SPEAKING & ADVISORY ENQUIRIES
REBUILD YOUR GO-TO-MARKET AROUND AGENTS.
I help enterprises in Asia Pacific move from AI demos to working agentic AI systems: strategy, deployment and the training that makes it stick.
ABOUT
I am the founder of The AI Capitol, an agentic AI consulting and deployment firm in Singapore. I help enterprises move from AI demos to working agent systems: agentic AI strategy, hands-on deployment, and the training that makes adoption stick. I write The AI Capitol on Substack, host curated C-suite roundtables, and lead the OpenClaw and Hermes AI Singapore builder community.
Before that I spent more than a decade in senior go-to-market roles across Asia Pacific and the US: Apple, Tencent / WeChat, four years at TikTok / ByteDance, and Head of Commercial at Bondee. Along the way I co-founded an IoT startup that crowdfunded its first product in under 30 days. Now I apply that go-to-market discipline to the agentic era.
CAREER — WHAT I LED
Founder. Agentic AI strategy, deployment and training for enterprises across Asia Pacific.
Head of Commercial for the consumer social app.
Built market expansion teams across Asia, then moved to New York to lead a new global agency unit. Director, Global Enablement and Education.
Helped WeChat expand internationally.
Co-founder. Built the Juvo sleep tracker and raised US$51,000 on Indiegogo in under 30 days.
APAC product marketing finance. Led regional pricing implementation across online, retail and telco channels, on launches including iPhone, Apple Watch and Apple Pay, with China and Japan responsibility.
AWARDS & CREDENTIALS
Honoree, for building TikTok’s global agency education business.
Recognised for AI and go-to-market writing.
University of Adelaide.
Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and Duke.
MDIS global cohort, hospitality degree.
SPEAKING
Four talks, one thread. Practical, built around your team.
Agents run the work
Tools wait for instructions. Agents take a goal, break it into steps, handle errors and deliver results. I draw the line between the two and show your team how to start delegating.
The difference between a conversational AI and an autonomous agent. Start small: specific goals, clear constraints, a defined output format. Where agents save the tedious work so people keep the judgment calls.
Read my essay on this ↗The 30-day AI operating roadmap
A practical framework for building real AI workflows in a month, for work, sales and growth. Treat AI as a personal operating system, not a bag of tips.
AI is a thinking partner, not a search engine. Specificity is everything: context, constraints and clarity. Turn one-off prompts into repeatable workflows.
Read the roadmap ↗AI for selling and marketing
How your sales and marketing teams can use AI without losing the human skills that close deals and build loyalty.
AI-powered sales strategies for winning deals. Real-time customer engagement and personalisation. Predictive analytics and sentiment analysis for marketing decisions.
See my booksAgents in production
From demo to deployment. What it takes to run agents on real workflows, from the Hermes AI Agent Night series I host with AWS.
Orchestration, memory, tool use and deployment. Live demos on real workflows, not slides. Controls, testing and monitoring so agents stay aligned.
Hermes AI Agent Night with AWS ↗WORK
AI strategy and transformation
Roadmaps and high-impact use cases, aligned to your business and market strategy.
Agent implementation and analytics
Working agent systems designed and deployed: automation, predictive analytics, integration and measurable ROI.
AI readiness and enablement
Hands-on training that builds internal capability. Your team leaves with something running.
AI go-to-market execution
AI-enabled product launches and market entry, executed with teams who know the region.
AI investment and advisory
Evaluation of AI ventures and partnerships for investors and enterprises.
Enterprise agent programs
From first briefing to a deployed AI workforce, with open-weight models, open-source agents and your own infrastructure.
ROOMS + SERIES
HOW AN ENGAGEMENT WORKS
Discovery call
We map your highest-impact use cases and agree a roadmap together.
Scoped pilot
Agreed use cases and success measures, built and running with your team.
Scale what works
Proven pilots grow into a full deployment, at your pace.
WRITING
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BOOKS
The AI Selling Revolution
The ultimate guide to AI-powered strategies for winning sales. Practical, with few technical jargon.
AMAZON ↗The AI Marketing Revolution
Mastering AI to shape the future of marketing: engagement, analytics and sustainable growth.
AMAZON ↗The AI Agent Revolution
Beyond automation, the age of thinking machines. A playbook for deploying agents that scale.
AMAZON ↗MEDIA
FEATURES AND PROFILES
QUOTES AND COVERAGE
PODCASTS AND STAGES
BY LIONEL
QUESTIONS
What is agentic AI?
AI that does work, not just answers questions. An agent takes a goal, breaks it into steps, uses your tools and data, handles errors and delivers a finished result, like a reliable team member for repetitive workflows.
What does The AI Capitol actually do?
It takes organisations from AI literacy to agents in production: strategy and roadmaps, hands-on deployment, and the training that makes adoption stick.
Who do I work with?
I work with enterprises and leadership teams deploying their first agent systems, teams that need practical upskilling, and investors evaluating the space.
Where do I work?
I am based in Singapore, focused on Asia Pacific, built for global. In person and remotely.
How is pricing structured?
Scoped per engagement, with a clear quote after the discovery call.
How do I book a talk?
Email me at lionel@theaicapitol.com with the event, date and audience.
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