Build AI-Native Companies

We partner with CEOs and management teams to reimagine how an AI-native company runs, in both decision-making and operations. As a result, we help you increase EBITDA, release cash and accelerate growth.

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Our Approach

Value scan in two weeks, and first pilot live in twelve.

1

Weeks 1–2

Value Map

Decompose the cost and revenue base and the business processes. Identify the value creation opportunities, then size and rank them.

You getA sized shortlist and a baseline

2

Weeks 3–8

Build

Data foundation, integration, evaluation. Two to three use cases into your systems, inside your own data boundary.

You getWorking software in your own stack

3

Weeks 9–12

Live & adopt

In production with real users, with in-language training on the floor, because a system nobody uses books nothing.

You getUsers on it weekly, not licences

4

Beyond

Run & scale

Managed service and cost governance, or a clean handover to your team. Then roll the proven pattern to the next function, site or business.

You getThe second deployment at a fraction of the first

5

Throughout

Training

Immersive and hands-on AI training for leadership and frontline teams, from executive workshops to role-based sessions, so your people can use, own and extend what we build.

You getA team that can run AI without us

AI Deployment

A flat and small team.

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Forward Deployed Operator

Linking pin to your management and business

Owns the client relationship and the judgement calls, carries the management conversation, and architects the data and system flow once they understand how your business and processes actually run.

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Digital & AI Pods

In-region, in-language engineers

Full-stack build: data plumbing, integration, process rework, evaluation, deployment and run. Pods of 3–5 per engagement, staffed against your language and systems.

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Network of Senior Advisors

Digital, data & AI leaders across industries

Fluent in what digital, data and AI can do now, with hands-on experience landing it. Brought in per engagement and embedded in each pod for industry depth.

Explicitly absent  —  an analyst pyramid  ·  a research lab  ·  a sales organisation  ·  a bench you fund between engagements

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The delivery muscle — a standing partnership with a large digital and AI engineering organisation gives us production capacity on demand: hundreds of AI-native engineers reachable per build. Pods run in parallel across several engagements.

Why us

Why you should work with us

01

We re-engineer the process, then build AI natively

We start with the process, the data and the decisions that make the business run, and rework them before a single model is trained. Consultants redesign the process and walk away; dev shops build software onto a broken one. We carry both ends.

Re-engineer and build.

02

We deploy value engineering

Stop at any gate and keep everything produced up to that point. We engineer the cost of the intelligence itself, putting the right model at the right price on every use case, so the return in the business case is not eaten by the run rate behind it.

ROI and right model.

03

Senior judgement, real delivery muscle

Operating partners embedded in your process and senior domain advisors set the direction, while a partnered engineering organisation supplies production capacity on demand, without an analyst pyramid or a bench you fund between engagements.

Right people, right cost.

Global firms compete on brand and dev shops compete on price. Our position is the combination of both: we re-engineer the process and build the software, at dev-shop economics.

Team

Who you will work with

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Core team

  • 25+ years of IT leadership; technology operating partner across PE-owned assets
  • Advised on tech and AI value creation across Asia portfolio companies
  • Ex-Chief Information Officer for Special Nutrition & Commercial Tech at FrieslandCampina, where he led Friso to become a digital-first brand in China
  • 25+ years running technology, including PE-owned portcos
  • Ex-Chief Information Officer, Accolade Wines
  • Led and ran multiple transformation programmes across finance and technology
  • 25+ years in business intelligence; 10+ ML/AI builds end to end
  • Owns the data layer, the extraction pipelines and the eval harness
  • Hands over the repository at go-live, so you own the code rather than a black box
  • 20+ years across operations, supply chain, procurement and business transformation
  • Built and scaled critical operating capabilities in complex, high-growth environments
  • Brings together deep operating expertise, data and digital transformation to drive performance improvement and sustainable value creation
  • 13 years in portfolio operations at a leading Asian private equity firm, across 22+ companies with roughly US$2bn in aggregate enterprise value
  • Nine years embedded as Group CIO then CTO of a global portfolio company; led its digital transformation across 40+ locations in 25+ countries, and was part of the core team on its ~6x exit at unicorn valuation
  • Now builds and deploys AI-enabled operating systems for PE-backed, owner-led and enterprise businesses across finance, operations and commercial functions, from diagnosis through implementation to team handover

Senior advisors

  • 20+ years of enterprise digital transformation inside Fortune Global 500 businesses across pharma and healthcare, FMCG, automotive and chemicals, in APAC and internationally
  • Reads where AI actually lands commercially: omnichannel, marketing and decision automation
  • Leads the AI Management Committee for the company; built its end-to-end AI governance framework, now extending it to enterprise copilot and agent governance
  • 13+ years in data governance, data security and regulatory compliance
  • Pharma, financial services and consulting; data lifecycle and AI governance
  • Carries the data sovereignty gate
  • 15+ years leading technology, enterprise architecture and AI
  • Runs technology inside a PE-owned APAC asset across two ownership cycles
  • Hands-on experience of how AI is deployed in PE-backed companies
  • 20+ years tech veteran with a background in consulting, corporate and entrepreneurship
  • Portfolio management experience across several industries
  • Leads overseas expansion setup for APAC-headquartered companies
  • Digitised the consumer experience and restaurant operations across a national estate
  • Applies AI across customer engagement, ordering and store operations
  • Leads a large in-house engineering organisation
  • 20+ years of HR leadership across pharma, automotive, FMCG and consulting
  • Talent strategy, leadership development and the learning systems that decide whether a technology programme is adopted
  • Organisation development and culture change for AI and digital-era operating models

Advisors are brought in per engagement and are not employees of the firm. Roles shown are current positions held independently of VectorOp; no advisor is deployed onto an engagement that conflicts with their employment. Advisor biographies are available in full under NDA.

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Bring your business problem statement. We will tell you what data and AI can do about it.

Asia-Pacific  ·  China  ·  Australia  ·  South-East Asia
Value mapping  ·  Deployment  ·  Adoption