Architecture, codebase, infrastructure, the security of the systems and the engineering process behind them, assessed against what the company claims and what the decision assumes. Commissioned by investors before a round, by acquirers before a deal, and by boards that want to know what the business actually runs on. You receive a risk register, a view on the cost to fix, and a plain-language technical opinion you can put in front of a committee. The opinion covers the technology. The decision stays with you.
IT consulting·Project management
Technical clarity for the people who decide.
Metanine is an information technology consultancy and project management practice in Dubai. We advise companies and the people who back them on technology decisions, then manage the projects that carry those decisions out.
The questions we answer
Does the system do what you were told it does?
What breaks at ten times the load?
Who actually owns the infrastructure?
Is the cloud bill growth, or waste?
Is the migration on plan, or only reported that way?
Who is accountable for the delivery date?
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About
Metanine is an IT consultancy and project management practice based in Dubai. We look at the technology a business runs on, tell you plainly what works and what does not, and plan what to do next. When there is a project to deliver, we manage it through to the end. We also help clients with research, access to resources and ad hoc requests in the sectors we work in.
Practice
Information technology consulting and project management.
Focus
Companies at every stage, and the boards and investors behind them.
Stance
Independent. No vendor commissions, no reseller margins.
What we do
Two practices, one mandate: technology decisions that get delivered.
Information technology consulting
Assessments, studies and plans. We establish what is true about a system and what to do about it.
We work out what a company needs from its hardware, software, networks and cloud, then plan systems that fit together: roadmaps, build-or-buy decisions, platform and vendor selection, and cloud cost discipline. Available as a one-off study, or as retained counsel to a board, a founder or an owner-manager.
Core business systems, data rooms, identity and device management, secure communications, and the tooling a fund, a family office or a professional firm runs on. We specify the systems, select the vendors and leave a small team with a setup it can run without us.
Use-case selection, the data foundations underneath, and model and vendor evaluation, for an operating business or for an investor looking across a portfolio. We separate what is deployable this quarter from what is a demo.
Cloud spend reviewed line by line, architecture checked against the uptime the business actually needs, and a plan for what to consolidate, migrate or switch off.
Research on the technologies, vendors and companies in the sectors we work in, introductions to the specialists and providers a project needs, and help with the one-off requests that do not fit a larger engagement.
Project management services
Planning, control and reporting for technology projects, run on the client's behalf.
We plan the work, set the schedule and the budget, coordinate vendors and internal teams, track risks and issues, and report progress in the form a board reads. Your engineers or your vendors do the build. We are accountable for the project.
Stage gates, a reporting cadence and one view across every live project, whether that is one company's roadmap, a group's programme or the technology projects running across an investor's portfolio. We also audit projects already in flight and say plainly whether the date is real.
An assessment finding, an acquisition, a new system or a cloud migration becomes a dated plan with owners, milestones and a budget. We manage it to completion and report against the plan it was approved on.
How we work
Four stages. The same discipline every time.
Stage 01 · Consulting
Diagnose
Interviews, code and infrastructure review, and the commercial context the technology has to serve. Evidence first, opinions after.
Stage 02 · Consulting
Design
A plan a board and an engineering lead can both sign: architecture, team, vendors, budget and sequence, with the trade-offs written down.
Stage 03 · Project management
Deliver
We manage the project on your behalf: the plan, the budget, the vendors and the reporting, held to what was approved.
Stage 04 · Project management
Sustain
Governance, reporting and periodic reviews, so the gains from the first project still hold in year two and year three.
Who we serve
Built around the way decisions actually get made.
Operating companies
Founder-led and mid-sized businesses that need senior technical judgement without a full-time hire, and a project manager who answers to the board.
- Retained technical counsel
- Systems planning
- Managed projects
Investors & boards
Venture funds, private equity, family offices and the boards they sit on. Diligence on targets, counsel for the companies they back, and the firm's own systems.
- Technical diligence
- Portfolio reviews
- Firm technology
Corporates & groups
Established businesses facing a migration, a system replacement or a technology decision that outsizes the internal team.
- Programme management
- Vendor selection
- Project office
Retained advisory
A monthly engagement with a standing seat at the table.
Managed project
A defined project, run by us from plan to handover.
Assessment sprint
Two to three weeks per company or system, timed to the decision.
How we hold ourselves
Independent
We take no commissions and hold no reseller agreements, so a recommendation is only ever a recommendation.
Plain-spoken
We write for the board paper, not the wiki. Findings arrive as risk, cost and timing, in the form a decision gets made.
Discreet
Non-disclosure first, named references only with consent, and no client logos on this page for a reason.
Contact
Bring us the decision you are least sure about.
A first conversation costs nothing and can sit under a non-disclosure agreement if you prefer. Reach the principal directly on LinkedIn or X.