman Chapter · New
Your second base,
across the Gulf.
UAE founders and investors are choosing Oman for company formation, investor visas, and family relocation. OutMazed Services guides you from entity setup to residency — as one continuous chapter.
Company Formation
Trade Licensing
Investor Visa
Family Relocation
Muscat · LLC · Free Zone
AED 14,000+
Packages from · End-to-end advisory
UAE
→
OMAN
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Established
Company Formation & Trade Licensing
LLC, branch & free zone registration in Oman
Investor Visa & Residency
Oman investor & family visa application support
Family Relocation to Muscat
End-to-end relocation advisory for GCC families
Start with clarity
Request an advisory review.
Tell us what you are trying to solve: company setup, finance transformation, due diligence, CFO support, fundraising, or property-backed capital advisory.
UAE / GCC advisory orientation · multi-jurisdiction execution support
Requirement review → advisory route → structured next steps
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