FML × SNB Capital

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Investment Briefing
Strictly Private & Confidential
Introduced by Tukeer Hussain
Feed Me Light Ltd · London
Founded 2013
Feed
Me Light
The creative production layer of Vision 2030.
For the attention of
Mr Moosa Raza
Saudi National Bank
11 May 2026 · London & Riyadh
شركة فيد مي لايت · لندن
تأسست عام ٢٠١٣
فيد مي
لايت
طبقة الإنتاج الإبداعي لرؤية ٢٠٣٠.
لعناية
السيد موسى رضا
البنك الأهلي السعودي
٢٤ ذو القعدة ١٤٤٧ · لندن والرياض
02 · The Ask · الطلب $30M · Hybrid · Equity + Sharia Revolver

Thirty million dollars, structured as equity plus productive working capital, against Vision 2030 receivables.

Structure

A
$10–12M · SNB Capital equityCombined minority into Feed Me Light Ltd (UK IP & creative-pedigree vehicle) and capitalisation of FML Creative Arabia (Riyadh, RHQ-eligible). Single Mudaraba / Musharaka instrument, Sharia-screened, AAOIFI SS 13 / SS 12.
B
$18–20M · SNB Bank Sharia-compliant revolving facilityOrganised Tawarruq under AAOIFI SS 30. Secured by assignment of named PIF and giga-project receivables under Movable Property Security Law and SS 5 + SS 7. Productive working capital absorbing Vision 2030 payment-cycle friction.
C
KPI-gated, 36-month buildEquity drawn at signing. Revolver available from Q3 2026, drawn against verified receivables. Renewable 364-day. Optional Kafalah Programme credit enhancement (SME bracket).

Use of Proceeds

Productive working capital · revolverSAR 67.5M · receivables-secured · drawn-as-deployed
$18M
KSA build-out · Riyadh studio & senior teamSAR 22.5M · Saudi-resident leadership
$6M
Global Out of Home platform & IP localisationSAR 15.0M · STMap library, Arabic LoRAs, MCP layer
$4M
Deal, Sharia, RHQ structuringSAR 7.5M · legal · scholar opinion · RHQ activation
$2M
03 · Why Now · لماذا الآن 50 Months · Vision 2030

Fifty months remain. The bottleneck is working capital, not capability.

Vision 2030 has commissioned the largest cluster of cultural, sporting, and entertainment infrastructure in modern history. Capital is not the constraint at the commissioning bodies. It is the constraint at every supplier underneath them.

Saudi government and PIF-adjacent commissioning bodies pay on 12 to 24 month cycles. Sharia practice strikes out FIDIC sub-clause 14.8 late-payment interest, leaving contractors with no recourse on the float. Only counterparties with deep balance sheets survive the wait. That is why the global holdcos win, and craft is squeezed out. FML closes that gap.

Statutory KSA payment floor
6090 days
Article 109 floor (60–70d) · Saudi MoF "on-time" benchmark is 99% within 90 days · documented practice exceeds both
KSA projects with cashflow disputes
31.6%
HKA CRUX 6th Annual Report (Oct 2023) · highest in GCC · n=2,200+ projects, $2.43tn CapEx
PIF spending-cut directive · Dec 2024
2060%
Board-approved cuts across 100+ portfolio cos · AGBI (Mar 2025) cites agencies on delayed/partial payments
Creative industries share of GDP target
3% by 2030
From sub-1% baseline · Ministry of Culture · the demand side is unambiguous
04 · The Inflection · نقطة التحول FML 2013–2030 · Two Futures

Ten quiet years. The inflection has already started.

FML revenue, 2015 to 2030, USD millions. Family-owned and operated by Denis Bodart and Kiri Haggart since 2013; the studio has run profitably on average across a decade. The 2024 dip reflects a deliberate investment year, with capacity directed into GOOH platform R&D against a lighter delivery slate. 2024–2025 alone: 2.5x growth, Sales Overseas +960% YoY. Forward five-year model under NDA.
05 · What FML Is · ما نحن Founded 2013 · Studio Launched 2015

An AI-native studio. Built for what comes next.

