I ran SMEs for over 25 years. Then I taught myself to build with AI.
The Accidental AI Builder
A veteran SME owner sharing the ups and downs of his AI journey.
→ Read the blog- The TourYou’ve heard the stories.
- The Butler Who Arrived UnannouncedThe dedicated SIM hadn’t arrived yet, so I used my own personal number for testing.
- Built It. Now What?During the wind-down, I asked my son to help list some of the company’s equipment on Carousell.
- Building for People Who Aren’t YouMy wife’s first question was whether she could use it on her phone.
- Starting Over With the Same MachineThe server had been sitting in the corner of the home office for about two months.
- Why AI Can’t Save You From EverythingThis is the post I wasn’t sure I wanted to write.
- The first postI was late to the AI party, and when I finally showed up, I wasn’t impressed.
These days I help business owners at different stages — setting a young company up lean, getting a stretched one's numbers back under control, or getting through a wind-down without drowning in the operational fog — and I build the systems that make it possible. What's below is what that looks like in practice.
For business owners
Making sense of data your ERP software churns out daily
An analysis layer on the data you already have — it reads the numbers and tells you what to act on: inventory, collections, sales, commission, margin. Meet Fan Li.
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What I've built so far with AI
Tangerine-Home is the flagship — one app for documents, tasks, email, calendar, reminders and, above all, estate continuity. App-building requests welcome.
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