Answered plainly, including the ones with awkward answers.

Yes, as the owner. None of the five markets requires a company's owner to be resident there, and the work of owning — decisions, approvals, oversight — is remote work by nature. What cannot be done remotely is done by contracted local providers: cleaners, route servicers, mechanics, inspectors, a named local contact. That is costed into your plan from the start and coordinated by our desk, not left to you at 2am. Australia additionally requires at least one director ordinarily resident there, which we confirm with you before you commit.

No. Company ownership confers no immigration status, residence right or right to work in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia or any Gulf state. Business ownership and immigration are separate systems in all five, and we do not provide immigration advice of any kind.

No. We are paid a setup fee, a monthly management fee and a share of operating profit above an agreed threshold, all under a management agreement. We do not appear on your ownership register, we do not dilute you and we have no claim on a sale of the business.

No. Nothing here is sold to you as a package. In the vending line specifically we do not sell, distribute or franchise machines — we establish a route business that you own, acquire the site agreements, place the machines as your assets and operate the route. The same principle holds across all five lines: you are buying delivery and management, not a product.

Delivery scope, timelines and service measures are contractual, and service credits apply if we miss them. Trading results are not guaranteed by us or by anyone else. Licence approvals and bank account decisions rest with the authority or institution concerned. We will tell you the realistic odds on each before you spend money on it.

It depends entirely on the venture and the city, which is why we will not publish a starting figure. Vending is the lowest entry of the five and scales one site at a time; a rental fleet or a fitted mini mart sits at the other end. What we will do on the first call is tell you which of the five your capital actually supports, rather than quoting you into the one with the biggest fee.

You do, in every case. The entity is registered in your name or your holding structure's name. Leases, site agreements, licences, platform accounts, insurance policies, bank accounts and the operating manual all sit with the company you own. Nothing is held by Akontec on your behalf and nothing is registered to us.

The management agreement has a fixed term and a notice period that runs both ways, plus performance exit rights if we underperform against the service schedule. On exit you keep everything: the company, the assets, the contracts, the systems and the documented processes. The business keeps trading on its own paperwork — that is the point of building it properly in the first place.

Revenue is collected into the company's own bank or payment account in the country where it trades. Distributions to you as owner are made under that country's company law and tax rules, and under Indian rules on the receiving side. We coordinate with your accountant and prepare what they need, but we do not give tax advice and you should take your own on this before the first distribution.

Between six and eighteen weeks depending on the market and the venture, with the United Kingdom and the Gulf typically fastest and Australia slowest. Licensing at stage four and banking at stage five are the two that move the date, and both depend on decisions made by third parties rather than by us.

It is a real business, so it can. Our profit share is calculated above an agreed threshold, which means nothing is payable to us on that component until you have recovered a base return — our monthly fee covers the cost of running the desk, not our profit. Before you commit we build a downside case alongside the plan, showing what the numbers look like if the assumptions turn out to be wrong.

Not in the same trading area for the same venture line. Territory is defined in your agreement — by city, borough or route radius depending on the business — and we will tell you upfront if the area you want is already committed to another owner rather than taking your fee and crowding you.

No. Revenue is collected into your company’s own account. We instruct payments under the mandates you set; we are not a signatory and we do not take custody of funds.

Government fees, professional fees, licences, insurance, deposits and assets are paid by you to the providers concerned. We coordinate them, we do not mark them up, and you see the invoices.

Anything outside agreed scope is quoted before work starts. Where a third-party cost moves — a licence fee rises, an asset price changes — you see the revised figure and approve it before it is committed.

At launch, not at signature. You are not paying for an operations desk while there is nothing to operate.