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What agencies say about working with Pelita.

These are accounts from officers and directors in Malaysian government agencies and GLCs who have gone through our engagement process. We present them as they were given to us — including the parts that are critical.

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Accounts from Our Clients

ZA

Zuraidah Aminudin

Operations Head, State Economic Planning Unit

"The reading review told us exactly what we needed to know. Azlan spent two days with our counter team before writing the brief, and the resulting document — which our director read the same week — identified one specific handling step where summarisation would help, and three where it would not. That level of specificity is not what we expected."

April 2025 · Kuala Lumpur

MF

Mohamad Fadzli Razak

Deputy Director, Statutory Body, Selangor

"We were initially hesitant — our correspondence involves citizen data that is sensitive, and previous vendor proposals hadn't addressed the PDPA obligations in any meaningful way. Pelita's approach was different; Nurul reviewed our data classification framework before any files were shared, and the usage policy they produced was something our legal team could actually work with. The pilot itself ran smoothly across six weeks."

March 2025 · Shah Alam

SR

Siti Rozana Hamid

Director of Corporate Affairs, GLC, Putrajaya

"The quarterly stewardship arrangement has been more useful than I anticipated. The audit briefs give our board a credible record that AI outputs are being reviewed, not just deployed and forgotten. The yearly summary also arrived in time for our annual review cycle, which was helpful."

April 2025 · Putrajaya

RK

Rajeswaran Krishnamurthy

IT Policy Officer, Federal Ministry

"Krishnan walked our IT team through the air-gapped integration in detail before we agreed to proceed. The technical documentation was written for our internal team, not for a vendor audience — that made the handover straightforward. I would have liked a slightly faster turnaround on one of the interim deliverables, but the final brief was thorough."

February 2025 · Cyberjaya

NJ

Nor Juliana Baharudin

Assistant Secretary, State Department

"We had the Reading Review done specifically because our director wanted an independent view before presenting anything to the board. The brief Pelita produced gave us a straightforward answer — that AI summarisation of incoming public complaints would be appropriate for the initial triage step, but not for the case-resolution correspondence. That distinction was exactly what we needed."

March 2025 · Johor Bahru

WY

Wong Yee Fong

Head of Administration, GLC, Penang

"Having a named adviser throughout the engagement rather than a different team member each time was genuinely useful. The adviser we worked with already knew the context when we raised questions mid-pilot, so we weren't re-explaining the situation from scratch. The quarterly review model suits our internal reporting structure well."

April 2025 · George Town

Engagement Summaries

CASE-001 / STATE STATUTORY BODY / READING REVIEW + PILOT

Nov 2024 – Jan 2025

Challenge

The agency received approximately 400 public correspondence items per week, many of which required an officer to read and classify before routing. Officers reported spending a significant portion of their day on triage reading that left less time for complex cases requiring human judgement.

Approach

Pelita conducted a Service Reading Review over two weeks, reading a sample of 60 items across four correspondence categories. The brief identified correspondence triage as a suitable application and recommended a read-only AI summarisation layer for the initial classification step. A six-week pilot followed with two officers trained on the draft-and-approve workflow.

Outcome

At the end of the pilot, the operations head reported that triage reading time for the two participating officers had decreased by roughly 35% per week. No correspondence was sent without officer approval throughout the period. The usage policy was approved by the agency's legal unit and submitted to the state ICT committee.

"The brief told us where to start — one step, not a whole system overhaul. That was what we needed to take to management."

— Operations Head

CASE-002 / GLC / QUARTERLY STEWARDSHIP (ONGOING)

From Oct 2024

Context

A government-linked company had completed a separate vendor deployment of an AI drafting tool before engaging Pelita. Their board wanted an independent advisory record showing that AI outputs were being reviewed, with documented compliance against PDPA and MAMPU guidance.

Approach

Pelita began a Quarterly Stewardship arrangement, conducting output sampling and boundary audits each quarter. Findings are presented in a written brief to the Corporate Affairs Director, noting any instances where outputs required officer correction and whether the correction pattern suggests a systematic issue.

Outcome

Three quarters completed. Two minor boundary issues were identified and resolved in Q1. The annual summary produced after Q4 was presented to the board and included in the company's corporate governance report. The board noted the arrangement as a positive governance practice in their annual report commentary.

"Having a quarterly written record from an external adviser gives our board something concrete to rely on when questions are raised about how the AI system is being managed."

— Director of Corporate Affairs

Professional Credentials

18+

Engagements with government and GLC bodies

4.7

Average client satisfaction (5-point scale)

100%

Officer authority preserved across all deployments

6

Active Quarterly Stewardship arrangements

MyDigital Advisory Network — Associate Member, 2024

MAMPU Public Sector AI Working Group — Contributing Adviser, 2024–2025

Malaysian Institute of Management — Affiliated Practice

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