# Rami Alhamad

**Technology entrepreneur, AI policy contributor, and founder based in Ottawa, Canada.**

## About

Rami Alhamad is the founder of [Alma](https://alma.food), an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights.

He previously founded PUSH, a wearable sports technology company for biomechanics and movement analytics. PUSH was acquired by WHOOP in 2021, after which Rami served as VP of Product at WHOOP.

Rami was an Entrepreneur in Residence at [Menlo Ventures](https://menlovc.com) in 2024 and a Venture Partner at [Antler](https://antler.co) through 2026. He is a Founder in Residence at [Mila](https://mila.quebec), the Quebec AI Institute.

He is based in **Ottawa, Ontario, Canada**.

## Expertise

- Artificial intelligence and machine learning (applied, product)
- AI policy, governance, and regulation in Canada
- Technology entrepreneurship and venture building
- Digital health and nutrition technology
- Sports technology and wearables
- Product management and consumer software

## AI Policy & Publications

- **[Bridging the AI Policy Gap: Perspectives from Canada's Builders](https://www.cigionline.org/articles/bridging-the-ai-policy-gap-perspectives-from-canadas-builders/)**. Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), 2024. Contributor representing the perspective of Canadian technology builders on AI policy and governance.
- **[CIGI Expert Profile](https://www.cigionline.org/people/rami-alhamad/)**. Centre for International Governance Innovation

## Talks & Writings

- **[Building Users Before Models](https://gamma.app/docs/Building-Users-Before-Models-m22as7ipfyl8trn)**. Talk at Mila, 2026. On customer discovery and product thinking before model development.
- **[Action Potential](https://actionpotential.co)**. Newsletter on technology and society.

## Projects

- **[Tapestry](https://tapestry.ramihmd.com)**. A macOS menu bar app that turns trackpad taps, holds, and diagonal swipes into keys, Shortcuts, and apps. Tap three fingers to dictate, four to send. [Source](https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV/tapestry).
- **[2000 Days](https://2000days.ramihmd.com)**. An iPhone voice journal for a child’s first 2,000 days, from birth to about age five. Named as a nod to the Apple TV+ series *Becoming You*, which followed children through those same 2,000 days. Coming soon.
- **[Blend](https://useblend.dev)**. Mix the design systems of sites you love into one of your own, and hand your coding agent a DESIGN.md it can follow.
- **[Pacer](https://pacer.ramihmd.com)**. A macOS menu bar app that paces your weekly Claude and Codex limits, so they last the week. [Source](https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV/pacer).
- **[Crew](https://www.ramihmd.com/crew)**. A community marketplace and live leaderboard for useful Grok Bot teammates.
- **[Redpen](https://redpen.ramihmd.com)**. A macOS menu bar app for marking up screenshots in red pen. Circle anything, say why, and paste the set into your chat. [Source](https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV/redpen).
- **[Keeper](https://keeper.ramihmd.com)**. A macOS app for going through a whole camera card by keyboard. It flags blurry and badly exposed shots, deletes the misses, and adds the keepers to Photos. [Source](https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV/keeper).
- **[Dreamers](https://www.ramihmd.com/dreamers)**. An immersive art timeline tracing human migration from our earliest journeys to a speculative Mars in 2050, built with the CanvasUI Bend effect.
- **[AI Party Games](https://www.ramihmd.com/projects/ai-party-games)**. Multiplayer games where the LLM runs on each player's device with no server inference.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ramihmd.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramialhamad
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ramimatic (@ramimatic)
- GitHub: https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV
- Alma: https://alma.food