Innovation as a Service

NST-01 · Nakhon Si Thammarat

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City Pulse

Real-time civic intelligence for Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality — 3D city, satellite, flood watch, Khao Luang & Pak Phanang basin. 30+ live data feeds.

A live command surface monitoring truck traffic and regulatory compliance across Laem Chabang City. Designed to coordinate port traffic, minimize congestion, and ensure urban safety.

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Laem Chabang City — LCB Map (33 km · 4 communities · 17 routes)

Laem Chabang Operations

Traffic Regulation

Phuket's transit, public safety, and environmental signals, unified into one surface that an actual governor can read in 30 seconds. Built in weeks, not procurement cycles.

A massive-scale command surface for Ho Chi Minh City. Integrates live traffic, flood monitoring, air quality, and dynamic routing into a single high-performance map for urban decision-makers.

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HCMCx Super Dashboard

Metropolitan Operations

Lopburi Operations War Room — real-time FloodDash basin telemetry (ThaiWater/HII), Pa Sak Jolasid reservoir status, social listening, CCTV slot grid, and satellite layers for Lopburi province. One screen, four data streams, the dispatchable read.

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Lopburi Operations

Intelligent Operations

Command surface for Muang Thong Thani — IMPACT Arena, Challenger halls, flood watch, traffic, AQI, and event load on one 3D district map. Built for operators running Thailand's densest mixed-use complex.

A full-spectrum IOC for Greater Kuching, Sarawak. Foreign exchange, flights, satellite imagery, and environmental signals — unified for the operators who run Southeast Asia's fastest-growing smart city.

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Kuching IOC

Intelligent Operations

JPS river gauges on every basin, MET Malaysia warnings, buses and trains, ships and aircraft, air and fire, plus a citizen index that shows who lives far from help. One map, EN · BM · 中文.

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Malaysia · God Mode

Intelligent Operations

Chula Control Tower is a real-time operations dashboard for Chulalongkorn University — 47 live data feeds across traffic, incidents, air quality, satellite imagery, CU Shuttle, news, and emergency events for Bangkok's Siam–Samyan district.

Chonburi Control Tower is a 3D command surface for the Eastern Seaboard: 42 live sources, coastal weather and marine state, market and tourism signals, mayoral incident feeds, EEC trends, and building-scale overlays in one operational lens.

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Chonburi Control Tower

Coastal Intelligence

KMITL Control Tower is a real-time operations dashboard for King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang — 56 live data feeds across traffic, incidents, air quality, satellite imagery, campus shuttles, news, and emergency events for Bangkok's Lat Krabang district.

Yala Control Tower provides real-time civic intelligence for Yala City Municipality in Thailand's Deep South. A 3D city model, satellite layers, flood watch, Deep South security incidents, and over 30 live data feeds.

City Hub is a replicable city intelligence platform — give it a city name, and it maps it with satellite and base layers, absorbs whatever data you have, and starts synthesizing the picture. v.5, five cities live.

24/7 Thailand air quality and dust watch. Province ranking, 3-day CAMS-minus-rain forecast, top-5 at-risk and PM2.5 provinces, washout logic, national pattern donut — one surface. Every province reads the same air picture from the same public data.

A 3D browser atlas of Bangkok — 432,077 real OSM buildings, terrain, air quality, rain radar, Treasury land prices, BTS/MRT lines, and canals. Walk the city block by block.

Bangkok's heritage, block by block — nine quarters from the royal island to Bang Krachao, 571 registered monuments, seven documented walks. The culture half of the BKKx pair, beside the operational twin at atlas.nonarkara.org.

The SLIC Index doesn't tell cities what they're worth. It shows them five pillars and lets them test their own priorities. Mayors decide what livability means — and the math follows.

Intelligence

Signal & analysis · 8

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SLIC Index

City Benchmarking

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Global Political Dashboard — live aircraft and ships over the Gulf, multi-front status, GPD Oracle forecast, market radar

Global Monitor

Four theaters: Middle East, Indo-Pacific, Thailand, Global. Aircraft, ships, conflict, fires, markets, 8-week escalation forecast. Open data.

