Company

Applied AI leadership for enterprise decision-making

OKEMA was founded on a simple conviction: enterprises rarely struggle because they lack data. They struggle because they lack systems that consistently recommend the best decision.

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Mawulolo Koku Ameko, PhD
Founder & CEO · Applied Science
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Jonathan Edem Koffi Ameko
Engineering & Delivery

Research and delivery, held by two people.

Why this company exists

After years building production AI systems at Microsoft and conducting research in causal inference, reinforcement learning, and recommender systems, one pattern kept repeating: organizations had the data, the dashboards, and the models, but the decisions still came down to intuition, manual processes, and static reports.

A churn score doesn't save a customer. A fraud flag doesn't close a case. A forecast doesn't set a price. Value is created at the moment of the decision, and that moment was being left to chance.

"Predictions don't create value. Decisions do. OKEMA exists to build that decision layer."

OKEMA helps insurers, banks, and telecom operators move from data visibility to decision intelligence, turning the systems they already run into ones that recommend, act, and learn. We start with a focused roadmap and grow into the decision layer for the enterprise.

Leadership

The people who build it

Decision systems fail in the gap between a model that works and a system that runs. OKEMA is deliberately structured so both sides have a named owner.

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Mawulolo Koku Ameko, PhD

Founder & CEO · Applied Science

Decides what the system should recommend: causal inference, contextual bandits, treatment-effect modeling, and the applied-science choices that turn enterprise data into decisions operators can act on.

PhD, Systems & Information Engineering, UVA
8+ years applied AI / ML research & development
Applied Scientist & Technical Lead, Microsoft
Prior work at Netflix and DoorDash
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Jonathan Edem Koffi Ameko

Engineering & Delivery · Lomé, Togo

Builds the systems that carry a recommendation from model output to the screen where someone acts on it: the services, data pipelines, integrations and operator interfaces that make a decision layer something an enterprise can actually run.

2+ years building production web and data systems
Production stack: Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Next.js, React, React Native
Software Developer, digi.job
Delivery on Agence Togo Digital digitization projects
Founder track record

Decision systems, built and shipped

8+ years of applied AI and ML across causal inference, reinforcement learning, recommender systems, predictive and prescriptive modeling, and responsible AI, deployed into real products at enterprise scale.

Causal Inference Reinforcement Learning Recommender Systems Contextual Bandits Responsible AI Prescriptive Modeling Counterfactual Systems
$808K
Lost LTV captured via treatment-effect modeling
$5.7M
LTV improvement from behavior + causal models
Patents and publications in machine learning, causal models, contextual bandits, health interventions, and counterfactual systems.
Microsoft
Applied Scientist · Tech Lead

Built and deployed ML systems into products; LTV impact via causal and language models.

Netflix
Applied ML

Recommender systems and experimentation at consumer scale.

DoorDash
Applied ML

Production ML pipelines for marketplace decisions.

UVA
PhD Research

Causal inference, contextual bandits, and health-intervention systems.

Reflects the founder's prior employment and research, not OKEMA customer relationships.

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