Skybots

What Skybots does

Skybots Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based firm that delivers practical AI training and bespoke automation services exclusively to accounting, audit, tax, finance, and corporate secretarial professionals. Operating from a dedicated "Skybots Room" inside ISCA House at 60 Cecil Street, the company was founded by Daryl Aw, a Chartered Accountant (CA Singapore) with Big 4 audit experience at Ernst & Young and PwC, who is the only Chartered Accountant in the world named a UiPath MVP three times and serves as ISCA AI Fluency Advisor on the national AIxAccountancy programme. As of the published 2026 calendar, Skybots has trained more than 3,000 professionals across Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Bhutan.

The product surface is built on mainstream AI platforms — Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini — paired with RPA technologies (UiPath, Power Automate), and integrates with accounting systems including Xero and SAP. Core offerings include one-day public training courses (Practical AI, Practical Agentic Solutions, Practical RPA, Practical AI for All, and sector-specific variants for public sector and non-profits), customised in-house corporate training, end-to-end custom AI/automation builds (journal entry testing robots, audit sampling tools, data cleaning and consolidation dashboards, invoice extraction, report download automations, deadline and compliance bots, KYC/AML screening), and a suite of free browser-based tools for the accounting community (ISCA Skybots Quality Management Dashboard, Timesheet App, Exchange Rate App).

Skybots monetises exclusively through professional services rather than recurring software licensing: course fees for public runs collected via the ISCA Academy portal, scoped fees for in-house training, project fees for custom automation builds (with clients owning the solution and no recurring fees), and grant-funded consultancy under Singapore's SkillsFuture Workforce Development Grant (Job Redesign+), where Skybots is a pre-approved consultant and eligible SMEs can claim up to $150,000 per enterprise at 70% funding. The business is founder-owned, privately held with no disclosed funding or institutional investors, and serves a mix of enterprise clients (e.g., Shiseido APAC, CapitaLand), non-profits (e.g., National Kidney Foundation), and a long tail of individual learners attending public classes.

Name

Skybots

Legal name

Skybots Pte. Ltd.

Website

https://skybotssg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Skybots Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore-based firm that delivers hands-on AI training, custom automation build services, and SkillsFuture-funded workforce consultancy exclusively to accounting, audit, tax, finance and corporate secretarial professionals across ASEAN and Oceania.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Training & AI Automation Consulting

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Computer Training (611420), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDABAFAE

Data Science, Machine Learning & AI (Modeling, MLOps, GenAI)

Education/Corporate Training & Professional Development/Technical & IT Skills Training

SECONDARYBPAEANAH

Data, Analytics & AI Training (BI, Data Engineering, ML/GenAI)

Business & Public Services/IT & Digital Services (Managed Services, Systems Integration)/IT Training & Technical Enablement Services

SECONDARYBPAEAHAF

AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services

Business & Public Services/IT & Digital Services (Managed Services, Systems Integration)/Data, Analytics & AI Services

Keywords

• AI training services
• Accounting automation
• Corporate upskilling
• Generative AI consulting
• Workforce transformation

Headquarters

HQ city

Singapore

HQ country

Singapore

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Public Training Courses: One-day, fully hands-on training classes held at ISCA House, offered through ISCA Academy registration with CPE hours. Course fees and details are on each registration page. Courses include Practical AI (7 CPE hours), Practical Agentic Solutions (7 CPE hours), Practical RPA, and sector-specific programs.
2. In-House Corporate Training: Tailored training delivered at client organisations, customised to workflows, systems and industry. Covers finance teams, audit firms, accounting and CoSec practices, HR teams, charities and government agencies. Includes post-course clinic support.
3. AI Projects & Automation Development: End-to-end build of AI tools and automations for clients: journal entry testing robots, data cleaning dashboards, report download automations, RPA and workflow automations. Clients own the solution with no recurring fees.
4. WDG(JR+) Workforce Consultancy: Pre-approved consultancy under SkillsFuture Workforce Development Grant (Job Redesign+) for AI-enabled workforce transformation and job redesign. Includes AI readiness assessment, workforce strategy development, role redesign and implementation planning. Funded at up to 70% for SMEs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Skybots delivers AI training, upskilling, and automation services targeted at accounting, audit, tax, finance, and corporate secretarial professionals in Singapore. The company combines public and in-house training courses with bespoke AI and RPA implementation projects, enabling firms and individual practitioners to adopt generative AI and automation tools within their workflows. Its WDG(JR+) offering extends this into structured workforce consultancy and transformation advisory.

