mena-partnerships-distribution

name	mena-partnerships-distribution
description	Use this skill when planning, drafting, or reviewing Arab/MENA partnerships and distribution motions, including reseller strategy, agency partnerships, systems integrators, telco or bank partnerships, payment or logistics partnerships, partner pitches, and co-marketing. It drafts and reviews; it does not approve terms or submit partner applications.

MENA Partnerships and Distribution

When To Use

Use this skill for Arab/MENA partner strategy, reseller/distributor planning, agency partnerships, systems integrators, regulated ecosystem caution, partner pitches, co-marketing, and due diligence.

When Not To Use

• Do not sign, submit, register, upload, publish, send, or approve partner terms.
• Do not promise access to banks, telcos, ministries, regulators, chambers, customer lists, or procurement shortcuts.
• Do not provide legal, regulatory, tax, telecom, banking, open-banking, anti-bribery, or commercial agency advice.

Required Context

• Country or market, partner type, sector, shared customer, commercial model, and intended channel.
• Whether the partner touches customer data, payments, logistics, telecom, bank data, identity, tax, payroll, health, education, government, or public procurement.
• Motion type: referral, reseller, distributor, implementation, agency bundle, technology integration, co-marketing, or regulated ecosystem.
• Requested exclusivity, territory, revenue share, commission, sublicensing, customer ownership, logo use, data access, or production API access.
• Sandbox vs production state if technical integration, shared CRM, partner portal, or message/customer-data workflows are involved.

Common Workflows

• Classify the partner motion and risk tier.
• Separate commercial fit from regulated feasibility.
• Draft a partner pitch, due-diligence checklist, co-marketing plan, or pilot-first partner plan.
• Flag legal, procurement, regulatory, privacy, security, and operator review gates before live action.
• Keep local tone, seniority, Arabic wording, and relationship claims scoped and review-required unless source-backed.

Default Workflow

1. Read sources.yml for source quality and source-use limits.
2. Read only the relevant reference files under references/.
3. State the partner type, country/market, shared customer, channel, and risk tier.
4. Separate source-backed facts from assumptions, Unknown from public docs, and items needing local legal, compliance, regulator, platform, security, or native/operator review.
5. Recommend a pilot-first, no-exclusivity default unless the user provides reviewed legal/commercial direction.
6. For integration or automation, separate sandbox and production, protect credentials and secrets, and require retry/idempotency, access control, data minimization, and audit logging.

Response Contract

• Start by naming SKILL.md and the reference files used.
• Ask only for missing inputs that materially change risk; otherwise proceed with explicit assumptions.
• Avoid stereotypes and broad claims about Arab, MENA, GCC, national, religious, dialect, gender, age, or class groups.
• Use public partner pages as examples, not proof of terms, acceptance criteria, or access.
• Include operator review flags before any partner outreach, public announcement, co-marketing asset, partner application, contract, or integration.
• Mark government and semi-government partnership content as procurement-sensitive and operator-review required.

Source And Confidence Rules

• High-confidence claims require public sources or completed review evidence.
• Medium-confidence notes need source-backed signals or multiple weak sources.
• Low-confidence notes must be labeled as hypotheses, unknowns, or review-required.
• Do not turn country-level statistics into individual-level behavior claims.

Anti-Stereotype Rules

• Never assign traits to nationality, religion, ethnicity, dialect group, gender, age, or income group.
• Scope recommendations by country, audience, segment, channel, and evidence.
• Prefer "for this audience and channel, consider" over broad cultural claims.

Output Rules

• Give practical drafts, plans, templates, checklists, or QA steps.
• Mark dialect, public brand copy, regulated content, and strategic recommendations as review-required when not reviewed.
• Use native review or expert review labels when partner pitch wording, regulated-sector claims, government context, or local business etiquette risk is present.
• End with a short validation checklist and any required human approval gate.

Files To Read

• Source map: sources.yml.
• Distribution strategy: references/reseller-strategy.md.
• Agency/services: references/agency-partnerships.md.
• Enterprise implementation: references/system-integrators.md.
• Regulated ecosystem: references/telco-bank-partnerships.md, references/payment-logistics-partnerships.md.
• Pitch/launch support: references/partner-pitch.md, references/co-marketing.md.
• Example style: examples/partner-plan.md or examples/source-backed-answer.md.

Safety Rules

• Anti-stereotype rule: do not turn country, regional, language, religion, gender, age, or class labels into partner personality claims or negotiation norms.
• Draft only; never sign, submit, send, upload, publish, announce, register, grant access, or change settings without explicit approval.
• Do not invent local partner norms, commercial agency obligations, exclusivity rules, regulatory approval, licenses, partner acceptance criteria, customer introductions, or public logos.
• For co-marketing, events, CRM handoff, email, WhatsApp, or SMS follow-up, require consent/opt-in, sender identity, opt-out, and policy review.
• Government and semi-government content requires operator review and procurement caution before outreach, pitch, registration, or co-marketing.
• Payments, banking, open banking, telco, logistics, identity, tax, payroll, health, education, government, and public procurement require legal/compliance and security review.
• Do not share customer names, customer data, production access, credentials, pricing, security docs, or roadmap details unless approved.
• Keep Arabic, dialect, etiquette, religious, national, or culturally specific copy draft-only until native/operator review is complete.

Validation Checklist

• Partner type, country, shared customer, commercial model, data access, and risk tier are recorded or marked unknown.
• Regulated sectors, government/semi-government routes, data flows, and production access are flagged.
• Source-backed facts map to sources.yml; unsupported claims are labeled Unknown from public docs.
• Pitch language avoids guaranteed access, fake relationships, and unsupported local norms.
• Sandbox and production are separated for integrations, and secrets are not printed or committed.
• Evals cover reseller, agency, SI, regulated ecosystem, co-marketing, and anti-stereotype behavior.

Done Criteria

• The answer names the files read and the partner motion selected.
• The output is practical but draft-only, with approval gates for live action and public use.
• Regional claims are scoped and caveated; no unsupported partnership norms or access claims are included.