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19 posts tagged “Product Strategy”

Your Company Is a Graph of Algorithms (and AI Is About to See It)

Every company I have worked inside operates as a graph of algorithms, whether the leadership team draws it that way or not. Two worked examples from banking and management accounting, the harness-queue diagnostic, and what changes when SOPs become code.

2026-05-25 · 11 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Product Strategy

Building the Compliance Layer: Product Design for Regulated Data Intermediaries

Most platforms treat compliance as a tax. The ones that last make it the architecture. Twelve design patterns from Plaid, Palantir, SingPass, and Veeva — and what they mean for builders in ASEAN.

2026-05-20 · 11 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Product Strategy

The Scope Compression Session: How I Cut Every 0→1 Product to Its Irreducible Core

The most expensive mistake in 0→1 product work is not building the wrong thing. It is building too much of the right thing. Here is the session I run to fix that.

2026-05-03 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Product Strategy

How I Run 0→1 Product Sprints: A Framework for Founders

Most product sprints start with the wrong question. After running sprints at PropertyGuru DataSense, CTOS, and for a dozen consulting clients, here's the framework that actually works.

2026-05-02 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

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Regulation as an Operating System

Most PropTech companies treat regulation as a ceiling. The ones that survive treat it as the floor, and gain compounding market advantages from every update that kills slower competitors.

2026-04-24 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

Product Strategy

PRD Mid-Prototype: Why Writing Requirements After the First Screen Works Better for RegTech

The conventional PRD-first sequence breaks in regulated software. Building the first screen before writing requirements produces a more precise document, and here is exactly why that works for RegTech.

2026-04-24 · 7 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

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The Intent Gap: What Nielsen's AI UX Framework Gets Right and Misses for Regulated Software

Jakob Nielsen's intent-based UX framework is the most important AI product design writing of 2026. Here's the one dimension it misses for licensed professionals.

2026-04-24 · 6 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

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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

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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

AI Workflow

Three Layers Every AI Agent Stack Needs: Memory, Routing, Execution

Three independent practitioners arrived at the same agent architecture independently. It has three layers: Memory, Routing, and Execution. The competitive edge is no longer in the skills. It is in how they compose.

2026-03-28 · 4 min read · Teh Kim Guan, ACMA, CGMA

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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

AI Workflow

Phase-Gated Pipelines: Why the Best AI Tools Separate Inspection from Construction

Single-pass AI generation produces reasonable approximations. Phase-gated pipelines produce reliable outputs. Here is the architecture that makes the difference.

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

AI Workflow

The Auto-Research Stack: From Karpathy's Experiment to Production Pipelines

Static research pipelines degrade. The pattern that transformed ML training now applies to knowledge work, and it gives solo operators the compounding advantage that used to require a team.

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

AI Workflow

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

AI Workflow

Topical Authority and AI: Rank Page 1 in 45 Days

Volume keywords look good in dashboards and rank nowhere. Buyer-intent topical clusters built with AI acceleration get you to page 1 in 45 days. Here is the operating model.

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

Product Strategy

Satellite AI Foundation Models: The Democratization Trap

Why celebrating open-source geospatial models might mean celebrating your firm's obsolescence, and what to do about it in the next 6 to 12 months.

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

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Hybrid SQL+Vector Search: The Architecture Behind Trustworthy AI Valuations

Pure SQL is precise but blind to market context. Pure vector is intelligent but regulatory-blind. The hybrid architecture is how you build AI valuations that are both accurate and defensible.

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

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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

Product Strategy

Computer Vision in Property Valuation: Precision at Scale

AVMs see the skeleton of a property. Computer vision sees condition, renovation recency, and owner investment level, closing the 15-25% gap that structural data alone cannot explain.

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