About SAMCOR
The infrastructure problem is the one nobody wants to solve. We built a company around it.
AI models are becoming abundant. What remains scarce is the infrastructure layer that lets organisations deploy those models privately, reliably, and with full accountability for where the compute runs, who operates it, and what happens when something goes wrong. SAMCOR exists to make that layer managed, verified, and accessible to every serious AI team in Asia-Pacific — not just the ones large enough to build it themselves.
Why we exist
The gap between AI capability and AI deployment is where we live.
Every week, a team somewhere in Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, or Jakarta builds something genuinely impressive with AI. A fine-tuned model for a specific domain. A retrieval system over sensitive internal data. An inference pipeline for a regulated workflow. The model works. The use case is real. The client is ready to move forward.
Then the deployment conversation starts. Where does this run? Who operates the hardware? How do we tell our client where their data lives? What happens if the GPU provider goes down? Can we get a predictable monthly cost? What documentation do we need for procurement?
Most teams cannot answer these questions without hiring people they never planned to hire, making commitments to infrastructure providers they cannot properly evaluate, or abandoning the project and falling back to a public API that does not support the workload.
The companies that get AI infrastructure right in Asia-Pacific over the next five years will quietly determine which AI products reach production and which ones stay in demos.
We built SAMCOR because we believe that should not be determined by which teams can afford the most DevOps engineers. It should be determined by who is building the most valuable things. Our job is to make the infrastructure barrier small enough that the second category wins.
The name
Secure AI Managed Compute Orchestration and Routing.
Every word in the name is a deliberate description of what we do. Not a brand exercise — a specification.
Founder and CEO
Built from the intersection of capital, infrastructure, and Asia.
Jay Sookhakitch is a Thai American entrepreneur and operator whose career has run deliberately across capital markets, real estate technology, telecommunications infrastructure, cross-border business development, and Southeast Asian market expansion. That is not a scattered resume. It is a specific preparation for the problem SAMCOR is built to solve.
He has worked on U.S. capital platforms, Indonesian telecommunications infrastructure, private market financing, and early-stage technology ventures across the region. Each of those experiences taught the same lesson from a different angle: the gap between a technology that scales and one that stalls is almost never the technology itself. It is the infrastructure layer underneath it — whether that is capital, network, or compute — and whether someone accountable is actually managing it.
"The next wave of AI in Asia will not be won by who has the most GPUs. It will be won by whoever can connect the customer, the supplier, the compliance requirement, and the deployment execution into one managed system — and stand behind it when something goes wrong."
Jay is currently completing his Master of Science in Business Analytics at Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business — a STEM-certified programme covering machine learning, AI frameworks, and data-driven strategy. SAMCOR is built from Bangkok, with a DevOps and delivery team operating across English and Thai, and an APAC-first operating model designed for the region's customers, suppliers, and partners.
What we believe
Six things we think are true about AI infrastructure that most people are not saying out loud.
01
The infrastructure problem is more important than the model problem.
Models are becoming a commodity. GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Mistral — the gap between them is closing. The infrastructure that hosts them privately, reliably, and with accountability is not becoming a commodity. That is where the real work is.
02
Access to private AI compute should not require a DevOps team.
The largest tech companies in the world have hundreds of infrastructure engineers. A ten-person AI agency in Singapore does not. The capability gap between those two teams should not be determined by headcount. It should be closed by the right managed partner.
03
Trust is earned by showing your work — not by claiming it.
SAMCOR publishes the 52 data points we check before approving a supplier. We publish our trust score methodology. We show you the supplier invoice on every billing statement. Transparency is not a marketing position. It is an operational commitment.
04
Asia-Pacific should not depend on Western hyperscalers for its AI future.
Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and India are building serious AI applications. The infrastructure those applications run on should be verified, governed, and operated by people who understand this region — not routed through data centres on the other side of the world.
05
An honest "no" is worth more than a dishonest "yes".
SAMCOR tells workloads above $50K monthly to talk to a hyperscaler. We tell teams still in proof-of-concept to come back when they have a real deployment problem. We are not trying to be everything to everyone. We are trying to be exactly right for a specific kind of team.
06
The teams that deploy private AI in the next three years will define the decade.
The competitive advantage of AI is not in which model you use — everyone has access to the same models. It is in the private data, the fine-tuned capability, and the operational reliability of your deployment. That is what SAMCOR is built to protect.
The opportunity
Why Asia-Pacific. Why now. Why from Bangkok.
Southeast Asia attracted over $55 billion in AI infrastructure commitments in 2025. Singapore's data centre capacity is at 1.4% vacancy — the lowest in Asia-Pacific. Indonesia has 18 million businesses now using AI. The APAC public cloud market is growing at nearly 20% annually and projected to reach $131 billion by 2029.
None of those numbers are the opportunity. The opportunity is the gap between what those numbers imply — millions of companies adopting AI — and what the managed infrastructure layer currently looks like: fragmented, unverified, unmonitored, and largely unmanaged below the hyperscaler level. Building that layer from Bangkok, with a team fluent in the region's languages and business culture, is not a constraint. It is the whole point.
$55B+
AI infrastructure committed to Southeast Asia in 2025
Introl / industry analysis 2025
180%
Projected capacity growth across SEA by 2030 vs 120% rest of APAC
Introl / industry analysis 2025
$131B
APAC public cloud market projected by 2029 at 19.8% CAGR
IDC Worldwide Public Cloud Services 2025
The companies building the managed infrastructure layer underneath Asia's AI boom will be as important as the companies building the AI itself. We intend to be one of them.
Where we are today
An honest account of where SAMCOR is right now.
The founder is leading supplier verification, early customer engagement, and pilot application review. Our verified supplier work is active across Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Jakarta.
SAMCOR publishes its operational model, verification standards, and pricing in full so that customer conversations are grounded in clear, written commitments — not verbal assurances.
Operating model designed.
Early supplier verification work begins across APAC under The Futura Group Co., Ltd. Verification framework and supplier criteria designed in preparation for the SAMCOR pilot phase.
Network page and verification standard published.
All 52 supplier data points and trust score methodology made public. Supplier applications open across Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Jakarta.
Pilot applications open.
Pilot applications open under SAMCOR, operated by The Futura Group Co., Ltd. Supplier verification active across Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Jakarta.
Initial deployments underway.
SAMCOR is operated by The Futura Group Co., Ltd. First verified supplier cohort confirmed. Written quotes issued to selected pilot applicants. Agency partner conversations underway.
Expanding coverage and client base.
Sydney and Mumbai region onboarding. Managed Pro plan and compliance-aware documentation programme. First case studies published with client permission.
Work with us
If you are building private AI in APAC, this is the right time to talk.
Apply for a managed inference pilot or reach out if you are a GPU infrastructure operator who wants to understand what working with SAMCOR looks like.