Feed Me Light is a thirteen-year-old creative studio that rebuilt itself around generative AI before the market knew it had to. We sit at the intersection of brand storytelling, real-time technology, and machine-learning-native production.

Founded and family-owned by Denis Bodart and Kiri Haggart since 2013. Feed Me Light Group sits as the holding entity above three operating arms: Feed Me Light Ltd (UK creative production, Shoreditch HQ, Companies House #08338373), FML Creative Arabia (KSA-resident operating company, MISA-licensed), and GOOH Inc (technology platform, registration in progress). Presence also in Auckland and Los Angeles.

We are now building creative tools and AI products, including a SaaS platform focused on the out-of-home advertising sector, dynamically displaying content across screens at once. Denis Bodart, Founder · Arab News, 2025
Selected clients
FIFA
AFC
Riot Games
Apple TV+
Royal Enfield
Chanel
Netflix
Warner Bros
Qiddiya
MBC
PIF
SAFF
UK Companies House #08338373 · Riyadh entity active · 30+ team across four time zones
06 · Biggest Shows on Earth · أكبر العروض في العالم Track Record · 2020–2025

Cumulative audience: billions.

Selected work for the largest tentpoles on earth. Cinematic film, anamorphic OOH, stadium screens, opening ceremonies, gaming reveals.
2022 · Doha
FIFA World Cup Qatar
Ceremony & activationsCumulative reach 5bn+. Direct FIFA client. 3D mascot, OOH projection, stadium-screen film integrated into opening ceremony.
2024 · Doha
AFC Asian Cup 2023
Kelileh & Demneh28 nations as anthropomorphic animals from the centuries-old fable. With Katara Studios. Houdini VFX milestone.
2025 · Doha
FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar
BOMA the Desert OwlOfficial mascot ownership. Character design, rig, animation, narrative film, print.
2025 · London
Royal Enfield 125 Years
Anamorphic OOH LondonAnniversary integrated campaign. Anamorphic OOH at landmark sites. Validates the Global Out of Home thesis.
2020 · Global
Riot Games Valorant
Reveal teaserFirst-ever Elastic + FML collaboration. Game now 30M+ MAU. Andy Hall (Elastic) credited FML with creative ownership.
2023 · Global
Dead Island 2 opening
Cinematic title sequenceGame sold 1M+ copies in three days. Co-directed with Elastic.
2021 · Global
Apple TV+ Truth Be Told
Season 2 opening titlesStreaming prestige. Editorial title sequence design.
2020 · Paris
Chanel New Year
Animated filmWith director Jo Ratcliffe. Luxury credential.
07 · The Platform · المنصة Global Out of Home · Screens + MCP Layer

Global Out of Home. A platform, not a service.

A unified database of digital out-of-home inventory worldwide, paired with an AI-native generation pipeline. Content is created inside the platform, or piped in from external agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Sora) via an open Model Context Protocol layer. Then deployed at scale through the platform's CMS bridges.
01 Inventory
Screen database
Hundreds of thousands of screens worldwide. Geometry, owner, CMS, resolution, anamorphic mesh. The supply layer.
02 Generate
ComfyUI + LoRA
Brand-tuned models. Arabic-localised. Per-venue STMap warp. Model-agnostic across Luma, Veo, Seedance, Runway.
03 MCP Layer
Open protocol
Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Sora connect via MCP. Agents query inventory, brief campaigns, ship to screen.
04 Deliver
Native CMS bridge
Broadsign, Daktronics, Hivestack, Liveboard. No bespoke install. Content goes live anywhere.

Why this is defensible

The inventory database is the moat. Screen geometry, CMS endpoints, anamorphic meshes per venue. Compounds with every site mapped. AI models are rented; the supply graph is owned. The MCP layer makes FML the default execution rail for any AI agent doing brand work at scale.

Validated & in pipeline

Shipped: Royal Enfield 125 Years anamorphic OOH, London, 2025. Mapped venues: Piccadilly Circus (Ocean Outdoor / Landsec), Outernet London, COEX K-Pop Square Seoul, Shinjuku 3D Cross Tokyo. KSA target inventory: KAFD, Qiddiya entry plaza, Diriyah Gate, Boulevard City, Riyadh Front, 2034 World Cup stadium curtain LED.

