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.
Most developers adopting AI coding assistants fall into a familiar loop: drop a loose feature description into a chat prompt, get back several hundred lines of reasonable-looking code, and spend the rest of the day patching broken imports, fixing edge cases, and untangling silent regressions. The issue isn’t that language models are bad at writing code. It is that jumping straight from an informal idea to implementation forces the model to invent everything in between: architectural boundaries, state management, error handling, and unstated assumptions. ...
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. ...