She didn't wait for the manual.

In 1994, Annette got online for the first time and immediately recognized the web's transformative potential. Within two months, she taught herself 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 her career: when a new technology emerges with genuine potential to create impact, Annette dives in, masters it, and builds solutions that matter. Across every venture, she has personally led IT infrastructure, internet marketing, website development, and search engine optimization, delivering results that consistently outperformed industry standards.

She is applying that same hands-on expertise to AI through Verity Agentic.

Annette Thompson relaxing in a natural hot spring in Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
1989
BS in Medical Technology
1995
First internet company founded
3
Countries with orphanages founded
7
Children adopted
30+
Years building real systems
Annette Thompson at the Boulder Flatirons, Colorado
At the Flatirons

From Africa to the AI frontier.

After launching adoption.com, Annette didn't settle into a comfortable tech career. She moved to Ethiopia, founded an orphanage, and built an international adoption program from scratch: no playbook, no template, no predecessor to copy. She later did the same in Kenya and Haiti.

Along the way, she adopted seven children of her own, built an ESL teacher recruitment and training business that placed instructors across China, and earned a BS in Medical Technology.

She's 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: she finds capability that's being underused and puts it to work for people who need it.

Whether in humanitarian work or technology, Annette's throughline is clear: she identifies underused capabilities and deploys them to solve meaningful problems for people.

The track
record.
1989
BS in Medical Technology
Earned a rigorous scientific foundation that shapes how she reads research and evaluates systems today.
1994
First step online
Got online during the Mosaic/Netscape era, immediately saw what the web could become, and started building.
1995
Founded adoption.com
Taught herself ColdFusion and built one of the internet's first adoption platforms, connecting families with children overseas.
1998
Ethiopia: orphanage + adoption program
Moved to Ethiopia and founded an orphanage and international adoption program from the ground up.
2000s
Kenya + Haiti programs
Expanded the same model to Kenya and Haiti, building infrastructure from nothing in each country.
2015
E-Teach Abroad
Recruited English teachers from 7 countries, trained and certified them online, and placed them in schools across China. Traveled to China 15 times in 4 years.
2019
Director, Bone Voyage Dog Rescue
Organized and flew 4,000 Mexican rescue dogs to adoptive families across the US and Canada. Because if she can fix the system, she does.
2024–
Verity Agentic
Went all-in on AI systems. Building the kind of practical, truth-driven agentic infrastructure that actually runs in the real world.

Let's cut through
the noise.

Most founders are drowning in AI options and short on time. Annette's job is to cut through that and build what actually runs.

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