2009
Consulting across APAC since
Digital landscape consultant · Kuala Lumpur
I AM
RANDY TOO.
I connect strategy, technology and people so digital actually works.
Scroll ↓ The lay of the land
Contours: Mount Kinabalu · 4,095 m · I have stood up there
6.0754° N, 116.5581° E · The lay of the land
People call it the digital landscape for a reason. It is terrain. It shifts under you, the weather turns without warning, and the map you bought last year is already out of date.
I have walked this terrain since 2009, across Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Websites and campaigns at first. Then teams. Now AI. My work is reading the ground honestly and picking the route that actually fits the people walking it.
I climbed Mount Kinabalu in March 2013. Nobody talks their way up a mountain. You study the trail, you start before sunrise, and then it is one deliberate step after another. I run digital work the same way.
50+
Organisations, healthcare to F&B, SME to MNC
30+
Websites built and maintained
30
People led across disciplines, at peak
Among them: Sunway Group · Sime Darby · CIMB Bank · KHIND · Jetour Malaysia · NS BlueScope · SEEK Asia
Building OpenMinds, since 2009.
In 2009 I co-founded OpenMinds with my partners. What began as a small digital shop in Petaling Jaya has grown into a group: OpenMinds Digital for consultancy, OpenCreative for content, OpenMinds Intelligence for practical AI, and OpenAcademy for training that skips the theory.
These days I am the COO who no longer needs to be in every room. I guide a handful of leaders closely, and I hold one line above everything else: the quality of the work comes first. It always has.
Consult first. Then build the solution around the actual problem.
I test AI before I recommend it.
My AI journey reads like everyone's browser history. ChatGPT first, then the paid tier, then Gemini and NotebookLM. These days I work almost entirely in Claude.
The difference is what happens next. Nothing gets recommended to a client until I have run it in my own work: social reporting dashboards, WordPress updates, WooCommerce and Shopify Plus stores, SEO and GEO audits that end in published articles. Tested first, on real projects, before it goes anywhere near yours.
One has to evolve, and make AI part of the natural growth.
“Not every win deserves a pat on the back. But when we win big, it is worth the mention. Every time.”
Mentoring was never a programme for me. It happened naturally, growing the digital team at OpenMinds. I am no-nonsense about work. Quick and accurate, that is the standard.
The way I lead has had to evolve. I started out old school and strict. Over the years I learned to lead with encouragement instead, without ever lowering the bar. The proof is where my people went: most who passed through OpenMinds have scaled their careers, in Malaysia and well beyond it.
Brand building and people building are the same discipline. You invest early and you hold the standard.
Field results
- 300,000+ subscribers, organically.Musang King Channel grew from four figures to six figures within a year, then tripled again by today. Advisor to the Group CEO since 2020; 200%+ year-on-year growth, 40%+ retention on long-form videos.
- High five-figure sales in 2.5 months.An eCommerce microsite, built and launched, from platform choice to performance.
- A multi-country platform, delivered.SEEK Virtual Career Fair: project managing a customised job-search rollout across markets.
Off the map
The person behind the job title.
I am based in Petaling Jaya, just outside Kuala Lumpur. I work in English and Bahasa Malaysia, and I can hold my own in Mandarin and Cantonese.
I am loud, occasionally too loud, and I hold nothing back. I will go down any rabbit hole that excites me, from politics to sport to whatever happened in technology this week. I love being challenged, and I love being proven wrong even more. It means I get to study, come back, and win the argument properly.
From the terrain
Field Notes
Raw notes from more than a decade in the digital landscape. What works, what does not, and what I am testing next. No fluff, no recycled advice.
09 JUL 2026
Building OpenMinds: a chocolate factory and two tables
How a job-search idea that never shipped became a 20-person group.
11 JUL 2026
The Musang King bet: real stories in a market of pranks
Four figures to six figures in a year, by doing the opposite of what worked.
13 JUL 2026
From ChatGPT to Claude Code: how my AI stack evolved
Nothing got deprecated. It just settled into an ecosystem that works.
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