AI Never Sleeps

Founder and CEO of AI Never Sleeps – leading a 24/7 AI Automation Agency that streamlines operations, automates repetitive tasks, and empowers businesses to focus on innovation and growth.

Chief Experiment Officer

Westpac Group

Leading Westpac’s Personal Loans business.

Executive Director

Fundo Loans

Chief Executive Officer - Australia

Helping Fundo to grow and be more efficient while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Chief Operating Officer

Empowered Leader

Our mission is to empower and grow young leaders by providing cutting-edge online tools combined with self-serve online training courses. 🚀

Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer

MoneyMe Limited

SocietyOne

Ensuring that we are bringing brilliant funding moments to life and delighting our customers.

Overall responsiblity for Credit operations and Customer Service in SocietyOne.

Acquiring customers through any channel and means necessary to grow in a profitable and sustainable way.

Responsible for partnerships and brokers.

Chief Growth Officer

Changing the face of lending in Australia

Chief Product & Strategy Officer

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Focused on serving clients to help them solve their biggest financial and technology problems in Australia and across South East Asia.

As the lead Principal, helped to co-found BCG's AP Digital Transformation Accelerator (DTA - previously known as DTEC - Digital and Technology Enablement Centre). A BCG internal capability which helps clients train their teams on digital topics (eg. Big Data, Agile, Information Security, etc.)

Other achievements: Co-head of Recruiting (KL) - 2015 - 16, Head of SOCCOM (KL) - 2015, Training Node (KL) - 2014

Principal

Westpac

Responsible for:
1. Strategy for the Retail Bank,
2. Delivery of key projects that create value for the Retail bank,
3. Business management and operational support for the General Manager of the Retail Bank.

Head of Strategy, Retail Banking

1. Group wide strategic planning, identification of strategic options, evaluation & prioritisation of strategy formulation and communication
2. Competitive, industry research and evaluate current and forward looking trends of the financial industry
3. Complex financial modelling and detailed analysis to support decision making on specific group and business unit issues
4. Business unit/divisional strategic reviews together with key business stakeholders

Strategy Manager, Group Strategy

Senior Strategy Analyst, Group Strategy

Strategy Analyst, Group Strategy

Graduate Analyst, Group Strategy and M&A

Trustmarque Solutions

Full stack dev, focussed on ASP.NET, Javascript and Microsoft SQL

Technical Consultant

I help empower young leaders through online tools & leadership training courses

Jonathan is the Chief Experiment Officer of AI Never Sleeps - an AI Automation Agency that helps Small Businesses automate their boring tasks.

Jonathan has a track record of more than 20 years of consulting and project delivery experience in Financial Services and Technology. He loves solving business problems to create value for organisations, has a history of end-to-end project delivery (idea inception to strategy development to execution and change) and loves working with people to ensure that outcomes are delivered.

He spent 8 years in a range of fintech startups to listed companies in various leadership roles from COO to CTO to CMO to CPO to CSO and Chief Growth Officer.

He 5.5 years with the Boston Consulting Group with their Sydney and KL offices where he worked on a diverse range of topics: from creating 5 year visions and strategies to M&A target selection and deal support to Inventory optimisation.

Prior to BCG, he worked for 5 years in Westpac (one of Australia's largest banks) in Group Strategy and Retail Banking. His last role was the Head of Strategy for Westpac Retail and Regional Banking where he was responsible for developing actionable initiatives to create value for the bank's branch network and led and assisted the delivery of both projects and operational issues.

Prior to joining Westpac, Jonathan worked in South East Asia for 4 years and was based in Singapore.  

Jonathan has a Bachelor of Business and Information Technology from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), as well as a Masters of Management and a Masters of Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM).

Jonathan Chan

6 months ago, I left a job paying $420k a year.

Today? I have more money in my bank than when I started.

The crazy part?

I almost didn't do it.

This is my 2nd entrepreneurial journey (the first taught me lessons rather than yielded profits 😅). 

And honestly, the inner voices still deafen:
Can I really make it? Should I just go back to (safe) corporate?

But here's what 6 months of building has actually looked like:
📹 Ran 18 webinars for my paid newsletter community
💻 Built 5 mini SAAS web apps
🏗️ Assisted 5 clients with automating their businesses
 🔧 Built 3 Chrome extensions 
🚧 Completed 2 consulting projects
📱 Built 2 mobile apps 
👨‍👩‍👦 Spent more time with my family than I have in years

That last one? Wouldn't trade it for the world.

