Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen
Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen is an individual software engineer and creator, not a separately identified company. His public work focuses on making automation durable, readable, programmable, self-hosted, and easier to operate; his principal current project is WOML (Workflow Orchestration Markup Language).
At a Glance
- Developers and engineering teams that want workflows in Git
- Teams building self-hosted, long-running, stateful, concurrent, or operationally important automations
- AI coding agents and teams building supervised AI-agent workflows
- Businesses needing backend automation, data workflows, human operations, or communication workflows
AI Tools by Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen
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WOML
Workflow Markup Language Runtime
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An open, executable, HTML-inspired format and self-hosted runtime for durable workflow applications. The woml-cli package supplies the woml command, Bun script runtime, and native Rust engine.
A JavaScript/TypeScript tool for managing and executing lifecycle hooks in applications.
A type-safe environment-variable validation tool for Node.js applications.
A TypeScript tool for generating mock data for GraphQL schemas.
Market Position
WOML positions itself between visual automation tools and traditional code-first orchestration frameworks: unlike n8n and Zapier it keeps workflow structure in readable source files and avoids a visual-canvas ceiling; unlike Temporal it presents the orchestration structure as a document-like language; unlike AWS Step Functions it is self-hosted and not tied to a cloud control plane. The stated differentiators are readable markup, inline JavaScript, durable execution, Git reviewability, and self-hosted ownership.
Leadership
Founders
Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen
Software Engineer. His public GitHub profile identifies him by name and links to his LinkedIn and Medium; LinkedIn search results describe him as a Senior Software Engineer in Tunisia, with experience at 8returns and a Software Engineer role at SAP.
Executive Team
Mohamed Ali Ben Othmen
Creator and maintainer of WOML
Software Engineer; GitHub owner and principal contributor for the public WOML repository, and author of the associated Medium writing.
Founding Story
WOML is based on the idea that an automation should not have to be abandoned and rewritten as a backend service when it becomes important. The project was created to combine readable, HTML-inspired workflow structure with real JavaScript, durable execution, source control, and operational controls, so a workflow can begin small and grow into durable software without changing its fundamental model.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The public project is distributed as an open-source, self-hosted CLI/runtime under Apache License 2.0. Public sources describe installation through npm, Bun, pnpm, or a shell installer and do not describe a paid hosted plan or subscription model.
Pricing Tiers
Available through npm, Bun, pnpm, or the install script; Apache License 2.0.
Target Markets
- Developers and engineering teams that want workflows in Git
- Teams building self-hosted, long-running, stateful, concurrent, or operationally important automations
- AI coding agents and teams building supervised AI-agent workflows
- Businesses needing backend automation, data workflows, human operations, or communication workflows
- Customer onboarding, order fulfillment, invoice processing, and compliance review
- AI support, research, content, and human-supervised agent workflows
- Data import, validation, transformation, classification, iteration, and storage
- Webhook processing, scheduled jobs, event-driven services, and workflow APIs
- Approval chains, moderation, escalation, and incident response
- Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp-driven workflows