TeakCharge Commercial Strategy and Implementation
Commercial strategy that gets implemented, not filed away.
TeakCharge designs and implements commercial strategy for PE funds, portfolio companies, established tech businesses, and family business owners across Asia: commercial architecture, buy-side diligence, market entry, growth and investment advisory, and AI-native go-to-market.
TeakCharge is Alex Szabo's own practice, founded in 2025 and run directly by him. Every engagement is led personally: clients get the person who has done the operating work, not an account layer in front of them. He has been answerable for a number rather than for a recommendation since his mid-twenties, which is why every engagement here ends in something someone owns.
What TeakCharge does
Six areas of work, each grounded in operating experience rather than a generic framework:
- Commercial architecture and revenue strategy: segmentation, go-to-market motion, channel and pricing logic, and the operating system that makes revenue repeatable. The work is a three-layer read of market fit, motion design, and operating infrastructure, and it ends in a one-page architecture map an internal team can act on from day one. Alex built the method running his own P&L; the business-case framework behind it became the regional standard for executive submissions at Google.
- PE commercial due diligence and value creation: a pre-close read on whether the revenue is clean and repeatable, and a post-close plan of named, owned initiatives. Every value-creation lever is modelled under bear, base, and upside on one decision-ready page. It is the format Alex built leading buy-side diligence for a leading Asia-focused PE fund at a prior firm. The deal closed.
- Market entry and geographic expansion: market sequencing, partner and channel selection, the regulatory pathway, and a first-100-days launch plan. Alex has operated the Asia, Europe, and US corridor in both directions: a new US channel built from zero for Samsung, and European regulatory certification secured for its connected-car platform. The method is public: his APAC country-intelligence scorecard scores every Asia-Pacific market from public data, free to download and reuse.
- Growth and investment advisory: screening, diligence, and post-merger integration against a defined thesis. The instrument is a one-page routing scorecard that puts build, buy, and partner side by side, scores each on fit and cost-to-milestone, and names the option to stop. Most companies cannot kill a bad project; this is where they finally do.
- AI-native go-to-market and workflow redesign: an AI maturity diagnostic and roadmap, from process automation to agentic redesign that removes real cost. Alex built and runs his own multi-LLM diagnostic methodology across several AI platforms, so the practice operates on the same AI-native workflows it sells. The roadmap a client gets is the one he already runs.
- Next-generation family business advisory: commercial strategy and confidential sparring for next-generation owners modernising an inherited business, often while the founder generation is still in the room. Alex mentors next-generation owners across APAC family businesses and has held a board seat at one of them. The work installs as a 90-day plan the next generation can defend to the founder.
Why TeakCharge
Most advice diagnoses. This work comes from someone who has owned the number.
- Operated, not just advised. Alex has run the consumer platform and the B2B pipeline himself, held to a revenue target, rather than handing down a framework from outside.
- Specific markets, not generic playbooks. How to actually build revenue in Korea; what an AI go-to-market motion looks like for enterprise buyers in Singapore.
- Built for implementation from day one. Every recommendation lands as a named initiative with a clear owner inside the client organisation, because strategy nobody owns gets filed away.
- Both sides of the table. Founder-built and corporate-run, on the analytical foundation of McKinsey.
Cases
Documented case studies in three groups: client engagements, from CRM discovery and AI-native innovation to market entry and a commercial engine built from zero; the investment desk, running scored fund diligence and co-investment briefs; and the AI operating systems Alex builds and runs himself. Every case names its period and its seat, and every client appears as a descriptor, never a name.
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About
Twenty years of commercial leadership across Asia and Europe, from a garage-startup board seat to strategy seats at Google and Samsung.