The numbers (because I'm building in public):

MRR is at $10k/month:
AI Automation Agency = $8k
Newsletter = $1k
Mini-SAAS web apps = $1k

Still a long way from my $30k MRR target. But growing steadily.

Consulting is what has brought in most of my (one-off) revenue, but I hope to change that.

My approach? I'm making the decision to continue 3 months at a time.

We've extended to March 2025 now.

I don't have all the answers. Some days I wonder if I'm crazy. But I'm learning more about building businesses than I ever did in corporate and working for big companies.

And I'm loving every moment.

If you're standing at the edge wondering whether to leap - maybe start smaller. Build something on the side. Stack those steps.

Because right now, I'm thanking past Jonathan for taking the jump and starting early and small.

What would you build if you had the time?

I write about AI experiments that automate my life and business

I saw this story and it hit different.

A broke Indian kid is sitting on a German metro.

Tired. Worn out. Worried about whether he'll make it through the day.

Sitting next to him? Maisie Williams. The actress from Game of Thrones. Millions of fans would lose their minds just to get a selfie with her.

He doesn't even notice.

The photo goes viral. A German magazine (Der Spiegel) tracks him down. Turns out he's been living illegally in Munich, broke, riding trains without a ticket.

The journalist asks: "Why didn't you react? Don't you know who she was?"

His answer:

"When you don't have a residence permit, not a single euro in your pocket, and you travel illegally every day… it really doesn't matter who sits next to you."

The magazine was so moved they offered him a job. 800 euros a month as a postman. That job got him a legal residence permit.

One random photo. One moment he didn't even notice. Changed everything.

Here's why this resonates with me.

When I left Westpac, people thought I had a master plan.

I didn't.

I was just trying to figure out what was next. Some days I questioned everything. Some days I still do.

But looking back, every "random" moment connected to something bigger.

The newsletter(s) I failed at for 25 years? Suddenly worked when I stopped writing about AI news and started showing people HOW to use it.

The LinkedIn post I almost didn't publish? Led to being featured in LinkedIn News Australia (twice).

The client I met by accident? Became my first $5k/month retainer.

You can't connect the dots looking forward.

You just have to trust that the metro you're on is taking you somewhere.

Even when you're too tired to notice who's sitting next to you.

Is there a random moment changed your trajectory?

Coming home to heartbreak

Landed back in Sydney from holidays yesterday.

My eldest son checked his phone and said "there's been a mass shooting at Bondi". My stomach dropped.

Bondi Beach. A place synonymous with joy, summer, families. A place I've walked a thousand times.

Now a crime scene.

16 people went to celebrate Hanukkah with their families. They lit candles. They ate. Kids played at the playground.

They never came home.

I don't have profound words. I don't think anyone does right now.

But I keep thinking about the fruit shop owner who ran toward gunfire. Who tackled an armed shooter with his bare hands. Who took two bullets protecting strangers.

In the darkest moment, a stranger chose courage over self-preservation.

That's who we are at our best.

Sydney is grieving today. Australia is grieving.

Hold your loved ones a little tighter tonight.

Why are you doomscrolling??

Stop.

Seriously.

You could literally build a mobile app right now.
Or a web app. Or a Chrome extension.

Zero programming knowledge required.

Just ChatGPT. Maybe Cursor. Maybe Claude.

That's it.

I'm not being theoretical here.

Since "retiring" 6 months ago, I've built:
📱 A mobile iOS app (5 days to TestFlight, 12 days to live on the App Store)
🤖 An AI phone agent named Steve that answers calls 24/7 (2 hours)
🌐 www.Bank-statements.co - turns messy PDFs into clean spreadsheets (now makes $350/month)
📧 A Gmail cleanup tool that categorizes and deletes spam
🔌 Chrome extensions that can grab the content from a webpage or youtube video for my own '2nd brain'
💬 An AI chatbot for coaching
...and a bunch more that I use daily.

None of this required me to "learn to code."

I just described what I wanted - in english.

AI wrote it.

I clicked buttons until it worked.

The tools are absurdly good now.

A 60-year-old Senior Director built his own AI agent using my guide.
A non-techie named Olivia pushed through and shipped her first app.

The barrier isn't skill anymore.

It's just... starting.

So here's my question:
If you had nothing to lose and all the time in the world, what would you build?

Drop it in the comments.

You might just talk yourself into actually doing it.

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I shouldn't be sharing this, but here goes...

A Chrome extension that gives you a second brain you can actually talk to.

Last weekend I locked myself in with Cursor and AI (Opus 4.5 mostly).

