# Ts. Dominic Mathew

> Ts. Dominic Mathew is a Sarawakian AI founder based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is CTO & Co-Founder of Stratetics Experts, builds Athena OS and applied AI products, and at 24 holds the Professional Technologist (Ts.) title from the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) in Information & Communication Technology.

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## Key facts

- Name: Ts. Dominic Mathew (Dominic Mathew David)
- Role: CTO & Co-Founder, Stratetics Experts
- Credential: Professional Technologist (Ts.), Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT), ICT. Approved 1 October 2026, valid through 30 September 2027.
- Based in: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Sarawak roots)
- Works on: AI-assisted data labeling, computer vision, IoT, agritech, solar and EV infrastructure
- Built for: Prospective clients, strategic partners, investors, mentors and collaborators who want to see the work across the Stratetics Experts portfolio and talk to the person building it.
- What it does: Stratetics Experts helps organisations build AI, data labeling, IoT and data-driven products across industrial sectors. Athena helps teams label audio and images, with people checking the results.

## Start here

- [About](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/about): Who he is, ventures, FAQ and contact details
- [Home](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/): Portfolio, links and conversation form
- [Blog](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog): Technical field notes, achievements and pivot logs
- [Blog RSS feed](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/feed.xml): The latest posts as RSS 2.0
- [Selected builds](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/builds): Projects with evidence links and honest status
- [Roadmap](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/roadmap): What is being worked on now, next and later
- [Operating manual](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/manual): How he works and collaborates
- [Pricing](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/pricing): No public price list; how to start a conversation
- [Athena demo room](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/athena/demo): No-login guided tour with illustrative samples
- [Full text](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/llms-full.txt): Key pages and every blog post as one Markdown document
- [Agent skill](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/skill.md): What an agent can do on this site

## Selected builds

- [Athena OS](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/builds/athena-os): Tech startup for no-code AI labeling and the Athena Family model stack — Athena Vision ships today; AEGIS-Q compresses under a quality gate.
- [Inspec-Ther](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/builds/inspec-ther): AI-assisted thermal inspection of solar PV assets—pairing field imagery with annotation and review workflows.
- [Farm Optix field nodes](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/builds/farm-optix-field-nodes): Smart-agriculture sensing for smallholder conditions—documented through honest pivot logs when hardware choices failed in the field.
- [TUAI Ventures](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/builds/tuai-ventures): Data-driven social enterprise aimed at helping smallholder farmers make more informed decisions, incubated under seed.lab.

## Blog posts

- [Inspec-Ther at Plug and Play China’s International Startup Pitch](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/inspec-ther-plug-and-play-china): Inspec-Ther was fortunate to be part of Plug and Play China’s Acceleration Pitch for International Tech Startups and Startup Portfolio Overview.
- [Meet Oyen: Your Companion Around the Site](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/meet-oyen-your-website-companion): Meet Oyen, the ginger-and-white cat who helps you explore the site. Discover page suggestions, playful blog finds, treats, costumes and a little orange-cat chaos.
- [Why a Labeling Platform Needs a Human Review Gate](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/why-labeling-needs-human-review-gate): Auto-labels are predictions, not facts. A labeling platform should treat them as ground truth only after a person accepts them, because every unreviewed error becomes training data.
- [I'm Ts. Dominic Mathew — Malaysia's Youngest Professional Technologist at 24](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/youngest-professional-technologist-malaysia): At 24, Sarawak-born AI founder Ts. Dominic Mathew is recognised by MBOT as a Professional Technologist in ICT — one of the youngest titles in Malaysia's tech ecosystem.
- [Athena OS: Open-Source AI Data Labeling for Audio and Images](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/athena-ai-assisted-data-labeling): Athena OS is an open-source data labeling platform for dialect audio transcription and image annotation, with AI assistance and human review.
- [Athena: AI-Assisted Data Labeling Without Code](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/athena-label-one-review-rest): Athena turns one human annotation into reviewable AI label drafts across an image set, while keeping people in control of boxes, masks and points.
- [South Korea - Global Impactprenuer from Malaysia to the Global](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/south-korea-global-impactprenuer-from-malaysia-to-the-global): Stratetics had the oppurnity to introduce Inspec-Ther in a global stage.
- [Stratetics Experts Selected for SCALE Sarawak Cohort 3](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/stratetics-experts-scale-sarawak-cohort-3): The Star reported that Stratetics Experts was one of seven local firms selected for SCALE Sarawak Cohort 3, a six-month entrepreneur programme by TEGAS and Endeavor Malaysia.
- [Swapping to the BME280: A Field-Conditions Sensor Pivot](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/bme280-sensor-pivot): Our original environmental sensor choice didn't hold up against humidity and dust in the field — here's why we moved to the BME280 on an Arduino Uno Q.
- [Recalibrating TUAI Ventures' Crop Vision: From Onions to Pineapples](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/blog/onion-to-pineapple-vision-recalibration): Our onion-trained crop-vision classifier didn't generalize to pineapples the way we assumed — here's what we had to rebuild.

