Hi! I'm Phil, and I'm a designer based in 🇸🇬 Singapore, originally from the 🇺🇸 US.
I co-founded and run a design firm called Airfoil, where we help early stage founders hone their product ideas, create websites and materials that resonate with their customers, and study users in order to make their products better. Some companies we've worked with include Exa, VAPI, Reducto, Solana, Uniswap, Hedra, and SF Compute. We're now a team of ~40 mostly scattered across Asia and North America, with a little over ~400 projects under our belt across the last five years.
Before Airfoil, I worked as a founding/lead designer for several startups, including Neighborly (an ambitious project to use municipal bonds to fund community infrastructure in the US), TrustedFor (a better LinkedIn based on crowdsourced assessments of your skills and abilities), and my own company, SolverIQ, which used psychometric assessments to predict job-candidate fit. I then joined South Park Commons to explore what I wanted to build next, and ended up building Airfoil after hearing frustrations from founders there about the experience of working with different agencies.
As Airfoil scaled and our client base became more global as well, I left SF for Singapore (and began spending more time in 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, 🇻🇳 Saigon, and 🇨🇳 Shanghai). In Singapore, I helped form a community of startup founders called SG Builders.
Before Airfoil, I worked as a founding/lead designer for several startups, including Neighborly (an ambitious project to use municipal bonds to fund community infrastructure in the US), TrustedFor (a better LinkedIn based on crowdsourced assessments of your skills and abilities), and my own company, SolverIQ, which used psychometric assessments to predict job-candidate fit. I then joined South Park Commons to explore what I wanted to build next, and ended up building Airfoil after hearing frustrations from founders there about the experience of working with different agencies.
As Airfoil scaled and our client base became more global as well, I left SF for Singapore (and began spending more time in 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur, 🇻🇳 Saigon, and 🇨🇳 Shanghai). In Singapore, I helped form a community of startup founders called SG Builders.