N.01 / INDEX / MAY 2026

Founder mode from Cyberjaya.

I am Nong Izz Harith, a fourth-year Computer Engineering student at MMU, building digital experiments, brand systems, and AI workflows. Gulf-raised, Malaysia-built, now operating from Cyberjaya.

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Storyline

From the Gulf to Cyberjaya.

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Gulf childhood

Ten years growing up in Bahrain. Gulf culture, trust dynamics, and Arab business relationships absorbed from the inside.

MANAMA, BAHRAIN

The return

Home after a decade away. Malaysia felt familiar and strange at once, worth studying like a market map.

KLANG, SELANGOR

First sales

Cold calls and market mornings selling durian juice. Low margins, real lessons in how money actually moves.

SUBANG JAYA

The 61 hours

Automated renewal emails for an insurance brokerage. Four hours of work became thirty minutes, 61 hours saved per 1,000 renewals. Sawang Tech starts here.

MEDI-WEALTH

Founder mode

Building AI infrastructure for underserved ASEAN verticals: insurance, healthcare, the halal economy. Computer engineering at MMU by day.

CYBERJAYA

Founder mode

For students who cannot wait for permission.

The constraint is the point. Classes, deadlines, and small windows of time force the work to become compressed, direct, and real.

Current state

MODEFounder mode, student constraints
BASECyberjaya, MMU orbit
NOWBuilding, writing, learning in public
SIGNALTaste, systems, personal leverage

Influence map

Built from biographies, systems, and market taste.

David SenraMohamed AlabbarKey Person of InfluenceNusantara FuturismGTM EngineeringVibe Marketing

Toolkit

AI workflowsBrand systemsWritingNext.jsResearchOps

Public graph

@nongizzharith

The open surface for notes, experiments, taste, and the slow proof of a builder becoming inevitable.

YTINIGX

Operating principles

01

Make the interface feel like intent.

02

Write until the idea has teeth.

03

Keep the system legible under pressure.

04

Prefer quiet confidence over noise.

N.04 / SIGNAL

Send me the strange brief.

Collaboration, brand work, AI systems, or a sharp note from the internet. I read everything. Warm intros are even better.

nong.izz.harith@outlook.com
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