Singapore SMEs · Applied AI · Technicity Pte. Ltd.

Your trading business isn’t dead. Your model is.

Singapore’s wholesale margins are thinning — domestic sales fell 10.9% year-on-year in Q2 2025 as buyers and makers go direct. But the relationships, the supplier network, and the know-how you built over decades are still worth everything. We help established trading houses turn them into an AI-enabled business the next decade pays for — and structure it so government grants cover up to half.

The squeeze

The middleman role is being designed out.

For decades the edge was connecting buyer and seller. Direct B2B platforms, manufacturers selling straight to end-buyers, and tighter margins are eroding that — and most owners have no successor to hand the problem to.

−10.9%
SG domestic wholesale sales, YoY Q2 2025 (SingStat)
~62
Average age of Asian family-business owners — and rising (Lombard Odier)
52%
Of firms report no successor in aging Asian economies — Asia’s family-business pattern (Japan, 2024)
The pivots

Five ways we turn a stuck trading house into an AI business.

You keep what’s valuable — the network and the judgement. AI removes the busywork and opens new revenue.

Defend the margin

Automate the paperwork

AI reads bills of lading & invoices, classifies HS codes, flags duty and permit exposure before a shipment moves — so margin stops leaking to manual error.

Move up the chain

Sell sourcing, not arbitrage

An AI quote desk qualifies enquiries, checks feasibility against your real capabilities, and drafts a first-pass quote — you bill expertise, not a thinning spread.

New revenue

Enter new markets

An AI screening engine reads every supplier/partner application 24/7, scores fit, flags regulatory & halal risk, and drafts the bilingual brief — built for the Japan ↔ ASEAN corridor.

Productise

Turn your catalogue into a 24/7 advisor

A multilingual AI product advisor (English, Malay, 中文) that explains your range correctly to every customer and distributor — on your site and inside WhatsApp.

Succession & exit

Make the business transferable

When the knowledge lives only in the founder’s head, the business can’t be sold or handed over. We systematise operations with AI so the company becomes a transferable, sellable asset — not a liability tied to one person.

The part owners don’t expect

The pivot is half-funded.

up to 50%
Enterprise Development Grant — eligible costs, incl. consultancy

Singapore’s EDG supports business transformation, innovation and new-market entry for local SMEs — and third-party/consultancy costs are claimable. PSG funds another ~50% on pre-approved digital tools. We scope the project so it qualifies; your accountant handles the claim. The result: a serious pivot at roughly half the out-of-pocket cost.

Already built

Not slides — working systems.

Every pivot above is grounded in something we’ve already built for businesses like yours. Try the live demos.

How it works

From stuck to shipping, in four steps.

01

Diagnostic

A focused session mapping where you’re stuck and which pivot fits. No cost, no obligation.

02

Strategy & grant

We design the pivot and scope it for EDG/PSG so the funding works.

03

Build

We build it on proven systems — fast, because the foundations already exist.

04

Launch & claim

Go live; your accountant files the grant claim. You run a business that pays.

Singapore · Technicity Pte. Ltd.

Stuck isn’t a strategy. Let’s map your pivot.

A 45-minute Pivot Diagnostic — what’s eroding, what to pivot to, and how the grant pays for it.

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No cost, no obligation — we reply within a working day.