3 Gulf luxury properties. Zero compromise. 6 months to transform your operations.

MindDesk is selecting 3 Founding Partners in the GCC to co-build the future AI Duty Manager for luxury hospitality. Free for 6 months. Lifetime 50% pricing. Direct line to the founder.

Apply to be a Founding Partner

What you get as a Founding Partner

Not a discount. A partnership. Four commitments, in writing.

Free 6-month pilot

Full Professional plan, zero cost, full support from the founder - 25 years in hotel operations: Director of Operations at Pullman, then General Manager at Appart'City and Montempô. Real Claude API calls, real voice transcription, real emails - nothing stubbed.

Shape the product

Weekly 30-minute feedback sessions for the first month, then monthly. Your operational reality becomes the roadmap. Priority access to new features before public release.

Lifetime founding pricing

50% off the Professional plan, forever, locked in. Scales with your property count. The only way to get this price - we will not offer it again after the 3 slots close.

Founding Partner badge

Your property featured on the MindDesk site as a co-creator of the category. Optional (you opt in after 3 months if you are satisfied). Honest featuring only - we never publish inflated metrics.

What we will measure together

The KPIs we instrument on day one

We don't have pilot data to show you yet - that's exactly why we're looking for Founding Partners. Here's what we'll measure on your numbers, together:

1Baseline TripAdvisor, Google, and Booking scores - captured before deployment, tracked weekly after
2Incident volume + severity distribution + resolution time (by department, by shift, by hour of day)
3SLA compliance rate by department - and the trend across pilot weeks
4VIP follow-up completion rate for Royal, government, and high-value guests
5Cross-language coordination incidents - communication breakdowns that would have happened without MindDesk
6Pattern detections issued + recurring incident clusters identified
7Compliance audit readiness score (Dubai Municipality, HACCP, CCTV retention)
8Staff onboarding time for new hires - measured from first shift to independent operation
9Total annualized value captured - computed from the above, shared fully transparently at the 3-month and 6-month review

Who we are looking for

Specific criteria. We would rather have no Founding Partner than the wrong Founding Partner.

150-300 room luxury properties (5-star or equivalent positioning)
Based in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, or Kuwait
Multilingual staff (Arabic, Hindi, Filipino, English at minimum - Urdu and Tagalog welcome)
GM or VP Operations with decision authority - no six-month procurement process
Willing to commit 2 hours per week for the first month (onboarding + feedback), then 1 hour per month
Open to being publicly featured as a Founding Partner after the first 3 months (if you are satisfied)

Why us, why now

Founder-led

Built by a former hotel operations director with 25 years of experience - Director of Operations at Pullman, then General Manager at Appart'City and Montempô. BCG consulting background. Not built by a tech team who read a few hotel blogs and decided it looked easy.

The AI agent window is open for 18 months

By 2028, every HotSOS, Knowcross, and ALICE will have an AI layer. Founding Partners onboarded today will have 18 months of compounding operational advantage before the incumbents catch up.

Gulf-specific by design

Ramadan shift patterns, 46°C heat protocols, VIP discretion, Dubai Municipality compliance, HACCP in halal kitchens - built into the core, not retrofitted. MindDesk was Gulf-first from week one.

Application form

Apply to be a Founding Partner

Steve (founder) personally reads every application and replies within 48 hours.