Two books · one method · 1,000+ proven

Malaysia's AI Shift,
Written Into the Record

KadoshAI trained the first 1,000+ white-collar employees to stop using AI and start building with it. Two books, a podcast and a newspaper — every chart drawn from real assessment data. Read it. Hear it. Then take it with you.

0+Trained & documented
0Companies · 18 industries
4.6/5Average cohort rating
+56.7pp peak jump
12,000+ hands-on tasks
Malaysia's AI Shift
THE FIRST
1,000
Employees
We Trained
Rewiring work through
Graph Engineering
Cheryl Lourdes
Book Two
THE HUMAN
SIDE OF
THE SHIFT
🧍🙋🧑‍💻
Reading an employee's
DNA before you train it
Cheryl Lourdes
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The Library

Two books that prove the shift

One measures the skill. One reads the human. Review each overview below — then scroll to register and download.

Malaysia's AI Shift
THE FIRST
1,000
Employees We Trained
Rewiring Work
Through Graph Engineering
Cheryl Lourdes
Book One · 54 pages · Published 15 July 2026

Malaysia's AI Shift

"By the last page, 'I'm not a tech person' will sound like an excuse."

The flagship evidence book. More than 1,000 executives, managers, directors and CEOs — from 147 companies across 18 industries — walked in as AI users and walked out as AI builders. Every number comes from real assessment records: proficiency tests, pain-point inventories and post-evaluations, deduplicated so nobody is counted twice.

Graph Engineering method12 days · 20 careersAgents & apps they builtScaled across 5 countries
What the record holds — 6 chapters

Before every class, every cohort rated their own AI skill at just 2.8/5 — directors and CEOs included. If their answers sound like yours, the book was written for you.

The 12-day build sprint, seat by seat — each person left with a working use case and a deadline, including the payroll executive who scored 94.

Matched, measured before-and-after scores — the peak cohort moved 37% → 93% in a single day (+56.7pp).

Real work products, not demos — TalentVault, payment-status updaters, stock-take apps, contract-renewal trackers and ITSM-aware triage agents.

One method, many departments, five countries — the archive grew from 82 to 1,375 records, half-year by half-year.

Seven questions for your Monday meeting, the KadoshAI stack, and how to bring the shift to your own team.

10,000+Hours of hands-on training
236Executives & senior execs
+56.7ppPeak single-day jump
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Book Two · 28 pages · The companion

The Human Side of the Shift

"By the last page, 'quiet means disengaged' will sound like a mistake you used to make."

Book One measured the skill. This one reads the human. Drawn from KadoshAI's ELEVATE assessment records across six countries and two years, it names the behaviours that shift, the ones that stall, and why profiling the human is the reason the results repeat. "I'm not a tech person" is not a skill gap — it is a feeling, and belief governs whether an adult ever learns a new technology at all.

The DNA vs The WeatherFive people in every classEmotion → outcome evidence
What the room reveals — 4 chapters

Meet the cast — the Observer, the Deflector, the Silent Achiever, the Clarifier and the Amplifier — and watch what changes when they start to build.

The three AI personalities and two layers of profiling: the fixed capability a person brings in, and the live emotional weather that decides if it is ever expressed.

Before & after, in their own words — plus what the world says. Your people are further along than their leaders think (13% vs 4% guessed).

The one question that decides it, and why — before the skill — comes the human.

2.8/5How they rated their own AI skill
78%Rated themselves "Beginner"
5Behavioural archetypes mapped
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Malaysia's AI Shift · Book Two
THE HUMAN
SIDE OF
THE SHIFT
🧍 🙋 🧑‍💻
Reading an employee's
DNA before you train it
Cheryl Lourdes
The evidence, in motion

Watch beginners become builders

Every cohort walks in unsure and walks out capable. This is not a claim — it is matched, measured proof.

