We Over I:

We Over I is a product partner for early-stage (pre-seed to series A) startups. By seamlessly merging our teams with yours, we handle everything from product management to design, development, and growth, freeing you up to focus on mission critical tasks.

With a global footprint, we've crafted products for startups that now engage millions of users and rake in more than $150M in revenue. Our extensive experience has helped us define 3 guiding principles to build extraordinary products:

  1. Strategic Cohesion: A clear, iterative strategy backed by measurable goals. We ensure this vision is woven into the fabric of the entire product team.
  2. Product-First Team: A highly-integrated, product-first development team that contributes to strategy, ideation, user feedback and growth.
  3. Knowledge Leverage: Using our internal playbooks and case studies to reuse knowledge and tools for faster decision-making and execution.

About the Founders:

We Over I is led by Muhammad Saad and Maliha Khalid.

Muhammad Saad - Saad is a Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur running Pakistan’s largest freight marketplace, BridgeLinx (an Uber for Trucking startup). Saad went from working as a software engineer at Microsoft to becoming a serial entrepreneur and, with the success of BridgeLinx, has become highly influential in Pakistan’s startup ecosystem. BridgeLinx raised Pakistan’s most significant seed round from top-tier VCs in London and San Fransisco.

Maliha Khalid - Maliha is a seasoned entrepreneur with two acquisitions in the healthcare space in Pakistan and the US, respectively. She has been recognized as the best entrepreneur from South Asia by the World Bank and has been a faculty member at Albright Institute at Wellesley College in the United States.

Our Guiding Principles:

As we've built and scaled numerous products, we've refined essential principles foundational to every thriving product. These insights form the guiding principles of We Over I's approach:

  1. Strategic Cohesion

    Premise: A clear, iterative strategy backed by measurable goals. We ensure this vision is woven into the fabric of the entire product team.

    Importance: While early products evolve quickly, many can lose direction. The standout startups always have a well-defined strategy aligned with clear, measurable objectives, ensuring they remain on course. This understanding is central to the value we bring.

  2. Product-First Team:

    Premise: A highly-integrated, product-first development team that contributes to strategy, ideation, user feedback and growth.

    Importance: Building exemplary products requires the entire team, especially engineers, to deeply understand the challenges and users. Hence, our engineers are molded to think beyond coding. They're equipped to understand business nuances, interact with users, and influence product strategy and growth.

  3. Knowledge Leverage:

    Premise: Using our internal playbooks and case studies to reuse knowledge and tools for faster decision-making and execution.

    Importance: Over time, we've recognized that most startups, regardless of their industry or geography, face largely similar hurdles. Reapplying knowledge accelerates progress. We use our in-depth internal playbooks and and vast library of tools to accomplish that.

How We Work:

Our mission as your product partner is to blend seamlessly with your team, adopting and enhancing your workflows with our best practices and tested playbooks for effective execution.

Our Team: Our expertise spans from product management to design and development. Depending on your needs, we allocate specific team members such as Product Designers, Front-End Engineers, and Backend Engineers to your startup.

Work Expectation: Once selected, our team becomes an extension of yours—fully committed, working a minimum of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Product Management: To ensure unity in product strategy and timely deliverables, each partner is allocated a mandatory (part-time or full-time) Product Manager for effective, agile and rapid execution and management.