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Create Flawless Skills/Prompts with the “DRAW” Method
All you have to do now is paint the right picture, as flawless and complete as possible, and let the agent connect the dots and fill in the blanks for you.
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Lifelong Builder.
In 2022, I made a bet: the future belongs to generalists who bridge deep tech and business, not specialists in either. It paid off.
Since then I've built AI and healthcare startups, run an SEO/GEO project to #1 in LLM rankings, and studied Computer Science magna cum laude at Bilkent, and this is where I write about how.
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Some of What I Built
- RelayFormer Co-Founder & CTO
Led the engineering behind a self-improving reasoning OS ("Company Brain") that captures a team's tacit knowledge and live reasoning, run daily by the companies that used it. As a team, we closed one of the biggest telecommunication giants as our design partner.
- A Sip of AIFounder
Founded an AI education company that reached millions organically, built a community of 250+ students, and gained thousands of followers.
- LisanaFounder
Built and scaled a B2B Gynecological Patient-Tracking SaaS to approx. 4-figure ARR with 15+ doctors onboarded.
Watch the demo - SEO & GEO#1 in LLM rankings
Dominated LLM rankings (#1 across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini), achieving 10x revenue for my client in the healthcare industry.
- The AI BibleAuthor
Wrote a technical curriculum book on AI called "The AI Bible" (500+ pages).
Read the book - ConsultingAI & Data Consultant
Advised a few established organizations on AI & data strategy through Dialectica (including Toucan Toco, permission granted).
- Teaching & MentorshipBilkent University
Teaching Assistant for GE401/402 and MAN 495, advising 35+ startup and business project teams (230+ students) on pitch decks, market research, idea validation, and business capstones.
- VeriFactBuilder
A real-time agent that cross-checks live speech against reference docs at ~1.4s latency to catch costly misinformation in high-stakes meetings.
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Building LLM Applications for Companies When Their Data Is Private
A real consulting case: when a company's data can't leave the building, both AWS and self-hosting fall short. The overlooked third option is open-source cloud.
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Email: egehan.mergen@gmail.com