About

Built by an operator, for operators.

Publication Studios is what happens when you automate your own business first, see what it recovers, and then package it for everyone else.


The Founder

Jason Lee

Jason operates multiple businesses in Singapore across different industries. Publication Studios is his AI automation venture — built from the practical experience of automating his own operational workflows at Tuakang Specialty, a Singapore SME running e-commerce and logistics.

The core question he kept asking was: why is my team spending so much time on work the machine could do? Not because they were inefficient — because the tools that could handle it were either too expensive, too locked-in, or required a developer to maintain.

So he built the workflows himself. Receipt-to-ledger pipelines. Approval routing. Vendor categorisation. Reporting. All on open-source infrastructure, running on his own servers, with Google Workspace as the backbone. When the operational recovery was measurable — 11 to 19 hours a week back — he packaged them for any SME to use.

That's Publication Studios. Not a product someone built for a hypothetical customer. What an operator built for their own business, made available to yours.

TUAKANG SPECIALTY

The live operational environment where every Publication Studios workflow was built, tested, and validated before becoming a template. Every number in our documentation comes from a real deployment.

11–19
Hours recovered per week — Module 1
SGD 0
Vendor fee for the automation infrastructure
100%
Data stays on your own servers
7
Modules in the product roadmap
Philosophy

Five principles that shape every build decision.

These aren't values written for a website. They're the constraints we actually build inside.

01
Operators, not consultants.

We speak like people who run businesses, not people who advise them. Every claim is backed by a workflow we run ourselves.

02
Self-hosted by default.

Your data never passes through our servers. The workflows run on your infrastructure. You are never dependent on our uptime, pricing, or decisions.

03
Open-source foundation.

n8n is MIT-licensed. You can audit the code, modify it, run it anywhere, and never pay a per-task fee. The opposite of vendor lock-in.

04
Self-sufficiency by design.

The goal of every Enterprise engagement is full client self-sufficiency by the end of Month 1. We want to hand over, not retain dependency.

05
No buzzwords without substance.

"AI-powered" always refers to a specific, documented capability. We show evidence, not promises. Every described outcome comes from a tested workflow.

The Stack

Every module runs on the same infrastructure.

Four tools. All either open-source or tools your team already uses. No proprietary software required.

n8n
Workflow orchestration

Open-source, self-hosted. All triggered automations, API calls, conditional routing, and database read/write operations. MIT-licensed — no per-task fees.

Claude API
AI intelligence layer

Data extraction, classification, content generation, and decision support. Sonnet 4.6 by default. You hold your own API key — cost stays under your control.

Google Workspace
Data backbone

Sheets for structured data storage. Drive for file archiving. Gmail for communication and email triggers. Tools most teams already pay for.

Cowork
Document generation

Every proposal, report, contract, and invoice — generated automatically from templates and filed to Google Drive. Claude Sonnet 4.6 powered.

What We Don't Do

We think it's worth being specific.

Most vendors tell you what they do. Here's what we don't — because it matters for how you evaluate us.

  • Sell proprietary software that requires an ongoing licence to operate after deployment
  • Store client data on our own servers at any point in the workflow process
  • Create vendor dependency — clients operate independently from Day 1 if they choose
  • Make exaggerated claims — every described capability is backed by a tested, deployed workflow
  • Use "AI-powered" as a marketing phrase — it always refers to a specific, documented function
  • Take on Enterprise clients we can't fully serve — we limit intake to maintain quality
Get Started

Download the template we use ourselves.

Free, complete, runs on your own infrastructure. The same workflow that handles Tuakang Specialty's finance operations every day.