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33 posts tagged “Consulting”

Read the Source, Not the README

A 22,000-star agent memory platform ships a textbook permission system. We tested it with two tenants. Eight of nine read routes leaked.

2026-08-18 · 4 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Knowledge Management

Who Is in the Room Is the Wrong Question

Three open platforms now let your clients talk to your AI agent. None of them can control which of your memories the agent reveals to whom.

2026-08-17 · 4 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Business Process Intelligence

Your AI Bill Is a Management Accounting Problem

Five large engineering organisations compared notes on runaway AI coding spend. The first tool finance reaches for came third on their list, and they call it a last resort.

2026-08-08 · 5 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

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

Consulting

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.

Consulting

Read the Source, Not the README

Who Is in the Room Is the Wrong Question

Your AI Bill Is a Management Accounting Problem

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

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

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

The Compounding Agent in Production

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

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

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

Reverse-Engineering Malaysian Government Portals: A Reusable Crawl Pattern

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

Why I Stopped Launching Background Agents for File Creation

The Eval Harness Is Load-Bearing Infrastructure

When Your Team Outgrows Intuition: Building a Delegation Routing Layer

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

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

Delegation Without a Team: The 3-Tier Classification System

The Only Moats That Survive AI

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

Background Queue Friday: The 30-Minute Monthly Reset

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

From SEO to GEO: What Being the Answer Requires

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

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

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

Prompt Engineering as Defensible IP: The New Excel Model

The One-Person Operating Model: Integration Beats Collection

LLM Councils: Why Ensemble AI Makes Professionals More Defensible

Free Satellite Data Is a Commodity. Intelligence Is Not.

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

AI and Crypto: The Infrastructure Nobody Saw Coming

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