Hiba
Hiba Belkhayat

Brand Strategist · Script Writer · Editorial Strategist

HibaBelkhayat

I decide what an audience is supposed to feel — then I write the thing that makes them feel it. That decision is the whole job, and it’s mine.

VSL ScriptsBrand VoiceEditorial CalendarsShort-FormLanding Page CopyContent SystemsNarrative StrategyBuyer PsychologyVSL ScriptsBrand VoiceEditorial CalendarsShort-FormLanding Page CopyContent SystemsNarrative StrategyBuyer Psychology
01The premise

Most content fails before a single word is written. Not because the idea is weak because nobody decided what the audience was supposed to feel.

I start with the decision. One claim, one tension, one belief worth challenging. Everything downstream — the hook, the structure, the shot list, the calendar — falls out of that choice almost automatically.

It’s why my clients stop guessing at what to post. The work isn’t a pile of assets. It’s one argument, told in sequence, in a voice that stays the same whether it’s a three-minute VSL or a fifteen-second reel.

Significant problems don’t always announce themselves.

From “The report nobody opened”
Hiba Belkhayat, portrait

Strategy first
Sentences second

27%

Landing page conversion

Up from 7%. Same offer, same traffic — rewritten narrative.

06

Client engagements

Four acquisition funnels, a six-month editorial system, a reel series.

3:00

The VSL format

Three minutes to move a stranger from curious to committed.

08

Videos delivered

Six directed for two brands, one shot and cut myself, one on camera.

02On camera & direction

I write it, direct it, and front it

Two brand campaigns I set the angle and the shot list for — and one where the person holding the mic is me.

On camera

Three seconds is all you get. Press play and judge one thing — did you keep watching?

Presence reel

Direction & writing · 6 cuts

Maison Ayla and Lima Design. Idea, script and shot direction mine on every frame.

Maison Ayla

Maison Ayla

Maison Ayla

Maison Ayla

Lima Design

Lima Design

03Selected work

Pages people finish

Six engagements, written end to end — angle, script, page, sequence. A selection, not the archive.

Spa · Restaurant · Green

Content system
Editorial Calendar

Atlas Golf Resort

2025

Spa · Restaurant · Green

Six months of hospitality content, planned to the frame.

A full editorial system across three revenue centres — spa, restaurant, golf. Every post carried its shot description, reference, product tie-in and location before a camera ever came out.

Editorial calendarShot directionCaption strategyContent pooling
Published to the resort's own channels

Clinic Design Studio

Content system
Short-Form Scripts

Houria

2025

Clinic Design Studio

Every space has potential. We see what others can't.

A reel system built around one repeatable emotional beat — the moment a practitioner walks into their finished clinic. Voiceover, shot list and reveal timing scripted per format.

Reel conceptsVoiceover scriptsShot listsFounder positioning
Delivered as a scripted reel system

Plus directed video, reel systems and months of editorial calendars that never made this page.

04What I do

Four disciplines, one spine

Before a word gets written, someone has to decide what the brand is actually claiming — and what it refuses to say. That decision is the whole job.

  • Positioning
  • Voice & tone system
  • Category framing
  • Message hierarchy
05From the desk
Hiba Belkhayat recording

Strategy & Thinking

The report nobody opened

The Dead Sea Scrolls sat in a cave for two thousand years.

Not because they were hidden. Because nobody thought to look there. The area wasn't remote or inaccessible — it was passed regularly. The scrolls weren't lost. They were just in a place that didn't match anyone's model of where something significant would be found.

A Bedouin shepherd threw a rock into the cave looking for a lost goat. That's how they were discovered.

Belief challenged

If something were significantly wrong with the funnel, you'd already know about it.

Structure

Assumption → Reality → Shift

Next

Let's decide what your audience should feel.

I take a handful of engagements at a time. If the offer is real and the traffic is already moving, bring it.