Two founders. Two worlds. One practice.
Respite was built by operators who run real businesses, manage real teams, and use AI in daily operations across continents, languages, and cultures — not by people who read about it and started consulting.
Megan Cox
Built and scaled a specialty manufacturing company from startup to multi-million-dollar revenue. Manages 15+ employees across four departments — sales, operations, lab, and production. Trained in entrepreneurship at MIT under Bill Aulet.
Over a decade in sales and business development. Navigates international business structures across the US, Portugal, and beyond. Designs and delivers the organizational transformation frameworks, management coaching, and operational systems that drive Respite engagements.
Weihao Lin 林伟灏
Born and raised in Shenzhen, China — one of the world's foremost technology hubs. Graduate of Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology. Fluent in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Teochew, and English.
Leads AI tool implementation for Chinese and East Asian businesses, where the technology landscape is entirely separate — different platforms, different AI models, different internet infrastructure, and fundamentally different ways of doing business. Bridges the gap between Eastern and Western operational thinking.
林伟灏在中国深圳出生长大——全球领先的科技中心之一。毕业于深圳信息职业技术学院，精通四种语言：普通话、粤语、潮汕话和英语。
负责为中国及东亚企业提供AI工具落地服务。中国的技术生态完全不同——不同的平台、不同的AI模型、不同的互联网基础设施，以及截然不同的商业运营方式。我们打通东西方运营思维的桥梁。
We've lived in both worlds. That's the point.
China, the US, Portugal, Thailand, Korea — we've built our lives and businesses across continents. That multi-cultural foundation isn't a footnote. It's how we see problems that single-market consultants miss.
Western Markets — Megan
Organizational transformation, management coaching, sales restructuring, legal and compliance systems, HR frameworks, and financial strategy. AI tools include Claude, ChatGPT, and the English-language ecosystem of productivity, analytics, and automation platforms that Western businesses run on.
Eastern Markets — Weihao · 东方市场
AI implementation for Chinese businesses using the tools that actually work behind the Great Firewall — Baidu's ERNIE, Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, and the Chinese-language platforms for e-commerce, operations, and communication like WeChat Work, DingTalk, and Feishu. A completely different technology stack for a completely different business culture.
Two traps. One gap.
Most AI consulting falls into one of two traps.
The first is the tool trap. A vendor shows up, installs ChatGPT or Copilot, builds a prompt library, runs a training session, and leaves. Six weeks later, adoption is back to zero because nobody changed the underlying processes or taught people why to use the tools — just how.
The second is the consulting trap. A firm shows up with three to five junior associates, spends six months interviewing your team, and produces a 200-page strategy deck that sits on a shelf. The recommendations are sound. The implementation never happens. And the bill is $500K.
Respite exists in the gap between those two failures.
We do real consulting — embedded, hands-on, deeply operational. We sit in your meetings. We coach your managers through hard conversations. We audit your insurance coverage, rewrite your contracts, build your hiring frameworks, and create SOPs from direct observation of where things actually break.
And we use AI to do all of that at a speed and depth that traditional firms cannot match. Because the AI handles the research, drafting, analysis, and iteration that would otherwise require a team of junior associates and analysts.
The result is enterprise-grade organizational transformation at mid-market prices, delivered in months instead of years, by people who've actually run the kind of businesses they're advising.
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