Ahmed AlSamaani
Entrepreneur in Residence at Foodics, building a new venture in hospitality technology. Previously fintech product at Riyad Bank.
Entrepreneur in Residence at Foodics, building a new venture in hospitality technology. Previously fintech product at Riyad Bank.
Entrepreneur in Residence at Foodics, building a new venture in hospitality technology — the guest-facing side of the restaurant experience, and the tools that let each restaurant author it in its own voice. I build end to end, from mobile and web frontends to backend services and LLM integrations. Background in behavioral psychology research (DePaul, NIH-funded) and an Executive MBA from MBSC.
I build working systems as the discovery artifact.
Psychology research informing product decisions
Business strategy grounded in technical depth
Taking products from idea to working system
Building products with LLM and voice AI at their core. End-to-end ownership from model integration to user experience.
Lending, payments, and credit decisioning in SAMA-regulated environments. Enterprise integrations with core banking and credit bureaus.
Rapid prototyping as product discovery. Ship a working system to learn what customers need, not a deck to guess at it.
Guest-facing restaurant experiences and the authoring tools behind them. One bilingual platform carrying several complete products, built end to end across mobile, backend, and AI. Pre-launch, running against real provider integrations.
End-to-end lending platform for the Saudi micro-business segment. 15+ enterprise integrations, credit decisioning, KYC, payments. SAMA regulatory readiness.
Fintech venture within Riyad Bank's venture arm. AI agentic workflows for automated debt recovery. Zero-to-one product direction.
Employee satisfaction dashboard and organizational assessment framework for the Vision Realization Office.
Data infrastructure for an NIH-funded youth mentoring program. Led a 10-member team. Reduced analysis cycles from 6–8 months to 2 weeks. Presented at APA conferences.
Foodics. Building a new venture in hospitality technology.
Riyad Bank (Jeel and 1957 Ventures). Digital financing platform for micro-businesses and AI-powered debt collection venture.
The City Law Firm. Digital operations and process improvement.
Alarabia OOH. Digital transformation for outdoor advertising operations.
Vision Realization Office, Ministry of Education. Employee satisfaction measurement and organizational assessment.
Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business and Entrepreneurship (MBSC).
DePaul University. NIH-funded youth mentoring research. Led 10-member team.
DePaul University. Community Psychology with Information Technology minor.
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