I'm the co-founder and COO of Bluedot, a Y Combinator (W23) company that built software and payments infrastructure for EV fleets. We raised $5.5M+ and serve customers like Rivian, Hertz, Genentech, Duke Energy, the City of San Francisco, and the City of Seattle.

At Bluedot, the market didn't come with clean budget lines, obvious buyers, or established language. We had to make it legible first then build products fleets could actually adopt. That meant turning fragmented charging, reimbursement, and payments workflows into software, and building the go-to-market motion around it from scratch. I led product discovery and enterprise sales across complex buying groups: operations, finance, procurement, drivers, and shaped both what we built and how we sold it.

I grew up in Turkey and moved to the US after college to start a company. I studied psychology and business at Boğaziçi University and later spent time at Nova School of Business and Economics.

Before Bluedot, I built in-car applications for Mercedes, Audi, and Renault, launched a textbook-sharing platform, and co-created TOKTUT, a nonprofit that helped distribute more than 70,000 meals during the pandemic. More recently, I built DECISION.md, an open-source project about encoding judgment into AI agents.

I'm interested in decision-making, poker, mental health, robotics, and the intersection of research and the real world.

writing
AI as a Patient Advocacy Infrastructure

AI Will Benefit Women the Most

AI Can Associate. It Can't Bisociate.

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personal essays on meaning, ambition, and moving through the world.

projects

DECISION.md

an open-source framework for encoding decision-making judgment into AI agents. adds the missing layer between agent identity and capabilities: how an agent should handle tradeoffs, calibrate confidence, and navigate risk.

ai agents decision theory open source live demo

where it sits in the agent stack:

SOUL.md
identity: who the agent is, its values and personality
SKILL.md
capabilities: what the agent can do, its tools and knowledge
AGENTS.md
coordination: how agents delegate and work together
DECISION.md
judgment: how the agent handles tradeoffs, risk, and uncertainty
the missing layer

try it — answer five tradeoff questions, get a mini DECISION.md snippet:

your DECISION.md snippet

                    

Bluedot

software and payments infrastructure for electric fleet operations. charging access, reimbursement workflows, vehicle analytics. Y Combinator W23.

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