Ex school teacher and AI builder.
I help Malaysian SME owners see where AI fits in their business, then build it with them, inside the tools they already use.
A bit about me
Before AI, I was a teacher. My students would stay back after the bell just to learn more, and I loved that. The paperwork and the long days, not so much.
Two years teaching in a Malaysian government school with Teach For Malaysia.
Teaching left me with one rule I still use every day. If people don't get it, they won't use it, no matter how smart the tool is.
These days I work with a marketing team in Singapore, building AI systems that make ads and videos. On the side, I sit down with Malaysian business owners, find where AI can actually save them time, and build it with them.
Work I've done
The problem
A marketing team in Singapore needed a steady stream of ad images and videos for many clients. Making each one by hand was slow, and the files ended up scattered.
What I built
An AI workflow that makes the ad images, sorts every output, and saves it into the right client folder, ready for a person to check before anything goes live.
Since then
I took the same approach to AI video. More than 60 animated video ads made so far.
The AI was the easy part. The real work was getting the steps out of people's heads and into a system. That is the part I help SME owners with.
My own content system
I built an AI system that knows my style. It edits my videos, adds the captions, makes the covers and checks the audio. I film, review and post. Every reel below came out of it.
Sound familiar?
Every week there's a new AI tool. I can't keep up, so I haven't started.9:02
I tried ChatGPT. It gave me generic stuff, so I went back to doing it by hand.9:03
Our customer info is all over WhatsApp, Excel and people's heads.9:03
My staff do the same task by hand every day. It eats hours.9:04
If my senior staff leaves, the know-how leaves with them.9:05
These are the problems I work on. One at a time.9:06 ✓✓
How we'd start
It starts with a conversation. You tell me how the business runs and what eats your time. I mostly listen.
We pick the one boring, repeated job that costs you the most time.
We get your rules and know-how out of people's heads, so the AI actually knows your business.
I build that one workflow with you, in your tools, and your team learns to run it. Then we move to the next.
This way of working has a name: forward deployed engineering. In plain words, I come into your business and build alongside you, instead of teaching from a stage. And no, AI won't transform your business overnight. One workflow done properly beats ten tools nobody uses.
Your turn
Send me a WhatsApp. A few lines is enough:
Want to see what I'm building first? I post it on Instagram: @guanyuan.gy
