About Skybots

Built by Accountants, For Accountants: Our Journey into the World of Automation

Why We're Called Skybots

RPA gives people a superpower, helping them work faster, smarter, and more productive. Some of our bots even run in the cloud, working through the night so tasks are completed while you sleep.

Our name is also a reminder that all wisdom comes from God. It’s a miracle that non-programmers, like accountants, can pick up RPA and transform industries. SKYBOTS reflects our mission, our faith, and our belief that technology can help people focus on what truly matters.

About Our Founder - Daryl Aw

Daryl Aw is the founder of Skybots Pte Ltd, a leading RPA solutions provider for the accounting, audit, tax, finance, and corporate secretarial sectors.

He is the only Chartered Accountant in the world to be awarded the UiPath Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title twice (2024, 2025), and was the Champion of the ISCA RPA Hackathon 2021. Daryl currently serves on ISCA’s AI Solutions Sub-Committee, and works with WSG, SNEF, and e2i on national upskilling initiatives.

Before founding Skybots, Daryl was a lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic, where he led RPA and sustainability projects. His work earned him a nomination for The President’s Awards for Teachers in 2022. He began his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young Singapore and is a proud Chartered Accountant under ISCA.

At Skybots, he leads a team of former accountants and auditors, building automation tools that are both technically powerful and tailored to real-world finance workflows.

Skybots Team

Uipath Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2025

How RPA Took Off In Singapore’s Accountancy Sector

Our RPA journey began in 2018 at Singapore Polytechnic, where Daryl Aw was then an Accounting lecturer in the School of Business. As part of the final-year projects, accountancy students worked on real automation solutions for real clients and this became the foundation for something bigger.

Our first industry partner was Bernard from Audit Alliance, who graciously shared his firm’s audit processes. With his support, we built our very first RPA robots designed to automate audit workflows. The success of these early bots sparked wider interest in automation across the accounting industry.

These projects helped shape the Accountancy Industry Digital Plan by IMDA, and we worked closely with The Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountnats (ISCA) to roll out some of the first RPA training programmes and use cases in the sector, a significant milestone for the profession at that time.

Since then, we've expanded our efforts:

Supported the RPA Adoption Support Scheme by the Singapore Accountancy Commission, helping firms fund and implement bots.
Collaborated with the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) to develop RPA solutions for social service agencies.
Launched sustainability automation initiatives at the polytechnic, including building a sustainability dashboard and training teams to use automation for ESG reporting and practical climate action.

In 2023, Daryl left academia to start Skybots, with a mission to scale automation faster and build better bots tailored for industry needs. Since then, we’ve built over 1,000 RPA bots, conducted numerous digitalisation programmes, and helped companies worldwide save time, cut manual work, and boost productivity.

And in keeping with our mission to democratise automation, we became the first accounting tech company to offer free, fully customised AI chatbots built specifically for the accountancy industry worldwide, helping firms everywhere take their first step into AI without barriers.

Want to see our early RPA work? Read Our Published Case Study Here