Research & playbooks
for shipping AI in Asia.
Frameworks we use in client engagements, plus original research on AI adoption across the markets we operate in. No hype, no rehashed Western reports.
Vietnam Enterprise AI in 2026: Manufacturing Hub, Digital Economy, and the Vietnamese Language Constraint
Vietnam is ASEAN's fastest-growing AI adoption market, driven by its position as the world's third-largest electronics exporter and a booming e-commerce sector. A practitioner guide to manufacturing AI, the North-South Vietnamese language divide, embryonic regulation, and what makes Vietnam different from every other ASEAN market.
Taiwan Enterprise AI in 2026: Semiconductor Leadership, Mid-Market Reality, and Traditional Chinese Deployment Constraints
Taiwan leads the world in AI hardware production but lags in enterprise software AI adoption. A practitioner guide to the hardware-software gap, mid-market manufacturing AI opportunity, Traditional Chinese language requirements, and what makes Taiwan a distinct market from every other APAC economy.
Logistics and Supply Chain AI in APAC 2026: Trade Finance, Port Automation, and the China+1 Opportunity
APAC handles 60% of global container trade — making logistics the region's highest-volume AI adoption sector. A practitioner guide to APAC logistics AI: trade finance document intelligence (the Letter of Credit discrepancy problem), port automation at PSA/Kwai Tsing/Yangshan, demand forecasting for e-commerce supply chains, last-mile delivery AI across archipelago geographies, and supply chain visibility for the China+1 manufacturing era.
Data Readiness for AI: The APAC Enterprise Playbook
67% of APAC AI pilots that failed to reach production cited data quality or availability as a primary factor — yet only 23% of enterprises ran a formal data readiness assessment before starting. A practical framework covering the five dimensions of data readiness (quality, volume, labelling, governance, infrastructure), a 20-point pre-project checklist, and use-case-specific minimums for the most common APAC enterprise AI applications.
Choosing a Vector Database in 2026: 7 Options Compared
Seven vector database options used in production by mid-market enterprises in Asia, with cost, latency, and operational profile for each.
Building an Internal AI Platform: Reference Architecture for 200-1,000 Person Companies
A reference architecture for an internal AI platform sized for mid-market enterprises, with the components that pay back and the components that do not.
Data Residency Choices for AI Workloads in HK, SG, JP, KR, TW
A practical guide to where AI workload data should sit across the five most active Asian markets, with the trade-offs that matter.
Webinar Recap: RAG in Production — What Breaks at Scale in APAC Enterprise
Sixty-one engineers and architects attended our January session on retrieval-augmented generation in enterprise production environments. The questions were sharp.
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