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PUKKA PERSPECTIVESInsights on AI, Business Excellence & APAC Advisory
Long-form thinking on the AI–human interface, business excellence, geopolitics, investing and cross-border M&A — written from two decades on the ground in APAC.
Where this work comes from
23 years across APAC operations — chemical logistics, supply chain, M&A and digital transformation in Singapore, China, Japan, India and the GCC. The gap between what organisations intend and what they actually experience is both a human and a technology problem. Solving one without the other is incomplete.
This is the foundation of PUKKA SOLUTIONS — and the lens through which all three pillars of our work are built.
Business Excellence Through O2E2
Organise, Optimise, Expand, Exit — we work with organisations to close the gaps between strategy and execution, culture and systems, leadership intent and operational reality.
Agent Maestro: The AI and Human Interface
This is where the real questions live. Not whether to deploy AI, but how to build a deliberate partnership where human judgment and intelligent systems strengthen each other. The 12-element Agent Maestro framework exists to make that transition structured and sustainable — because neither human nor machine needs to shine at the expense of the other.
APAC Advisory
M&A, investor relations and cross-border transactions — approached not as deals to be closed but as relationships with long-term consequences worth getting right. Two decades of on-the-ground APAC experience inform every engagement.
I write about the AI and Human Interface — particularly in Asian business contexts, where most AI systems carry assumptions built for a different world. The opportunity is not to choose between human and machine. It is to build something better with both.
Let us learn, connect and craft value together. These are articles that I have written in collaboration with the various LLMs not limited to Claude, Grok, Kimi, Perplexity, Gemini, CoPilot and DeepSeek.
Latest Articles
Fresh thinking from the desk.
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