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Khoa Nguyễn Founder · Operator
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Nguyễn Chí Anh Khoa

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CEO & Founder with 12 years of experience. Built 3 companies, co-invested in 4 more. Minimum GMV $2M+ / year. Industries: Tech, E-commerce, Manufacturing. Passionate about technology and now focused on AI.
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§ 01 — Profile · Journey

Roles & achievements.

Building, operating and applying technology to transform and invest.

Experience 6 companies
Founder & Investor Current
Snappp.ai · AI-native
2026 — Present
  • An AI-native platform that helps Vietnamese businesses move to an AI-first model — redesigning data architecture, operating agents and user experience around AI from the ground up.
AI-native · Agent systems · Data architecture · SMB → Enterprise
Founder & CEO Current
Expand VN · F&B · Manufacturing
2022 — Present
  • Running a 23-location cloud kitchen chain and a food-processing plant producing 48,000 meals/day, 80% automated on a tech foundation.
Cloud kitchen · Food manufacturing · 80% automation · ESG
Founder Current
Kênh Bán Đàn · Omnichannel
2019 — Present
  • An omnichannel e-commerce operation with 26 stores, a Top Seller on Lazada · Shopee · Tiki, reaching ~$2M/year GMV thanks to a data-driven architecture.
Omnichannel · Data-driven · Inventory automation
Strategic Advisor Current
Khánh Phương Investment · Investment · Hospitality
2023 — Present
  • Appointed by the majority shareholder to lead the post-investment phase, developing Tràm Chim Resort & Restaurant toward sustainable operations.
Post-investment · Resort development · Sustainable development
CEO Current
Kleinstart JSC · Energy · SCADA
2020 — Present
  • An energy-management and predictive-analytics platform for industrial manufacturing that helps reduce carbon footprint and optimize operating costs.
Energy management · SCADA · Predictive analytics
CEO
Phú Quang Food · Traditional → Modern
2012 — 2018
  • Took over a 20-year family food-processing business and led a full digital transformation to standardize operations and increase transparency.
Food processing · Digital transformation · Family business
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§ 02 — Achievements

The competition I run.

Putting Vietnamese AI startups at the same table as investors — no middlemen, no waiting.

Fund the Future 2026 — Award Day 15 August, AI Builders × Investors Award Day · 15.08.2026
Founder & Organizer

Fund the Future 2026 — AI Builders × Investors

14 – 15 August 2026 SIHUB & THISO MALL SALA, Ho Chi Minh City

The competition I founded and ran under The Edge Alliance, co-organised with SIHUB — Startup and Innovation Hub of Ho Chi Minh City — and Snappp AI. Startups pitch their AI products straight to a panel of funds on Pitch Day, 14 August, then take the stage to be honoured on Award Day, 15 August — with 1-on-1 pitch deck advisory, fund introductions and Due Diligence support after the programme.

42Startups
27Judges
20+Funds
5Awards
See the full write-up Main website Startup list Judges & investors
§ 03 — Posts

Events & feature pieces.

A round-up of the events attended & talks given, along with the deep-dive feature pages written for each event — all around AI, data and operations.

Latest event
20 Jun 2026

AI Lake Camp Hanoi — Camping with AI alongside Founders & CEOs

Hanoi · 2 hands-on days, 4 modules
Feature pages from the event
↗ See the full AI Lake Camp event 01 Managing internal data 02 Using AI for accounting analysis — 52 bottlenecks 03 Using AI for financial analysis — 29 frameworks
View all events
Feature pages

Systems thinking.

A perspective from someone who builds and runs the business first-hand.

All writings
Product · Multi-Agent Ops

accd.dev — Run your company’s AI agents

Four layers: AI (spend & performance), Project, File and a Knowledge Base for process and compliance. Big jobs split across several agents, each with its own access.

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Product · Conversation Ops

messup.dev — The work is in the chat

20+ messaging channels into one inbox. AI turns conversations into tasks with named owners, with evidence and automatic alerts for forgotten work.

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Decision Model · 2026

JEV — the AI that writes nothing

An AI that writes nothing and only answers which one · true or false · how many points — in half a second. Strengths, weaknesses and uses, written for people who run companies.

Read article
Strategy · 2026

Competitive advantage in the AI era

What is losing value, what still holds, what is new because of AI — and six things a small company should do.

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Multi-Agent · Talk · 2026

Cut costs, boost productivity with Multi AI Agents

From theory to practice: 7 use cases of Multi-Agent systems successfully deployed at Expand VN — control, process automation, and loss prevention.

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AI Agent · Guide · 2026

Hermes Agent — Setup & How to use

A guide to installing and using Hermes Agent — an open-source AI agent that remembers, writes its own skills and runs 24/7: from VPS setup to 7 real-world use cases.

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Multi-Agent Architecture · 2026

Orchestrator Patterns

Seven Multi-Agent orchestration patterns — from Hierarchical to Orchestrator-Workers, with SME use cases and a framework for picking the right one.

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AI × Finance · Aryon Event

AI and the Finance & Accounting profession

Two phases shaping how finance works with AI — from a data-processing job to a strategic decision-making job.

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Data Analysis · Aryon Event

From numbers to problems

A map of diagnostic analysis frameworks: each one feeds on a type of data and surfaces a specific kind of problem.

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Accounting × AI · Aryon Event

Accounting SOP — 52 bottlenecks & AI solutions

A map of 52 bottlenecks in the monthly accounting process, with an AI solution for each one. Compiled from 30+ sources.

Read the article
§ 04 — Products

Products.

The products & platforms I build first-hand — focused on AI-native design and operations automation.

Snappp.ai

An AI-native platform that helps Vietnamese businesses move to an AI-first model — operating agents, standardized data architecture and AI-led products.

AI-native Agents SMB → Enterprise
In development Visit

messup.dev

An AI assistant that consolidates & analyzes all your conversations from Zalo, Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram — automatically distilling them into work plans, key notes, schedules and partner profiles.

AI Multi-channel chat Work assistant
In development Read intro Visit

accd.dev

A system for running a whole company’s AI agents across 4 layers: AI Management — token spend & how people perform with AI; Project Management — each member’s projects; File Management — everyone’s files; Knowledge Base — process, working methods and compliance. It splits big jobs across several agents, each with its own access.

4 control layers Multi-agent orchestration Permissions & compliance
In development Read intro Visit

More coming soon

Other products are being finalized and will be added here soon.

§ 05 — Connect

Let's build AI-native.

Happy to connect and talk through any of the channels below.

khoa@expand.vn Facebook Snappp.ai
Get in touch