I’m Keolo, Partner & CTO at Aliveness Ventures, turning ideas into revenue-generating products.
Fractional CTO for AI, HealthTech & FinTech startups. 20+ years building products and startups.
If you use AI coding assistants, you know the cycle: paste a rough feature description into a chat box, get back three hundred lines of plausible code, and spend the rest of your day hunting down broken imports, missed edge cases, and silent regressions. The model isn’t necessarily bad at writing syntax. The problem is asking it to jump straight from a vague idea to implementation. Without clear boundaries, the model has to invent everything in between—state management, error handling, data flow, and all your unstated constraints. ...
AI-powered leadership coaching platform JOYO delivers personalised leadership development through AI-powered coaching, trusted by institutions like MIT. As Fractional CTO for Aliveness Ventures, I helped turn a slide-deck vision into a market-ready product in six months. ❮ ❯ Challenge Starting with zero technical resources, JOYO needed to validate an AI-powered coaching platform in a competitive market—fast. ...
Digital platform for a planetary peace movement Global Peace Yes is a U.S-based NGO (Special Consultative Status at the U.N.) rallying one billion voices to “live with love over fear.” As Fractional CTO I helped turn a bold vision into an operational, fraud-resistant voting platform. ❮ ❯ Challenge Mobilise one billion verified votes for peace while protecting privacy, blocking fraud and earning public trust, on a nonprofit budget and an aggressive deadline. ...
Livestream commerce, same-day delivery Riiu turned pandemic-era bargain hunting into an engaging live shopping experience. Viewers joined livestreams, claimed luxury items in real-time, and received them at their door before the day ended. ❮ ❯ Challenge Stitch an end-to-end commerce stack without writing a monolith. Marketing, SMS alerts, live sales, payments, and courier dispatch all working in harmony. ...