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Asia Political Dashboard

Five Asian theaters — Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Thailand, and the Gulf as Asia's energy lifeline — on one live map: conflict events, fires, air and sea traffic, regional news and TV, from open data.

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World Console

The whole planet on one screen: live aircraft and ships worldwide, conflict and fire hotspots, the intel column and market strip docked open. Same open-data engine, world scope.

MEM is the fastest open-source news surface for Middle Eastern conflict coverage. Live multi-source feeds, no editorial delay, no filter bubble. The signal before the cycle.

DayTraders is a personalized Thai market intelligence platform — Bloomberg-style signals applied to SET, MAI, mutual funds, RMF, and Thai ESG instruments. Graham, Buffett, and Munger frameworks built in.

Market intelligence built to be useful, not impressive. World, lens, map, FX, capitol, odds, and plan — every screen must change one decision you can make this week. Research preview, not advice. Every number carries its age.

Tri-border command dashboard for Thailand's Myanmar, Cambodia, and southern frontier theatres — live operations, historical playback, and executive-grade intelligence design on one map.

Smart City Thailand Index (SCITI)

Civic

National platforms & citizen infrastructure · 4

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National Programme

The official Smart City Thailand Index (SCITI) evaluating the progress and impact of 174 urban areas across the country based on the 7 Smart City pillars.

Real-time GPS tracking and passenger telemetry for Phuket's smart bus network. Designed for the rider's phone first — not a control room screen. Works on the road, in the heat, with one thumb.

SCTH V2 absorbs civic reports from Telegram and LINE, analyzes problems with AI, and overlays near-real-time satellite and map layers for city builders, developers, and managers.

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SCTH City Data Platform

Civic Intelligence

NSP is Thailand's national streaming platform — all 21 NBTC-licensed digital TV channels, free, full HD, on any device. Live EPG, viewership telemetry, AI guide, and CAP v1.2 emergency alerts.

Forest Carbon Thailand — tap a province or draw a box for satellite-based carbon stock, forest removals and emissions, fire and fossil CO₂, with sources and uncertainty. Plus a T-VER project assessment workbench. ไทย · EN.

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Forest Carbon Thailand

Environmental Watch

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Emerging

Research-grade & new operating models · 9

38Emerging

20 Minutes with Dr Non

Podcast

Emerging podcast — ideas, agents, geopolitics, and the next twenty minutes. Live on Spotify; more episodes shipping.

A personal multi-agent deliberation system: 11 AI justices with palindromic names running continuously on a local Mac, arguing through a shared transcript log, for around $3 a month. Proprietary by design.

View on GitHub ▸

10Coming soon

TKCX

Talent Intelligence

A game-based talent operating system that treats employees as party members, projects as quests, and team assembly as strategy — replacing org-chart politics with capability intelligence.

GitHub repo — coming soon ▸

11Preview

Second Brain OS

Knowledge Intelligence

Second Brain OS connects your Obsidian vault to every AI coding platform simultaneously via MCP. Brain-anatomy folder structure, 19 server configs, agents that write in your voice and remember every decision.

Horizon 45 is a field instrument designed to test actual AI judgment. From deepfake detection to prompt engineering, users navigate real-world signals and leave with a capability portrait and learning roadmap.

ASCN Performance Review (Director's Cut)

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ASCN Smart Cities Network - Director's Cut

Network Evaluation

A comprehensive insights dashboard into the ASEAN Smart Cities Network's performance across 134 projects and 38 cities — examining portfolio momentum and focus area shifts over four M&E cycles.

The updated Dao De Jing reading room: 81 chapters in English, Thai, and Chinese, with character study, illustrated notes, and Palette's colour relationships.

SME finance intelligence — balance sheet as signal, cash runway, bank scorecard, and composite finance indices. Development-stage research prototype; screenshots only — ABC Company Limited is fictitious mock data. No live deployment yet.

Read the original version

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Ikigai Finance Engine

Finance Intelligence

The FloodDash Blueprint is the open research companion to the live Thailand Flood Watch — sensor network, drainage logic, AI flood prediction, response playbooks, and the full data-to-decision pipeline laid out for any city to read, fork, and adapt. The blueprint that makes the system replicable, not a one-off.

