Techstars Mentor | Ex Morgan Stanley Product | GTM and Enablement Consultant | DAD startup | 🇿🇦 🇺🇸

I help professionals, entrepreneurs, and teams thrive through change—especially the kind accelerated by AI.

At Mali Insights, we specialize in making advanced tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity actionable for small businesses and growth-stage teams. Our work spans technical enablement, go-to-market strategy, and cross-cultural business expansion—built on the belief that change management is as much about people as it is about tools.

I’ve built frameworks that help sales teams become strategic partners, enabled founders to enter new markets, and trained teams to evolve from tactical execution to strategic momentum. I also serve on Neumont College’s Industry Advisory Board, where I help shape how technical education meets industry needs—because tomorrow’s talent needs tools and context. 

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PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT: To develop strengths of unique people in my networks, by using empathy to tailor a sense of connections vital in innovative ideation.  
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@siyamali on Twitter and my driver's license.

🌍Global Citizen: Born in South Africa, Living in America

This Friday is the last day for submissions, and you can't have a better start to 2026 than making yourself submit something you've built with AI. 
JUST DO IT!

Vibeathon Season 02 is open for 2 more days. Time to push your tools, your style, and your creativity. That weekend or side project you prompt for an hour every now and then...bring THAT exactly.

I’m judging the Vibeathon with B150, and helping with some Perplexity fuel as needed.

Build something that you love using or want others to experience. Make us laugh, wonder, or feel something real, product, film, music, games, design, education, legal, or marketing.

If you can build it, you can submit it. Submissions close January 16, 2026.
Every category has its own prize, judged by legends from Perplexity, v0 by Vercel , Base44, ElevenLabs, Freepik, n8n, Flodesk, and Kiro

Link in comments - happy to help you pick a tool to quickly prototype! Show me and these fine folks how you're starting the year :)

Gizem Akdağ
Melissa Diago
Martha B. 
Emmet Connolly 
Caroline Ciaramitaro
Robyn Park
Boris Starkov

Siya Mali

Every time I talk to a an entry level or executive with an open mind about doing their job better, I think of what technology or what go-to-market posture they might benefit from.

If a refreshing perspective and if active listening seems worthwhile to you, connect and grab a few minutes off my calendar to use what I see/hear in your space, that you should have on your radar. 

This served legal executives and project managers well in my last role, and continues to serve students, school admins and hiring teams well with my Kado former founding and advisory efforts. 
All the above have successfully landed job interviews, learned of new solutions and come back to their teams heroes after a chat with me on tech enablement, change management and career-wise. 

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PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT: To develop strengths of unique people in my networks, by using empathy to tailor a sense of connections vital in innovative ideation.  
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Personal Professional Pillars:

Collaboration | Communication | Community
@siyamali on Clubhouse, Twitter and my driver's license.

🇿🇦Perplexity AI Business Fellow | Industrial Advisory Board Neumont College of CS | Future of Work | Techstars Mentor | Legal Tech Non-Lawyer | GTM and Enablement Consultant | New American 🇺🇸

Planning has become more expensive than doing to anyone who is AI-native.
 
[Reflectin on chats w/ Ben Starsky & Elias Sikazwe, CDFP separately this week]

If your team is AI-native, it takes very few people to out-iterate a team still holding onto rituals of old work; meetings, roadmaps, mock-ups, tactical plans of strategic actionable drafts, all within proper constraints.

This wasn't just corporate drudgery btw, these were rituals we used for even the smallest of businesses to protect precious execution time. But what if that's completely flipped now, and your clarity, relationships and ambition are the new bottlenecks?

Now, in your sales team you can reliably code up an interactive one-pager or workbook for each ICP every quarter or month, and with every relevant product release/preview/update. If you're feeling spicey, you might even find that you can do this with every single customer (naturally, you'll still be forced to credit Marketing for that too, somehow, but you guys love each other, right?). 

Wishing everyone a happy SKO season out there. Happy to show teams that are ready to take the leap early how!

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