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Salim Kızılay

I saw industry from the inside, then wrote its software

I started as an electrical officer at sea, then came ashore into industry: production planning at Avery Dennison, quality at Arçelik. I ran my own wholesale and retail business for six years. Today I am a shareholder and business development manager at Siam Group, running global operations for five pet-care brands.

Different stops, one thing in common: I always saw the process from the inside. The shift, the supply chain, the quality record, the order flow — not through a report, but as the person responsible.

Across all of it I kept seeing the same thing: companies with good products stall because they cannot see their own processes.

My master's thesis went after exactly that — digital transformation and agility in manufacturing. I ran a field study across five industrial zones in Turkey's Trakya region with 45 company representatives, talking one to one with engineers, supervisors and managers.

What stayed with me was not a conclusion but a method: ask the person who runs the process every day.

Then I started writing the code

For the past eighteen months I have been building products with AI. I came to software from the operating side: I saw the need in an operation I was responsible for, and built the tool afterwards. They all point at the same place — small and mid-sized businesses with heavy processes, real regulation, and software that always got postponed.

SRCAI
A multi-tenant management platform for driving schools and vocational training centres. The project I have worked on longest; it runs at srcai.com.tr.
IEGuard
Risk analysis and strategy suggestions for manufacturing SMEs with a strong product range that have not yet opened up to export.
iegrd.com (opens in a new tab)
CommerceWard
Connects to Trendyol, Hepsiburada, Amazon and its own storefront over their APIs and runs trade end to end. Four specialist AI agents handle listing, pricing, content and advertising. A policy engine sits above them: prices cannot go below the floor, high-risk actions drop into a human approval queue, and no agent except support can touch personal data. Every step is written to an audit trail — automation, yes; loss of control, no.
beatnesty.com (opens in a new tab)
Petpood
Where CommerceWard runs on a real operation — my own pet e-commerce business. I test the engine in a business whose invoices land on my desk, not in a demo.
petpood.com (opens in a new tab)

How I work

I ask the person who runs the process.
That was the method in my field research: 45 companies, one-to-one interviews. I design at the desk of the person doing the work, not in the meeting room.
I run it in my own business first.
Petpood runs my own pet operation. Before I recommend a tool to anyone else, it has already run in a business whose invoices land on my desk.
I take it to production and keep it there.
A working prototype proves nothing. Everything above is live on its own domain and maintained by me.
Compliance and accessibility are not bolted on.
Training records for SRC and ADR are regulated; data protection sits in the architecture from day one. This site makes zero third-party requests and sets no cookies — the proof is the page you are reading.

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