08 · Vision 2030 Demand · الطلب على رؤية ٢٠٣٠ Stacked Counterparties · 2026–2034

Eight programmes. One addressable creative production market.

Indicative addressable creative production market across Vision 2030 commissioning programmes, USD billions per year (1–3% of programme spend). FML's projected capture overlaid: $30M by 2030, ~2% of the stack.
09 · Global Out of Home Market · فرصة السوق GOOH (Global Out of Home) · KSA Beachhead

Global Out of Home is a category. KSA is a beachhead.

Global Out of Home market projected at $58.7bn by 2030 (11.6% CAGR). KSA outdoor advertising growing ~10% CAGR to $1.7bn by 2031. FML's projected 2030 capture: ~5% of the KSA premium segment (~$43M). The category breaks into four operational tiers — FML targets the top.
I · Iconic Hero Sites
Where craft is the moat.
Piccadilly Circus · Times Square · COEX K-Pop Square · Shinjuku 3D Cross · Sphere Las Vegas · Outernet London · Burj Khalifa
Limited-inventory premium sites priced at $20–500k per daily slot. Forced-perspective, anamorphic, narrative formats. Brand-event creative wins; commodity tools do not.
FML home ground
II · Premium Urban LED
High-volume agency inventory.
City-centre LED towers · transit hubs · spectacular freestanding · stadium LED rings
Programmatic and fixed buys at scale. Mid-tier creative bar. Format-correct content matters more than auteur craft. Reach economics, not iconic economics.
Scalable second tier
III · Retail + Experiential
Captive audience, attribution data.
In-mall LED · retail media networks · airport · pop-ups · festival and sport activations
Closer to point-of-purchase, higher attribution clarity, deeper activation depth. Bundles naturally with brand work; agency briefs often combine.
Cross-sell with brand
IV · KSA Vision 2030 Assets
New premium inventory coming online.
Riyadh Boulevard · NEOM · Qiddiya · Diriyah Gate · AlUla · King Salman Park · Haramain corridors
Built for content from inception. Operator partnerships still forming. The premium tier where FML's craft moat translates one-for-one into the kingdom.
Anchor-partner ambition
10 · The Intellectual Moat · الملكية الفكرية IP Accumulation · 2023–2030

We are not building a service. We are building a vault.

Four compounding layers. Trade secrets, custom code, branded LoRAs, registered trademarks. Localised in KSA via SAIP filings and Riyadh-resident infrastructure.
Trade secrets
Validated venue mesh library. Empirical, requires physical site access. Compounds with every shipped venue.
Custom code
FML STMap nodes, copyrighted, delivered via SaaS to manage GPL. Two custom nodes shipped, more in pipeline.
Branded LoRAs
Per-client recurring asset. Sharia-compliant ijarah-style royalty structure. Localised Arabic LoRAs in development.
Trademarks & KSA
UKIPO + SAIP via Madrid Protocol. Classes 35, 41, 42. RHQ-resident, PDPL-compliant data residency in Riyadh.
11 · Operating Leverage · الكفاءة التشغيلية Revenue per Head · Margin Path

Same revenue. A fraction of the headcount.

Revenue per head versus gross margin. FML's trajectory, 2023 to 2030, between two clouds: traditional creative studios, and AI-native operators.
12 · Prime Contractor & Network · المقاول الرئيسي والشبكة Consortium Model · Vision 2030 Pipeline

Prime contractor. Curated network underneath.

FML is in the driving seat of the head contract with the commissioning body and absorbs the receivable on its own balance sheet. Underneath, a curated network of high-craft producers and creative companies delivers on FML's quality terms, against bilateral subcontracts, on Net 30 to 60 payment cycles FML controls.

The model is proven at FML in the Ducati consortium architecture published at ducati.feedmelight.com. We are the operating example of what Vision 2030 commissioning bodies have been asking for: a single quality-graded counterparty that delivers like a holdco at the cost base and creative pedigree of an indie.

