Pierre

I work at the applied layer of AI: agent orchestration, tool use, memory, evaluation, and the feedback loops that turn a model into a product. I take products from first sketch to production and stay close to both the architecture and the user.

That work is live: Kampus runs in production with fee-paying schools on a multi-tenant Postgres backend, and Arcflow, my AI Chief of Staff SaaS, ships a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline at arcflowhq.com. I build in public: shipping, testing ideas, debugging failures, and sharing what I learn along the way.

Alongside Afryx, I'm open to applied AI engineering roles and internships in the UK. Fastest way to reach me: ankouanepierre@gmail.com.

• 2026Founder & CTO · Afryx Labs
• 2026Founder & CEO · Arcflow
• 2025Assistant Technology Engineer · Institut Supérieur Fang de Messamena
• 2025Co-Founder · Miyora Skin Lab
• 2023Student Ambassador · Oxford International Education Group
• 2021Data Science Intern · BCPME

• 2027BSc Applied Artificial Intelligence · University of Bradford
• —CMI Level 5 in Management & Leadership

My Story

I was born in Cameroon — a country rich in culture, resilience, and hope. It is where my story began, and where I first learned that life doesn't always give you the same opportunities as everyone else. But it does give you the choice to fight for them.

Growing up, I wasn't surrounded by wealth or privilege. What I was surrounded by was sacrifice. The greatest example of that sacrifice has always been my mother. She carried burdens many people will never see. She believed in me before I believed in myself. When my dreams sounded too ambitious, she never asked me to make them smaller — she reminded me to work harder. Every opportunity I've had was built on sacrifices she made quietly, asking for nothing in return except that I become the man she always knew I could be. If there is one person who deserves to celebrate every success I achieve, it is her.

Leaving Cameroon was one of the hardest decisions of my life. I wasn't simply boarding a plane — I was leaving behind family, familiarity, my culture, and everything I had ever known, in pursuit of a future that only existed inside my imagination. Most people only see the destination. Very few understand what it costs to leave home.

Starting over in another country means learning to be comfortable with loneliness. It means adapting to new cultures, new systems, and new expectations — while still carrying the hopes of everyone back home. The United Kingdom became my new chapter.

It wasn't easy. Things didn't go according to plan. Applications were rejected. Opportunities slipped away. Doors I expected to open stayed firmly closed. Every rejection asked me the same question: how badly do you want this? Each time, I chose to continue. Because rejection isn't the opposite of success — sometimes it is the path to it.

I chose to study Artificial Intelligence because I believe the future belongs to those who build it. I didn't want to spend my life watching innovation happen — I wanted to become part of it. But university taught me more than technology. It taught me patience, humility, perseverance — and that intelligence means very little without consistency.

Outside my studies, my mind was never still: business ideas, startups, content, brand building, learning, reading, planning, failing, starting again. I've launched ideas that never became companies. I've imagined futures that never happened. I've spent nights convinced I'd found the breakthrough, only to wake up realising I had to begin again. Every failure gave me something success couldn't — experience.

There have been moments when my discipline disappeared. Moments where procrastination won. Moments where fear disguised itself as perfectionism. Days where I questioned whether I was moving quickly enough, whether I was capable enough, whether my dreams were simply too big.

But discipline isn't about never falling. It's about refusing to stay on the ground. Every morning became another opportunity to begin again.

Through all of this, two people have consistently reminded me that I never walk alone. My mother, whose love has been the foundation beneath every step I've taken. And my girlfriend, whose belief in me has never depended on my achievements — she has celebrated the victories, encouraged me through disappointments, and supported dreams still invisible to the rest of the world. Having someone who believes in your potential during the quiet seasons is one of life's greatest gifts.

My faith has shaped me. There have been moments where I had nothing except prayer. Moments where I couldn't see the next step but trusted God enough to take it anyway. Faith didn't remove the obstacles — it gave me the strength to face them.