90%
Before · 52%Peak cohort: 37% → 93% · +56.7pp in a single dayAfter · 90%
+38Avg capability gain (pts)
4.6/5Average cohort rating
94%Would recommend
12–25Real tasks per person
🎧 1-Minute Book Podcast · listen now

How non-tech employees build AI apps

A 90-second listen on the idea behind the books — why the people who said "I am not a tech person" ended up shipping working apps in days, not years. Press play, no sign-up needed.

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Press · Four-Page Special

The newspaper release

A special report on the record — as it ran in print.

THE KADOSH AI SHIFT
MALAYSIA · 2026 · FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL
SPECIAL REPORT · PAGE 1
THE FIRST 1,000 ARE THE PROOF · THE NEXT 1,000 ARE THE OPPORTUNITY
What happens when employees stop using AI and start building with it?
Across more than 1,000 white-collar employees, KadoshAI found the same starting point: 78% Beginner, 77% still working manually, and 51% feeling workflow pain every week. Then we measured what changed.
1,000+Employees Traineddocumented with assessment records
12,000+Hands-on Tasks12–25 real tasks per person
Test-Score Growthone cohort: 29 to 94 in 12 days
16Apps Shipped20 trainees; four selected as products
RM110kSaved / Yearone rewired workflow, participant estimate
7,000+Training Hours7-hour intensives to 54-hour sprints
"Firstly I was a user. Now I am a developer."SENIOR EXECUTIVE, HR — WRITTEN AFTER THE 12-DAY BUILD SPRINT
Source: KadoshAI assessment archive, Jul 2024–Jul 2026, as documented in Malaysia's AI Shift. Companies anonymised by design.kadoshai.com · CHERYL LOURDES
The Journey Map

1,000+ trained. And we can prove it.

Growth of the assessment archive, half-year by half-year. The 1,000 mark was crossed in early 2026 — the archive now holds records beyond it.

the 1,000 line
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+82
Jul–Dec 2024 first workshops (pharma + HR)
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+135
Jan–Jun 2025 logistics group, online classes
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+555
Jul–Dec 2025 agency, IT co, the 12-day sprint
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+553
Jan–Jun 2026 seven corporate cohorts
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+50
Jul 2026 the regional class

One method. Different departments. Real output.

Hover a department to see the pain it started with — and what the team built.

HR & People
Pain: resume screening (23 hrs/hire), onboarding, training trackers.
Built: TalentVault + engagement apps
"I will never go back to manual."
Finance
Pain: month-end close, AP chasing, tax, interco matching.
Built: payment updates + tax reminders
"I can do automation without IT support."
Procurement
Pain: PO follow-up, ETD chasing, quote comparison.
Built: Stock Take + Contract Renewal
"Now we focus on value-added work."
Legal / CoSec
Pain: filing dates, agendas, routine emails.
Built: Deadline Tracker + reminder flows
Rated the journey 4.77 of 5.
IT / Service Desk
Pain: repetitive ticket logging and routing.
Built: ITSM-aware triage agent
One workflow estimated at RM110k/year.
Operations
Pain: handoffs, bottlenecks, non-value work.
Built: workflow maps + automation plans
"Simplify the non-value-added tasks."
From Book Two · Interactive

Which of the five people are you?

Every class has the same five. Pick the one that sounds most like you at the start of a new tool.

The Architects of the Shift

Written by the people who ran the room

Bridging logic and performance — the partnership behind KadoshAI.

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Cheryl Lourdes

Author · The Outcome Strategist · Co-founder

Twenty-four years in sales, marketing and L&D across manufacturing, engineering and services. A celebrated "Mover & Shaker" in Asian learning who runs her own L&D agency — Cheryl is the bridge between technical capability and commercial reality, making sure every skill solves a real business problem.

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Colin B. Raj

The Logic Architect · Co-founder

An accountant-turned-developer who taught himself to build data platforms to kill manual work. ACCA-certified and a Certified AI Practitioner, Colin does not teach abstract AI — he teaches non-technical professionals to think like builders, turning manual bottlenecks into high-velocity agentic workflows.

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