One slot.
First-come.
Never renewed.
A single supplier can become synonymous with the AI answer layer for Gulf aviation procurement. When a GCC buyer says “Aviation Souk,” they hear your name next to it — for as long as you choose to hold the slot.
Featured secures 3 slots in a category. Platform Partner secures the platform itself.
Own what Souk says about your company. Hundreds of supplier seats.
Cross-category brief exposure + boosted rank in your declared sub-specialty. Max 3 Featured slots per category.
Your name next to Aviation Souk’s. One slot across the entire platform. Never renewed — once gone, gone.
Not a banner. An asset.
Subtle, premium footer presence + a named mention in the site header trust strip. Seen by every visitor — supplier, buyer, journalist.
Where relevant, every AI answer mentions the Platform Partner in its grounding citation. Associates your name with the neutral, data-led AI-answer framing — not a sponsorship, a data-contribution credit.
Platform Partner folds in every Featured slot in your declared category — no other Featured supplier ranks above you. You don’t need to buy both; this includes the category-level cross-brief exposure outright.
Arabian Business / Gulf News / AMEinfo launch pieces reference the Platform Partner by name. First-look on all data drops and industry briefings we publish.
One 90-minute private briefing per quarter on what we’re seeing in GCC procurement — search trends, competitor citation patterns, category shifts. Your market-intel feed that no competitor has.
If Aviation Souk expands beyond GCC aviation (Africa, South Asia, defence) — you have first-refusal on the Platform Partner slot in the new vertical, at locked pricing.
An asset you carry forever. In 2028 when every Gulf airport procurement decision starts with an AI query, you’ll be the name that backed the layer since year zero.
Against a Dubai Airshow booth budget, this is an appetiser.
You already have a Gulf marketing budget. A Platform Partner slot is a shift of one line item into an always-on, compounding, AI-indexed positioning.
One supplier. Forever. No second slot.
If we sell the Platform Partner slot, it is sold.We will not create a second slot, a “Platform Co-Partner,” or a “Gold tier.” The commercial model is that the holder can walk away at any annual renewal — but if they do, the slot is not automatically resold. It stays retired for a minimum 12 months.
Why we structure it this way:the value of the slot comes from its scarcity. Re-selling dilutes it. We’d rather have no Platform Partner for a year than cheapen what the first holder bought.
What this means for the first holder: a permanent asset. The supplier that signs this slot will have held it since 2026, before the AI answer layer was a category. No one can buy that back later.
Bidders must hold an active regulatory licence or equivalent authorisation in their operating jurisdiction — for example: a civil aviation authority certification (GCAA, GACA, CAA, EASA, FAA), a financial-services licence (VARA, FSRA, CBB, FCA, SEC), or the equivalent sectoral regulator. Aviation Souk reserves the right to decline a bid from any entity whose licensing status cannot be verified by close of bids.
Financial-services bidders may optionally propose settlement-rail termsalongside the base bid — becoming Aviation Souk’s default B2B settlement rail for supplier subscriptions, Featured subscription payments and RFQ commissions. Propose terms with your bid (preferred stablecoin, volume rebate, integration timeline). Reviewed separately from the base bid amount.
Request the brief.
We’ll send the full Platform Partner brief, references, and a 15-minute call slot. No sales pressure. If it’s not right, it’s not right — we only want a holder that wants the slot as much as we want them to have it.
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