Today, many people would describe me as ambitious. They're right. But ambition alone isn't my identity. Curiosity is. Resilience is. Hope is. I don't dream of building companies because I want people to know my name — I dream of building companies because I want to solve problems that matter. I don't create because I want attention. I create because one idea can change a life, just as ideas have changed mine.

My mission has never been simply to become wealthy. Money is a tool. My real goal is freedom — the freedom to create, to innovate, to help others, and to prove that a young man who left Cameroon with nothing more than belief, faith, and relentless determination can build something that changes lives across the world.

This story is far from finished. There will be more setbacks, more criticism, more failures, more lessons. But there will also be victories that today's version of me cannot yet imagine.

One day, people may see successful companies, speeches, books, technologies, investments. What they won't always see is the young student who left home carrying the hopes of his family. The son who refused to waste his mother's sacrifices. The man strengthened by the love of a woman who believed in him before the world did. The believer who trusted God when the path made no sense. The entrepreneur who kept building after every rejection. And the dreamer from Cameroon who decided that where he started would never determine where he finished.

This is my story — not because I have already achieved everything I dream of, but because I chose never to stop becoming the man capable of achieving it.

Afryx Labs

Afryx Labs is a technology company built for Africa. Its conviction: the continent shouldn't just consume world-class software — it should produce it, engineered for its own institutions, infrastructure and realities. Mobile-first, Mobile Money native, low-bandwidth ready, AI-ready.

It runs a dual model: building and operating its own platforms, and working as an engineering partner for organisations that need serious software built properly. The team is distributed across the UK, Canada, the USA and the continent, working in English and French.

Two platforms are in flight: Kampus, an institution management platform in production with fee-paying schools, and O'pep, an interurban bus booking platform in development. Afryx Labs is built as a house of products, not a single bet.

Kampus

A complete institution management platform: admissions, academics, finance, communication and reporting in one system — with an AI layer that handles the operational work schools usually do by hand.

Engineered from the ground up: role-based auth, a full relational data model across two environments, four production AI modules, a mobile app, and privacy compliance built into the architecture rather than bolted on.

Now in production with its first partner schools, built and shipped by a growing distributed team with mentors who have decades in the domain. Designed for institutions underserved by enterprise software — priced and built for their reality.

O'pep

Interurban bus booking for Cameroon — search across agencies, compare prices and schedules, pick your seat from a live seat map, pay by Mobile Money, card, or at the counter. Think of it as the aggregator layer the sector never had.

Two-sided by design: a traveller app, and O'pep Business — free ticketing and quota software for agencies that keeps them in control of their own routes, fares and data. Offline-capable counters, live trip tracking, a loyalty programme, and full compliance with Cameroon's 2024 data protection law built in from day one.

A team of a dozen engineers, led through a single validation chain, shipping against a 24-week roadmap to the first pilot corridor.

Arcflow

An AI Chief of Staff for growing teams — built for the UK and international market, separate from Afryx. It starts with one sharp wedge — action tracking and accountability — then extends across the workflows around it: decisions get captured, commitments get followed up, nothing falls through.

Under the hood: a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline orchestrating specialised roles, a multi-tenant backend, subscription billing and a full transactional email layer — architected, built and shipped to production by one engineer.

Miyora AI

A skin intelligence platform — computer vision and AI-guided analysis turned into personalised skincare recommendations people can actually follow.

The interesting problem here is trust: making an AI recommendation feel as considered as a professional consultation. That shapes everything from the analysis pipeline to the tone of the product.

Agent Evals

Agents don't fail like models do. Single-shot accuracy hides the interesting failures: wrong plans, misused tools, ungrounded claims, drifted instructions, unrecovered errors, broken outputs. This project is a runnable harness built around a six-category failure taxonomy for exactly those patterns.

It runs a task suite across models and prompt variants, classifies every failure, and reports pass rate, cost and latency, so a prompt change that quietly breaks something gets caught before a user finds it. Built in public; results published as they land.