01 / FEATURE
Architecture before implementation
We will not write production code we haven’t designed. Eight weeks of ARCHITECT prevents six months of rework — and we won’t skip it for a faster start date.
Engineers who got tired of watching AI fail.
EIS was founded in Singapore in 2023 by engineers who’d sat through too many consulting decks that never reached production. We built the studio we wished we’d been able to hire.
The thesis
The pilot graveyard across ASEAN.
Across the region we kept seeing the same story. Steering committees. Vendor parades. A neat slide deck. A six-month pilot. A demo that wowed the boardroom — and then nothing. The model never reached the people who were supposed to use it. The integration was deferred to next year’s budget. The data steward was reassigned. The engineers who built it had already rotated off.
The companies winning with AI aren’t running faster pilots. They’re the ones that ship, stay, and keep evolving.
EIS founding note · 2023
The diagnosis
The distance between strategy and production is where AI dies.
The model isn’t the hard part. The hard part is the distance — between the partner who wrote the strategy, the agency who wrote the code, the platform team who has to operate it, and the regulator who has to sign it off. Each handoff loses context, dilutes ownership, and adds quarters to the timeline. By the time the system is real, the people who scoped it are gone.
Strategy without engineers. Decks written by people who’ve never operated a production model. Architectures that look elegant on paper and fold the first time real data hits them.
Engineers without context. Build teams parachuted in for delivery, with no view of why the project exists, who pays for it, or what the regulator will ask in month six.
Operators without owners. Hand-off documents that arrive on the day the consultants leave. Runbooks no-one wrote. Pages no-one is paid to answer.
The build
One framework. One team. One commercial line.
EIS exists to close that distance. We run a four-phase methodology — FORGE — from the boardroom conversation in week one through to the production incident on a Wednesday afternoon. Same engineers across phases. Same names on the call sheet. Same commercial relationship from ASSESS to OPERATE. No knowledge cliff at handover, because there is no handover.
Status quo
Industry default
- Strategy partner exits at week 12 with a slide deck
- Build vendor wins an RFP six months later
- Platform team inherits an undocumented system
- Regulator’s first questions land in month nine
- Original sponsor has rotated to a new mandate
EIS founding principles
The EIS way
- Same team from ASSESS through OPERATE
- Architecture written before line one of production code
- Governance scoped in week one, evidenced through every phase
- Engineers who wrote the code answer the pages
- Commercial structure aligned to outcomes, not headcount
The footprint
Singapore HQ. Working across ASEAN.
We’re headquartered at One-North in Singapore — close to the regulators we work with, the universities we hire from, and the data centres our clients run on. From here we deploy across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam — six markets, one set of engineers, one operating model.
2023 · Founded
Singapore, One-North
Two founders, three engineers, one shared frustration with the way AI consulting was being sold across the region. First client: a regional bank that had three failed pilots and a board mandate it couldn’t meet.
2024 · FORGE
Methodology codified
After the first dozen engagements, we wrote down what worked. Four phases — ASSESS, ARCHITECT, BUILD, OPERATE — with phase gates, written deliverables, and a documented evidence trail. The framework that now anchors every engagement.
2024 · AI Launchpad
Tiered commercials
Clients kept asking for the same thing in different sizes. We packaged FORGE into four tiers — Ignite, Accelerate, Deploy and Evolve — with predictable pricing, government co-funding alignment, and a clear path between them.
2025 · ASEAN
Six markets, one team
Engagements live in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City alongside Singapore. Same engineers, same playbooks, regional governance. The studio we wished we’d been able to hire — now operating at regional scale.
What we believe
Five commitments we wrote down on day one.
02 / FEATURE
Governance is a feature, not a tax
AI Verify, MAS FEAT, NIST AI RMF, PDPA — built into the foundation, evidenced in every phase. Not retrofitted in month six because the second-line review surfaced.
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Knowledge transfers, or it doesn’t work
Every system we build is one your team can operate without us. Runbooks, ADRs, training, quarterly reviews. The exit is designed in from day one.
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We say no early
If the use case won’t work, we say so in week one — not month six. The engagements we walk away from are the ones we’re proudest of.
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We ship
A production deployment is the default deliverable. Slides are a byproduct. If a phase doesn’t end with running code, we haven’t done our job.
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We stay
We operate what we build. The engineers who wrote the code answer the pages. There is no second team waiting to take over.
Where to next
Want to know more?
Read about the people behind the framework, the commitments we make to our clients, or the open roles in Singapore.
The team → The people behind FORGE.
Why EIS → What we promise to ship and to stay for.
Open roles in Singapore → Six roles, named principal interviews.
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