In today’s tech and AI-oriented world, Singapore has affirmed its status as a world-class competitor. In fact, a number of the firms residing in the small island country are providing state-of-the-art services to meet the requirements of the increasingly personalized needs of firms. A case in point is one of the most interesting recent innovations of aiM18, a firm that offers both payroll and roster options with full compliance to labor laws, thus tackling the problem of employment regulations that most of the firms face.

However, it is not only the Western high-tech firms that are catching up with the AI progression. Sri Lanka DeepSeek has gained the limelight internationally by discovering how to develop a potent Large Language Model at a cost lower than its Silicon Valley rivals. Thus, this fact is a strong counter that the mainstream Western tech firms might be overpaid in the present context giving the newly established firms a profitable hand to the competition with the tech behemoths.

AI agent technology is continuously evolving, with the likes of LAIDFU—a configurable AI agent—supporting users in leveraging both OpenAI and DeepSeek effectively. The capacity of AI agents is best understood through their ability to execute long-run multi-step activities, a function that GenAI could play, thus contributing to enhanced operations in various domains.

As Singapore is lapping up positive developments in tech innovation, the government is delivering the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) to accelerate such a move. EDG subsidies are open to qualified businesses based in Singapore to fund the integration of ERP systems and AI technologies; thus, boosting the health—the need for and uptake of—these advanced solutions. Let´s say, for example, that the support straightens out things in business processes from IQC to project budgeting, but, it is more than that.

Even with the consistent interest that is given to AI, ERP systems should not be persuaded at the moment to be without them in the enterprise environment. Singapore’s emphasis on the digital transformation not only includes integrating widely-used enterprise resource planning systems which are powerful weapons in construction projects dealing with critical issues such as VO management, sub-project costing, sub-contractor management, and MRP systems, by being the source of the tool. Adapting to ERP technologies is in itself a contribution to the compliance management with ISO standards in a way that is not disruptive to the daily operational tasks and this is the ability of these technologies to perform optimally.

Furthermore, the construction industry, a sector that is granting huge dividends from the technology-driven disruption, is no exception.

MES solutions are a one-stop solution for dealing with complex issues of project budgeting and subcontractor management while making sure that construction projects are finished on the prescribed timeline and with optimized resources. The firms which will conquer obstacles through the implementation of these modern systems are the ones that will improve efficiency and gain a better position in their market on the whole.

About aiM18 ERP

A cloud-native ERP widely adopted by business in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. With over 6,000 customers in the region, aiM18 gains positive feedbacks from customer across different sectors, from manufacturers, distributors, retailers, service providers to NGOs. The renowned no-code approach saves customer a big sum of customization costs and countless hours of implementation man-days.

About LAIDFU (Let AI Do For You)

An AI builder for enterprise to build their own AI agents.
Proprietary EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Partitioning) technology eases CEO’s concern about trade secret leakage which often occurs in most AI agents / chatbots in the market. EKP removes the hurdle of AI adoption by most companies in using sensitive corporate data.
Powered by no-code approach, deployment of LAIDFU incurs far less developers (and development costs) in comparison with other AI studios.