AI-era strategyComing soon
AI Won't Fix a Strategy You Don't Have
For builders creating a digital business with AI: pick a few places where it really changes the work, and tie it back to revenue, margin and risk.
Simon Chan
The tools keep changing, now faster with AI. What makes them work hasn't.
AI-led engineering and transformation — building teams, products, and partnerships that last.
Ideas
Practical lessons from running things, not watching from the sidelines.
Coming-soon pieces shaped to sit with Building Digital Biz — creating digital businesses with AI — while this site stays focused on Simon's own writing and experience.
BuildingComing soon
Building From Zero: What a Founding Team Taught Me About Scale
What founding teams learn when they grow a digital business: focus, real referrals, and people who care how it turns out for the customer.
PartnershipsComing soon
Partnering With a Giant: How to Make Microsoft, Google and AWS Work for You
How digital businesses grow alongside the hyperscalers — your best growth channel or a very expensive distraction.
LeadershipComing soon
What Stays Constant When the Technology Changes
Stewardship for builders through every shift: tell the truth early, keep commitments, leave teams stronger.
30+ years building through tech shiftsIteration2: $0 to about $500MHitachi's $9.6B acquisition of GlobalLogic (2021)Microsoft Partner Advisory Councils (invitation-only)Owner · RSM US LLP
Where I am today
Owner at RSM US LLP
I'm an Owner at RSM US LLP, focused on AI-led engineering and transformation. I help leadership teams figure out where AI and agents really fit, how to build the team that delivers it, and how to grow alongside the big cloud platforms without getting swallowed by them.
How I can help
Take your special sauce and amplify it with technology.
AI strategy tied to the P&L, building teams and products, hyperscaler partnerships, and steady leadership when things get hard.
Let's talk about what you're building.
Timeline
History
Thirty-plus years of building teams and businesses, oldest first. Each chapter — from early partnerships through cloud and AI — adds to the work I do today. Select an entry for the full story, including the moments that shaped how I lead people and grow businesses.