About Ruth Okolo
Ruth Okolo
AI Product Builder · Product Engineer · Founder of RuthVerse·Building AI-powered consumer products
I can spend hours building because I genuinely love what I do. Every app I create comes from passion, curiosity, and the desire to make something meaningful.
Ruth Okolo is an AI Product Builder and Product Engineer, and founder of RuthVerse, her independent studio for AI-powered consumer products. She owns the full loop: understanding what people need, designing the experience, building in SwiftUI and Next.js, and shipping to TestFlight and production with AI features that include retrieval, tools, and guardrails.
My journey
Her journey began in telecommunications sales, where she learned to listen before pitching, handle objections, and build trust fast. That habit of hearing what people actually need still shapes every product she ships. A BSc. in Mathematics from the University of Saskatchewan gave her a systems mindset for patterns, logic, and user behaviour; she taught herself iOS, data science, UI/UX, and CI/CD, and now ships as an AI Product Builder with product design training (Google UX Design certificate) supporting clarity and craft.
How I build
Today Ruth works independently as the founder of RuthVerse. She owns the full build: product discovery, UX, SwiftUI and web implementation, TestFlight and Vercel releases, and AI features in production. There is no handoff between idea and code. The same person who asks whether a feature should exist ships it and watches real people use it in beta.
RuthVerse apps
CleerSplit helps groups split shared expenses without awkward money tension. Specly connects people through shared activities and real world meetups. Renoura helps users track subscriptions, spot spending patterns, and cancel what no longer serves them. Each app is designed and built from start to finish under the RuthVerse name.
AI & community
Ruth also builds with AI across her stack, from prototyping with Cursor to shipping production features with RAG, tool calling, and the RuthVerse Product Guide on ruthverse.com. She documents how she works on her AI case studies page and shares the process openly with the builder community. Outside the codebase, she helps energize local builder communities, including Cursor meetups that have brought hundreds of people together in person.
Her work is still defined by the same instincts as always: a strong eye for detail, a user first mindset, and a deep desire to make software feel clear, human, and trustworthy. She is a fast learner, always eager to grow, expanding her thinking, picking up something new, and sharpening her skills with every app she ships.
Background
BSc. Mathematics
University of Saskatchewan
AI Product Builder
Consumer products & production AI
Product Engineer
Idea to TestFlight & web
RuthVerse
Apps I build