A
FML as principal
Head contracts in FML's name. Bilateral subcontractor agreements, FML the counterparty. Genuine commercial & delivery risk. Commercial activity, not financial intermediation. SAMA perimeter respected throughout.
B
Curated network underneath
Vetted producers and studios admitted under FML standards. IP-licensed delivery via FML LoRAs and STMap pipeline, under QA gates. Quality-graded tiering, performance scorecards, step-in rights.
C
Capital efficiency
FML own-team delivery for hero work at AI-native cost base. Curated network handles capacity overflow at 15–30% pass-through margin. Blended 35–45% gross margin on consortium revenue. Institutional benchmarks: WPP Production (10,000+ creators across 40+ locations, Feb 2026); Stagwell ($750M revolver + $129M trade receivables factoring, Q1 2025); Cinesite ($235M NatWest/Barclays syndication, Dec 2022); Buck/Residence (Gemspring Capital, Mar 2025).
Convertible pipeline · 24-month horizon
CounterpartyProgrammeStage
Qiddiya CityAnchor · attractions launchLive
Savvy Games GroupScopely-adjacent creativeWarm
MBC GroupPIF-acquired Sept 2025Warm
PIF portfolioCross-asset creativeWarm
NEOMTrojena · Asian Winter GamesCold
RC AlUlaCultural & tourismCold
Diriyah GateGateway activationsCold
RoshnLifestyle real estateCold
Expo 2030 RiyadhPre-roll campaign cyclePre-mandate
2034 World Cup KSAFML existing FIFA partnerPosition
FML internal commercial assessment · May 2026 · subject to NDA · consortium architecture at ducati.feedmelight.com
13 · Governance & Leadership · الحوكمة Operating Team · Advisory Board

A team in place. A board being built.

FML's operating leadership is already split across UK and KSA. Post-investment, the advisory board formalises with Saudi-resident and institutional voices. SNB Capital is invited to nominate one observer seat.

Operating Leadership

Denis Bodart
Group Founder · ECD · KSA General Manager
Founded Feed Me Light 2013. Belgian, London-resident, Riyadh-active. Prior: Saatchi & Saatchi, Electric Theatre Collective, Nexus Studios. Runs creative direction across both entities; on the ground GM for FML Creative Arabia.
I.
Kiri Haggart
CEO · Feed Me Light UK
Runs the UK mothership end-to-end: commercial, finance, ops, client delivery. Twelve years inside FML's growth from founding to today's £2.5M revenue base.
II.
Ben Leyland
Executive Producer · Technology & AI
Permalancer EP anchoring the AI and platform side. Lead on Kansas City Chiefs (Chiefs Kingdom NFL platform, Supabase / HuggingFace / Vercel stack) and Global Out of Home platform architecture.
III.
Michelle Thorn
Finance · UK
Group finance lead. CT600, VAT, statutory accounts, audit-ready posture. Xero accrual basis. Lloyds Bank relationship.
IV.

Advisory Board · In Formation

Tukeer Hussain
Advisor · GCC Capital Markets
SNB introducer. GCC institutional and family office reach. Bridges UK private capital and KSA strategic capital. Active engagement on the SNB Capital pathway.
i.
David French
Advisor · Asian + GCC Family Offices
Chairman, Harod Associates. Principal, Harwell Capital. Senior advisor, Heligan Group. Career: Met Police, Hong Kong financial services, growth capital. Hong Kong and Gulf SWF reach. Senior advisory relationship with a Gulf SWF.
ii.
Open seat · KSA Chair
Saudi-Resident · To Be Appointed
Vision 2030-fluent senior advisor, Riyadh-resident, with PIF-adjacent network. Recruitment to commence on term sheet exchange. Profile and shortlist available under NDA.
iii.
Observer seat · SNB Capital
Reserved · Post-Investment
One non-voting observer seat reserved for SNB Capital. Standard information rights, quarterly reporting cadence, attendance at all advisory board meetings.
iv.
Sharia opinion
External scholar · Commissioned at term sheet
Independent Sharia scholar opinion commissioned at term sheet, covering the equity instrument (AAOIFI SS 13 / SS 12), the Tawarruq revolving facility (SS 30) and the assignment of receivables as security (SS 5 + SS 7). Shortlist of qualified scholars available under NDA.
v.
14 · How the Capital Works · ميكانيكا رأس المال Cash Conversion · Capital Multiplier

Capital absorbs the wait. Revenue compounds the multiplier.

