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Entrepreneur. Author. Sustainability Advocate.
Connecting finance and sustainability — building open-source AI/MCP tooling for ESG, valuation, and accessibility.
I've spent my career at the intersection of finance and sustainability. As a CFA Charterholder who became Vice Chairman and CEO of Hong Kong's leading environmental NGO on a pro bono basis, I've learned that lasting change requires both financial rigor and environmental conviction.
- 🏢 Founder & CEO, Ascent Partners Group — corporate valuation & ESG advisory (200+ listed companies served)
- 🌏 Founder, Ascent Partners Foundation — conservation across Asia-Pacific
- 🎓 B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science, McGill University
- 📜 CFA · CMA · MIPA · Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
- 🌐 simonmak.com · LinkedIn
No install — point any MCP client at a hosted endpoint (Streamable HTTP):
| MCP server | Endpoint |
|---|---|
| fair-value | https://fair-value.ascent-partners.com/mcp |
| intangible-valuation | https://intangible-valuation.simonmak.com/api/mcp |
| hkex-filings | https://hkex-listco-updates.ascent-partners.com/api/mcp |
| vision-driven-design | https://vdd.simonmak.com/api/mcp |
Or run one locally: pip install "startup-valuation[mcp]".
flowchart TB
WB["opencode-workbench<br/>reproducible AI workstation"] --> AGENT["AI agent / OpenCode"]
VDD["vision-driven-design<br/>SDD methodology + MCP"] --> AGENT
AGENT --> VAL["Valuation MCPs<br/>startup · intangible · fair-value"]
AGENT --> ESG["esg-hub<br/>ESG reporting"]
FIL["hkex-filing-scraper<br/>filings → SurrealDB"] --> VAL
ACCESS["depression-sensitive-web-content<br/>accessibility audit"] --> AGENT
Practical, rigorous tools for ESG, valuation, accessibility, and AI-agent automation.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| vision-driven-design | Spec-driven development methodology + MCP server (8 phases, 7 gates, bi-directional traceability) |
| startup-valuation | 80+ startup valuation formulas + MCP server + AI-agent skills |
| intangible-valuation | Intangible-asset valuation library + MCP server |
| fair-value | IFRS/IVS valuation engine + MCP server (DCF, WACC/FF5, KMV, derivatives) |
| esg-hub | ESG knowledge & reporting platform + public API + MCP server |
| hkex-filing-scraper | HKEx regulatory filings → SurrealDB with PDF extraction & graph linking |
| opencode-workbench | One-command reproducibility for an AI-agent workstation |
| depression-sensitive-web-content | Cognitive accessibility & emotional-safety auditing skill |
Also private:
valuation-data-mcp— cited, deterministic valuation inputs for the calculators above (keyed MCP server, read-only over the valuation database).
Published to the official MCP Registry under io.github.simonmak-ascent/*:
startup-valuation · intangible-valuation · hkex-filings · esg-hub · vision-driven-design · opencode-workbench
The bridge between two worlds.