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Lab

Side tools · in the open · 22

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Non-Gaming System — 16-bit practice floor

OmniArcade

Brain Practice

A 16-bit browser arcade with a Brain Briefing on every cartridge — what skill it trains, how long a round takes, and the limit of the claim. No ads. Scores stay on this device.

Ekkasarn AI is a Thai document intelligence engine for tax invoices, receipts, and withholding certificates. Upload a real document; the system runs OCR, classifies it, and extracts usable fields — no login.

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Ekkasarn AI

Document Intelligence

Paste a draft. The Non-Writer runs it through a chain of proxies and boxes, and comes out the other side as the sentence you meant to write — in the voice Dr Non would have used. Now also translates into any language you ask for.

The desk, by the numbers. A daily intelligence brief on the AI frontier — what's actually shipping, what is hot air, and what to read tonight. Sector watch, manual picks, and an archive that compounds.

Scraping as a service — no code. Hand it a URL and a question; it goes out, reads the page in the source language, and comes back with the answer in yours, with citations and structured JSON you can pipe downstream.

A free, evidence-first register of 261 luxury and collectible watch references. Cited comps, sourced provenance, credited on-screen stills — and the honesty ladder that shows where the data refuses to estimate.

Architectural Intelligence

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Luma/house

Design a house by deciding — draw or AI-trace the plan, watch sunlit floor and solar heat live, then run living checks, systems, and cost before you generate a picture.

Hand this URL to Claude and it sets up OpenClaw for you — safely. Agent-executable setup, deep security model, local-LLM picks that fit your RAM, and risk-tiered tool calls. Docs only, no private data.

Bangkok has roughly 400,000 shophouses and no inventory of them. A long-form essay on reuse and embodied carbon, with the 2,311-building survey, the Treasury land-value pressure map, and the four-colour answer. Published in Shophouse Metropolis, Harvard GSD.

Twenty years of fieldwork on globalization, heritage industry, and the economy of urban space. 15 chapters, 76,312 words, 134 images, 5 hours of audio, 475 citations — read, listened to, and looked at on the site. v3 reading edition, 2026.

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RAG.NONARKARA

Document Intelligence

Upload PDFs and links. The system cites the document every time — and when the documents are silent, the bot says "I don't know". 100 MB free per workspace, served through Telegram and LINE. Local embeddings, local model, on one Mac in Bangkok — your documents never leave.

Set the formation, pressing, and plan. Watch the match respond. A football coaching board, career, and tactical classroom on the same simulation.

A football tactics desk inside the NSP research prototype. Thai public-TV sources and official viewing destinations, with a rights notice before entry.

Open the research desk ▸

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Vision

Computer-Vision Classroom

How a picture becomes numbers, edges, motion, and a guess. Learn on public cameras, train a model, and test it in your browser without uploading your own images.

ERP, ACT, CRM, and HR in one Thai/English workspace. Cash runway, expenses, and loan installments on the finance screen. The thumbnail shows ABC Company example data.

348 colour combinations. Search a relationship, study it in grayscale, copy its values. Dr Non's colour exhibition, inspired by Sanzo Wada.

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Axiom Design Core

Open Source Kit

The operating standard behind Axiom — tokens, components, the 5-line DNA, and AGENTS.md for any AI agent. Function first, then subtract. Drop into Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Aider, or any other agent and the agent produces correct Axiom-style work on the first pass. MIT licensed — clone, fork, ship.

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Rams × NYCTA Design Core

Open Source Kit

Dr Non's reproduction-grade interface standard. Two layers: Rams silence (warm-grey field, hairline grid, one accent) for single views; the NYCTA wayfinding layer (closed trunk palette, disc, station plate, solid arrow) for multi-board systems. AGENTS.md for any AI agent. MIT licensed for original work; see NOTICE.md for what is not relicensed.

Open the repo ▸

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Luggage Tag Aesthetic

Open Source Kit

Functional-minimalist white baggage-tag principles for websites, systems, docs, and AI agents. Design tokens (ground, ink, four ranks, spacing, mono, optional domain colours), a printed-stock B, an ephemera skin, six components, before/after examples, an agent-invocable skill, and a runnable tag-audit PO gate. MIT licensed.

