yahia ibrahim

I'm Yahia, the 17-year-old founder of Hearth Books. After losing my Lebanese grandmother before I'd learned how she made any of her recipes, I built Hearth — a service that AI-calls grandmothers in their language, captures their recipes and stories, and binds them into hardcover cookbooks the family can keep. I can speak to: teen founder experience building a real DTC product, applying AI to family memory preservation, the immigrant heritage angle of food memory, why most families lose grandmother recipes within one generation, and the technical and ethical considerations of building AI products that interact with elderly users. Based in Ottawa, Canada. Available for short-deadline quotes by email.