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Touch the MarkThe Balanced Scorecard of Performance, Profit, Preference & People™brought to life by hospitality’s first agentic AI layer · breaking silos · driving synergy

PHAL

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The First Agentic AI Embedded Operator Advisory for Hospitality.

Built by an Operator, for Operators
A Blue Ocean Category
PHAL™ Trademark Filed · PHAL OS™ Patent Pending · IPOS Singapore
Mandate 01 · Live
A Top 10 global hotel group · Asia Pacific
Mandate 02 · LOI Signed
A globally recognised luxury hotel brand
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A Word From The Founder
“Strategy alone cannot fix complexity.
Only execution does.”
Saurabh Prakash · Chief Executive Officer · Founder · PHAL
In The News

The first mandates, on the front page.

Coverage of PHAL's launch, its inaugural mandate with a Top 10 global hotel group, and the Letter of Intent with a globally recognised luxury hotel brand.

Hospitality Net · 26 Jun 2026

Global Luxury Hotel Brand Signs Letter of Intent with PHAL.

A globally recognised luxury hotel brand signs, as the Top 10 group advances into PHAL OS™ proof of concept.

Read on Hospitality Net →
Travel And Tour World · Jun 2026

PHAL Secures Dual High-Value Hospitality AI Engagements.

Global travel trade coverage of the luxury brand LOI and the Top 10 group advancing agentic AI transformation.

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Yahoo Finance · 8 Jun 2026

Top 10 Global Hotel Group Engages PHAL.

Yahoo Finance picks up the announcement on its Technology vertical.

Read on Yahoo Finance →
Travel And Tour World · 9 Jun 2026

Top 10 Global Hotel Group engages PHAL on Finance transformation.

Global travel trade coverage of the inaugural Top 10 mandate.

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PR Newswire · 8 Jun 2026

Top 10 Global Hotel Group Engages PHAL.

Canonical wire distribution, the syndication source for the global pickup.

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Travel Daily Media · 10 Jun 2026

PHAL partners with top global hotel group for AI advisory.

Editorial coverage from Asia Pacific's leading travel trade publication.

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Hospitality Net · 21 May 2026

Hospitality's AI gap is an operating problem, not a software one.

The Hospitality Net feature on PHAL's launch and the embedded operator advisory model.

Read on Hospitality Net →
Pomegra AI · Jun 2026

Top 10 Hotel Group picks PHAL as Agentic AI Operator.

AI sector commentary on PHAL's thesis and the operator gap.

Read on Pomegra →
01 · What PHAL Does

Hotels have never lacked data.
What they lack is a way to decide.

Strategy is the easy part; execution is where institutions struggle, and that is the part PHAL was built for. A project produces a report, while an embedded retainer changes how the institution runs.

The Mandate

Bespoke and embedded.

PHAL builds the agentic AI that runs your institution, with the people architecture and commercial discipline to make it stick. Designed around your portfolio, your team, your numbers.

PHAL is neither a shelf-software vendor nor a report writer.

The Output

Strategy to outcome.

A 3-year roadmap and a governance rhythm that hold a clean line from boardroom decision to P&L result.

Every engagement is run by someone who has already sat in your chair.

02 · PHAL's Harvest Framework™

The cultivation that brings the fruit.

The framework carries 3 pillars in one integrated mandate, and every engagement touches all of them, because the gap between investment and outcome persists wherever the pillars are handled in isolation.

I

The Right Agentic AI Transformation

Infrastructure, governance, agentic deployment, and data architecture built to run without PHAL once the engagement ends.

The right technology arms your people.
II

The Right People Architecture

Organisational redesign, capability building, and workforce optimisation aligned with an AI-native operating environment.

The right people drive your operating system.
III

Uplift in Institutional Performance

Revenue architecture, distribution redesign, pricing discipline, and loyalty repositioned from cost centre to balance sheet asset.

The right operating system delivers the fruit.
Saurabh Prakash, CEO and Founder, PHAL
“When all 3 work as one, the outcome is not incremental. It is structural. RevPAR moves. Margin expands. Loyalty becomes a balance sheet asset. AI stops producing reports and starts making decisions.”
Saurabh Prakash · Chief Executive Officer · Founder · PHAL
03 · How PHAL Is Different

Side by side, the difference is structural to the core.

Most hospitality institutions default to the consultancy they already know. The difference rarely shows in the deck; it shows in how the engagement is designed and what the firm is actually accountable for.

Attribute
Traditional Advisory
PHAL
The engagement
A 12-week sprint, then the team rotates off
A retainer mandate, scoped to your horizon, board reviewed every quarter
The output
A 200-page deck and an executive summary
Working systems live inside year one, with first wins inside 90 days
The promise
Recommendations, delivered cleanly
A P&L number, agreed before work begins
Who shows up
The partner pitches, the associate runs
Saurabh leads every engagement, every meeting
The book
Stack as many clients as the pyramid holds
A deliberately small book of mandates, kept that way for depth.
The price
Hourly billing, the scope grows with the bill
A 5x productivity gain through PHAL OS™, agreed in writing on day one
When it ends
The deck goes on the shelf
Your institution runs without us
04 · PHAL OS™

The first agentic layer™ for hospitality.
See it think.

