Standing Up a Sovereign AI Factory in Under 6 Months
Transforming Taiwan’s SME Economy with Strive and Chailease
Overview
Chailease is a $250B financial services and leasing conglomerate serving over 400,000 SMEs across Asia. As one of Taiwan’s most influential family-owned enterprises, Chailease faced an urgent need to modernize its legacy infrastructure and lead in the next era of AI-driven services.
The Opportunity
With deep reach into Southeast Asia’s industrial base, Chailease saw a growing demand for real-time AI tools across underwriting and lending workflows. But serving this market required more than software—it needed local compute, enterprise deployment support, and a new operating model.
Strive’s Role
Strive partnered with Chailease to stand up a sovereign-grade AI factory in under six months. By repurposing existing infrastructure, we rapidly deployed NVIDIA-powered compute systems, implemented our agentic AI stack, and mobilized field teams to support SME rollouts.
What We Delivered
Infrastructure Build
Designed and deployed GPU infrastructure tailored to local enterprise needs
AI Stack
Delivered tools for real-time underwriting, decision support, and automation
Deployment
Q4 pilots underway across 50–100 SMEs to validate data localization and agent performance
Commercial Model
Revenue-sharing framework that aligns long-term returns and transformation incentives
Why It Matters
This is the first proof point for how family-owned enterprises can transform existing infrastructure into operational AI factories. The initiative targets 90–100% GPU utilization by year two, with expansion into new APAC markets planned through co-investment and shared operating models.
