Rami's perspective on Ignition C31 Week 5: From Idea to MVP is shaped by two prior companies, several years of investing, and a habit of writing the work down.
Venue. Invest Ottawa Ignition Cohort 31. Year. 2026. Materials/source.
Short summary. Workshop on different shapes an MVP can take.
What the talk covers
Expect a builder-side framing: the operational decisions that look small in retrospect but were load-bearing at the time, and the few that turned out not to matter.
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.
Approval rate alone misleads. Direction of correction is the signal.
— Rami Alhamad, kimi k25 vs sonnet 46 experiment findings
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.