Toronto · Operating worldwide
I'm Rodrigue Fouafou. CEO of Wouessi. Founder of an early-stage AI sovereignty platform. Founder of HartNamtemah venture studio. Senior digital transformation advisor to three Heads of State. Toronto · operating worldwide.
Six hats. One mission.
About
I'm a founder, operator and investor with fifteen-plus years building software ventures, scaling global media, and advising governments on digital transformation. Based in Toronto. Working across Canada, the United States, and Africa.
Studied software engineering at the University of Ottawa. Started at IBM and Nortel. Left to build companies of my own. Have been shipping software, running cross-border teams, and chasing payroll ever since.
Everything I do every day is to share optimism and vision to inspire change in many.
North star: 3.5 million people. Roughly 0.5% of the world.
Currently building
Founder & CEO · Toronto · 2021 → present
Digital transformation, software development and AI integration house. Wouessi Inc. (Canada) and Wouessi LLC (USA, SAM.gov ACTIVE). 11 to 50 staff serving enterprise and government clients. CAMSC and BEBC certified.
wouessi.com ↗Founder · USA · 2025 → present
United States operating and federal procurement vehicle. SAM.gov ACTIVE. Built to deliver technology contracts to US Federal, State and corporate buyers.
Federal & corporate inquiries →Founder · pre-product · stealth
A sovereign, self-hosted governance and replay layer for AI agent context — the “context bank” category. Open core. Memory-engine agnostic. Built so enterprises own their AI memory rather than rent it.
Design partner inquiries →Founder · venture studio & mentorship
A venture studio backing and mentoring tech founders building the next generation of cross-border companies. Capital, operating playbooks, and unlocked doors for under-priced founders.
hartnamtemah.com ↗Practice
I run marathons. Next race: TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon, October 2026. Marathons aren’t a metaphor — they’re a calibration tool. The same body that finishes 42 km finishes a quarterly close, a hard product cycle, a delicate negotiation. Pace, fuel, terrain, legs. Off the road: Vipassana, minimalism, presence.
Why this works
Twenty years of Vipassana practice, marathon training, and a minimalist code. Three habits that hold up the work. They keep me long-horizon and present-tense at the same time.
Same calibration tool runs a 42K, a ten-day silent retreat, and a multi-decade venture portfolio. Every product, every founder, every conversation is part of the same long arc.
Bilingual · cross-border
Fluent in English and French. Operating from Toronto across Canada, the United States, and Africa. Wouessi delivers in both official languages of Canada, into US Federal procurement, and across cross-border partner networks in London, Kigali, Lagos, and Washington DC.
The whole site is bilingual. Toggle EN / FR in the top nav.
Selected track record
Credentials & affiliations · public, current, verifiable
Speaking & writing
What actually changes when AI becomes a buying centre, and how to ship transformation programs that survive contact with procurement, security, and the existing org chart.
Why hosted memory is a topology problem, what changes when governance and replay move into the buyer's perimeter, and how the next 36 months play out for enterprise AI memory.
What it takes to deliver technology contracts to US Federal, State and Canadian buyers as a global operator. Procurement, certifications, and the playbook that works.
The same calibration tool runs a 42K, a ten-day silent retreat, and a multi-decade venture portfolio. Pace, fuel, terrain, legs.
In my orbit
Twenty years compressed into a single shape. Every word in the silhouette is something I've shipped, backed, advised, or run.
Five hats, six ventures, three regions, two languages, one mission. Optimism, on the record.
I read everything that comes in. The clearer your subject line and your first two sentences, the faster you get a real reply.