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Stay true. Serve the industry.

One person × AI
= a whole team

[ 20+ years on the industrial sales front line ] [ Now: a one-person company + AI agents ] [ Focus: Chinese industry → Southeast Asia ]

20+ years in industrial sales and management — Japanese component makers, a European catalog distributor, a Chinese supply-chain platform, a German tool brand. Today I work alone, using AI to cover the roles a team used to fill: data, pricing, ERP, web, compliance, documentation. I help Chinese industrial products land in Southeast Asia.

No success stories here — just three proofs you can check, and the mistakes I paid for.

Brendon assembling a workbench on site

PROOF A

PROOF A

A Southeast Asian company from 0→1 — down to assembling the delivery myself.

Brendon Lai

REAL ME

REAL ME

A dad and a husband. Off the clock, I turn the road I've walked into cartoons for my kid.

At a client site for the SDS tool

PROOF B

PROOF B

Compliance paperwork turned into tools — the SDS generator now has a paying customer.

PROOF · THREE CASES

One person × AI = a whole team

Not a slogan. Each of these was built by one person, hands-on, with AI.

Proof A · Southeast Asia 0→1

No IT department at a brand-new company — how do you have systems that can handle orders from day one?

One person, building a Southeast Asian industrial-supply company from zero

3 self-built systems: product data pipeline · ERP · B2B product store

Roles covered

  • Data specialist
  • Pricing analyst
  • ERP implementer
  • Web developer
Related: market-entry consulting
Proof B · Cross-border

Going global isn't hard because of selling — it's the hundred pieces of paper after the sale.

Turning the most tedious compliance work into tools

SDS generation (first paying customer) · import tax checks · customs & trade documents

Roles covered

  • Compliance specialist
  • Pre-clearance checks
  • Documentation clerk
Related tools
Proof C · EduStory

Tens of thousands of years ago, people painted survival lessons on cave walls for the next generation. What can a dad use today?

Turning the road I've walked into cartoons for my kid, with AI

Every episode starts from my kid's real behaviour and a lesson I learned the hard way — made by an AI crew of three agents.

Roles covered

  • Scriptwriter
  • Storyboard
  • Animator
  • Voice-over
  • Editor
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HOME OVERVIEW

Core identity & proof of trust

I'm a father, a husband, and a business advisor. More than any title, I hope to be someone people can trust.

From Factory Floor to Regional Strategy

From Japanese component makers and European catalogue distribution, to a Chinese supply-chain platform and a German tool brand — and now my own one-person company. After all this practice, I believe long-termism and executability are the core abilities that carry you through any cycle.

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1500+

Clients served in Southeast Asia

5

Places worked across Asia

20+

Years of experience

BRENDON HUB · PLAYBOOK

The real answers aren't in someone else's hands

Growing up, we were told too many "shoulds" — chasing someone else's version of success while forgetting the key question: what do you truly want?

Instead of demanding perfection at every step, keep experiencing, reflecting, and improving. Your life's manual should be written by you.

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Looking for kindred spirits

If you care about going global, moving up, or AI automation — and if you share the values of staying true and doing good — let's connect.

Soon, my AI assistant will be here to handle inquiries around the clock.