Ten enforceable layout laws, with the static lint and the runtime audit that fail the build. The package: a single source of numeric truth (scale.mjs), a ratchet (moma-lint.mjs), a self-check that proves the published arithmetic (self-check.mjs), and a browser console for catching what only exists after layout (near-miss, ragged-row, orphan-grid). Demonstration page obeys its own laws.

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O3 — Power of the Third. Thailand's OTOP registry read as data — 154,078 records across 77 provinces, every one carrying source, completeness, and age.

O3 — Power of the Third. Thailand's OTOP registry read as data: 154,078 records across 77 provinces, every one carrying its source, its completeness, and its age. No scraping, no AI hallucination: the registry is the registry, with provenance on every cell.

The Super League that never launched. Twenty-six clubs, real squads, straight-line passing — one decision at a time. Turn-based tactical soccer for one player or two sharing a pad. Press start, believe the next match matters, and read the pitch before you pass into it.

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Pro bono · Institutional work

5 projects · institutional partners

ASEAN Smart Cities Network launch at SCSE Taipei

For ASEAN Secretariat

38 cities. 10 nations. One platform.

ASEAN Smart Cities Network

Stack Next.js Cloudflare Pages D1 Tailwind

ASEAN · UNDP · UN-Habitat

112,000 users. Born from real flooding.

ASEAN CSCO Handbook

Stack Static HTML Cloudflare Pages D1 Hand-tuned typography

UN DESA digital transformation workshop in Honiara

UN DESA · Solomon Islands Gov.

Whole-of-government digital roadmap.

Honiara · Two-day workshop

Stack Static HTML Cloudflare Pages Workshop facilitation deck

For depa Thailand

Thailand's digital agency, online.

Smart City Leadership · Bilingual

Stack Static HTML Cloudflare Pages Bilingual i18n

depa · US DOT

Fieldwork to software. City systems toolkit.

US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership

Stack Static + SSR Cloudflare Pages Workers D1

These are live, working platforms — not decks or reports. Each one was built with real institutional partners, deployed publicly, and is still in use. Click through and see what the work actually looks like when it ships.

Four stages, one arc

2026 · Taipei · Singapore · Shanghai · Bangkok

Governments are tired of waiting for the deck.

Q1: Taipei. Q2: GITEX Singapore. Q2.5: Tomorrow.City Shanghai — God Mode on the cube screen, FloodDash cooked live. Q3: LEAP East. Same thesis: build now, not after the budget cycle.

Taipei · City Vision Stage · March 2026

[EVENT_ID: SCSE_2026_TPE]

Live dashboard, demo'd in 45 minutes.

Keynote at the Smart City Summit & Expo. Working surface in the room, not concept art. SLIC went live during the talk: 157 cities, five pillars, adjustable ranking logic.

"We didn't build an index for the shelf. We built a command system for the street. You build the ranking; we build the reality."— Dr. Non, Taipei keynote

174

Cities indexed

Nations represented

3,000+

Intel partners

45m

First live demo

[T+00:00:00]

Keynote delivered at SCSE 2026 Taipei. Focus: rapid urban response, public dashboards, and cross-border data governance.

[T+00:45:00]

Live dashboard demonstration completed inside 45 minutes. Working surface, not concept art.

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SLIC live: 157 cities, five pillars, adjustable ranking logic. Interest confirmed across mayoral and city-network audiences.

ENCRYPTED_TRANSMISSION // FIELD_01

“We didn't build an index for the shelf. We built a command system for the street. You build the ranking; we build the reality.”

Singapore · Marina Bay Sands · Main Stage · April 2026

Standing room only.

Main-stage keynote at GITEX AI Asia. Then a workshop on Government Innovation as a Service that hit capacity within minutes — standing room taken, hallway full, every face locked on the live demo.

"The room was standing-room only. That is not applause — that is a demand signal. Governments want working systems. They are tired of waiting for the deck."— Dr. Non, post-keynote

1,000+

Main stage audience

23K+

Total attendees

110+

Nations represented

Full

Workshop capacity

[T+00:00:00]

Axiom invited to GITEX Asia 2026, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

ENCRYPTED_TRANSMISSION // FIELD_02

“The argument is clear: better screens lead to better questions. Better questions lead to better governance.”