The structural gap is between commissioning speed and payment speed. The capital sits in that gap. Every dollar of revolver headroom supports approximately $1.50–$2.00 of annual revenue at 35–45% blended margin.
The Cash Conversion Cycle
T0
Head contract signed
FML signs as principal with the commissioning body. Bilateral subcontracts with curated network on Net 30–60 terms FML controls.
+30–90d
Work delivered · invoice issued
FML pays curated network on schedule. Revolver drawn against the verified receivable, advance rates 80–85% of face value on quasi-sovereign PIF-tier payors.
+90 to +540d
FML carries the receivable
The 12–18 month payment cycle that excludes most independents is absorbed by the SNB Bank Tawarruq revolver. FML's balance sheet is the only one in the room sized for this.
Day of payment
Receivable settles · revolver redeemed
Capital recycles into the next contract. Revolver headroom is restored. Net margin captured by FML, lighter than holdco run-rate by an order of magnitude.
The Capital Multiplier
$20M
Working capital deployed
SNB Bank Tawarruq revolver · against named PIF / giga-project receivables · 364-day renewable
$3040M
Annual revenue capacity
At 1.5–2.0x turn · Stagwell runs a $750M revolver + $129M factoring on $2.6bn revenue (Q1 2025 10-Q, factoring +85% YoY)
$1015M
Annual gross profit
Blended 35–45% margin · 60% on own-team delivery · 15–30% on consortium pass-through · float carry absorbed
Why a bank, not a fund. Equity priced for growth would be diluted by working-capital duty. A Sharia-compliant revolver from SNB Bank is asset-backed against PIF-tier receivables, self-redeems at every settlement, and prices closer to the payor risk than the borrower risk.
15 · Deal Structure · هيكل الصفقة Hybrid · Equity + Sharia Revolver · KPI-Gated

Equity from SNB Capital. Revolver from SNB Bank. One house. Two instruments.

$10–12M equity (Mudaraba / Musharaka, AAOIFI SS 13 / SS 12) anchors the cap table. $18–20M revolving working capital facility (organised Tawarruq, AAOIFI SS 30) against assigned PIF receivables (SS 5 + SS 7). Both arms of the same banking group. Standard market architecture: Al Rajhi Bank / Al Rajhi Capital, BSF / Saudi Fransi Capital, SNB / SNB Capital.
Sharia structure
Financing against receivables, not sale of receivables. AAOIFI SS 59 prohibits the latter in the GCC. Independent scholar opinion at term sheet on the equity instrument, the Tawarruq, and the assignment.
Regulatory posture
FML acts as principal under bilateral subcontracts. No factoring, no invoice purchase, no marketing of financing to suppliers. Activity remains commercial trade-credit, clearly outside SAMA's Finance Companies Control Law perimeter. KSA counsel opinion at term sheet.
Security & pricing
Assignment of named receivables under Movable Property Security Law, SNB-controlled escrow collection account, borrowing-base reporting. Indicative pricing 3M SAIBOR + 175–250 bps. Advance rates 80–85% on PIF-tier payors. Optional Kafalah enhancement.
SNB advisory frame
Direct SNB Group precedent: SNB Capital was joint financial advisor on MBC Group IPO (Jan 2024, $222M float, prospectus working capital + content development); SNB Bank was Mandated Lead Arranger on NEOM SAR 10bn revolving Murabaha (Apr 2024); SNB Capital JLA on PIF $7bn Tawarruq syndicate (2025). The structure proposed here is consistent with these precedents at private-company scale.
16 · Risks & Mitigants · المخاطر والضمانات Discussed Up Front

The risks SNB will ask about. Pre-empted, not dodged.

