Annette
Thompson.
Adoption.com, 1995. Before Google.
I built my first internet company in 1995 before most people had heard the word "browser."
Small and medium business owners hire me to build agentic workflows that run without them. Automated intake, follow-up sequences, routing: the repetitive work that eats owner time and leaks revenue. I build the system. It runs. They get their time back.
I didn't wait for the manual.
In 1994, I got online for the first time and immediately recognized the web's transformative potential. Within two months, I taught myself to build database-driven websites and launched adoption.com, the first online platform connecting adoptive families with children overseas. Google didn't yet exist.
This pattern defines my career: when a new technology emerges with genuine potential to create impact, I dive in, master it, and build solutions that matter. Across every venture, I have personally led IT infrastructure, internet marketing, website development, and search engine optimization, delivering results that consistently outperformed industry standards.
I brought that same hands-on approach to AI, and built Verity Agentic to deploy it for businesses that are ready to stop experimenting and start running real systems.
I've done this before. At Capgemini, one of the world's top management consulting firms, I advised large enterprises on their internet strategies at the exact moment the web was transforming business. My job was translating an emerging technology into operational reality for organizations that were uncertain, risk-averse, and skeptical. That's the same work I do with AI today.
My clients are SMB owners and solo operators who've hit the ceiling on what manual processes can sustain. They're spending hours on intake that could be automated, chasing follow-ups that should send themselves, and routing work by hand that a system could handle in seconds. They're not looking for an AI strategy presentation. They want the system built and running.
From Africa to the AI frontier.
After launching adoption.com, I didn't settle into a comfortable tech career. I moved to Ethiopia, founded an orphanage, and built an international adoption program from scratch: no playbook, no template, no predecessor to copy. I later did the same in Kenya and Haiti.
Along the way, I built an ESL teacher recruitment and training business that placed instructors across China, and earned a BS in Medical Technology.
I'm a medical technologist who codes. A humanitarian who builds businesses. A serial founder who doesn't stop at one idea. If there's a thread running through it all, it's this: I find capability that's being underused and put it to work for people who need it.
I've never built anything I wasn't willing to be accountable for. That's what working in environments with real human stakes does to a builder.
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