About

I'm Mike Oladapo. I build software for how African business actually works, from Lagos.

Most software, and most AI advice, is built for markets where invoices go through accounting systems, addresses geocode cleanly, and everyone pays by card. That's not where I work. In Nigeria, a small business sends its invoice in a WhatsApp message and gets paid by bank transfer. Software that ignores this fails quietly. Software built around it works. That gap, between how business is supposed to happen and how it actually happens here, is where I build.

Through Epigrams, the product studio I lead, I'm behind Brik, an invoicing and payments tool built around how Nigerian small businesses actually get paid; Gidabook, rental records and owner reporting for property managers whose rent arrives by bank transfer and whose landlords want proof; Camora, a privacy-first memory app for iPhone and Mac; and Inksong, an AI writing tool. Epigrams started as just me; today a team builds there with me. I also lead product work at Digismart Ltd, which builds software for businesses and institutions.

The second half of my work follows from the first. Because I build with AI daily, I know its real capabilities and limits from practice, not from headlines. I help African business leaders and institutions adopt it accordingly: deciding what's worth doing now, what's noise, and what will matter in three years. I've done that work directly, with companies in fuel distribution, transport, media, and education. I publish a weekly essay on exactly this at mikeoladapo.com.

Further out, my focus is AI literacy and workforce readiness at scale. Since 2018 I've helped organize ten business and technology conferences across Lagos, Zanzibar, and Doha, from the Super Intelligence Entrepreneurial Conference series to the Global Future Tech Conference. With my niece, I started BizTechTeens, a community for Gen Z founders. I think Africa's next two decades turn on how fast its people and institutions learn to wield these tools. That's the problem I expect to spend the most important part of my career on.

I'm a person of faith, and it shapes how I work: build things that are useful, deal honestly, and take the long view.

If you want to talk, about AI in your organization, a speaking engagement, or one of the products, the Work with me page is the door.