Business Team
Hafiz Sulaiman
Agency Accounts Manager
Keeps the studio's budgets, project costing and accounts clear, so creatives can work freely.
About
Hafiz Sulaiman, known around the office as Ampuan Hafiz, manages AICREATIVV's accounts. He came from performing and project management at 247 Studios, spent time as a familiar face in the office, then joined full-time and took on something new: finance.
He built the systems the team now leans on: budget tracking, project costing and clear checkpoints. He treats the work like chess, thinking a few moves ahead, and looks for creative ways to stretch a budget or present numbers people actually want to read. Once people trust the system, he says, the whole team can breathe easier. In 2026 he also worked on the NSFL animation for BDCB and filmed behind the scenes for the team's short film, Today.
Performing taught him empathy and timing, and it shows in how he supports people. He also shoots film photography, which now has its own home on his website, In Spirit.
What Hafiz does
- Budgets and costing: Builds project budgets and costings so every job is priced and tracked clearly.
- Agency accounts: Oversees the agency's accounts and keeps the numbers clear for the team.
- Finance systems: Runs the tracking and checkpoints that let the team create without worrying about logistics.
- People and numbers: Bridges the creative team and the finances, presenting data in ways people want to read.
Recent wins
- 2026, Win: NSFL animation for BDCB, Worked on the National Strategy for Financial Literacy animation, launched with His Majesty in attendance.
- 2026, Win: BTS for the Off-Brief film Today, Captured behind the scenes for Group A's short film in the internal Off-Brief series.
- 2026, Win: Speaker at KIGS, Told students that communication and calm under pressure matter as much as technical skill.
- 2025, Win: Finance systems the team trusts, Built budget tracking, project costing and checkpoints that let the team create freely.
- 2023, Project: Lifestyle, DST
- 2022, Project: National Theatre Festival Brunei (2022), 247 Studios
Projects
- AICREATIVV - Today (Off-Brief 001) (2026)
- DST - Lifestyle (2023)
- 247 Studios - National Theatre Festival Brunei (2022) (2022)
On the blog
- The Bridge Between People and Numbers
- Reflections from The Unfiltered Journey at KIGS
- Imamull Qhaeer Returns to The Starting Line
- The Year, Starting Here: January 2026 Highlights
- December at AICREATIVV: Closing Chapters and Looking Ahead
- What Bangkok Taught Us About Creativity
- Bangkok, Culture, and the Art of Creative Confidence
- Reflections, Reunions, and Resets: October at AICREATIVV
- A Collection of Firsts: Wadokai 2025
- Behind the Curtains of NTFB 2025
- History Made Personal: Batrisyia Graduates
- Threads of Heritage, Bonds of Teamwork
- Frames of Us at AICREATIVV
- Rattanhouse Workshop: We Made Crafts!
- From Classroom to Creative Floors
- Away From the Desk, Back to the Sea
- A Night of Gratitude, Growth, and AICREATIVV’s Future
- New Space, Same Spirit: AICREATIVV’s Next Chapter
- IBTE Digital Marketing Finals!
- Khalid Al Ameri Touches Down in Brunei Darussalam
- NTFB 2022 Case Study entry is now Live
- AiCreativv featured in AJUNG's New Product Digital Launch
In the Spellbook
- Spellbook #73: 2 weeks. 0 yeses.
- Spellbook #72: I don't approve holidays
- Spellbook #70: We broke our own website
- Spellbook #69: We didn't get the project
- Spellbook #68: We forgot to tell you
- Spellbook #67: Nobody got here alone (Part 3/3)
- Spellbook #66: Nobody remembers (Part 2/3)
- Spellbook #64: Before you break the rules, learn them
- Spellbook #62: You would've seen the red cars
- Spellbook #61: They're looking at nothing
- Spellbook #60: 420 days
- Spellbook #59: Look dumb, seriously
- Spellbook #58: The question that changed the whole meeting
- Spellbook #57: When did this become normal?
- Spellbook #56: Two iPads and a screen
- Spellbook #55: Why do we save so much?
- Spellbook #53: One marketing person, but 8 jobs?
- Spellbook #52: 10k followers. 0 Sales.
- Spellbook #51: Great portfolios don’t mean great teams
- Spellbook #47: 3 habits that destroys team morale
- Spellbook #46: We had one chance to get this right
- Spellbook #45: Hearing is not listening
- Spellbook #44: We keep starting over without realizing it
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