Soh Wan Wei
The Business of AI in Asia.
I study how AI is being built, adopted, monetised and scaled across Asia, and help business leaders and AI companies understand what it means for them.
Founder, ANCHR AI Labs · Kimi AI Global Ambassador · 100+ keynotes and panels across Asia
The question
AI is becoming a business. Asia is one of the most interesting places to watch it happen.
- Who is actually making money from AI?
- How are Asian enterprises adopting it, and what are they really buying?
- Why do AI business models that work in one Asian market struggle in another?
- How are AI companies expanding across borders?
- Where does value sit when the models themselves keep commoditising?
- And what does all of this mean for the people running a business?
These are the questions I spend my time on: in the briefing I write, in the rooms I speak in, and in the companies I advise.
Four lenses
How I read the market.
Not a method to be taught. A way of looking. Most developments in Asian AI land in one of these four places.
01
Build
Who is building the next generation of AI companies, products and infrastructure across the region.
02
Buy
Who is actually purchasing and adopting AI inside Asian organisations, and what they are paying for.
03
Monetise
Which AI business models are working, and where economic value is accumulating as models commoditise.
04
Scale
How AI companies cross borders, build distribution, and grow across very different Asian markets.
Work with Wan Wei
Three ways organisations bring me in.
Speaking
For conferences, leadership events and executive audiences.
Keynotes, firesides, panels and executive sessions on the business of AI in Asia: commercialisation, enterprise adoption, and what AI-native organisations actually look like.
Speaking
Intelligence & Advisory
For leadership teams deciding what AI means commercially.
Executive briefings, market and competitive intelligence, AI ecosystem mapping, and strategic advisory, so a leadership team can tell signal from noise.
Work with Wan Wei
AI Go-To-Market in Asia
For AI companies entering or expanding across Asian markets.
Market selection, customer discovery, positioning, partnership strategy, ecosystem activation and enterprise introductions across Southeast Asia and beyond.
Discuss Asia GTM
AI capability & implementation
Looking for hands-on AI training, agents or implementation for your organisation? That work runs through ANCHR AI Labs.
The ecosystem
Building participation in Asia’s AI economy.
AI is creating a new economy across Asia. My work sits across understanding that economy, helping organisations participate in it, and widening who gets to benefit from it.
Enterprise AI capability
ANCHR AI Labs
Helping professionals and organisations become AI-native through practical training, workflows and AI systems.
AI talent to opportunity
SAIYAN.asia
Born out of Singapore–Sarawak collaboration, and built around connecting emerging AI talent with real business opportunities.
Women building the AI economy
Women in Clode
A community helping women learn, build, earn and lead with AI.
The writing
The Asian AI Briefing.
Companies, business models and ideas shaping the AI economy across Asia. Not an aggregation of AI news. Every piece tries to answer the same question: so what does this mean for business?
Read the BriefingAI Companies
Who’s building what.
Business Models
How AI companies actually make money.
Enterprise Adoption
What businesses are really using.
Markets
Singapore, Malaysia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and beyond.
AI Goes Global
How Asian AI companies internationalise, and how global ones approach Asia.
People
Founders, operators and investors worth knowing.