Kinage
Forward Deployed PM · AI Strategy
Forward-deployed production AI for regulated healthcare and fintech clients. Embedded with operators, shipping agentic workflows, and turning analyst overrides into production quality gates.
Kinage work →Forward Deployed PM · Regulated Production
Lapo Odunjo
AI Product · Trust Systems & Regulated Infrastructure
I go by Lapo, from Lagos to Bradford to New York. I build AI that has to survive compliance officers, fraud analysts, and hospital nurses, not just demo well.
Open to Forward Deployed PM, AI Product Manager, and Staff PM roles where production adoption is the job.
Operator dossier: case studies, production metrics, and how I think about trust under scrutiny.
- 22%→50% precision · agentic compliance, top-10 U.S. bank
- $600K estimated annual client savings · Kinage
- 5K+ KOVA testers in first two months
Selected work
The proof behind the headline.
Right now
What I'm building in production.
KOVA
Co-Founder · Credit Infrastructure
WhatsApp-native credit for Nigeria's informal economy. TradeScore, progressive lending, and collector vouching. 5K testers in the first two months.
Case study →Leadership
Board and student government, while shipping.
Wharton Graduate Association
$6M annual budget · 1,700+ MBA students
Goldman Sachs Community Builder Fellow
Board governance framework for Philadelphia nonprofit College Together
Trailblazer Fellowship
Merit scholarship, The Wharton School
Wharton Tech Club
Programming for Wharton's largest student-run tech community
The person
Besides the work.
I'm a committed Man United fan in difficult times and a France supporter who thinks Mbappé, Dembélé, and Olise together is the most exciting forward line in football, with a soft spot for Cherki. I've lived in Lagos, Bradford, New York, Atlanta, and Philadelphia, and I'm still not sure which one actually counts as home. I've been to 36 countries and have strong, unsolicited opinions about airport lounges. I'm already planning a Brazil trip for Carnival 2027, which is either excellent foresight or a sign I have too many group chats, alongside a family trip to Mauritius that's somehow easier to plan than either.
- Chemical engineer who became a PM because I kept asking why the system failed after the math was right
- Co-founded KOVA because I'd seen how credit actually works in Lagos, not how banks pretend it works
- Still the kid who reads systems before reading the room
- Will show up to a basketball game in an Ichigo Kurosaki shirt and mean it
- Believes the best product feedback sounds like your friends laughing at you in a library lounge
Life lately
More on About →
Reading lately
Berlin
A novel about arriving somewhere unfamiliar and figuring out who you are in rooms that don't quite fit yet. I keep returning to books about that feeling.
Team of Teams
The most useful management book I've read for thinking about AI systems that need human judgment in the loop.
On rotation
Man United matchdays
Committed fan in difficult times — still watching every week.
Bleach · manga past bedtime
Still the guy who reads past lights-out, Ichigo shirt optional.
Where I've landed
Full journey →Lagos1990s–2014
Reading systems before I had words for it.
Bradford2015–2020
First time being the only one in the room who looked like me.
Philadelphia2024–2026
Shipped Kinage in production while writing papers. Did not sleep enough.
New York2026–present
Back. Building now.
“The bottleneck is trust, not accuracy. Designing for adoption under scrutiny is harder than improving benchmark numbers, and it is the one that actually matters.”
How I build
Principles I ship by.
Writing
The parts of me that don't fit a case study.
Built inside
- Kinage
- Amazon
- TD Bank
- Capital One
- Wharton MBA
- Columbia M.S.
Connect
FDPM, AI PM, or Staff PM in regulated production?
Open to Forward Deployed PM, AI Product Manager, and Staff PM roles where production adoption is the job.