Product overview

Skybots is a specialized AI training and automation company focused exclusively on accounting and finance professionals. The portfolio consists of hands-on training programs (Practical AI, Practical Agentic Solutions, Practical RPA, and customized In-House Corporate Training) delivered at ISCA House with CPE recognition, paired with custom AI project build services that create end-to-end automation solutions (journal entry testing, data dashboards, invoice extraction, report download robots) for firms and finance teams. The company also offers free browser-based tools (Quality Management Dashboard, Timesheet App, Exchange Rate App) for the accounting community, and serves as a WDG(JR+) pre-approved consultant for government-funded workforce transformation projects. No recurring licensing fees on built solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public AI Training Courses
• In-House Corporate AI Training
• AI Projects & Automation Services
• WDG(JR+) Workforce Consultancy

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,000+ professionals trained across six countries
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOfficial training partner of ISCA. Training programs run at ISCA House, 60 Cecil Street. Includes ISCA Academy registration for public classes with CPE hours. Skybots founder Daryl Aw serves as ISCA AI Fluency Advisor in the national AI Fluency Programme (AIxAccountancy) by ISCA and IMDA.
• SkillsFuture Singapore / SWDAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSkybots is a pre-approved consultant on the official SkillsFuture Workforce Development Grant (Job Redesign+) panel. Guides Singapore companies through AI-enabled workforce transformation and job redesign with grant support up to $150,000 per enterprise at 70% funding for SMEs.
• UiPathminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUiPath is the RPA platform used by Skybots for automation solutions. Founder Daryl Aw is the only Chartered Accountant globally to be named UiPath MVP three times, demonstrating deep expertise in UiPath automation technology.
• Allinial GlobalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAllinial Global is an international accounting firm network. Daryl speaks on practical AI adoption for accounting firm networks across the region.
• Singapore PolytechnicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDaryl Aw has lectured at Singapore Polytechnic as part of his academic engagement in practical AI education.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• DataCamp: Online learning platform focused on data, AI, and Python skills for professionals, sold into enterprises and individuals. Directly comparable to Skybots in the hands-on, applied AI/ML training category — both monetise cohort-style courses with practical projects, though DataCamp is broader while Skybots is finance-vertical.
• Corporate Finance Institute (CFI): Online training provider for finance and accounting professionals, offering courses and certifications across financial modelling, FP&A, and increasingly AI for finance. Highly comparable business model — paid course catalogue targeting the same accounting/finance buyer that Skybots reaches via ISCA.
• 365 Data Science: Online data/AI training platform delivering structured curricula to professionals and enterprises, with explicit positioning on applied, project-based learning. Comparable business model to Skybots' Practical AI courses — paid cohort-style training where learners build working tools — though broader in scope and less finance-vertical.

Emerging players

• Botpress: AI agent / chatbot building platform increasingly used by finance and ops teams to automate workflows. Comparable as an emerging enablement layer for the same agentic AI use cases Skybots teaches (Practical Agentic Solutions course) and as a potential tool used inside Skybots-delivered automation projects.

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: Large online learning marketplace with extensive AI/ML catalogue (including finance-specific credentials from Google, DeepLearning.AI, etc.). Comparable as a competing channel for paid AI skills development budget at the same enterprise and individual buyer, but without Skybots' finance-vertical depth or hands-on live workshop model.
• UiPath: Global RPA platform whose technology Skybots trains on and integrates with. Comparability is direct on the automation stack (UiPath is what Skybots teaches) and on the finance vertical use cases; UiPath also runs its own free UiPath Academy, which is the upstream alternative to Skybots' RPA training.
• Genpact: Global professional services firm specialising in finance & accounting (F&A) transformation, process automation, and AI for back-office functions. Comparable on target buyer (CFO-led enterprise transformation) and on the automation-of-finance-workflows capability Skybots sells, but operating at vastly larger scale and as a managed services model.
• Automation Anywhere: Global RPA and AI automation platform and direct competitor to UiPath. Comparable because it competes for the same enterprise RPA/AI deployment budget that Skybots serves, and it operates its own Automation Anywhere University — a platform-led alternative to Skybots' Practical RPA training.
• Pluralsight: Enterprise-focused technology skills training platform with a deep AI/ML and cloud catalogue, commonly purchased by corporates for workforce upskilling. Comparable as an alternative channel enterprises can use instead of Skybots for AI upskilling, and as a competitor for the same corporate L&D budget pool that Skybots accesses via WDG(JR+).
• Avanade: Global IT services and Microsoft-focused consultancy that delivers AI and Copilot transformation engagements for enterprise finance teams. Comparable because it competes for the same enterprise AI-for-finance consulting budget as Skybots' AI Projects service, though at much larger scale and without the training-led funnel.

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@SkybotsSingapore
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/daryl-aw-b149a7175

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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