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30 posts tagged “Consulting”

Services Are the New Software: The Autopilot Wedge for SEA Fintech and Regtech

Services Are the New Software: The Autopilot Wedge for SEA Fintech and Regtech

Sequoia argues the next trillion-dollar company sells outcomes, not tools. Here is what the autopilot thesis means for KYC, claims, accounting, and mortgage origination in Southeast Asia.

2026-05-18 · 10 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Self-Sustaining Handoff: Why Every Consulting Engagement Should End with a System, Not a Report

The Self-Sustaining Handoff: Why Every Consulting Engagement Should End with a System, Not a Report

Most consultants deliver a report. The client reads it once, implements 20% of it, and files the rest. There is a better exit: a system the client team can operate without you.

2026-05-16 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Token Economy as Cash Economy: Treating Model Selection as a Staffing Decision

Token Economy as Cash Economy: Treating Model Selection as a Staffing Decision

Most model selection advice is correct and almost useless. A better frame: treat model tiers as staffing decisions. The same rules that built effective consulting teams apply directly.

2026-05-13 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Compounding Agent in Production

The Compounding Agent in Production

Most AI setups re-derive everything each session. Here is what a knowledge layer that actually compounds looks like after six months of production use.

2026-05-12 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Brief-then-Fire: A Two-Stage Architecture for AI-Augmented Consulting Workflows

Brief-then-Fire: A Two-Stage Architecture for AI-Augmented Consulting Workflows

Most AI workflow failures come from either serial prompt cycling or naive parallelism. Brief-then-Fire splits the work into two stages and fixes both problems at once.

2026-05-09 · 9 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Delegate Reset: When a Team Member's Scope Dies and How to Restart Cleanly

The Delegate Reset: When a Team Member's Scope Dies and How to Restart Cleanly

When a project pivots, triaging the old task list is slower and messier than starting fresh. Here is the 30-minute move that produces cleaner delegate alignment every time.

2026-05-08 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The T1-T4 Framework: Why Most AI Pitches to Malaysian Banks Are Unbuyable

The T1-T4 Framework: Why Most AI Pitches to Malaysian Banks Are Unbuyable

A consultant builds a Claude-powered tool, runs it past a bank IT review, and discovers the pitch was structurally wrong from the first slide. Here is the framework that fixes that.

2026-05-08 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Reverse-Engineering Malaysian Government Portals: A Reusable Crawl Pattern

Reverse-Engineering Malaysian Government Portals: A Reusable Crawl Pattern

Malaysian government portals hide public data behind painful interfaces. One crawl session against the LPPEH negotiator registry surfaced three reusable traps, and a starter template that cuts build time from 12 hours to 2.

2026-05-08 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The 95% Margin Workflow: How One Consulting Engagement Compressed RM 30,000 of SEO Work into RM 800

The 95% Margin Workflow: How One Consulting Engagement Compressed RM 30,000 of SEO Work into RM 800

A traditional Malaysian SEO agency quotes RM 30,000 to RM 50,000 for a topical content cluster. I just delivered the same scope in two days at RM 800. Here is exactly what changed.

2026-05-06 · 9 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Why I Stopped Launching Background Agents for File Creation

Why I Stopped Launching Background Agents for File Creation

Five parallel agents, 40,000 tokens in coordination overhead, zero files produced. The sprint still shipped, because I did the work sequentially. Here is what that failure taught me.

2026-04-17 · 5 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Eval Harness Is Load-Bearing Infrastructure

The Eval Harness Is Load-Bearing Infrastructure

One successful invocation doesn't prove a skill works under real conditions. The eval harness does. Here is why it is mandatory for any skill that touches real people or runs more than once a week.

2026-04-17 · 4 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

When Your Team Outgrows Intuition: Building a Delegation Routing Layer

When Your Team Outgrows Intuition: Building a Delegation Routing Layer

At three team members, delegation is intuitive. At six across five client engagements, it breaks. Here is the four-mode routing architecture that replaced working memory.

2026-04-17 · 5 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Token Economics for Solopreneurs: Build Once With Tokens, Run Forever

Token Economics for Solopreneurs: Build Once With Tokens, Run Forever

Every AI session spent querying the same database is an operating expense you're paying twice. Here is the capital expenditure model that changes that math permanently.

2026-04-10 · 5 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The 67/27 Problem: When Your AI System Becomes Its Own Overhead

The 67/27 Problem: When Your AI System Becomes Its Own Overhead

A pattern analysis of 488 tasks found that 67% of AI capacity was going to infrastructure and only 27% to revenue work. Here is the redesign that fixed it.

