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AI consulting for business owners, executives, and teams

You use AI.
Is your business
keeping up?

Help your team use AI with confidence.
Improve the workflows that run your business.

See what this looks like
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A familiar gap

You see the potential.
The business needs to catch up.

Your team has the tools.
Better work hasn’t followed.

  • You keep showing people what AI can do, but it hasn’t become a working habit.
  • A few people make progress with AI, but the rest of the team hasn’t caught up.
Build your team

People work hard.
The process still slows them down.

  • Updates and approvals depend on chasing someone for an answer.
  • Getting a clear picture means piecing together scattered updates.
Build your workflows

What we build

Two foundations.
One better way to work.

Does this improve the business?
That is how we decide what to build.

Business-wide execution

Build your workflows.

We improve the steps, decisions, and handoffs behind daily work, then build the systems and AI support to help.

See the ADX project

The potential · research finding

53%

of respondents reported saving at least a day per week

Among respondents at companies redesigning workflows or business models with AI.

BCG AI at Work 2026 (opens in a new tab)

External research, not Kihon results or guarantees. These figures measure different outcomes and cannot be compared or added together.

What this looks like

Real work.
A practical starting point.

01 / Build your team

From trying AI
to working well with it.

ADX Asia

Four weeks of workshops, department clinics, and practice on employees’ own work.

The goal: a workflow each department can run, review, and share.

Week 01Use AI in everyday work

Choose a useful task, give it context, check the answer, and improve the result.

Week 02Repeat what works

Organise the references and instructions behind a recurring task.

Week 03Build a workflow with AI

Test the steps, define human review, and handle missing or conflicting information.

Week 04Demo Day

Each department showcases its workflow, demonstrates how it works, and shares what they learned.

02 / Build your workflows

A clearer path from
budget to spending.

ADX Asia

An internal system connecting budgets, purchasing, and spending requests, with AI support along the way.

People retain approval and payment decisions.

The workflow being built

The AI layer is being designed to:

01Help prepare requests

Read receipts and suggest details for people to confirm.

02Flag things to check

Highlight mismatches, possible duplicates, and missing information.

03Answer business questions

Ask about spending and budgets, with answers linked to records.

04Get answers where people work

Ask questions and check status through the ADX internal chat app.

Results will be shared after completion and measurement.

Elbert Toha, founder of Kihon

Elbert Toha / Founder, Kihon

Who is behind the work

Business judgment.
Hands-on engineering.

I’ve spent 16 years running my own businesses and 14 years building software. I understand the distance between a promising idea and something a team can use every day.

My experience spans McKinsey, business ownership, and software engineering. I hold a master’s degree in business from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with a specialisation in technological innovation.

16 years

Running businesses

14 years

Software engineering

Let’s put AI to work

Start with a
conversation.

Bring one task your team struggles with or one process slowing you down. Let’s find a useful first step.

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