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
Alan C.L. LIM ranks #361 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Retail, and is a standout voice in Singapore. They have 21.5K followers and published 86 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.1% average engagement rate.
- 21.5K followers
- 86 posts / 30d
- 0.1% avg engagement
- 276 follower growth / 30d
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
- Consistent Creator — 50 posts in 30d · top 1%
- Top 5% in Retail — Ranked #16 of 1012 creators
- Big Audience — 21,464 followers · top 5%
- Top 10% in Singapore — Ranked #5 of 87 creators
Recent posts
🔴 A motorcycle with no wheels just rolled sideways. Engineers build things for a living, so I looked closer. James Bruton (former toy designer) swapped wheels for circus balls. It balances like a Segway. It drifts in any direction. The part nobody reposts: • The wheel was not improved, it was replaced. • Stability moved from mechanics into software. • The breakthrough was a re-arrangement, not a new part. He then open-sourced it all. 💛 We keep sharing the magic. He gave away the method. #Engineering #Innovation #ALinsights
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For most of history, a prosthetic hand could do two things: open, and close. 🖐️ We just watched one move each finger on its own, in real time. It reads the faint electrical signals our muscles give off, no surgery needed. AI learns how we move, so we are not stuck with a few preset grips. It is budget-friendly, far less than many bionic hands. Newer versions are even adding touch sensors. But the specs are not the story. The story is someone tying their own shoes, writing their own name, holding a hand again. Technology is at its best when it hands people back their independence. Whe
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👁️ A drone flew right past us. We never saw it. Not camouflage. Northwestern University's "Phantom Twist" spins its entire body ~25x a second, too fast for eyes to catch. 🌀 No still parts, no shape to see 🧠 It fools your eyes, not physics 📉 ~10x harder to spot than a normal drone We chase invisibility with fancier materials. They rethought how we see. Would you trust a drone you can barely see watching a forest or a bridge, or is that where it starts to feel uncomfortable? 👇 #Robotics #Innovation #ALinsights
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