Nong Izz HarithScroll

Nong Izz Harith; founder, engineer and writer, building AI infrastructure for the parts of ASEAN that enterprise software priced out. Insurance brokerages, oncology pharmacies, halal supply chains. The first system I shipped gave a brokerage back 61 hours per thousand renewals. Most of the rest gets built between lectures at MMU.

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From the beginning

  1. MANAMA, BAHRAIN

    Gulf childhood

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

  2. KLANG, SELANGOR

    The return

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

  3. SUBANG JAYA

    First sales

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

  4. MEDI-WEALTH

    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.

  5. CYBERJAYA

    Founder mode

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

Proof over promise.

sawangtech.com

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