One person. Hands-on. No overhead.#
I am Tao. I run Xcelerent as a solo practice based in Sydney, Australia, working with teams across Australia, Singapore, and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
Founder, Xcelerent | AI-Enabled Outcome Owner
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I spent years inside corporate finance and data roles — the unglamorous centre of how numbers actually get produced. That is where I learned that the biggest wins are rarely “more strategy” and almost always less repetitive computer work done by smart people who should be deciding, not retyping.
What I have shipped before#
Billing automation that survived audit. Commission and revenue models that outlived three reorganisations. Document and data pipelines that connected systems marketing promised were “integrated.” More recently: LLM-backed workflows where the point is not the model — it is the hours returned to the team.
Credentials and tools#
- AI / LLMs — workflow-first engineering: prompts, RAG where appropriate, local inference when the data cannot leave the building.
- MarkLogic — Certified Administrator and Certified Developer.
- Microsoft data platform — certified Azure Data Engineer and Fabric Analytics Engineer.
- KNIME — implementations, migrations from Alteryx and Excel, production scheduling.
- Python and data engineering — glue code, APIs, extraction, testing — whatever gets the job done without gold-plating.
How I work#
- Deploy, do not advise. I am there to put working systems in place — not to rent you my vocabulary.
- Transfer, do not lock in. You should own what we build. Documentation and handover are part of the scope, not an extra invoice.
- Measure, do not assume. If we cannot point to time saved or risk reduced, we have not finished.
Products#
DocMark.md — AI-powered document branding compliance — is a product I build under its own brand (deep navy / teal). It is separate from Xcelerent’s consulting voice, but it comes from the same obsession with documents done properly.
More products are in the works; this site stays focused on hands-on workflow engineering.