Kuan Yu

Ventures

Chef → crypto trading → e-commerce → coding → AI tools for professional work. My background doesn't fit on a resume. This is the documentation.

One pattern runs through everything: take something painful and manual, build systems to automate it, scale.

2025

2025 — present · Singapore

A live, free AI-powered tax filing platform for Singapore SMEs. Upload your financial documents, let AI agents compute your taxes.

Live platform serving Singapore SMEs

2024

2024 · Singapore

Transformed a Web3 marketing role into an automation laboratory, building AI-powered systems that could outperform entire marketing teams. This 10-month journey taught me how to automate anything, why comfort kills ambition, and ultimately led me to leave the golden handcuffs behind to build my own products.

Left to build my own products

2020

2020 — 2022 · Singapore

Built a thriving e-commerce business selling face masks and PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, scaling from a small online store to a multi-platform operation with over 100 daily orders, eventually selling the business for a substantial exit.

Profitable exit after 2 years

2020

2020 · Singapore

A brief venture into 3D printed lithophanes - custom photo panels that reveal images when backlit. Built the website, integrated Stripe payments, sold to friends. Pivoted quickly when COVID created the e-commerce opportunity.

Pivoted to e-commerce

2018

2018 — 2019 · Singapore

A venture into the cryptocurrency space that evolved from trading to software development, capitalizing on international arbitrage opportunities while navigating the volatile and often risky crypto landscape.

Successfully exited

2014

2014 — 2015 · Singapore

My first venture into entrepreneurship through acquiring and managing a hostel business, complete with hard-earned lessons in operations, regulations, and resilience.

Closed with valuable lessons