Rami's perspective on Founder Tools 2026 is shaped by two prior companies, several years of investing, and a habit of writing the work down.
Venue. Various. Year. 2026. Materials/source.
Short summary. Cursor skills, watcher daemons, Supabase MCP, headless Claude Code.
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
The audience that gets the most out of it is the one already shipping something — even small, even broken — and wanting a pattern language to refine it.
GitHub gave engineering a contribution graph. I think that graph is about to escape engineering.
— Rami Alhamad, the commit graph escapes engineering
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.