I didn't start out trying to build a portfolio. I started trying to fix things that bothered me.
Black travelers were getting filtered out of "best of" lists. Black creators were stuck on platforms that monetized them and gave nothing back. Cities like Lithonia, majority-Black, suburb of Atlanta, were running on civic infrastructure that didn't reflect the people who lived there. Solo lawyers were drowning in admin while big firms automated everything in sight. And every conversation about AI either treated us like a market segment or like a problem to manage around.
So I started building.
What I do
I'm Founder of Litwork and CTO & Co-Founder of OLANG Global Inc., a venture studio out of Atlanta that designs, builds, and ships AI products for underserved communities and the people who serve them.
Day to day, I'm hands-on. I write production code. I make the call on architecture, design, and what we don't build. I work with a tight team of operators, engineers, and designers who don't need a pitch deck to start.
The stack I'm running
Seven things shipped or shipping through OLANG Global and Litwork:
- ROAM: AI travel for Black travelers
- Litwork: community commerce for the culture
- Black AI Freedom Plan: the operating playbook for Black AI sovereignty
- Callora: voice AI receptionist for small businesses
- LawFlow: legal ops for solo attorneys and small firms
- MyLithonia: civic dashboard for a Black-led city
- OLANG Studio: the venture lab and AI studio behind the stack
How I work
Three principles, no exceptions:
Ship over pitch. If it can be built in a sprint, it gets built in a sprint. Every product I work on has to clear the bar of "would I use this on Friday?" before it gets a launch date.
Own over rent. We build on our own infrastructure, train on our own data, and resist the urge to hand the keys to whoever has the prettiest API. Sovereignty is a technical decision before it's a political one.
Build over wait. Nobody is coming to save us. The version of the internet we want exists because we make it exist. That's the whole job.
Background
I'm an engineer by training and a builder by temperament. Born to Nigerian parents, raised in the Atlanta metro. I learned to code because nobody around me was writing the software I wanted to use. I learned to lead because the products I cared about needed teams to build them and capital to ship them.
Before OLANG Global, I worked across enterprise software, startup engineering, and creative direction. I built MyLithonia because my city deserved better than a placeholder web page. I started Litwork because the platforms taking 30% from Black creators weren't going to disappear on their own.
What I'm focused on right now
This year is about compounding. Tightening the products that are live (ROAM, Litwork, MyLithonia, Callora). Pushing LawFlow out of beta. Publishing the Black AI Freedom Plan in full. And keeping the OLANG Global studio lean enough to keep shipping without raising a round we don't need.
I don't want to be the person who explained what could've been built. I want to be the person who built it.
Outside of work
Atlanta. Family. Long-form writing. The occasional flight to a city I've never been to (using ROAM, of course). Mentoring younger engineers from communities like mine. And a deeply held belief that the next decade of software is going to be built by people who look like us, for us, with us, on our terms.
Where to go next
If you want the products: see the work. If you want the theory: read the Plan. If you want to build something together: start here.