PHAL OS™ carries the institution from assistive AI to agentic AI, sitting above the technology stack you already own. 4 agents aligned to the Balanced Scorecard of Performance, Profit, Preference & People™ route cross-silo decisions into a single daily briefing. It is built bespoke for the organisation and then handed over as a platform: PHAL OS™ scales as subscription software across the group’s hotels, while PHAL continues to deliver bespoke transformation projects for the corporate office. The retainer funds the build, and the subscription carries it to scale. Every figure in the briefing is verified and traceable to its source before it reaches you. Below is a glimpse, running on a sample property.

Patent Pending · Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
PHAL OS™ · Daily Briefing Sample Property · Singapore
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RevPAR · +6.2% YoY
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GOP Margin · +180 bps
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Guest NPS · Top Quartile
S$0K
Revenue per FTE · +9%
PerformanceAgent · Live
ProfitAgent · Live
PreferenceAgent · Live
PeopleAgent · Live
Illustrative sample data · The live system runs on your numbers, inside your tenant Model agnostic · Sits above your existing stack
By month 7 the silos have broken, the synergy has formed, and the institution runs on an operating system rather than a strategy deck.
05 · The Mandate Ledger

A young firm. Already in the field.

A deliberately small book of mandates, recorded as they are engaged. PHAL is as selective about its mandates as its clients are about their advisers.

Client names confidential by request. Reference call available under NDA after first dialogue.

06 · Chief Executive Officer · Founder

Saurabh Prakash

Across 25 years, one through-line has held: accountability for the outcome itself, carried the way an operator carries a P&L. In former senior leadership roles across global and regional hospitality groups, Saurabh held full P&L responsibility across a global hotel portfolio spanning 4 continents, generating close to £1 billion in annual revenue, 3 consecutive years of revenue growth and record EBITDA and GOP.

~£1B
Annual Revenue Led
Record
EBITDA & GOP Delivered
Global
Portfolio, 4 Continents
25yr
Global Leadership
2026 – Present · Singapore
PHAL
CEO & Founder

The first agentic AI embedded operator advisory for hospitality. 12-month engagements that bring the Balanced Scorecard to life through PHAL OS. It consolidates everything that came before.

2019 – 2026 · Global
Millennium Hotels and Resorts
Global Chief Operating Officer (Interim) & Chief Commercial Officer

Global hotel portfolio, 4 continents. Close to £1 billion in annual revenue. Record EBITDA and GOP. 3 global partnerships in one year. Reported to the Executive Chairman and Executive Director.

2018 – 2019 · Asia Pacific
Radisson Hotel Group
VP Commercial, Asia Pacific

200+ hotels. USD 90M incremental revenue. FTE reduced 15% while revenue grew 12% simultaneously.

2017 – 2018 · Asia Pacific
FPG (formerly TSA Solutions)
GM & VP Asia Pacific

43% revenue growth in under 12 months. Restructured and positioned for strategic acquisition.

2002 – 2017 · Asia Pacific
Marriott International
Regional Director, Revenue Strategy APEC · Progressive Leadership APAC

USD 4B+ portfolio, 300 hotels, 18 markets. Sustained RevPAR growth across a major industry consolidation.

Saurabh Prakash, CEO and Founder of PHAL
Recognition · Deal-Making · Governance
Saurabh Prakash, Innovator of the Year, Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards 2025 Innovator of the Year · Singapore Business Review, 2025Read the story →
Blue Ocean Innovation

Innovator of the Year

Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards, 2025. Read →

World First · 2022

First Hotel in the Metaverse

M Social Decentraland with the Singapore Tourism Board. Read →

Deal Architecture · One Year

3 Landmark Partnerships

Negotiated and signed 3 global strategic partnerships in a single year: Taj Hotels & Resorts, Maritim Hotels, Lotte Hotels & Resorts. Combined reach of 20M+ loyalty members. Read →

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Governance & Certifications

Board Accredited

SID Accredited Director · Lean Six Sigma Black Belt · CHDM (HSMAI / NYU) · AI in Hospitality (UN WTO).

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Accredited Director · Singapore Institute of Directors

The SID Accredited Director credential recognises directors who have demonstrated fundamental knowledge and competency aligned with the SID Director Competency Model, the established benchmark for board-level governance fluency in Singapore.

Credential ID 181000323 · Issued 30 April 2026 · Valid until 31 December 2028
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Member · sha.org.sg

Member · Singapore Hotel Association

PHAL is a member of the Singapore Hotel Association, the national body of the hotel industry it serves. Membership keeps the practice inside the institutions of the industry it advises.

