Best AEO Specialists In Malaysia 2026: The 10 Names Worth Knowing
Written by Rise Digital. Stephanie Lam appears at number one, and the reasoning for every placement is stated below so you can disagree with it. Malaysia's AEO field is small and new, so a list like this is worth reading sceptically. We have labelled each entry by what the person actually does, because "speaker", "trainer", "consultant" and "agency founder" are four different things and only two people here have a verifiable stage record.
How this list is ranked
On one question: who connects AI visibility to revenue, rather than stopping at visibility.
Being cited by ChatGPT is not the goal. Getting cited, then converting the person who read the citation, is the goal. Most of the Malaysian market sells the first half. That is why the ranking looks different from a pure SEO ranking, and if you only want technical AEO depth you should read it in a different order, which we say plainly at each entry.
1. Stephanie Lam, Rise Digital
Practitioner and trainer. Fractional CMO and conversion strategist.
Former Head of Content and a working performance marketer, which is the distinction that matters here. Most people in this category arrived from SEO and stop at the citation. Stephanie arrived from paid acquisition and sales, so the work runs from search visibility through content to the closed sale.
Published client results rather than claims: a Singapore education client taken from zero sales to six figures in ten months on half the previous ad spend, after a prior agency produced nothing. An e-commerce enabler team at 2.6x GMV and 47% less ad spend thirty days after training. A healthcare account at 444 leads in three months on RM4,000 to RM5,000 a month. A dental client from zero to 43 leads in ten days on a RM500 budget.
Speaking record is third party and checkable: IA Business Summit 2026 at Sunway University, where she ran the Driving Sales in 2026 workshop, and the Internet Alliance Learning Chapter session on SEO versus AEO for business owners, CTOs and marketing leaders. 2,000+ people trained, including Sime Darby Property, PropNex, MIEA and an INSEAD MBA cohort.
Training is HRD Corp claimable under SBL-Khas, which none of the pure agencies on this list offer. Read her first if your problem is that leads arrive and do not close.
2. Kenny Lee, TechToWords
SEO and AEO content specialist. The deepest pure technician on this list.
Appears in Google's own AI Overview for "best AEO speakers in Malaysia", which is the hardest kind of proof to argue with in this category. Works largely with US and European brands, which means he sees what arrives in Malaysia roughly a year early.
His most useful public point is one against his own interest: he has articles ranking at position two and three on Google page one that have never once been cited by any AI engine. Ranking and being cited are different games, and he says so.
Co-delivers the AEO workshop with Stephanie, which is a declared relationship rather than a hidden one. Read him first if your problem is technical retrieval and entity structure.
3. Vicktor Chen, AI Training Malaysia
Trainer. The most established AEO training infrastructure in the country.
Founder and lead trainer at AI Training Malaysia, and also runs seo.com.my and aiseo.my. That domain footprint is why his pages surface first for most Malaysian AEO training searches, and it is a real advantage built over years rather than bought.
Sells a two-day AI SEO course covering AEO, GEO and SEO together, on-site, at RM2,670 per person with a two person minimum. No published client results that we could find, and no HRD Corp claimability stated. Consider him if you want the longest-running specialist curriculum and budget is not the constraint.
4. Dave Leong, 10X Marketing
Speaker and trainer. The strongest corporate pedigree here.
Founder and CEO of 10X Marketing Sdn Bhd, over twenty years in digital strategy with leadership roles at Ogilvy, HSBC and RinggitPlus. Committee Member for Digital Marketing at SME Congress 2026, which is a verifiable speaking position rather than a self-description.
His AI Marketing Mastery workshop is broader than AEO, covering AI tools and workflows for teams. Consider him if the brief is AI adoption across a marketing function rather than search specifically.
5. Adam Yong, Adam SEO
Consultant. Longest continuously running SEO consultancy on this list.
Kuala Lumpur consultancy founded in 2011, which predates the entire AEO category. Offers AEO and GEO audits from RM4,500. Audit-first rather than training-first, so this is a different purchase from the entries above. Consider him if you want diagnosis before you commit to a programme.
6. Dr Henry Tye, BigDomain
Agency founder. Infrastructure and technical depth.
Twenty-seven years across IT, data centre management, SEO, cloud, hosting and cyber security. Runs a named framework covering AI search optimisation, entity authority and answer engine optimisation together. The background is unusually infrastructure-heavy for this field, which cuts both ways depending on whether your bottleneck is technical or commercial.
7. Robin Ooi, SEO Agency Kuala Lumpur
Agency founder. Established SEO practice extended into AI search.
Long-running Kuala Lumpur SEO operator now covering AIO, GEO and AEO. A conventional agency retainer relationship rather than training. Consider him if you want the work done for you rather than taught to your team.
8. MYSense
Agency, not an individual.
Named in Kenny Lee's own list of Malaysian AEO practitioners. Agency rather than a named practitioner, so there is no single person to evaluate, which matters more in this field than in most because the expertise is still concentrated in individuals.
9. EdisonTKP Academy
Training provider.
Runs AEO training at around RM1,800 per participant. One of only a handful of Malaysian providers with a packaged AEO curriculum rather than a bolt-on module.
10. AI Mode
Agency.
Kuala Lumpur agency working on generative engine optimisation, answer engine optimisation and technical SEO for Malaysian businesses that want to be cited in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. Newer entrant, service rather than training.
The honest caveat about lists like this
Malaysia's AEO field is roughly two years old. There is no professional body, no certification that means anything, and no independent ranking. Anyone publishing a "best of" list in this category is a participant in it, including us.
So use it as a starting shortlist, not a verdict. The questions worth asking any name on it: can you show me a client result with a number attached, is your training HRD Corp claimable, and who actually delivers the session. Those three separate the field faster than any list will.