⸻ GROUND TRUTH ⸻

A Baaghil Hospitality Advisory

We shape hospitality projects before they drift into costly design, branding, and operational confusion. Performance is decided upstream and that is where we work.

We partner with owners, developers, investment groups, and leadership teams to align cultural intelligence, experiential coherence, operational logic, financial architecture into one unified strategy that drives value from day one.

We build concepts that are culturally grounded, experientially relevant, operationally deliverable, and financially intelligent designed for margin resilience, ADR strength, retention, contribution gains, and long-term asset value.

  • No theatrics.

  • No templates.

  • No downstream guessing.

  • Just clarity, discipline, and truth.

What We Solve- Most hospitality projects begin downstream attractive design, clever branding, fragmented ideas but no strategic origin.

Ground Truth creates that origin by defining:

  • Identity- The cultural and behavioral truth of the place.

  • Behavior- How the property serves, moves, and expresses itself every day.

  • Relevance- Why it matters and to whom in its market.

  • Performance- How it generates contribution, resilience, and ROI.

Our work connects culture, experience, operations, and finance into one blueprint leadership can execute consistently, profitably, and without drift. This is how concepts become lived-in, human, scalable, and commercially sound.

Our Method

  1. Cultural Truth- Understanding the human patterns, context, and rituals that give a property meaning.

  2. Experiential Coherence- A guest journey designed to be intuitive, fluid, emotionally resonant and conversion-driving.

  3. Operational Grounding- A service and staffing model built for reality, not aspiration. Where efficiency meets humanity and margin.

  4. Financial Intelligence- Profit architecture for contribution, ADR growth, outlet productivity, and long-term asset value. Everything we deliver is designed to work on the floor not just in a slide deck.

Why Ground Truth

  • We begin at the origin, not the surface.

  • We build concepts customers feel and teams can deliver.

  • We unite culture with commercial logic.

  • We create frameworks that survive leadership turnover, market cycles, and trend fatigue.

  • We bring ambition back to reality where operators can execute, investors can trust, and guests remember.

Founder’s Perspective

Hospitality loses its way the moment it starts downstream with design, branding, assumptions, and noise. I built Ground Truth to correct that. I began my career in places where service was a human craft, not a performance. Those early values shaped how I see the industry today: clarity over theatrics, behavior over slogans, reality over projections. Across markets, brands, and ownership groups, one pattern repeats: Hotels and restaurants underperform not because the idea is weak, but because the origin is undefined.

Ground Truth exists to define that origin so every decision that follows has truth, coherence, and commercial intelligence behind it.

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Projects

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Smart Beta (Private Equity), Dubai, UAE

Market Entry & Strategic Advisory for 1 Central Dubai, including concept evaluation and negotiations on behalf of the client with:

  • Momofuku.

  • Dani García Group (DG Group).

  • Union Square Hospitality Group (Danny Meyer).

  • Starr Restaurants (Stephen Starr) Pastis and Balthazar.


New Giza (Real Estate Development), Egypt

Concept, Brand & Experience Strategy for The G Hotel, including full concept creation for the hotel and all food & beverage outlets, supported by cultural logic, experiential flow, and operational grounding.


Dar Collection / Royal Commission of AlUla, Saudi Arabia

Cultural, Experiential & Hospitality Strategy for Dar Tantoura, shaping narrative, identity alignment, and guest-journey coherence rooted in local context.


Trunk Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

F&B Experience & Cultural Strategy Advisory for the brand’s expansion and service approach, ensuring coherence between Tokyo culture, brand ethos, and deliverable operations.


Nakheel (now Dubai Holding), Dubai, UAE

Market Strategy Advisory for the Palm Boulevard project, including concept negotiations and evaluation in collaboration with Thorsten Ries, Managing Director of Hospitality (formerly Big Mamma Group & Moma Group Paris).


Sommet Éducation (Les Roches & Glion), Bluche - Switzerland

Thought Leadership & Industry Insight Series keynote and panel engagements with Filip Boyen, Jean-Luc Naret, Tony Chi, and Ted Teng; shaping conversations for the next generation of hoteliers.