Background and Founder Journey Ramsey Njire’s path into building Intellom8 was anything but linear. Before stepping into entrepreneurship, he moved across multiple roles, ranging from theatre and teaching to trading, customer service, and technical support. A pivotal shift came during his time working with an American firm, where he began identifying inefficiencies in internal…
Most social platforms are designed to keep people scrolling. The longer you stay, the better it is for the system, regardless of whether you actually connect with anyone. Over time, interaction shifts away from people and toward the platform itself, turning what was once social into something more passive, more isolating. What would a platform…
It started with a familiar frustration namely, tracking money across multiple tools, each doing one thing well but none doing everything right. Expenses could be logged here, insights found there, but the overall picture remained fragmented. The data was present yet understanding it still required effort. What if managing personal finances felt less like bookkeeping…
The first version of the product wasn’t meant for anyone else. It was built out of necessity, an internal tool to solve a simple but persistent frustration: how to get paid seamlessly for digital products without friction, delays, or geographic limitations. What began as a personal workaround soon revealed a much larger gap. If one…
In the fluorescent glow of a co-working space, Abayomi scrolled through yet another dataset meant to train the world’s most advanced language models. The entries captured everything from suburban American grocery runs to European idioms for mild annoyance. What they missed, entirely was the cadence of a Yoruba market negotiation, the layered politeness of a…
Nasirdeen was deep into another late-night coding session when the pattern became impossible to ignore. Advertising campaigns he’d observed for many months now would often start strong, clicks rolling in, conversions ticking up but only to flatten out days later. The Problem of Ad Fatigue The creative hadn’t changed. The budget was still there. The…