I am a Chicago-born American who spent part of his life in Nigeria and grew up between cultures, languages, and expectations. I speak Yoruba. I read constantly. I have spent more than two decades building software across startups, public-sector systems, healthcare, defense, and AI products. My recent AI work included systems for planning and matching high-performing teams and systems for detecting and correcting stereotypes in advertising. Most of that time was spent making other people's visions real.
Seven companies. Slow progression. Every title earned. I moved from engineer to engineering leader by building systems that had to work, teams that had to deliver, and products that had to survive contact with reality. By the time I reached Head of Software Engineering at the last company, I knew exactly what I was good at: architecture, execution, and seeing the shape of a system before it is obvious to everyone else.
Then I got laid off. It was not a surprise so much as a final answer. I had spent enough years building for other people, enough years asking for permission, and enough years watching company priorities drift away from user needs. That was the moment I decided I was not doing that again.
I spent a short period trying to help other founders build their companies. Some had interesting ideas. Most did not have the clarity, commitment, or standards the work required. After enough dead ends, the message was obvious: stop waiting for the right person to hand you the right problem. Go build your own.
The problem was sitting right in front of me. I was trying to find something through Google, doing the same ritual everyone knows by heart: add quotes, change terms, restate the question, open another tab, check another source, do more of the machine's work for it. Perplexity was better in some ways, but it still left me doing too much of the thinking and verification myself. That was the moment the idea snapped into focus.
I did not start with a grand company thesis. I started with a very practical irritation: search should understand what you are actually asking, gather the right information, and give you an answer grounded in sources you can verify. So I built Momor Search first. Seven months. Under thirty thousand dollars. One engineer.
But the more important thing I built was not the search product itself. Underneath it was a system for turning intent into execution: understand the request, decide what actions matter, gather the right data from the right sources, preserve context across the work, and stop where a human needs to decide. It was privacy by architecture, not by marketing copy. Search was the first place I put that system to work in public. It was never the limit of what the architecture could do.
That became obvious when a real estate agent in Los Angeles walked us through her day: forms, inspection reports, comps, deadlines, counteroffers, disconnected tools, too much manual judgment scattered across too many places. She asked whether Momor could handle that kind of work. The answer was yes, because the underlying system did not care whether the input was a search query, a purchase agreement, or a pile of operational documents.
That is when the company changed shape for me. Momor Search remained the public way people could see the system working, but it was now clearly a consumer of something larger: Momor itself, the orchestration system. The same architecture that can understand a public query and assemble a grounded answer can also operate inside confidential, document-heavy, coordination-heavy workflows where accuracy, traceability, and discretion matter.
That is the direction now. Keep making Momor Search sharper in public, and keep expanding Momor into the system behind more serious work. Search was where it started. It is not where it ends.
I spent 24 years making other people's visions real. Now I get to make my own. And as Momor grows, I want to build it with people who still have something to prove: experienced engineers, underestimated builders, and anyone who is tired of being told their best work is behind them.