Counterparty concentration
PIF and giga-project receivables are quasi-sovereign in payment certainty but lengthy in cycle. Risk is timing, not default. The March 2026 NEOM cancellation cascade ($6.85bn terminated for convenience) is instructive: every named contractor disclosed contractual reimbursement of accrued costs. Webuild stated Trojena demob "will be reimbursed by the client, leaving the Webuild Group unharmed." The risk this facility exists to absorb is the cycle length, not the eventual settlement. Mitigations: per-counterparty exposure caps in facility documentation; mandatory diversification across at least four PIF-tier commissioning bodies before second drawdown; named-payor credit tiering; monthly borrowing-base reporting to SNB.Concentration limits hard-coded into the revolver covenants.
Regulatory perimeter
Activity is bilateral prime contracting with subcontractor payment-terms management, not factoring or invoice purchase. Clear of SAMA Finance Companies Control Law on Article 1 / Article 10 reading, and outside the FCA perimeter per the Treasury Committee Greensill Inquiry (July 2021). KSA counsel and UK FCA counsel opinions commissioned at term sheet. FML does not market financing or early-payment services to subcontractors.Commercial activity, not financial intermediation · counsel opinions on file.
Commoditisation
GenAI tooling commoditises rapidly. Defensibility lives in four owned layers: proprietary STMap node and venue mesh library, branded LoRA pipeline maintained per client, holdco-grade studio bench and creative judgement, sticky enterprise client roster (FIFA, AFC, Riot, Apple, Qiddiya). The model layer is rented; the rest is owned.Investment in proprietary IP, not foundation models.
Founder concentration
FML operates with a two-CEO split: Denis (Group ECD and KSA GM) and Kiri Haggart (UK CEO). Ben Leyland anchors tech and the AI platform. The advisory board is being built around the round: Tukeer Hussain (GCC capital), David French (Asian and Gulf family offices), with one Saudi chair seat and one SNB observer seat reserved.Detail on slide 13 · governance package finalised at term sheet.
KSA execution
Foreign indies have failed in KSA when they ran the entity from London. FML Creative Arabia is incorporated, operationally active, MISA-licensed, capitalised, with Riyadh-resident operational presence on the ground. Qiddiya engagement is live. The Ducati consortium architecture (ducati.feedmelight.com) is the production-network template adapted for Vision 2030.Riyadh-resident operations pre-investment · Saudisation roadmap auditable.
17 · Diligence · Back Pocket · العناية الواجبة Honesty in Advance

Held for the room. Three things SNB will need to hear.

This slide is reserved for diligence post-NDA. KSA institutional capital underwrites maturity of disclosure, not absence of issues.
Runway
As at May 2026, the UK mothership operates on a tight working capital horizon. A UK bridge facility is in active arrangement. Lloyds Bank charge in place since March 2025 (certified by Dentons). SNB Capital diligence sequenced to begin after bridge close, so the investment conversation never operates under cash duress.Bridge in flight · disclosed up front · timeline visible.
Litigation
None pending. None threatened. Clean across UK and KSA jurisdictions.Clean.
IP & regulatory
UK Companies House #08338373 in good standing. CT600 current. VAT current. KSA entity (FML Creative Arabia) incorporated with full ownership disclosure, MISA-licensed, active. Sharia screen passable on cleansed-revenue basis. PDPL compliance roadmap in deck appendix.Auditable on diligence.
Next · Step 01
30-minute introductory call · Mr Raza & Denis Bodart · post-NDA exchange.
Next · Step 02
Riyadh visit · studio walkthrough · Qiddiya engagement demo · Ducati consortium architecture walkthrough.
Next · Step 03
Term sheet exchange · SNB Capital equity + SNB Bank revolver indicative terms · Sharia opinion · KSA & UK counsel sign-off.
End of briefing
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Worthy of the screen.
Built for the kingdom.

From London craft heritage to Riyadh-resident scale. The decade ahead is creative infrastructure. We are ready to build it.
Denis Bodart
Founder & ECD · Feed Me Light
denis@feedmelight.com
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