Workshop audience fully engaged with the live demo

Dr. Non on the main stage at Marina Bay Sands

Tomorrow.City Shanghai 2026 · Main Stage · 2026

[EVENT_ID: TCITY_2026_SHA]

Stop Calling It a Digital Twin. Call It God Mode.

A digital twin is the polite name. God Mode is the honest one — the holistic view of what a god would see of your city, so you can manage it better, not worship the dashboard. Dr Non's fourth time on this stage; the venue is the side story. The idea is the product: FloodDash on the cube screen, cooked live in the room.

"Filter every concept through the 4Ps — Purpose, Practicality, Proof, People. Then design for humans. A sensor that says water is moving at some speed does not tell a mayor much. Convert that into cubic meters. Compare it to how much freeboard the reservoir still has. Then you know whether the water fits — or whether it floods. That basic mathematics is the product."— Dr. Non, Tomorrow.City Shanghai keynote

4th

Time on this stage

Live

FloodDash on cube screen

Public data sources

Takeaways (4Ps framework)

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Tomorrow.City Shanghai 2026, main stage. Dr Non's fourth appearance on this stage — formerly Smart City Expo World Congress China Stage. Same room, sharper thesis: stop calling it a digital twin.

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Three takeaways delivered. (1) A soccer sim is God Mode in plain clothes — variables, attributes, situation, let them interact, see what works. (2) FloodDash is cooking data, not collecting gadgets — raw speed → cubic meters → freeboard → whether the water fits. (3) Filter every concept through the 4Ps: Purpose, Practicality, Proof, People. Then design for humans.

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FloodDash cooked live on the cube screen — Thailand flood watch running in the room, sensor stream turned into the cubic-meter math a mayor can act on. Panel followed with global city leaders.

ENCRYPTED_TRANSMISSION // FIELD_03.5

“Technology without trust is a demo. Trust without incentives is a speech. Use AI, build trust, design incentives. That's the closing line — and it's the only one that survives contact with a city.”

Tomorrow.City Shanghai — FloodDash live on the cube screen, Thailand basin telemetry visible

Dr. Non on the Tomorrow.City Shanghai main stage with the mic flag in frame

Tomorrow.City Shanghai panel — global city leaders after the keynote

LEAP East 2026 · Orbital Stage · Jul 10

[EVENT_ID: LEAP_EAST_2026_BKK]

Asia's largest stage. FloodDash launches here.

Panel on the Orbital Stage — "From Congestion to Connection: The Tech Powered Future of Transport in Asia." Dr. Non Arkara, Senior Expert Smart City Promotion at DEPA, joined Mitchell Price, Richard Chung, and Will Peters to close the Q1–Q2 arc with a live FloodDash launch.

"Three stages in six months. Taipei indexed the cities. GITEX filled the room. LEAP East shipped the flood watch — live, public, and running before we left the stage."— Dr. Non, LEAP East panel

Orbital

Main stage tier

Panel speakers

Live data sources

Live

FloodDash at launch

[T+00:00:00]

LEAP East 2026, Orbital Stage, Bangkok. Session: From Congestion to Connection — The Tech Powered Future of Transport in Asia.

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Panel: Mitchell Price, Richard Chung, Will Peters, Dr. Non Arkara (Senior Expert Smart City Promotion, DEPA).

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FloodDash launched live — Thailand flood watch, 24/7 geospatial data, nine public sources. Q1–Q2 trilogy complete: GITEX → LEAP East → FloodDash.

ENCRYPTED_TRANSMISSION // FIELD_03

“Everyone monitoring floods in Thailand should be on FloodDash today. Not next quarter. Today.”

LEAP East panel — Mitchell Price, Richard Chung, Will Peters, Dr. Non with DEPA backdrop

LEAP East panel group photo on the Orbital Stage

LEAP East Orbital Stage — full panel wide shot

Field notes · 6 patterns · how we ship

How it gets built

Field notes

Things learned by actually shipping.

Twenty systems. Two people. Twelve months. These are the patterns that held — and the ones that didn't. Published here because the gap between what governments need and what the market supplies only closes if people share what they've figured out.

