Fouad Akkad
Founder · Product Strategist · Builder
EDM Producer · Sound Designer · Plugin Dev
I'm Fouad Akkad — a founder, product strategist, and builder with over 18 years of experience shipping digital products that people actually use. I've led product and design across government platforms, media organizations, and cultural institutions, always with the same obsession: clarity over complexity, execution over theory.
Today I build AI-native products — tools that solve real problems, not demos dressed up as startups. Every product I touch starts with a question: does this need to exist? If yes, I make it excellent. If no, I move on.
Under the name Etherest, I produce electronic music — deep, textured, and cinematic. What started as a creative outlet became a second discipline: sound design, mixing, mastering, and eventually building the tools I wished existed.
Music taught me to trust my ears, iterate relentlessly, and ship things that feel right — not just function correctly. The overlap between product and production is bigger than most people think.
BeatSync analyzes your track's rhythm, energy, and structure, then generates perfectly synchronized visuals. No editing timeline. No manual keyframing. Just your music and AI that actually listens. Upload a track, get a release-ready video in under 60 seconds — built so artists can post daily without the editing grind.
Try BeatSync →Aldric is an AI strategy engine that helps founders, operators, and product teams make better decisions — faster. It synthesizes market data, competitive intelligence, and internal context into actionable strategic recommendations. Confidence-scored, context-aware analysis — consulting-grade insights in minutes, not weeks.
Join Early Access →Electronic music producer, sound designer, and relentless experimenter. Deep bass, cinematic textures, and beats that hit different. Music is the other half of everything I do.
Listen →Professional VST plugins for mastering and mixing — ToneMatch EQ, Iron Limiter, Vox Chain, and more. Built from production needs, not feature checklists.
Explore Plugins →BeatSync lives at the intersection of both worlds — AI meets music production. Built by a producer who understands what artists actually need.
Explore BeatSync →18+ years. Dozens of products. One consistent approach: build what people actually need.
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Captures the tonal profile of a reference track and applies it in real-time.
Get Plugin →All-in-one vocal processor. Precision EQ, compression, saturation, stereo enhancement.
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