## Briefings

- [Investor & mentor briefing](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/briefing/investor): Investors, mentors, and venture supporters
- [Athena briefing](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/briefing/athena): Product, research, and labeling collaborators
- [Agritech briefing](https://dominic.strateticsxp.com/briefing/agritech): Agriculture, IoT, and social-enterprise partners

## Ventures and organisations

- [Stratetics Experts](https://strateticsxp.com): Strategy and technology consultancy building AI, data labeling, IoT and data-driven products across industrial sectors.
- [Athena](https://athena.inspec-ther.com): Tech startup for no-code AI labeling and the Athena Family model stack. Athena Vision (Segment and Detect) ships today.
- [Node Comp](https://strateticsxp.com): Engineering solutions for oil & gas operations.
- [Inspec-Ther](https://inspec-ther.com): AI-driven thermal inspection of solar PV assets.
- [Kucharge](https://strateticsxp.com): EV charging infrastructure and operations.
- [Farm Optix](https://strateticsxp.com): Smart agriculture and data-driven farming.
- [Digital Marketing](https://strateticsxp.com): Social media, websites and app development.
- [TUAI Ventures](https://bytuai.com): Data-driven social enterprise empowering smallholder farmers.
- [AERTA](https://www.aethereal.my): Aethereal software house: AI, cybersecurity and web development. Home of the AERTA+ security command centre.
- [Teduh Jiwa Group](https://www.teduhjiwa.com): Counselling social enterprise making therapy affordable for B40 communities across Sarawak.

## Frequently asked

**Who is Ts. Dominic Mathew?**
Ts. Dominic Mathew is a Sarawakian AI founder and CTO & Co-Founder of Stratetics Experts, based in Kuala Lumpur. He builds Athena OS and applied AI products across Malaysia, and at 24 is among the country's youngest MBOT Professional Technologists.

**What is Athena OS?**
Athena OS is an open-source-oriented data labeling platform for dialect audio and images. You label one example, Athena drafts labels for the rest, and humans review the drafts before anything becomes training data. It is part of Athena, a no-code AI startup whose Athena Vision models (Segment and Detect) ship today. Athena OS is a working prototype under active development.

**What is a Professional Technologist (Ts.) in Malaysia?**
A Professional Technologist is a title recognised by the Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT) for practitioners in approved technology fields. The short form is “Ts.”. Dominic's own registration in Information & Communication Technology (IT) was approved on 1 October 2026 and is valid through 30 September 2027.

**What is Stratetics Experts?**
Stratetics Experts is a strategy and technology consultancy building AI, data labeling, IoT and data-driven products across industrial sectors. Its portfolio includes Node Comp (oil & gas), Inspec-Ther (solar PV inspection), Kucharge (EV charging), Farm Optix (smart agriculture) and Digital Marketing.

**How can I contact Ts. Dominic Mathew?**
Book a 15-minute call using the booking link on this page, use the conversation form, or email dominic@strateticsxp.com.

## Contact

- Email: dominic@strateticsxp.com
- Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/ZNSwYteApc9wyDAUA
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominic-mathew-david-668397259
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dominic.mathew
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dominic.mathew.da