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Free Zones & Business Setup

Company formation is the first impression of a whole economy.

Licence application, visa issuance, banking introduction and renewal, mapped as one setup journey across the authorities and partners involved.

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Setup journey templates

Licence, establishment card, visa and bank introduction, pre-staged with authority handoffs marked.

licence issuance 14d → 9d
licence issuance 14d → 9d · resubmission rate −21% · on-time renewal +11 pts
The problem

The customer is new to the country and the process assumes they are not.

A founder setting up for the first time does not know which authority owns which step, and the sequence is rarely stated in one place. The delay that gets blamed on the free zone usually sits in a handoff nobody owns.

  • Each authority measures its own step, so the end-to-end time is nobody's number
  • Document rejection treated as an applicant error rather than a guidance failure
  • Renewal handled as a notice, not as a journey with its own drop-off
“I was told the licence takes three days. It took three weeks, because one document was wrong and nobody would tell me which one.”
Investor interview, business setup · application stage
The operational fact

Setup timelines are quoted as processing time and experienced as elapsed time. The difference is almost entirely resubmission caused by requirements that were never stated precisely.

What changes, measured*

Licence issuance14d → 9delapsed days, not processing days
Resubmission rate−21%requirements stated per activity, with examples
On-time renewal+11 ptsrenewal prompted against the deadline, not after it
Journey Index+6enquiry through first renewal

* Based on heuristics. These figures are modelled from the René method and observed sector patterns, not reported client results. Your own numbers replace them once a journey is measured.

What it costs to leave alone

The case for acting now
01An investor comparing jurisdictionsSetup experience is a competitive product. The investor is timing you against the free zone next door and will say which was faster.
02Resubmission you fundedEach rejected document is a second review cycle, paid for by the authority and charged to nobody.
03The renewal that does not happenA painful first year is remembered at renewal, when leaving has become far easier than arriving ever was.

How René handles it

4 capabilities
01
Setup journey templatesLicence, establishment card, visa and bank introduction, pre-staged with authority handoffs marked.
02
Handoff ownershipEvery step attributed to an authority or partner, so a delay has an owner.
03
First-time-right trackingDocument rejection measured per document, not per application.
04
Renewal journeysAnnual renewal mapped separately, with lapse risk read against effort.

9 journey templates, ready to map

Setup and renewal journeys with every authority handoff attributed
New company formationMulti-authority
8 stagesEnquiry-to-licence days · first-time-right
Licence amendment
5 stagesCycle time · rejection rate
Establishment card and visasLongest stall
7 stagesStall rate · document rejections
Bank account introductionKYC dependent
5 stagesCompletion · abandonment by step
Annual renewalNotice driven
5 stagesOn-time renewal · lapse risk
Liquidation and exit
6 stagesCycle time · effort

The setup programme

TodayWith René
Each authority reports its own stepOne end-to-end setup time
Rejection counted as applicant errorRejection traced to the guidance gap
Renewal is a reminder emailRenewal is a measured journey
Free Zones & Business Setup

Questions we get asked

Authorities and partners appear as backstage lanes on one journey, which is the only way a handoff delay becomes attributable.

Make one journey measurable this week.

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