Certified monday.com Expert
I am the person you hire when the last monday.com rollout did not stick.
I am Ahmed Essam, an independent monday.com consultant and trainer. I build the systems, then I write down what I learned and give it away.
- 90+
- implementations delivered
- 250+
- hours of live training
- Certified monday.com Expert
- Independent, no reseller quota
Selected clients
How I got here
I have delivered more than 90 monday.com implementations and over 250 hours of live training. CRM systems, project operations, reporting for management, and a fair number of rescues of builds that somebody else abandoned halfway.
Somewhere around project 30 the pattern became impossible to ignore. The tool was almost never the problem. The problem was that nobody had decided how the work should flow before configuring software to carry it. So I stopped starting with boards and started starting with questions.
That is also why this site exists. The same 10 questions come up on every project, and answering them once in public is more useful than answering them 90 times in private. If reading the Playbook means you build it yourself and never hire me, that is a good outcome. Some of you will want it built properly and fast, and those are the projects I take on.
I work in English, German and Arabic, remotely, with small and mid-sized teams. Usually the person I work with is the one inside the company who owns monday.com and never asked to.
How I work
Four things I will not compromise on
These are the reasons people either want to work with me or definitely do not, which is useful information for both of us.
01
The process comes before the tool
Almost every failed implementation I have been called in to fix was a tooling answer to a process question. I will ask what you do before I ask what you want built.
02
Independent means I can say no
I am not a reseller with a quota. If monday.com is the wrong fit for what you described, saying so costs me one project and saves you a year.
03
You should not need me afterwards
Every build is documented and handed over properly. Consultants who make themselves indispensable are optimising for their own revenue, not your system.
04
Shared knowledge is worth more
Everything I learn goes into the Playbook for free. It costs me nothing to give away and it is how people find out whether they want to work with me.
Let us talk about what you are building
One call, no pitch. Worst case you leave with a clearer idea of your own problem.