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Bespoke AI Solutions
Custom-built AI for the parts of your business that aren't glamorous — registration workflows, document processing, internal tools, customer triage. Real productivity, shipped fast.
// SGAI Studio · Singapore · est. 2026
Your trusted Singapore AI studio, built for economic muscle.
We build bespoke AI for Singapore businesses — workflows, tools, and systems that move operating numbers. Where your project qualifies for a Singapore grant on its own merits, we'll help with the paperwork too.
// Who you're working with
Jay Qin
Founder · SGAI Studio Pte Ltd
Carnegie Mellon University · Business & Finance · 50+ AI projects shipped
I'm Jay. I build the AI myself — no account managers between you and the work. The studio is small on purpose: senior hands, fast decisions, and the same person on the call as on the build. Where your project qualifies for a Singapore grant on its own merits, I'll handle the paperwork too — but the build is the product.
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// Singapore · Marina Bay financial district. The ground we build on.
// Singapore is the place for real AI
S$37B
Public investment in AI through 2030
10,000
Enterprises Singapore wants on AI by 2029
S$700K
Per-project funding available to qualifying businesses
// What we do
Two things. Both well.
Productivity first. We design and ship the AI your business actually runs on. Where a project qualifies for a Singapore grant on its own merits, we'll handle the paperwork too.
See what we build
02 / Care
Implementation & Care
Hands-on deployment into your business. Your team trained. Operating numbers watched after go-live. We stay close while the AI earns its keep — and answer the phone when it doesn't.
// National thesis
We're not alone in thinking this.
We are unlikely as two small, open economies to be able to build the largest foundation models, but we can be leaders in AI deployment, in use cases.
Singapore's path is deployment over foundation models. SGAI Studio is built for exactly that: applied AI, real use cases, in Singapore businesses.
// Studio principles
Real AI. Not the noise.
Most people's exposure to AI is the cheap stuff — fake avatars, generated slop, content noise. We do the opposite.
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AI for invisible work
We don't build gimmicks. We build the systems your business runs on — quietly, reliably, in the background.
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Built in Singapore
Local studio, local accountability, multilingual support across English, 中文, Bahasa Melayu and தமிழ். We answer the phone.
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Grant assistance, where eligible
Singapore is investing S$37B in AI adoption through 2030. Where your project qualifies for a programme on its own merits, we'll handle the application paperwork — never the reason for the build.
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Built for economic muscle
Every project we ship is judged on one thing: does it move the operating numbers. AI should make your business stronger, not louder.
// Snacks or muscle?
Most AI is a snack. We build the muscle.
AI is loud in 2026. Most of it is decoration that wows you for five seconds and then gets forgotten. We do the opposite: AI that becomes the infrastructure your business runs on — quietly, daily, in the background.
Snack AI · Not what we do
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AI-generated images on your product page
Everyone can tell. Nobody buys more because of it.
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A chatbot bolted onto your website
Answers five questions, fumbles the sixth, costs you a CS rep to clean up after.
- 03
"AI thought leadership" posts on LinkedIn
Scrolled past in three seconds. Your audience can tell.
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Cloned-voice videos and AI avatar spokespeople
Audience clocks it in one second. Costs you trust, not buys you any.
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One employee quietly using ChatGPT in a corner
Nobody else knows. Nobody else benefits. Nothing accrues to the company.
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An "AI for our industry" SaaS subscription
Signed in Q1. Forgotten by week three. The licence still renews.
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Auto-generated meeting summaries
Sent to everyone. Read by no one.
Pretty for five seconds. Screenshot. Forgotten. Operating numbers don't move an inch.
Muscle AI · What we build
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A registration and onboarding flow that runs itself
Customers don't wait. Your team doesn't chase. Orders come in clean.
- 02
Contracts, invoices, PDFs ingested — fields extracted automatically
Half a finance headcount, back to doing real work.
- 03
The Vietnamese tailor shop: zero online sales → ~US$1,000/day
AI isn't in the storefront. AI is in the system behind it.
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An internal comms tool that flattens the org
"Wait for the boss to sign off" goes from 3 days to 3 hours. Decisions actually get made.
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Multilingual customer service routing — EN, 中文, Bahasa Melayu, தமிழ்
The same query handled at the same quality in any of Singapore's four languages. A Singapore-only edge.
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Auto-generated quotes and proposals
A 2-hour sales admin job done in 5 minutes. Sales people get to sell.
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Vendor invoice reconciliation
Overcharges, mismatches, and quiet leakages caught automatically. Cash protected.
None of it looks impressive on a screenshot. All of it moves operating numbers.
That's economic muscle. AI isn't on the surface of your business — AI is in its bones.
// Process
How a project starts
From first call to funded build in weeks, not quarters.
STEP / 01
Tell us the problem
A two-minute scoping form or a 20-minute call. We figure out what your business actually needs the AI to do.
STEP / 02
We scope and design
We design the build against your operating needs. If the project qualifies for a Singapore grant on its own merits, we'll prepare the application paperwork alongside the build.
STEP / 03
We ship and you grow
We deploy the AI into your business and stay close while it earns its keep. Funding lands. Operating numbers move.
Singapore AI Grants Guide
An editorial directory of every Singapore government AI grant programme — PSG, EDG, ECI, AI Trailblazers, AI Singapore 100E, and more. Maintained by the studio. Free to read; bring your own project.
OpenEnterprise Singapore
Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG)
Max FundingS$600,000
Co-FundingUp to 50%
OpenEnterprise Singapore
Enterprise Development Grant (EDG)
Max FundingS$700,000
Co-FundingUp to 50% (SMEs: up to 70%)
OpenIMDA / Google Cloud
Enterprise Compute Initiative (Google Cloud)
Max FundingS$250,000
Co-FundingUp to 70% compute credits
OpenIMDA / Microsoft
Enterprise Compute Initiative (Microsoft Azure)
Max FundingS$250,000
Co-FundingUp to 70% compute credits
OpenIMDA / AWS
Enterprise Compute Initiative (AWS)
Max FundingS$250,000
Co-FundingUp to 70% compute credits
OpenAI Singapore (AISG)
AI Singapore 100 Experiments (100E)
Max FundingS$250,000
Co-FundingUp to 70% project cost
// 2026 — 2030
Singapore is building. Are you?
Lean SMEs with the will to ship will outpace any conglomerate this decade. Let's build the AI that does it.