2026-04-10 · 5 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Delegation Without a Team: The 3-Tier Classification System

Delegation Without a Team: The 3-Tier Classification System

433 tasks, one solo operator, nine subagents. A classification sprint that reduced the daily briefing surface area by 80% and exposed the real bottleneck in solo delegation.

2026-04-10 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Only Moats That Survive AI

Product Strategy

The Only Moats That Survive AI

AI compresses the time to replicate intelligence, not the time for physics, adoption, or regulation to happen. Here are the five positions that remain defensible and why.

2026-04-04 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Brief Before Build: The Hidden Cost of Produce-Then-Constrain

Brief Before Build: The Hidden Cost of Produce-Then-Constrain

25,000 tokens of rework from one missed constraint. The produce-then-constrain failure mode is common, recoverable, and entirely preventable with one operational change.

2026-04-04 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Background Queue Friday: The 30-Minute Monthly Reset

Background Queue Friday: The 30-Minute Monthly Reset

44 tasks completed in 30 minutes of active work. Here is the operational pattern behind it: how to separate accumulation from clearance and run both at scale.

2026-04-04 · 10 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Verification Loop: Why AI Skills Without Evals Are Prompts With Delusions of Permanence

The Verification Loop: Why AI Skills Without Evals Are Prompts With Delusions of Permanence

Building AI skills without evaluation is optimism dressed as engineering. Learn how the verification loop separates tools from illusions and makes your skills genuinely reliable.

2026-03-28 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

From SEO to GEO: What Being the Answer Requires

Product Strategy

From SEO to GEO: What Being the Answer Requires

For 25 years, professional services firms optimized for visibility. AI-generated answers have made visibility irrelevant. Citability is now the only metric that matters.

2026-03-28 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Task Cascade Protocol: Why Most Knowledge Work Systems Leak Tasks

The Task Cascade Protocol: Why Most Knowledge Work Systems Leak Tasks

Every report you generate contains hidden work that evaporates before it reaches a task list. The Task Cascade Protocol is the behavioral fix that stops the leak.

2026-03-27 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Self-Evolving Skills: The New Infrastructure for Reliable AI Agents

Self-Evolving Skills: The New Infrastructure for Reliable AI Agents

Static prompts break in production. Constrained hill-climbing fixes that by letting agent skills test, measure, and improve themselves without human intervention.

2026-03-27 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

In-Page AI Agents: Why This Becomes the Standard Way to Deploy AI Copilots

In-Page AI Agents: Why This Becomes the Standard Way to Deploy AI Copilots

Embedding AI copilots directly into your web app's DOM cuts costs 8x, slashes deployment timelines from months to days, and turns adoption from optional to automatic.

2026-03-27 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Prompt Engineering as Defensible IP: The New Excel Model

Prompt Engineering as Defensible IP: The New Excel Model

Why specialized prompt chains are becoming billable assets, and how practitioners in regulated industries can turn AI methodology into a competitive moat.

2026-03-23 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The One-Person Operating Model: Integration Beats Collection

The One-Person Operating Model: Integration Beats Collection

Why solo practitioners with integrated AI workflows outperform larger teams in silos, and how to build the architecture that makes this possible.

2026-03-23 · 9 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

LLM Councils: Why Ensemble AI Makes Professionals More Defensible

LLM Councils: Why Ensemble AI Makes Professionals More Defensible

A single AI model is an oracle. Three models disagreeing with each other is a decision system. Here is why the distinction matters in regulated practice.

2026-03-23 · 9 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Free Satellite Data Is a Commodity. Intelligence Is Not.

Product Strategy

Free Satellite Data Is a Commodity. Intelligence Is Not.

18+ free satellite platforms killed the imagery access barrier. Here is why that raises the bar for geospatial startups, not lowers it.

2026-03-23 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Five Models, Five Jobs: A Framework for Choosing the Right AI

Five Models, Five Jobs: A Framework for Choosing the Right AI

The best AI model is not the smartest one. It is the right one for the job, at the cost you can afford, given what is at stake. A practitioner's selection framework.

2026-03-23 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

AI and Crypto: The Infrastructure Nobody Saw Coming

AI and Crypto: The Infrastructure Nobody Saw Coming

Crypto spent 15 years trying to win over humans. It was always solving for the wrong user. Autonomous AI agents need exactly what blockchain provides, and that changes everything.

2026-03-23 · 8 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

The Unblock Pattern: Why a 15-Minute Validation Saves 15 Hours of Wasted Build

The Unblock Pattern: Why a 15-Minute Validation Saves 15 Hours of Wasted Build

AI workflows fail quietly. Producing output that looks correct but sits on hollow data. The Unblock Pattern is a five-step gate that stops you building around broken tools before you've invested a day in them.

2026-03-22 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA