Readiness review
A four-to-six week look at data, processes, skills, controls, and the cost of running a model. You receive a written findings note, a shortlist of uses, a risk register, and a twelve-month sequence for leadership to argue about.
AI advisory · Singapore
Work out where AI actually belongs in your business.
Singaporeaitools is an independent advisory practice for mid-sized organisations in Singapore and the region. We begin with a conversation so we understand your work before anyone names a tool.
Beach Road, Singapore
Typical calls
Where we are usually called in
Most organisations need a clear view of a messy situation that has already started. These four patterns cover most first conversations.
The board has asked for an AI strategy
Directors have read the same headlines as everyone else and now want a paper. The risk is a document that lists tools without naming owners, data, or the decisions those tools would touch. We help you write a short strategy a working team can run over the next twelve months.
Five subscriptions, little oversight
Teams have already bought chat assistants, meeting notes, and a drafting tool. Finance can see the invoices. Nobody can see which accounts exist, which documents have been pasted in, or whether a vendor trains on that material. We map what you pay for and what should pause, stay, or sit under a written rule.
The demo worked. The files did not.
A vendor showed a clean question-and-answer demo on a handful of sample PDFs. Your own contracts, emails, and scanned forms are messier. Retrieval-augmented generation, which means searching your documents before the model answers, fails when titles, versions, and access rights are unclear. We look at the documents first, then at the model.
Counsel is asking what leaves the building
Your lawyer, or a privacy officer, wants to know which personal data under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) is sent to an external service. The question often arrives after a pilot has already begun. We help you answer it in writing, with a picture of flows you can show to counsel.
Scope of advice
What we advise on
The practice earns fees only from advice. We do not resell software and we do not take commission from vendors.
Use-case shortlisting
Workshops and interviews that turn a long list of ideas into a small set you can fund. We score each idea on volume, quality of input, who owns the process, and the cost of being wrong for the people who do the work.
Tool and vendor assessment
A structured comparison of build versus buy, plus a reading of security packs, data-processing terms, and where the service actually runs. We sit with your team during trials so the test uses your documents rather than a demo set.
Governance and PDPA alignment
Acceptable-use rules for staff, human oversight where a model drafts and a person decides, and a clear map of personal data that may leave your systems. This is written guidance you can take to qualified counsel under the PDPA.
Supervised pilots
We advise while your people build. The practice does not write production code for you. We help set success measures, watch the data path, and stop a live pilot that is teaching the organisation the wrong lesson about the work.
Cadence
How an engagement runs
The shape is simple. You know what you are buying, what you will hold, and when the work ends.
Conversation · 30–45 min, free
A first call
We ask how the work is done today, who feels the pain, and what a useful next quarter would look like. You leave with a short written recap even if you decide not to continue. There is no slide theatre and no obligation to buy a review on the call.
Scoping note · fixed fee agreed in writing
A bounded piece of work
If the conversation points to a useful engagement, we send a scoping note. It names the questions, the people we need to speak with, the documents we hope to see, the fee, and the date we expect to finish. You can amend the note before anyone diaries interviews.
Fieldwork · interviews, data walk-through, tool trials
Time on the actual work
We speak with the people who run the process, walk through sample files, and, where a tool is already in play, sit through a trial on your material. Weekly notes keep the sponsor current.
Findings and sequence · written note and working session
A document you can use
You receive a written findings note and a working session to walk through it. The note states what to do first, what to delay, and what we would decline.
Controls
Governance comes with the first pilot, not after the tenth
If staff already paste customer text into a public chatbot, waiting for a later governance workstream stores risk. The Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) asks you to know what personal data you hold, why you hold it, and who you disclose it to.
Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority publishes a Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI that anyone can read. It is a public guide. We use it as shared vocabulary for transparency, data, and incident response, and we help you pick which AI Verify tests are worth running on a first use.
On the ground this means an acceptable-use policy staff can actually read, and human-in-the-loop rules: a person reviews or owns the decision where a wrong draft would cost more than the time saved. Read how we approach governance.
Examples
Illustrative scenarios
Composite examples drawn from typical engagements. They are not records of named clients.
Illustrative — composite examples, not client records.
A distributor with overlapping assistants
A regional trading firm of a few hundred people had meeting-note tools in sales, a writing assistant in marketing, and a chatbot on a warehouse laptop. We mapped vendors, data types, and owners, then proposed one acceptable-use rule and two uses worth a supervised trial.
A professional-services office asked for a strategy paper
Partners wanted a board paper before the next planning cycle. Interviews showed the bottleneck was versioned contracts sitting in personal drives. The note recommended document hygiene first, then a drafting assistant with a lawyer in the loop.
An operations Q&A pilot that stalled on real files
A demo on tidy PDFs looked convincing. Live files were scans, forwards, and three naming schemes. We paused model tuning and spent the weeks on access rights, titles, and a small gold set of questions the team already answered by hand.
First questions
Questions people ask first
Independence, legal limits, and what we refuse to promise tend to arrive in the first ten minutes.
Do you sell software or take a vendor commission?
No. Singaporeaitools is paid only for advisory work. If a tool is a poor fit we will say so, including tools you already pay for.
Will you write production software for us?
No. Your team, or a builder you appoint, writes and runs the system. We advise on design, tests, and whether the pilot is teaching a useful lesson.
Can you guarantee a percentage of savings?
No, and we will not put a made-up figure in a slide. We help you pick measures before a pilot so you can judge the result yourselves.
Start here
Start with a conversation
Write a short note about the decision in front of you. We reply within one working day, Monday to Friday.
Phone +65 6812 3407 · Email [email protected] · Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 SGT · 38 Beach Road, South Beach Tower, Singapore 189767