Personal Facilitator✦Co-Director · FI Türkiye✦Co-founder · The Brutally Honest✦Founder · Start Practice✦AI Trainer · SAGE Hq✦Workshops · AB Xelerate · ABH · WDCD✦Builder of Atlas & AZG✦Based in Helsinki✦Personal Facilitator✦Co-Director · FI Türkiye✦Co-founder · The Brutally Honest✦Founder · Start Practice✦AI Trainer · SAGE Hq✦Workshops · AB Xelerate · ABH · WDCD✦Builder of Atlas & AZG✦Based in Helsinki✦

I make a one-person brand run like a small studio — and stay around while you grow.

Personal facilitator for solo founders, coaches and personal brand builders. Brand sites, public products people sign up to, internal tools and a small AI team — built, shipped and kept running. You work with me directly.

How we'd work together

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Currently based in

Helsinki, Finland

● Building mode

Where I currently show up

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Founder Institute

Co-Director, Türkiye chapter

Running the world's largest pre-seed accelerator for Turkish founders. Mentoring, programming, the whole thing.

The Brutally Honest

Co-founder · 4 sub-brands

Mentor, Angel, Innovator and Ecosystem — four sister brands helping founders, angels, corporates and program managers make better startup decisions.

Start Practice

Founder · free 16-week program

An open program that walks aspiring founders from idea to a shipped first version. No fee, no gatekeeping.

SAGE Hq

AI Trainer & LMS Lead

Helping young adults build 21st-century skills through hands-on entrepreneurship and innovation programs.

Pick your path

Why are you here today?

I'm building my own brand

Be my personal facilitator.

Set up my platforms, automations and content system — then stay around while I grow. One-off setup or ongoing partnership.

See how we'd work I want to use your tools

Copy my system, not me.

Atlas — the duplicable workspace I use to run content, notes and network. Plus a free 16-week founder program.

Explore products I run a program / cohort

Train my founders.

Live AI and founder-marketing workshops for accelerators and startup programs — already delivered across EU, Africa and the Caucasus.

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New product

Atlas — the system I use, you copy.

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New · Duplicable workspace

Run your personal brand from one place.

Atlas is a workspace you duplicate into your own setup. Content pipeline, daily notes, network and follow-ups — managed systematically. Stop juggling five tools.

See what's inside Atlas

Atlas v0.2

Recent builds · the receipts

What "personal facilitator" looks like in practice.

Each chapter is one founder I've worked with — what they needed, what I shipped for them, and what changed in their week after.

Ch. 01

For

Beliz Bediz Sinan

Behumbo · solo founder, coach & mentor

The need

"I'm running my whole practice alone. I need a real home on the web, a product founders can actually take — and I can't keep being the one who writes every post and chases every lead."

What changed

Behumbo now has a proper brand site, a productised assessment platform founders can sign up to, and a small AI team running content, sales and marketing alongside her — so a one-person practice operates like a small studio.

What I built

01 / 03

01Web

behumbo.co — brand site, end to end

Designed and shipped her public site at behumbo.co — positioning, offers, booking flow. One clear home for new founders finding her work.

Ch. 02

For

The Brutally Honest

Our own house · 4 sub-brands, 2-person team

The need

"We're two people running a house of four brands. We need real websites, a flagship product we can actually sell, full measurement across everything, and the day-to-day to stop eating us alive."

What changed

All four sub-brands live on shipped sites, our startup assessment platform is in the hands of founders and programs, every channel is properly measured, and our weekly operating loop runs on AI agents and internal tools instead of two human calendars.

What I built

01 / 05

01Web

Four sub-brand websites, one house

Designed and shipped websites for all four sub-brands under thebrutallyhonest.co — consistent house identity, each with its own offer, audience and conversion path.

Ch. 03

For

SAGE Hq

Our own brand · AI Trainer & LMS Lead

The need

"We want to package and sell our trainings properly — not as files in a folder, but as real courses people can buy, take and finish."

What changed

SAGE Hq's trainings now live on a proper learning platform — structured curricula, video lessons and a clean buying flow — so the team can sell and deliver online instead of doing every cohort by hand.

What I built

01 / 01

01Product

Learning platform for SAGE Hq's online trainings

Stood up the LMS the team uses to build and sell SAGE Hq's online trainings — course structure, video lessons, curriculum design and the editing flow behind them, end to end.

More chapters being added as we ship. See how we'd work together.

Services

Your personal facilitator.

One-off setup in 2–3 weeks, or an ongoing partnership where I quietly handle the digital side while you do the work only you can do.

Setup: platform · automation · tracking
Ongoing: content ops · AI workflows · tools
Direct with me. No PMs, no decks.

See what's included

Products

Things you can use today.

Workspaces, a free founder program and a weekly newsletter I've shipped for solo founders building their own brand — no waiting list, no sales call.

Atlas — duplicable workspace for your personal brand
AZG — operating system for your personal life
Start Practice — free 16-week founder program
Thinking In Public — weekly newsletter

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About

The person friends call when their digital setup is a mess.

Co-Director at Founder Institute Türkiye. Co-founder at The Brutally Honest. I take "this should just work" problems and turn them into systems that actually do — for people building their own brand, one founder at a time.

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What people say

Receipts from founders, coaches and cohort folks.

The case files above are the what. These quotes are the how it felt.

Working with Alperen is the closest thing to having a whole digital team in one person. Our site, the assessment platform, the AI mentor inside it, the agents running our content and outreach — all of it came from him. I genuinely haven't needed to hire anyone else for the digital side of the company.

Ozan Sönmez

Co-founder, The Brutally Honest · Startup mentor & angel investor

I was trying to run my whole practice alone — site, content, sales, follow-ups, all of it. Alperen built behumbo.co, turned my assessment into a real platform founders can sign up to, and set up an AI team that handles the operational layer I used to carry by hand. A one-person practice that finally feels like a small studio.

Beliz Bediz Sınan

Founder · Behumbo

We needed our online trainings to live somewhere proper, not in a folder. Alperen stood up our learning platform end to end — structure, video lessons, the editing flow behind them. No agency, no back-and-forth, just shipped.

Evre Peştereli

SAGE Hq

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