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AI governance · agents · product · tech delivery

I’m Alex Lew. I build where models touch real money and real reputations — AI governance, agents, product, and tech delivery. Author of Governed by Design. Based in Singapore. CFA · AIGP · CIPP/A · FIP.

Public frame: AI governance champion across fintech and healthtech. Through-line: accountability in the product, not just the policy. Models suggest. People still own the nod.

This calling card is built the old way — tables, bevels, six colours, no frameworks — and it gets sharper every weekday.

SAMPLES
Full worked samples

See the actual documents before we talk. Each pack is a complete worked example for one invented company, readable online and downloadable as PDF, DOCX or XLSX.

AI governance review pack (13 documents)

The AI use register, AI policy, impact assessments, oversight and agent controls, vendor questions and the management report.

For Quillmarrow Supplies Pte. Ltd., a fictional company. Illustrative, made-up data, not a client case study.

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PDPA programme pack (17 documents)

The gap review, data inventory and flow map, notices, policy and procedures, retention, vendor and transfer checks, breach plan and DPO handover.

For Quillmarrow Supplies Pte. Ltd., a fictional company. Illustrative, made-up data, not a client case study.

Open the PDPA programme pack →

Monthly DPO support pack (9 documents)

Three months of support for an appointed DPO: check-in reports, the request log, a vendor review, a breach drill and the quarterly report.

For Quillmarrow Supplies Pte. Ltd., a fictional company. Illustrative, made-up data, not a client case study.

Open the Monthly DPO support pack →

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SERVICES
AI and data governance from someone who builds the controls, not just the policies.

Put your AI rules to work

I help Singapore SMEs outside healthcare decide how AI may be used, where people must approve its actions and what evidence to keep. I also build the PDPA foundations and support your appointed DPO with the upkeep.

1. AI governance review

Start with the tools your team actually uses. I turn them into an AI use register, practical risk assessments, staff rules and clear human approval points, including permissions and audit trails for agents.

Explore the AI governance review →

2. PDPA programme

The foundation: a personal data inventory, gap review, notices, policies and working procedures, handed over to your own DPO.

Explore the PDPA programme →

3. Monthly DPO support

The ongoing add-on. You appoint your own DPO; I support them with requests, document upkeep, vendor checks and the work agreed in your scope.

Explore Monthly DPO support →

AI helps with the draft. I own the sign-off.

I personally review and sign off every deliverable. All work is remote, with a fixed price agreed before work starts.

DM @alewyl1 on X for a free intro call or remote coffee chat.

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LIVE
★ AI governance champion · agents that stay interruptible · product with owners · tech delivery that rolls back · Governed by Design · Singapore · CFA · AIGP · CIPP/A · FIP · coffee chats open ★
CFA
Charterholder
AIGP
AI Governance
CIPP/A
Privacy Asia
FIP
Fellow IAPP
NEW
What’s New — latest on Governed by Design: Who Is Accountable When an AI Agent Gets It Wrong? — three real cases show why responsibility needs to be decided before an AI system takes action. Also this week: Test an AI agent like a new hire and I’m bullish on Marvell. Ping @alewyl1.
How I show up
  • Name the owner. If a model can move money, tip health, or speak in public, a person overrides it and leaves a trail — or it does not ship.
  • Ship the boring edges. Checkpoints, logs, eval gates, and rollback are product. Pretty demos without them are toys.
  • Prefer the second question. Demos ask “can it?” I ask what breaks at 2 a.m., who gets paged, and what reverses.
  • Write it twice. Same ideas on Substack (English) and Douban (Chinese) — no corporate fog, no slide-deck mush.
Agents & AI
Useful agents that stay interruptible — mandate, eval, override.
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Governance
Decision rights on the wall; oversight in the click, not only the PDF.
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Product
Decide the decision before decorating the screen.
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Tech Delivery
Cutovers a tired colleague can reverse without a hero.
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“Systems can suggest. People still have to own the nod.”

That line runs through every Quick Link. Writing and Contact are the short paths in.

✎ Writing — Governed by Design
Essays on accountable AI — mandate, human direction, oversight that fits the product.

▶ Writing page   ▶ Substack

Day craft: AI governance, agents, product, tech delivery; author of Governed by Design. This desk ships new chrome weekday mornings. Coffee chats welcome — Contact / X (@alewyl1).