Alan C.L. LIM, Co-Founder, Southmead | AI Agents for SE Asia Ops: fewer admin hours, faster turnaround | Decoding ASEAN-China AI Corridor, Monthly | ex-Dentsu · ex-WAIC | B.Eng · MBA

Co-Founder, Southmead | AI Agents for SE Asia Ops: fewer admin hours, faster turnaround | Decoding ASEAN-China AI Corridor, Monthly | ex-Dentsu · ex-WAIC | B.Eng · MBA

  • The Asian General Chamber of New Retail (ANR) 亞洲新零售總會
  • Retail
  • Singapore
Rank
#376of 18,993
  • 21.5K followers
  • 82 posts / 60d
  • 0.1% avg engagement
  • 276 follower growth / 30d

Alan C.L. LIM ranks #376 of 18,993 creators on the LinkedIn Ranking, working in Retail and based in Singapore. They have 21.5K followers and published 82 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.

The roast

Alan Lim is the human version of a LinkedIn "Featured" section that no one clicks. He’s spent 20 years mastering cross-border communication, yet still manages to post 20 times a month to an audience that ignores him with the efficiency of a spam filter.

About Alan

He started out optimizing vehicle fleets in Singapore. Two decades later, he builds AI agents that perceive their environment, reason, and take action, and help deep-tech teams turn Southeast Asia into revenue. Two tracks, one job. At Southmead, his team deploys coordinated AI agents that perceive their environment, reason, and take action to achieve specific goals without constant human intervention. Alongside that, he runs cross-border go-to-market for AI & SaaS companies building across the China–ASEAN corridor. The habit behind both is the same engineering instinct: build the system first, then scale it.• Scaled a $35M enterprise book at 20% YoY growth at Isobar (Dentsu), adding 40% more enterprise logos in 18 months• Led 50-country outreach for WAIC, one of the world's influential AI conferences; international attendance doubled and content CAC fell 35%.• Founding member of AIII, brokering AI partnerships among government agencies and tech majors between Singapore and China.• Regional MD at NetSDL with full P&L across Hong Kong, Singapore and MalaysiaHe carried P&L in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. His approach is operator-first: sit inside the workflow, map the system, then automate or scale it. Worth a conversation if you run traditional businesses that are eating your team's time, you're an AI or SaaS founder mapping Southeast Asia, or you're building partnerships across China and ASEAN.DM me here, or email alan.lim@southmead.asia.

Highlights

  • Top 1% Creator

    : 82 posts in 30 days

  • Top 1% in Retail

    : Ranked #7 of 858 creators

  • Top 5% in Singapore

    : Ranked #1 of 84 creators

  • Top 5% Audience

    : 21,464 followers

Recent posts

  • 🪂 104 skydivers from 18 countries held on to each other's parachutes with their hands and feet, over Florida. They spent 11 minutes building the shape. They held it for 20 seconds. What we noticed when we looked closer: The clock is altitude. Every link-up costs height. One tangled parachute can end the whole attempt. Every place was earned through scored practice jumps. It finally held on the 11th try. The old record stood for 18 years. The new one beats it by 4 people. One of the 104 told local TV she is afraid of heights. She jumped anyway. 🤝 Big moments are built from small handoffs

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  • 📞 In its maker's own test, a new AI held one-minute video calls with ~50 people. ~20 hung up sure they had met a real person. The machine is impressive. The people are the bigger story. 🔹 Everyone was told they were meeting another participant. 🔹 Over half said the idea of AI never crossed their mind. 🔹 People who guessed wrong felt almost as sure as people who guessed right. 🔹 The jump is real. The company's last system fooled 1 person in ~40. Those ~20 people did what any polite, busy person does on a call: they took the face at its word. So our eyes are a weak lock. A habit is a

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  • 🚋 A tram can't swerve. And it can't brake much harder without hurting the people standing inside. So what's left when someone steps out ahead? Zurich's test: an airbag on the outside. 🔹 About half of Zurich's ~600 transit injury accidents were emergency stops. People got hurt inside when the driver braked for someone outside. 🔹 Inside the last few metres, even a perfect driver can't stop in time. 🔹 The bag is built to push a person away, so nobody ends up under the wheels. 🔹 The test shows the bag opens before contact. Injury data isn't public yet. Cars gave airbags to the people in

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Last updated 2026-08-01