Ondoway
A local storyteller in your pocket that adapts as you walk.
Co-founder & Chief Technology OfficerAI travel companionPrivate betaConcurrent with Apple
I own product strategy, AI architecture, and end-to-end engineering in the founding team. I designed, architected, coded, and operate the whole system.
Walking tours rarely know where a listener is, what they care about, or how much time they have.
A good tour ties accurate stories to the exact corner in front of you, your interests, and your walking constraints.
A provenance-aware Neo4j knowledge graph grounds every story.
A deterministic tour engine plans and sequences the route, and GPS triggers narration at each stop.
FastAPI backend, authoring tools, and a Flutter mobile app.
Private beta with early testers, including Wharton Executive MBA peers, in New York City and Paris, the first launch city.
I turned their feedback into route-sequencing priorities.
Every spoken sentence traces back to a sourced beat.
I evaluate with frozen human-labeled cases, blinded comparisons, evidence checks, and code-enforced gates.
I rejected a cheaper LLM judge after calibration exposed false rejections of valid paraphrases, separating model-quality failures from truncation before making the cost decision.
I instrument model and prompt identity, tokens, latency, responses, evidence, and the cost of every generation and narration, failed attempts included, to guide debugging, model selection, and unit economics.
