Market Pulse — 2026-07-03
Second scan. Same 7 companies as 2026-07-01. Notable pattern: the Action Needed set almost completely flipped from the baseline — the four companies flagged Action Needed on 2026-07-01 (ADV Digital Labs, SGAI Studio, eFusion Technology, Pertama Partners) mostly went quiet, while three companies that were FYI at baseline (Dr Nick Tung, Terris, Peakflo) escalated. Pertama Partners is the one repeat — still moving fast.
Action Needed (4)
- Dr Nick Tung — new article frames “a consultant filing your grant application for you” as a compliance red flag, plus a piece on PMC’s unique liability-insurance requirement. Direct trust/differentiation play in Meiree’s exact space — worth checking whether Meiree’s own grant-filing service model is exposed to this framing.
- Terris — full pricing now public: a S2,000, and a new blog post markets directly into Budget 2026 AI grant messaging (400% tax deduction, expanded PSG, National AI Impact Programme). Price and message overlap in one move.
- Pertama Partners — flipped from gated to fully public, itemized pricing (hourly rates through 7-figure transformation deals). Also revealed as one of five units under a new “Pertama Group” umbrella (Capital/Ventures/Summits/LearningLeaders), and is hiring into Platform/Academy/Research roles — signals a platform/product/training-academy build, not just advisory staffing.
- Peakflo — announced a “Singapore government partnership” (up to 50% grants for SMEs), ran an SME-targeted webinar titled around “PSG Support in 2026,” and now claims 100+ enterprise clients (up from the 6 logos known at baseline). Direct, escalating encroachment on Meiree’s grant-funded SME lane.
FYI (3)
- ADV Digital Labs — no material change. Confirmed no pricing/careers/leadership pages exist (404s, not just undisclosed). One thing worth a footnote: their “OpenClaw” platform name collides with an unrelated, much more famous open-source AI agent project — don’t conflate the two in any writeup.
- SGAI Studio — no material change. New SEO content arm (industry vertical guides) and a grant calculator/eligibility tool show a lead-gen investment, but no pricing, hiring, funding, or verifiable client wins yet — case studies posted read as template placeholders.
- eFusion Technology — no urgent change, but first real pricing data point surfaced ($150-199/hr via Clutch) and a new GEO/AI-search content angle. Also confirmed to operate under a “MEG” consortium umbrella not previously noted — context, not a threat.
Notion internal docs
Not checked this run — Notion MCP tools were unavailable (ToolSearch returned zero Notion tools, same intermittent failure as 2026-07-01, see error-log). No Market Scans row created; needs a manual backfill once Notion tools are confirmed working again.
New people found
- Saurabh Chauhan — Co-founder & CEO, Peakflo. Ex-Daraz.lk MD (acquired by Alibaba, $200M), ex-McKinsey.
- Dmitry Vedenyapin — Co-founder & CTO, Peakflo. Background in regulated/high-stakes AI systems and AirAsia platform scaling.
Sector trend
See trends for the update — the headline pattern this scan is that public pricing transparency is spreading (Pertama and Terris both flipped from gated/vague to fully published pricing in two days), and government-grant messaging is intensifying across the set, not just from the AI-implementation consultancies but now from a product company (Peakflo) too.