Lagos, Nigeria

Building the products and systems shaping the AI era.

AI Product Engineering · AI Governance · Technology Policy

Available for select projects

01 — About

A short introduction

I build AI products and workflows while working at the intersection of technology and public policy.

Currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy and taking on select AI, technology, and policy projects.

02 — Selected work

Things I've built.

API-First OSINT Intelligence Platform

A unified intelligence API that aggregates public-source data, resolves entities, detects risks and relationships, and turns fragmented information into structured, AI-assisted intelligence.

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Founder · Platform

AI Operating System

A modular multi-agent platform designed to coordinate specialized AI agents across research, engineering, operations, governance, and business execution.

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AI system · Builder

AI Quant Research Platform

An agentic research and trading system for market analysis, signal generation, strategy testing, risk management, and automated execution.

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AI · Quant · System

AI Grant Matching Platform

An AI-powered platform matching African startups and SMEs with relevant grants through automated eligibility screening.

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Founder · MVP

03 — Writing

Notes & guides.

RSS

Essay · Agentic AI·9 min read

AI Agents Are Becoming Systems. Governance Needs to Catch Up.

Agents plan, call tools and act. Governance written for advisory software cannot stop an action — so authorization, approval and audit have to live inside the runtime.

AI governanceAgentic AIAI engineering

Essay · AI governance·6 min read

The accountability gap in AI governance

Why frameworks written for advisory AI stop working once systems start taking actions — and four governance moves that survive contact with a real deployment.

AI governancePolicyEssay

Guide · Agentic AI·7 min read

How to build an AI agent

A practical six-step guide — scoping the task, choosing tools, writing the loop, memory, human approval, and where governance actually fits.

Agentic AIGuideAI governance

04 — Contact

Let's talk about AI, policy, or what you're building.

Open to select projects across AI, technology, and public policy. Send a note and I'll get back to you.

Email
ijosephiwe@gmail.com

Designed & built with care & lots of coffee