The vendor said no. We shipped in fourteen days.

Every system on this page started because a procurement cycle, a vendor quote, or a committee said the problem was too complex or too expensive. The answer was never to argue — it was to build a rough working version and put it in the room. A live surface changes the conversation faster than any proposal.

AI-native is not AI-assisted.

Every line of code across these systems was written by Claude Code, directed by Dr Non. The AI is the engineer. The human is the architect. This isn't a shortcut — it's a different model of who does what. Knowing how to direct AI precisely is the skill that compounds. The code is not the hard part.

The problem is never the data. It's always the decision behind the data.

Clients ask for dashboards. What they need is clarity on one decision that must get faster or better. Find that decision first. Everything else — the feeds, the stack, the interface — flows from it. Skip this step and you build a beautiful dashboard nobody checks after the launch week.

An org chart tells you who reports to whom. It tells you nothing about who should build what with whom.

TKCX was built on this gap. Game archetypes, readiness scores, and a Moneyball salary cap exposed what the org chart hid: the right people for a given project, the chemistry between them, and the skill gaps that will surface midway through. Treat talent like a portfolio, not a headcount.

A single AI answers. A council deliberates.

For decisions that matter, a single model gives you one framing — the one baked into its training. The AI Council runs eleven justices with different priors, explicit moves, and a shared transcript everyone reads before speaking. The disagreement is the product. You leave with a more defensible position than you started with.

Instrument from day one. Not after.

Every Axiom system ships with a data trail: pageviews, usage signals, decision logs. Not because we need the analytics on day one — but because retrofitting measurement onto a live system is nearly impossible, and the next version is always built from what the first version taught you. Leave a record.

Built with

114 tools · 9 layers

cloud// local

GitHub Pages React Claude Code Opus 4.8 Deck.gl Python GISTDA Telegram M5 Max · 128GB

9 layers. 117 tools. One desk in Bangkok. Click below for the full list.

Full technology stack

Cloud Infrastructurewhere it runs14

DockerGitHub PagesVercelCloudflare PagesCloudflare WorkersWranglerCloudflare DNSCloudflare R2NetlifySupabaseRenderRailwayFly.ioHetzner VPS

Framework & Connectorswhat wires it10

ReactNode.jsNext.jsTailwind CSSViteExpressGitHub ActionsngrokFastifyCloudflare Tunnel

Platform & Build Toolswhere we build16

VS CodeGitHubCursorClaude CodeOpenAI CodexTerminalWarpObsidianClineWispr FlowKilocodeGoogle AntigravityGoogle StitchClaude DesignPlaywrightBlip

AI Models & Enginesthe intelligence18

OpenAI GPTGoogle GeminiGrokPerplexityDeepSeekOpus 4.8OllamaKimi 2.7Kimi 2.6GLM 5.2Qwen3-Coder 30BQwen2.5-Coder 32BQwen2.5-Coder 7BGemma 4 12BFable 5OpenRouterlitellmnomic-embed

Software & Librariesthe working parts19

RedisSQLiteD3OpenCVLeafletMapbox GLChart.jsPostGISYOLODeck.glMapLibrepgvectorgrammYvis-networkLINE SDKFirebaseReact RouterTelegram Bot APIXiaohei illustration

Languagesthe source9

JavaScriptPythonHTMLCSSTypeScriptSQLPHPBashGo

Live Data Sourcesthe inputs15

NASA FIRMSNASA GIBSWorld BankCopernicus SentinelFREDOpen-MeteoOpenSkyOpenAQGDELTEIAACLEDBank of ThailandGISTDAAISStreamCelesTrak

Channelsthe outputs7

WhatsAppTelegramSlackDiscordLINEFeishuWarp

Local Runtimethe desk6

M5 Max · 128GBM3 MacBook AirChrome Remote DesktopGitPostgreSQLDocker Desktop

cloud// local

Local-first. No build team. No vendor lock-in. The M5 Max runs inference, builds, and deploys from one desk in Bangkok.

Team · Dr Non & Dr Poon · two founders, collective on call

Who builds it

Bangkok

Two founders. No handlers.

You talk to the people who write the code and decide the architecture. When the work needs UAV operators or traffic engineers or policy translators, we pull them in for that mission only — never as a standing bench.

