Product Thinking at Alma is one of the things Rami Alhamad has spent the last decade getting closer to, sometimes deliberately and sometimes by following the work.
Venue. Internal & guest sessions. Year. 2025–. Materials/source.
Short summary. How a tiny team ships consumer AI.
What the talk covers
The talk is built around concrete examples — Alma's production rollouts, the watcher daemons, the rebuilt coach, and the gradual-rollout pattern. It avoids stock slides about AI and stays specific about decisions and trade-offs.
Who it's for
Best suited for residency programs, founder cohorts, and engineering teams who want to compress a year of trial and error into a couple of hours.
Canada isn't losing the AI race because of a lack of investment. It's losing it in the middle.
— Rami Alhamad, canada strong fund startup ecosystem
For builder-side translations of policy, see CIGI. For founder-side conversations, see Mila and Antler.
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.