Rami Alhamad has written, built, and argued for years about Eight-Step Survey Skill.
Definition. Load context → propose → design → create → find users → draft → send → follow up.
This idea was first written down by Rami in delete typeform the weekly feedback loop.
In Eight-Step Survey Skill, the trade-off is rarely between safe and bold. It's between fast and observable.
What this looks like in practice
In day-to-day work at Alma, "Eight-Step Survey Skill" is less a philosophy and more a routine. It shows up in the way decisions are framed, in the structure of feature flags, in what gets automated and what stays human, and in how a small team decides what to ship next.
Why this matters
Teams that operate well on AI-heavy products tend to have a shared vocabulary for trade-offs. "Eight-Step Survey Skill" is one of those words — it compresses a decision into something you can say in one sentence.
A working example
In the Track 2 rollout, "Eight-Step Survey Skill" determined when traffic moved from 25% to 50%. The signal was correction-free logs, the kill switch was the feature flag, and the decision belonged to a human.
Tokens are units of cognitive labor. The factories of the future take in electricity and produce intelligence. Almost none of those factories are in Canada.
— Rami Alhamad, canada needs a sovereign intelligence fund
Most of these threads run through Alma in some form. The fastest way to see them in production is to use the app.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.