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The tech ecosystem is small, but sometimes it surprises you in the best way possible. Yesterday marked the official kickoff of the Esade eWorks Accelerator '26 cohort. The energy in the room was real, the founders are sharp, and the road ahead looks incredibly exciting. But the biggest highlight? My long-time friend Baran and I realized we are both in the same cohort, driving two different products forward! He’s scaling Corexi, and I’m building sdrwise. We had a quick chat right before the kickoff, laughing about how our paths keep crossing and how crazy it is that we’re now tackling this accelerator journey side by side. Two different visions, one cohort, and a ton of shared execution ahead. Let's go! 🚀

I've been in the tech and startup world for years. But even before moving to Portugal, a deep passion for food was brewing inside me. What started as making and selling healthy, sugar-free treats in Itu Magnet evolved into something much bigger once I arrived in Porto, from crafting traditional Turkish mezes to organizing pop-up events, and eventually diving into Culinary Arts training. Now, it’s time to take this passion to a whole new level. Big news is on the way... We are launching a brand-new adventure in Porto under the name Turco Porto, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of this journey. Stay tuned, details are coming very soon!

Sometimes success looks very different from what you imagined. A few years ago I thought it was all about growth charts, customers, and revenue. Today, I still care about those things. But I'm increasingly grateful for something else: The people I get to build with. The founders who keep going. The friends who take risks. The communities that form around shared ambition. Businesses come and go. Relationships compound. P.S. This picture was taken from the new office of a close friend. Seeing friends turn ideas into reality is one of the most underrated forms of motivation.

Why I am building an AI product that will intentionally kill my own consulting business. For the past 3 years, I’ve been running TechSales, helping over 40 startups build their GTM engines and manage their outbound sales pipelines. Teams pay thousands of Euros a month for this level of heavy operational execution. And now, with sdrwise, we are building a platform designed to make 90% of that manual execution completely obsolete. People ask me: “Why build something that replaces your own services?” Because the old way of doing outbound is fundamentally broken, inefficient, and too expensive for a modern founder. SDRs and growth leaders shouldn’t be spending half their week scrubbing messy spreadsheets, manually normalizing company names, or guessing if an email is going to bounce and burn their domain health. Our vision for sdrwise is simple: take over 90% of the daily, repetitive grunt work. 🔺 Parsing data 🔺 Contextual data normalization 🔺 Orchestrating the right channel at the exact right time 🔺 Generating high-converting draft templates that adapt based on real campaign replies I still strongly believe that outbound always needs a human touch for that final 10%, the relationships, the closing, and the strategy. But the operational chaos? The machine should handle it. If a founder is currently paying €1,000+ a month for heavy lead operations, and I can build an autonomous layer that cuts that cost by 50% or more while securing their domain infrastructure, I will be incredibly proud of that achievement. The future of sdrwise will ultimately be shaped by our users and closed beta partners. But the baseline mission is non-negotiable: putting the power of an entire outbound agency directly into the founder's or SDR's hands. If you're ready to stop wasting data budgets and start scaling safe outbound, drop a comment below or DM me!