Samuel Adom

Now building Africa Trade Intelligence

Software engineer and optometrist. I build AI products, from health to agri-tech.

  • Lead developer, Quari Labs
  • Co-founder, Africa Trade Intelligence
  • Optometrist

Samuel Adom

(01) About

Sam

builds AI

products,

from health

to agri-tech.

He trained first

as an optometrist.

Six years as a Doctor of Optometry taught me to look closely and name what I see. Between lectures I found Web3 and taught myself to build. Now I point the same habit at data: market evidence for African exporters, and danger signs for new mothers.

Trained
Doctor of Optometry (OD), KNUST
2017 – 2023
Building
Africa Trade Intelligence
Mar 2026 – present
Studio
Quari Labs
Lead developer, 2024 – present

(02) Work

Selected work

    • Quari Labs home page: "AI Architecture and Blockchain Protocols for Real-World Use".Studio
    • Quari Labs products: Velix Protocol (live), Alpha Alith (beta), Froska and SafeLine.Products
    The problem
    Build AI systems and blockchain protocols for real-world use, and ship them as products people adopt.
    What I built
    The studio ships Velix Protocol (liquid staking for STRK and METIS), Alpha Alith (an AI layer for on-chain insights), Froska (a memetic-finance experiment), SafeLine and Africa Trade Intelligence. I am its lead developer, in charge of all development and product design. I co-founded ATI, where I build the whole platform, and SafeLine, where I am technical lead; earlier I ran marketing for Velix Protocol.
    Result
    Velix Protocol is live, Alpha Alith is in beta, and SafeLine is in development.
    Visit quarilabs.com
    • ATI home page: "See African trade more clearly", over a container port at sunset.Home
    • ATI supply-chain map of Ghana and its neighbours, regions shaded by signal and ports marked along the coast.Supply-chain map
    • ATI market page: a chart of reviewed price ranges for raw cashew nuts over time.Price evidence
    The problem
    Give African commodity exporters the market intelligence that large trading houses take for granted, so smaller exporters can price, plan and sell on the same information.
    What I built
    The whole platform, as its only technical person: engineering, product design and infrastructure. It has four layers: an EUDR deforestation-compliance checker, supply-chain intelligence, market intelligence and counterparty intelligence. It generates PDF compliance reports with real Sentinel-2 before-and-after satellite imagery, and uses Claude Haiku to filter geopolitical news from GDELT.
    Result
    Live in production, after a security-hardening pass. Applied to the AfCFTA Digital Innovation Challenge 2026 at Pilot stage.
    Built with
    Next.js 14, TypeScript, FastAPI, Vercel, DigitalOcean, nginx, PM2, Sentry, MapLibre GL, Claude Haiku, Copernicus Sentinel-2, NASA POWER, IMF PortWatch, GDELT
    Visit ati-platform.com
    • SafeLine on a phone: "Know how urgent it is, and where to go", with an option to hear it in Twi.Welcome
    • SafeLine asking who the check is for: pregnancy and after birth, newborn baby, child health.Check a symptom
    • SafeLine example result in red: emergency, go to the nearest health facility now.Example result
    The problem
    Help pregnant women and new mothers recognise the danger signs, in themselves and in their newborns, early enough to act, and know how urgently to seek care.
    What I built
    A phone-first web checker that walks pregnant women and new mothers through maternal and newborn danger signs and tells them how urgently to seek care. A language model handles the conversation; a rule engine makes the clinical call. It began as a general health-assistant chatbot and pivoted to this dual-care checker. I am technical lead, developer and product designer in a team of four.
    Result
    Reviewed by three clinicians (a doctor, a physician assistant and a midwife), who returned a conditional rejection; the open gaps are being worked through. Submitted to the African Impact Challenge.
    Built with
    TypeScript, pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Vitest, Vercel, Vercel Blob, Cloudflare DNS
    Visit safeline.quarilabs.com

Also

(03) Experience, 2017 to now

Nine years, three fields

Optometry

2017 – 2023

  1. Doctor of Optometry (OD), KNUST 2017 – 2023
  • Clinical optometryOcular health assessment, vision correction and patient care.

Web3

2021 – 2024

  1. Community Manager, Netswap 2021 – 2023
  2. Africa Manager / Marketing Manager, Metis 2022 – 2024
  3. Marketing Manager, Velix Protocol 2023 – 2024
  • Growth marketingCampaigns that turn attention into users.
  • Web3 community and marketingRunning communities and marketing for Web3 protocols, 2021 to 2024.

AI products

2024 – now

At Quari Labs

  1. Lead developer, Quari Labs 2024 – present
  2. Co-founder, technical lead, SafeLine 2025 – present
  3. Co-founder, Africa Trade Intelligence Mar 2026 – present
  • AI tooling and LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI)Claude Haiku sifts the news for ATI. In SafeLine the model talks and a rule engine decides.
  • Full-stack web: TypeScript, Next.js, React, FastAPIFrom idea to a deployed product: front end, API and the server it runs on.
  • Product strategy and go-to-marketFinding the customer, shaping the offer, shipping it.
  • Market and data analysis (Python, SQL, SPSS)Turning raw records into decisions.
  • Tools I use mostTypeScript, Python, SQL, Next.js, React, Node.js, FastAPI, Tailwind CSS, Vercel, DigitalOcean

(04) Contact

Write to me.

About a role, a collaboration, a scholarship, or a problem worth solving.