The problem I was solving:

I consume too much content.
YouTube videos. Articles. Podcasts. Research.
But when I need that ONE insight from 3 months ago? Gone.

So I built something.

Here's what it does:

→ Creates a second brain using Gemini's File Search API (fancy term for RAG, which is a fancy term for "a place to store stuff so AI can find it later")

→ Works with ANY LLM — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, even Grok

→ Bring your own API key via OpenRouter (your key, your data, your costs)

→ One click to save any webpage or extract any YouTube transcript straight into your brain

→ Chat with everything you've saved using a custom prompt

The result?

I asked it: "What did that Dan Koe podcast say about content repurposing?"

It pulled the exact quote from a video I watched 2 weeks ago.

No more "I know I saved this somewhere."

No more 47 open tabs.

Just your brain, searchable.

I'm giving away:
- The full Chrome extension
- Step-by-step guide to set it up
- Access to Friday's webinar (19th Dec, 12pm AEST) where I'll show you how to build it live

Comment "second brain" below and I'll send you everything.

LinkedIn Post - Sora 2 n8n Workflow

People are paying $25 for Sora 2 invite codes on eBay.

I bypassed the waitlist entirely using n8n.

The crazy part?

It took me 30 minutes to set up.

Here's why this matters for small businesses:
Video converts better than static images. We all know this.
But traditional video production?
Expensive (thousands for basic stuff)
Slow (weeks of back-and-forth)
Inflexible (want to change one thing? Another invoice)

Now I can turn any static image into video for 10 cents per second.

A 30-second ad costs $3.

A video editor would charge you hundreds for the same thing.

What I built in n8n:
→ Basic workflow: prompt in, AI video out 
→ Advanced workflow: feed it a reference image, get animated video 
→ Scene control: different shots within a single clip 
→ No Sora app watermark

The best part?
You can batch process 20+ videos overnight using a Google Sheet.
Set it. Walk away. Come back to finished videos.

Real use cases I'm seeing:
→ E-commerce product videos from catalog images 
→ A/B testing ad variations at scale 
→ Turning legacy brochures into social content 
→ Creating moving images from static photos

Small businesses sitting on years of product photos now have a way to turn them into video content for almost nothing.

I wrote a full step-by-step breakdown on my Substack.

The workflow JSON is available for paid subscribers.

Link in comments 👇

What would you create if video production cost $3 instead of $3,000?

ION Orchard (Orchard Turn Developments)

Spearheading ION Orchard’s commercial arm: 
- Drive Go-to-market initiatives focused at increasing growth, engagement & footfall to merchants / brands within the Mall.

- Omni-channel strategy (Brand & growth)

- Performance marketing

- Ecommerce / Digital solutions

ION Orchard, an upscale Mall, is a joint venture between Capitaland & Sun Hung Kai - 2 of the largest real estate conglomerates in Asia.

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- Chaired Orchard Turn Developments D&D 2023, after a 3 year hiatus due to covid restrictions. The event concluded unanimously with a resounding success -

Manager, B2B B2C Merchant Success Lead (Commercial)

Shopee

B2B Growth & Monetisation (Revenue)
Oversee SG Marketing Solutions (MS): 
- On-platform brand & campaigns
- Off-platform client partner solutions (Meta, Google, Tiktok)
- B2B revenue & accounting

Team Highlights: 
- Grew 1.5x revenue growth YoY. 120% against targets
- Revamped operational processes which significantly reduced manhours required. 
- Achieved highest MS investment per group GMV in SEA region.

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On-platform : Revenue packages that saw 2.2x YoY overall investments, Q4 (9,11,12) key packages extracted 1.5x overall brand investments 

Off-platform: Digital marketing solutions saw 3x in growth YoY

Revenue & accounting: Built & outsourced dedicated invoicing team achieved >50% manhours savings. Reduced level of overdue payments by 5x

Manage team of 9

Marketing Solutions, Lead

Devise solutions, using assets (in-app + out-of-app), to achieve brands’ sales/branding ambitions

2021 vs 2020:
-Grew brand overall investments by 3x YoY
-Increased brand participation across major campaigns by 2-3x YoY
- Devised governance & penalty systems which significantly improved external traffic by 2x
-Expanded Marketing Solutions involvements to help repackage & monetise new assets such as Shopee Supermarket, ShopeePay/Offline Payment Vouchers, Big Brand Discounts
-Structured collaborations between key external vendors such as COMEX IT Show, Singapore Coffee Association, Comic Con Conferences.

