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SEA runs on chat
Slack for the office. WhatsApp for the field, the suppliers, the customers. Half the team has never used a SaaS dashboard.
ABOUT // SINGAPORE // 2026
Why Singapore.
Why now.
SEA businesses run on Slack and WhatsApp, not on enterprise SaaS. The global AI tools weren't built for that. We were. Singapore is the natural hub — and the work is here, now.
2026
Founded
SG
Headquarters
6
SEA markets
Agency
Not SaaS
What we believe.
Four observationsThe AI wave skipped SEA.
We're here to bring it.
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Global AI tools don't fit
ChatGPT, Copilot, the rest — built for a US/EU workflow. They live in a browser tab. SEA work lives in a thread.
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SMBs lack engineering
Modern AI deployments assume an internal eng team to wire things up. Most SEA SMBs don't have one.
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Singapore is the hub
Regulatory clarity. Banking depth. Multilingual workforce. Sits inside every SEA timezone. It's where SEA businesses already incorporate.
How we work.
Closer to a consultancySend agents
into the rift. They come back
with the work done.
That's the model. We're an agency that deploys software agents. We treat each engagement like a build, not a subscription.
Discovery week is in person where possible — Singapore, KL, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, HCMC. We sit with the team. Watch the workflows. Mark what hurts.
Deploy week we build. Run is a monthly retainer where we tune, add workflows, and widen what the agent can take on.
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Agency, not SaaS
We sit with your team. Map workflows. Quote a deploy. Tune monthly. No self-serve dashboard, no free trial.
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Bespoke every engagement
No two deploys look the same. Your stack, your channels, your skills library. Built for you.
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Fixed scope, fixed price
Discovery is paid and short. Deploy is fixed-price. Run is monthly retainer. No usage meters, no per-seat creep.
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We say no
Some workflows are too brittle or too high-stakes for current AI. We tell you in discovery. We'd rather scope down than ship something that breaks.
The team.
Small. Focused. Hiring.A founding team of operators, engineers, and people who've sat through enough bad SaaS rollouts to know what SEA businesses actually need.
FP
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Founder, Product / Tech
Builds the agents, runs the deploys, writes the code. Background in AI infra and SEA SMB ops.
LE
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Lead Engineer
Owns the compute layer and the connector library. Comes from cloud platform engineering.
OP
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Operations
Runs discovery, scopes deploys, handles client success across the run-phase retainers.
SE
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Solutions Engineer
Embeds with clients during deploy week. Writes the bespoke skills. Tunes during run-phase.
We're hiring engineers and solutions leads →hello@openrift.io
Where we are.
Singapore HQ · Serves SEAFounded in Singapore, 2026.
The office sits in central Singapore, but the work spans the region. SEA is one market split across six time zones, six currencies, six regulatory regimes. We treat it as one.
Discovery week is on-site where we can. KL, Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, HCMC — short flights. We fly in. We sit with the team. We leave with the workflows mapped.
English, Bahasa, Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalog — the agents speak them all. The team handles them all.
// CONTACT
hello@openrift.io
Openrift Pte. Ltd. · Singapore
// HQ
SG
Singapore
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MY
Malaysia
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ID
Indonesia
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TH
Thailand
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VN
Vietnam
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PH
Philippines
Step through the rift.
Thirty-minute discovery call. We look at your ops, decide if there's a fit, and quote the deploy.