We started EnergyLumix in 2019 because we noticed something odd. Every time monsoon season hit or Tet celebrations rolled around, businesses would scramble with their budgets. Same pattern, year after year. Someone needed to address this properly.
Back in late 2018, I was consulting for a textile manufacturer in Thai Nguyen. Great company, solid management. But every rainy season? Complete chaos with their cash flow projections. They'd built their entire financial model assuming steady production year-round.
That's when it clicked. Vietnam's economy moves in seasonal waves—agriculture cycles, weather patterns, cultural celebrations. Yet most financial advice treats budgets like they exist in some climate-controlled vacuum.
So we built something different. Started small, working with twelve local businesses in early 2020. Focused purely on helping them adjust budgets around actual seasonal realities rather than pretending those realities don't exist.
"The breakthrough came when we stopped trying to eliminate seasonal variation and started building financial strategies that worked with it instead of against it. Sounds simple now, but took us eighteen months to figure out."
By mid-2022, we'd expanded to work with manufacturers, agricultural businesses, and retail operations across northern Vietnam. Each sector has its own rhythm. Rice processing peaks differently than garment production. Tourism follows completely different patterns than both.
We don't follow some rigid consulting playbook. Each business faces different seasonal pressures, operates in different sectors, and has different financial structures. Here's what our process typically looks like.
We spend the first two months just watching how money moves through your business. Revenue patterns, expense cycles, inventory fluctuations. Most businesses think they understand their own patterns until someone actually maps them out month by month.
Once we understand the rhythms, we build budget structures that flex with them. Higher cash reserves before slow seasons. Accelerated payment schedules during peak periods. It's less about perfect predictions and more about having options when conditions shift.
We don't want you dependent on consultants forever. The goal is teaching your finance team to make these adjustments themselves. Takes about six months of hands-on work together, then we gradually step back while remaining available for complex situations.
Seasonal patterns evolve. Weather changes. Markets shift. New regulations appear. We check in quarterly to review what worked, what didn't, and where adjustments make sense. This isn't a set-it-and-forget-it system.
We're a small team. That's deliberate. We'd rather work with fewer clients and actually understand their businesses than scale up fast and provide generic advice.
Everyone here has spent years working directly with Vietnamese businesses—not reading about them in case studies, but sitting in their offices during busy seasons and slow periods.
Spent eleven years in agricultural finance before joining us in 2021. Grew up watching his family's coffee business in Đắk Lắk deal with harvest cycles and market volatility. Now helps manufacturing and retail clients navigate similar seasonal pressures. Speaks Vietnamese fluently, which helps more than you'd think.
Former banking analyst who got tired of treating every business like it fits the same model. Joined us in early 2020 to build systems that actually accommodate seasonal variation rather than pretending it doesn't exist. Handles most of the training work with client teams and develops our internal processes.
We work with clients for years, not months. Our average client relationship is 3.5 years and counting. That only works if we're genuinely useful rather than just selling services.
Academic financial theory is interesting. But businesses need solutions they can actually implement with their current staff and systems. We prioritize what works over what looks impressive in presentations.
We're good at seasonal budget adjustments for Vietnamese businesses. That's our specialty. When clients need something outside that scope—international expansion planning, M&A advisory—we're upfront about our limitations and refer them elsewhere.
We're expanding our team slowly—adding two more analysts by autumn 2025. Also developing training programs so businesses can learn these approaches without needing full consulting engagements. First workshops scheduled for January 2026 in Thai Nguyen and Hanoi.
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Đ. Cách Mạng Tháng 8, Trung Thành
Thành phố Thái Nguyên, Thái Nguyên
Vietnam
Phone: +84 251 382 6188
Email: help@energylumix.com
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