Kingsley Onuorah Engineers Fitness Space To Extend Beyond WhatsApp Groups

Bibi is an AI-powered smart agent that understands users’ behaviour including relevant user context, interprets input and provides guidance consistent with the broader Fitness Space approach.

New Haven, Enugu, August 30th, 2026 — Fitness Space announced the debut of Bibi AI, an agent that can onboard users, understand their goals, generate culture-fit meal guidance and home workouts, provide personalised recommendations and maintain regular interactions and updates that support accountability. For Kingsley Onuorah, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fitness Space, that created a more complex problem than building a chatbot. Before Fitness Space became a technology platform, much of its weight-loss system was delivered manually through WhatsApp groups. Users received guidance, tracked healthy activities and participated in communities designed to help them remain consistent.

“This created an unusual engineering challenge: how do you turn a system developed through years of interaction with real users into scalable technology without losing the personalisation and accountability that made the original model useful?,” said Onuorah. The approach reflected an engineering principle often associated with Elon Musk: before optimising a product or process, the first question should be whether it should exist at all. Building something efficiently does not create value if it should never have been built in the first place. “Fitness Space had an advantage. The engineering team was not starting with an abstract product specification. It was building around processes that had already been tested with real users.” Onuorah concluded.

Bibi also interacts with users through WhatsApp, not just on the Fitness Space app. The technical challenge is therefore not about forcing every interaction into one application, but connecting the different parts of the experience. Fitness Space’s early WhatsApp model helped the company understand how people behaved while trying to lose weight. As the model developed, different components became increasingly connected: nutrition, portion control, workouts, daily movement, healthy routines, accountability and community.

Delivering these experiences manually, however, placed natural limits on personalisation and scale. Onuorah’s work has involved translating those processes into technology without duplicating a WhatsApp programme inside an app.

Fitness Space has also developed a Health Score that measures consistency around everyday healthy activities. Weight is an important outcome, but it changes over time. Daily actions provide more immediate signals. By understanding whether users are completing workouts, remaining active, following nutrition guidance and performing other recommended activities, the platform can provide feedback about the behaviours supporting their goals. Those signals can also give Bibi additional context for more personalised interactions.

Engineering Fitness Space also means designing around the realities of its users. Devices vary. Connectivity varies. Eating habits differ. Even apparently straightforward capabilities such as tracking physical activity can behave differently across smartphones and operating systems. For Onuorah, scalability therefore means more than infrastructure capable of handling additional users. It means taking a system that once depended heavily on direct human interaction and developing technology capable of preserving its context, personalisation and accountability as the company grows.