What Organisations Say After Working With Us
Feedback from engineering leads, operations managers, and procurement teams across Malaysia who have engaged with our advisory services.
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Faizal Hashim
IT Operations Lead, Petaling Jaya
"We did the Efficiency Awareness Workshop as a way to get our engineering and procurement teams on the same page before our next hardware cycle. The facilitator had clearly done preparation on our sector — the examples were relevant and the conversation moved quickly past the basics. The summary resource has come up in a few internal meetings since."
May 2025
Lee Wai Keng
Head of Infrastructure, Kuala Lumpur
"The Lifecycle Planning Advisory gave us a framework we hadn't had before — written down, which matters for a team our size. The discovery phase surfaced some gaps we hadn't named clearly. Worth noting: the process was slower than I expected in the first week, but the end document reflected the care that went into it."
April 2025
Nurul Izzati Binti Kamal
Operations Manager, Shah Alam
"I'd been looking for someone who could help our team think through AI hardware without pointing us toward a specific vendor. solenvos fit that need well. The workshop was practical and the facilitator was honest about what the advisory does and doesn't cover. We're considering the retainer format for the second half of the year."
May 2025
Rajendran Batumalai
VP Technology, Selangor
"We're on the quarterly retainer. What I appreciate is that the sessions stay structured and the outputs are consistent — each quarter we have a summary of what was covered and what's on the agenda for next time. It's made our internal planning conversations around compute much more organised."
June 2025
Amelia Tan
Procurement Director, Kuala Lumpur
"Procurement often gets brought into hardware decisions after the technical choices have been made. The lifecycle planning advisory put us in the room earlier, with a shared document that engineering and procurement both contributed to. That's changed how we approach the next procurement cycle."
April 2025
Zulkifli Ahmad
Engineering Manager, Cyberjaya
"The workshop was honest about what it covers. It's educational rather than prescriptive, which is what we needed — we weren't looking for someone to tell us what to buy, just to help us think through the considerations more systematically. It did that."
May 2025
Engagement Journeys
Detailed accounts of how organisations have worked through AI hardware planning challenges with solenvos's support.
Technology Firm, Kuala Lumpur — Lifecycle Planning Advisory
4 weeksA 45-person technology company had accumulated GPU compute infrastructure across two offices but had no documented approach for deciding when to refresh, redeploy, or retire hardware. Hardware decisions were being made ad hoc by individual team leads with no shared framework.
solenvos ran a discovery phase with the infrastructure lead, CTO, and procurement manager. The engagement produced a lifecycle framework document covering decision criteria, efficiency review cadences, and a template for capturing hardware decisions going forward.
The planning document became an internal reference used across three subsequent hardware decisions. The team reported that cross-functional conversations about compute became measurably shorter and more structured after the framework was in place.
"It sounds simple, but having something written down that everyone has agreed to changes the dynamic completely."
Logistics Company, Selangor — Efficiency Awareness Workshop
1 dayA logistics company was beginning to evaluate AI compute options for route optimisation workloads. Engineering staff understood hardware requirements technically, but the operations and finance teams had no shared vocabulary for evaluating efficiency trade-offs when cost discussions arose.
The Efficiency Awareness Workshop was tailored to the logistics sector context. The session covered efficiency considerations relevant to inference workloads and gave the mixed team a common set of questions to carry into their internal evaluation process.
The team proceeded to their hardware evaluation with operations and finance staff better able to participate in the technical discussions. The summary resource was shared with their CFO ahead of a budget review session.
"The workshop gave our non-technical leads enough context to ask the right questions during the evaluation."
Financial Services Organisation, KL — Sustainability Advisory Retainer
OngoingA mid-sized financial services organisation was expanding its AI compute programme and needed a structured way to keep sustainability and efficiency considerations in view across quarterly hardware and infrastructure decisions — without adding a full-time internal role for it.
solenvos was engaged on a quarterly retainer. Sessions are held monthly, with a running planning log updated after each. Decision support is available between sessions for significant hardware questions. Each quarter closes with a summary report for senior stakeholders.
Now into the third quarter of the retainer, the organisation reports that hardware decisions are better documented and the sustainability lens is considered earlier in the planning cycle. The quarterly summary has become a standing agenda item in their infrastructure review meeting.
"The retainer structure keeps us accountable to the planning practices we committed to."
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