Dr. Non Arkaraprasertkul

Co-Founder · Systems & Story

Anthropologist, architect, builder. He watches how cities actually behave, then turns that mess into interfaces people use without a training manual.

Harvard PhD in Anthropology. MIT and Oxford alumnus. Former Visiting Lecturer at MIT, postdoctoral fellow at NYU. He designs from fieldwork first — because people aren't spreadsheets and cities aren't slides.

PhD · HarvardMPhil · OxfordMSc · MITVisiting Lecturer · MIT

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Current Role

Senior Expert in Smart City Promotion, Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa), Bangkok — May 2019–present. Advisor to Thailand Media Fund, SLIC, NXPO, and the National Strategic Taskforce on Northern Economic Corridor (NeEC).

Education

PhD in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2016
MA in Anthropology, Harvard University, 2015
MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, 2010
MSc in Architecture Studies + Urban Design Certificate, MIT, 2007
BArch, First Class Honors / Summa Cum Laude, KMITL, 2004

Selected Roles

Visiting Lecturer, MIT — Architecture and Urban Design
Global Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University Shanghai
Expert-In-Residence (Urban Anthropology), IDEO Shanghai
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Rectorial Visiting Professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Expert (Product and Service Design), True Digital Group, Bangkok
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

Scale of Work

120+ technology and public-private projects across 77 Thai provinces
5,000+ government officials trained in digital literacy and smart city
300+ keynote appearances at global and domestic forums
50+ publications in Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Design, and others

Selected Awards

Tomorrow City China Leaders' Award, 2025
ASOCIO Best Project (DX) Award, 2024
Smart City Expo World Congress — Global Leadership Award, 2024
Taiwan Presidential Hackathon — Excellent Team, International Track, 2023
Expo 2020 Dubai Future Water Hack — First Prize, 2022

ResearchGate ▸

Dr. Poon Thiengburanathum

Co-Founder · Infrastructure & Delivery

Engineer, strategist, operational anchor. He keeps ambition tied to working systems and makes sure the product survives contact with reality.

Associate Professor at Chiang Mai University. Co-author of Chiang Mai's Smart City Master Plan. Works on cities as complex adaptive systems — real-time bus prediction, transit decision support, sustainable infrastructure.

PhD · Civil EngineeringAssoc. Prof. · CMUSmart City Master Plan

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Current Roles

Deputy Director, Program Management Unit for Area-Based Development (PMU-A), Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Thailand; Director, Excellence Center for Urban Study and Public Policy (ECUP), Chiang Mai University.

Education

B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Chiang Mai University, 1995
M.S. in Construction Management, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997
Ph.D. in Construction Management, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003
M.S. in Transportation Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, 2003

Core Expertise

Civil engineering, construction management, sustainable infrastructure development, climate change, disaster management, logistics, urban planning, urban mobility, and transportation systems.

Selected Work

Head of Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Climate Change Research Unit, Chiang Mai University, 2010–present
Lead Coordinator, Research University Network (RUN) for Climate Change and Disaster Management, 2015–present
Bus rapid transit and mass transportation studies in Chiang Mai
Integrated land-use, logistics, and transport management with World Bank
Green logistics and renewable energy projects for agriculture and industry
Disaster management for critical infrastructure and supply chains

ResearchGate ▸

The collective, on call.

Researchers, traffic engineers, anthropologists, financiers, policy translators, media operators. They join by problem, not org chart. We pay for the brains we need, when we need them.

Traffic engineersUAV operatorsEconomistsFinanciersPolicy translatorsUrban researchersMedia operators

Press · 6 outlets · GovInsider, ASEAN, YouTube

In the press

Read. Watch. Decide.

Outside coverage of the work.

With the vendor saying no, Thai civil servant built his own tools

GovInsider · News

Can Innovation-as-a-Service close the gap between policy and implementation?

GovInsider · Feature

They built the index, but you build the ranking

Mayors of Europe

On digital connectivity, open innovation, and why smart cities only work when inclusion scales

The ASEAN Magazine

How AI is mining city data cheaply and making them smarter

YouTube · Video

Why smart cities need citizens, not just technology

TechNode Global