Corporate Member · Admitted 2026
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The Founding Principle

Built by an operator.
For operators.

“PHAL solves the problems hotel executives lose sleep over. Because its founder has lost sleep over every single one of them.”
01

Built with the operator rather than sold to them.

PHAL sells no shelf-ready software. When the mandate calls for code, PHAL co-builds it alongside your team, owned by your institution from the day it ships. What stays is the Harvest Framework, the ecosystem your people keep performing inside long after the engagement ends.

02

An operator’s judgment, delivered through AI.

25 years running P&Ls across a global hotel portfolio spanning 4 continents. An operator now building agentic AI for hospitality decisions. PHAL is measured the way operators are measured: on the result itself.

03

Permanent capability.

The mandate ends, but the capability must outlast it, so PHAL builds institutions that keep performing long after the engagement closes. The book is kept deliberately small, because scarcity protects the depth your mandate pays for.

07 · Vision & Mission

What PHAL stands for.

Vision

The agentic AI partner of choice for the world’s most ambitious hospitality institutions.

The firm leaders call when agentic AI, restructuring, commercial performance, and governance need to work together as one ecosystem, built by an operator who has done it.

Mission

To build what siloed strategy cannot deliver.

The agentic AI that runs the institution, the commercial architecture it sits inside, and the people who sustain it, all built to keep performing long after PHAL has left the room.

08 · Who PHAL Is For

Built for leaders carrying real institutional complexity.

01

Owners, Chairmen, Boards and CEOs.

The decision makers who carry ultimate accountability, leading portfolio wide change where capital deployed and outcome delivered have drifted too far apart, under pressure to modernise at speed without fragmenting the organisation in the process.

02

CFOs, COOs, CCOs, CHROs, CTOs.

The function heads who own the execution. CFOs lead the list because PHAL is built around the P&L. Aligning teams, systems, and economics that were never designed to work together. PHAL works across the function lines rather than inside any single one.

03

Hospitality Groups Already Invested.

Institutions that have already spent on tech, talent, or strategy, yet are still waiting for the full enterprise impact to land in the P&L.

“The fruit is always worth the patience it required.” · phal (फल) · fruit · outcome · consequence
09 · The Founders' Circle

The names we stand alongside.

PHAL selects its affiliations with the same care its clients apply in selecting PHAL, and each is held to a single shared standard, the institution's success.

Cornerstone International Group

Hospitality, Travel & Leisure Practice

A global retained executive search firm with 60+ offices and a dedicated Hospitality, Travel & Leisure practice led by Florian Kittler. Partner to luxury hotel groups, owners, and private equity on senior leadership placement, AI adoption strategy, and ICF-certified executive coaching.

Visit Cornerstone Hospitality →

PerfectCheck

AI-Powered Restaurant Revenue & Profitability Platform

An AI-powered restaurant revenue and profitability optimisation platform built specifically for hotels, restaurants, and hospitality groups. Demand forecasting, menu optimisation, server performance coaching, table optimisation, and advanced commercial analytics that turn operational data into measurable results.

Visit PerfectCheck →

Yerun

Fractional Leadership for Hospitality & Tech

A fractional leadership firm founded by Jeroen Vaassen, a 25-year hospitality and technology leader with senior roles across major global and regional hospitality groups in Asia, EMEA and the Americas. A network of senior operators who embed in the business and stay until the outcome lands. Based in Singapore and active worldwide.

Visit Yerun →

Bookallil Advisory

Executive Technology Advisory & AI-Enabled Transformation

Bookallil Advisory helps hospitality organisations improve business performance through executive technology advisory, AI-enabled transformation, operational optimisation, and market expansion. In addition to strategic consulting, the practice provides access to specialist solutions including Enerzyz Energy AI for energy management and plant optimisation, helping hotels reduce energy costs, improve sustainability outcomes, and unlock operational efficiencies.

10 · The Engagement Model

The best operators are on retainer.

Month 6 of a retainer delivers what month 1 never could: understanding deepens and interventions become precise. That compound attention, rather than any one-off project, is what transforms an institution.

What a PHAL retainer includes
  • Monthly strategic review: priorities, blockers, and decisions
  • On-call advisory access: critical decisions do not wait for scheduled meetings
  • Quarterly performance diagnostic: KPIs, market position, people, pipeline
  • Embedded execution sprints: direct involvement at point of implementation
  • Board-level reporting and governance support
  • Network access: partnerships, talent, and institutional relationships worldwide
Year One Commitment
5x productivity gain

through PHAL OS™, in measurable revenue, margin, and cost impact, agreed before work begins rather than claimed after it ends. KPIs are locked before execution opens, and the board presentation is delivered personally.

Saurabh Prakash
A Personal Note

When you are ready, so are we.

Saurabh
Saurabh Prakash · CEO & Founder · PHAL
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