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Custom software · automation · AI

Software your operation runs on. So it stops running on you.

Most people sell you AI. We start with your operation, then build the system around it.

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Big 4
Ex-PwC, ex-EY
1,200+
On systems we've built
Multi-entity
Live ERP-integrated systems
Real money
Payments, audit trails, sign-off
the operation
01Sound familiar?

Right now, the business runs because you hold it together.

Established, stock-heavy, people-heavy. It works, but only because it lives in your head. That caps how big it gets.

  • 01

    Your best-seller runs out. The sale walks out the door.

  • 02

    Monday morning goes to chasing suppliers on WhatsApp and re-typing numbers that already exist in three places.

  • 03

    You find out you're low when it's too late to reorder.

  • 04

    Your best person leaves, and half the process goes with them.

02What we do

We work with established businesses that hold stock and employ people, and have outgrown the spreadsheets they started on.

Move to reveal · the construction beneath

Big Four consulting taught us to find where a business makes its money, and where it quietly loses it. So that is where we start: inside the operation, before anything gets built. Then we build against what we find.

Three ways to work
  • 01

    BuildPrimary

    Custom software and automation, shaped around how your business runs. The core of what we do.

  • 02

    Train

    HRDC-certified workshops that teach your team to build and ship real software with AI.

  • 03

    Venture

    AI-native products we build and run ourselves. Where we find out what works before it goes near a client.

03The difference

A developer builds what you ask for. We work out what you need.

Software drifts away from the business at the handover, when the person who understood the problem stops being the person building the answer. There isn't a handover here.

Reason 01

Costs before code

Years of Big Four consulting on pricing and operating models, before a line of code.

Reason 02

Discovery does the real work

You come to us with a symptom. We find the thing underneath, usually a step someone has patched by hand for years.

Reason 03

We'll tell you not to build it

If a spreadsheet and some discipline would fix it, we will say so. We would rather lose the job than sell software you do not need.

Reason 04

It runs in production

Our systems are live and in daily use. Where money moves, there is role-based access and an audit trail on every action.

04The method

Map, systemise, document, automate. Then AI.

Five stages, always in this order. AI only goes on once there is a real system underneath it to stand on.

01

Map

We map how the operation really runs. The stock, the people, the workarounds nobody wrote down. It never looks like the org chart.

02

Systemise

We shape the software around the operation. If your team has to change how they work, we built the wrong thing.

03

Document

Whatever one person knows goes into the system as we build. That is what lets someone else cover for them.

04

Automate

Then the repetitive work goes: reorders that fire themselves, quotes that build out of the job.

05

AI on top

AI goes on last, once the process is mapped and the data is clean, so it has something real to work with.

05Proof

Live systems, with money moving through them.

We keep client names off the site. Everything else here is what shipped.

Case 01Retail · Procurement
2026

Multi-entity jewellery retail group

A procurement engine running across multiple business entities

How we built it

Stock ran low without warning. Restocks went out over WhatsApp, quotes compared on spreadsheets. Slow, error-prone, impossible to audit.

  • 01Detects low stock and batches restock requests automatically.
  • 02Collects standardised supplier quotes, compares them, generates purchase orders.
  • 03Multi-entity, role-based access, full audit log, read-only ERP integration.
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System 01Live · Production
01
Retail · Procurement
Multi-entity
One system, several businesses
Read-only
ERP integration, zero risk
Full
Audit log on every action
Case 02Consumer fintech · Mobile
2026

Multi-brand gold retailer

A gold-savings and vault platform with two-person sign-off on every gram

How we built it

Savings schemes, vault balances and gold released to customers, all tracked by hand on spreadsheets while the sums kept growing.

  • 01Customer apps (iOS, Android, web) plus an admin back office.
  • 02Real payments and KYC, immutable audit logging on every movement.
  • 03Two-person, two-code sign-off on every gram released.
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System 02Live · Production
02
Consumer fintech · Mobile
1,200+
Customers migrated off spreadsheets
Two-person
Sign-off on every gram released
Immutable
Audit log on every movement
Case 03B2B SaaS · Operations
2025

Event-equipment supplier

A platform that catches double-bookings before they happen

How we built it

They were promising the same equipment to two jobs at once. Every quote meant rebuilding the costing from scratch.

  • 01Real-time detection of inventory overlap across active jobs.
  • 02A costing engine spanning owned stock and a partner network.
  • 03A job wizard with automated PDF quotes and costing sheets.
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System 03Live · Production
03
B2B SaaS · Operations
Real-time
Overlap caught before it books
Instant
Quotes and costing
Zero
Double-bookings
06What we build

Custom software, automation and AI, in that order.

Note the order. AI is last for a reason.

01

Custom software

The system your operation runs on. Stock, orders, jobs, whatever your real unit of work is.

02

Automation

Chasing a supplier for the third time. Re-typing a number from another screen. Gone.

03

AI, added last

Retrieval and agents that answer from your own records, put on once the data is clean.

04

ERP & systems integration

Read-only integration with the ERP you already run. It never writes back.

05

Real-time operations

Stock, pricing and job status update as they change, and act on the change.

06

Discovery & process mapping

We map how your operation runs and work out what to build. Some engagements stop here. That is fine.

Custom softwareAutomationAI, added lastERP integrationReal-time operationsProcess mappingAudit trailsRole-based access
07The studio

You work with us, from the first meeting to the day it goes live.

Akal is deliberately small. No account layer, no hand-off.

Vimallnath Kathirasan

Founder

Senior people, start to finish. You talk to the people building your system, not an account manager relaying messages.

More about the studio
08In their words

Feedback from the workshop.

Professionals and operators we've trained. Average 4.9 out of 5.

4.9

Average across trained cohorts

You took a risk, put in the work, and it is paying off swimmingly. Super inspirational, well executed and highly informative. Worth every penny, and more.

Dinesh Siddharthan

Actuary

The level of depth and expertise Vimall brought is invaluable. As a non-technical professional, I really appreciated the breakdown using easily digestible terms. Very structured and professional.

Yassamin Zainal

Senior Talent Partner

Understanding the full stack: PRD design, AI-assisted coding, database integrations, agents, and shipping an MVP. All in two days. Highly recommend.

Bryan Soh

Strategy Manager

Vimall helped me bring my vision to life, and that is most valuable to me. Didn't expect to learn so much over two days.

Kashmeera Shalesh

Event Operations Executive

Really appreciated the way you handled the course. Already recommended it to others. Would love a catch-up day to share how we've implemented things.

Omran Abbara

Founder & Coach

The Train pillar

AI-Driven Development workshops

About the workshop

The premise

Akal · Systems, not people

09Contact

Start with a process-mapping session

Tell us where it hurts. If we can help, we'll show you how we'd build it. If a spreadsheet and some discipline would fix it, we'll say so.

hello@akalaisolutions.com

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Studio

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SSM-registered · Malaysia

One session. We map where your operation makes money and where it leaks. No obligation to build.