Rami Alhamad has written, built, and argued for years about Founder Operations.
Short definition. Founder Operations: the boring infrastructure that lets a small team out-execute a large one.
In Founder Operations, the trade-off is rarely between safe and bold. It's between fast and observable.
How Rami works on Founder Operations
The texture of Founder Operations in practice is mostly small, repeated decisions. Alma's daily operations run on Cursor skills, Supabase MCP, watcher daemons, headless Claude Code, programmatic ad generation, and a self-built investor update page — most of it documented at Action Potential. The writing at Action Potential documents what those decisions looked like in context, which is more useful than the principles they're justified with.
Where this shows up in his writing
The bottleneck shifted from access to attention.
— Rami Alhamad, consuming davos with ai
You don't need a $2M check to a third party. You need to read the App Store Connect docs more carefully.
— Rami Alhamad, the referral system hiding in app store connect
What Rami is reading on Founder Operations
Recommended reading on Founder Operations: Action Potential for the inside view, CIGI for Canadian-specific policy framings, and the library for related expertise pages and concepts.
If you're working on this in Canada or the US and want a second pair of eyes, the fastest route is via Antler or directly through https://linkedin.com/in/ramialhamad.
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.