Marketing Solutions & Revenue, Senior

Specialised in seller & buyer paid programmes. Execute commission/pricing strategies. Conceptualise, execute & maintain platform-wide initiatives, by leveraging on marketing assets, to drive revenue.

Projects include:
. Seller Subscription Programmes 
. Buyer Subscription Programme; Voucher Packs
. ShopeePay 

Marketing Assets include, not limited to:
. In-app assets 
. External assets

Revenue

Scoot

Top sales for period Jan-Mar 2019 (West Asia)

Cabin Crew

Singapore Management University

MKGT205 Advertising
Teaching Assistant for Dr Giovanni Lunghi
Managed 2 classes
Partnered with Dentsu Aegis Network Singapore

Teaching Assistant - Advertising

DDB Group Singapore

Tribal Worldwide Division 
-DBS /POSB Accounts

Key projects include: 
-DBS-ANZ Migration
-SAFRA DBS Card Campaign
-LiveFresh Card Campaign
-DBS/POSB Social Media Content Ideas

Accounts Management

Hatchme

Business Development
Part of SMU Startup Acceleration Programme.

Led a team, where we achieved more than 150 companies and 150 new users on board within a span of one month, through lead generations: cold calling, email blast, door knocking and print media

Business Development Lead

SMU Arts and Cultural Fraternity

Oversaw the events arm of the committee, which governs the 24 Arts clubs within SMU. 

Chairperson of the following key ACF events: 
- SMU Arts Camp 2016
- SMU ACF-Freshmen Orientation Camp 2016
- EVE Arts Awards Night 2016

Events Director (12th Management Committee)

Bank of Singapore, Asia's Global Private Bank

Product Marketing at Bank of Singapore (BOS) during for a 15-week stint.

Task & job scope encompassed:
Dailies - Newsflow dailies & investment dailies documents to front office. 
Weeklies - Weekly investment client guide & presentation deck.
Monthlies - Monthly investment guide (MIG) & MIGinMinutes client videos.
General - Broll shoots, basic photoshopping, formatting.

Product Marketing

Singapore Army

(NSF) 35 Singapore Combat Engineers Unit
Bravo Company Platoon Sergeant - Platoon 2

(NsMan) 351 SCE 
Charlie Company Platoon Sergeant - Platoon 2

Conferred Formation NSMen of 2023 for outstanding performance across the battalion. Only 1 specialist is awarded across the formation.

Successfully lead platoon of up to 40 men to fulfil the unit's day activities according to training schedule. This developed my personal communication and team management skills to work well with people from a wide range of backgrounds.

Deputy CSM / Platoon Sergeant - 35 Singapore Combat Engineers

Championing Brands at ION Orchard | Brand strategy | Product marketing | Revenue advertising | I accelerate merchants’ growth & investments

Lives by two keywords: diversity & go-MAD (Making A Difference).

Drives B2B engagement & growth in my role with Merchant Success at ION Orchard - an upscale Mall in Orchard Road, Singapore. Experienced & proven executor in e-commerce / digital space. 

Excels particularly in stakeholder-management roles, with involvement of strategic and creative thinking. Skilled in SQL, VBA, Python, and speaks 3 languages.

At leisure, I enjoy films, new languages and a grown appreciation for mountain trekking - Nepal in ‘22, Kinabalu, Hallasan in ‘23. 

Graduated from Singapore Management University with a Dean’s List. Proud alumni of SMU Voix (Acapella) & BE (Emcee Wing). Reach me at carrotjooz@gmail.com.

Speaks English, 中文, 한국어

Skills: Project management, stakeholder management, product management, product marketing, negotiation, monetisation, revenue strategies, asset valuation, digital marketing, merchant growth, SQL, Python, Microsoft Office, Salesforce, Google Data Studio

Joshua Chee

When was your last dress-up party? 

Thanks to a memorable night at Ant International’s first official Singapore Dinner & Dance: Unstoppable. 🎉 Kudos to Amy C. for putting together such an incredible event! Hazelle was an awesome host. 

Bringing together teams from WorldFirst, Alipay+ , Antom (incl. 2C2P & EPOS) and Bettr (incl. ANEXT Bank), the night was a vibrant celebration of the people who power our organisation. Everyone truly played ball and dressed up to the occasion. As the global HQ, Singapore continues to hold the fort and shape strategy for Asia and beyond - and last night showcased that unity in full force.

From drinks and performances to the best-dressed competition and lucky draw, the laughter and energy were contagious. And at the height of the evening, CEO YP even contributed his limited-edition bottles of wine bestowed by Jack Ma himself — a gesture that made the night all the more unforgettable.

