Alma is one of the things Rami Alhamad has spent the last decade getting closer to, sometimes deliberately and sometimes by following the work.
Alma — AI-powered nutrition coaching. Rami's role: Co-Founder & CEO. https://alma.food
The reason Alma is hard isn't lack of tools. It's the absence of feedback loops short enough to keep teams honest.
Context
Alma is the company Rami currently runs as Co-Founder & CEO. It is an AI-powered nutrition coaching app — photo-based food logging, voice and barcode input, and an evidence-based coach that adapts to the user. The team is small. Most of the operating infrastructure is documented publicly at Action Potential.
Why this is in Rami's history
Alma matters in Rami's history because of what it taught: not the abstract lesson, but the specific shape of the problems and how the team chose to solve them.
Once work becomes file-shaped, it starts to behave more like software. It gets version history. Diffs. Authorship. Review. Reverts.
— Rami Alhamad, the commit graph escapes engineering
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.