More importantly, it was a rare moment to bring colleagues from different business units under one roof, reconnect, and appreciate how far we’ve come together.

As YP shared, 2025 has been a challenging year, and 2026 will demand even more of us. But standing together, I’m confident we’ll continue to push forward and create impact.

I’m grateful: for this night of communion, for the opportunity to serve in my role, and for my family’s unwavering support. In a world filled with uncertainties, these moments truly matter.

Here’s to heading into the final chapter of 2025. Stay safe, stay connected, keep moving together. 

#WorldFirst #AntInternational #internationalbusinesspayments #fintech #dnd2025 #unstoppable

Joshua Chee (徐炜杰)

International business payments | WorldFirst, Ant International

Last week’s 11.11 felt a little different for us. 

While many were camping for deals, we were preparing for #VOYAGE2025.

On 11 Nov at Marina Bay Sands, WorldFirst, together with Ant International brands - Alipay+, Antom, and Bettr - welcomed 1,000+ guests, partners, clients, and industry leaders from across the region. It was a day to connect, share, and reflect on the future of global business.

From her keynote, our CEO Clara Shi highlighted:
1. WorldFirst remains the #1 global payment service provider, trusted by 1.5M+ SMEs worldwide with US$500B+ cumulative TPV

2. Expanding support beyond commerce into service-based industries including advertising, logistics, cloud and more. This means more cost efficient and effective international business payments for these businesses.

3. As we enter new markets with local teams, our focus stays the same - human, reliable support, always within reach. As concurred with a recent NPS survey. 

Two panels sparked insights every business owner can relate to:

📌 Thriving Amid Tariffs & Trade Shifts
✅ Diversification matters, but strong relationships with manufacturers / farmers are the backbone of resilient supply chains. Trade turbulence creates opportunity for the agile business leaders. 

Moderator: Vanessa Ho 
Panelists: Ivan Ong (KeaBabies), Kai Ho Aw (Forest Cloud Beverage Company), Quyen Pham (BlueStars Vietnam International Co., Ltd), Qin Jiangang (Robotime LLC) 

📌 AI in Action
✅ Invest where AI directly touches customers. Use it to qualify and engage leads, and let it take over repetitive tasks so your teams can focus on impact.

Moderator: Vanessa Ho 
Panelists: Andrew Lim (360&5), Eric Tang (Tec-Do 2.0), Sant Qiu (Maneuver Marketing), Xu Ning (Ant Group AI Force) 

Every conversation, connection, and idea at #VOYAGE2025 reinforced why we do what we do: helping businesses grow, trade, and scale with confidence.

Thanks to every individual who supported and participated actively with us. 

Till the next Voyage, aye aye Captain.

#WorldFirst #AntInternational #InternationalBusinessPayments #FinTech #SME #ECommerce #Trade #B2B

Singapore FinTech Festival felt different this year, in the best way.

When Xavier Pang and I started conceptualising our booth alluding to the #VOYAGE2025 theme “Rethink. Reimagine. Reshape.”, we scratched our heads for a bit. But we realised something quickly:

Reimagining international business payments isn’t a futuristic ambition. At WorldFirst, it’s already happening.

We’re moving businesses beyond outdated norms:
❌ 1–2 week waits for a business account, often requiring multiple in-person visits
❌ 3–5 day settlement times
❌ “Premium” human support only if you move >$1M+/month
❌ Extra fees just to top up in foreign currency (FCY), commonly such as USD
❌ Transaction-only relationships with minimal ecosystem value

And here’s what SMEs are experiencing today:
✅ Fully digital onboarding - from setup to local currency account creation in days, free
✅ Same-day, marginally-cost transfers internationally, as easily as you would pay locally
✅ Real human support, consistently rated 4.8★ on Google
✅ Zero hidden fees - no FCY top-up charges, no card FX admin fees
✅ Ecosystem value through partnerships, integrations, and cross-market events

At the Singapore FinTech Festival, we showcased how these benefits are expanding - not just for SMEs, for enterprises and individuals too.

Three days of conversations brought one thing into focus:
The appetite for a reimagined international payments experience is real - and growing. 

Keep innovating, keep moving. It’s how we stay as world’s #1. 

More to come. Stay tuned.

Thank you to the various teams behind our SFF booth.

#WorldFirst #AntInternational #internationalbusinesspayments #sme #enterprise #remittance #ecommerce #wholesale #sourcing

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