// 01manifesto
est. mmxxtr · on-prem
— · 41°00'N 28°58'E · istanbul
knowhy · AI laboratory

Beyond WhatDiscover Why.

Not just what AI does — why it does it. We look beneath the surface: for models, products, and the teams that trust them.
lab outputWe solve hard problems.
00+product lines
00SaaS brands
0+enterprise clients
00deep specialties
discover
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laboratory · 02.00

What is a laboratory doing
with this many questions?

vision · 02.01

Knowhy is a research and production atelier. We make it our work to see the reason beneath the surface: why a voice may reveal Alzheimer's risk, why a birth chart feels familiar, why an institution's data should not leave its own perimeter.

Questions are our raw material. Models, products, and agents are the answers we build from them.

"Giving an answer is easy. Asking the right question — that is laboratory work."
structure · 02.02

We are hybrid by design: our own SaaS products on one side, enterprise AI systems on the other. We host open-source models in Turkey, retrain them on your data, and deploy them on your servers.

Eight people, eight disciplines. Each specialty is an answer; together they form the laboratory.

02.03 · what we do

One logic, four applications.

→ capabilities · 03.00
01 · saasConsumer productsFrom astrology to Alzheimer's risk analysis — four live applications under our own brands.
02 · gatewayFine-tuned models hosted in TurkeyWe compress billion-parameter models into practical budgets and serve them from our Turkey-based infrastructure.
03 · enterpriseCompany-specific agentsAgents that answer from an institution's own documents and policies without moving data to an external cloud.
04 · on-premData stays insideSystems that run on the institution's own servers without sending a single packet out.
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capabilities · 03.00

We shrink the model, build the agent,
and keep the data where it belongs.

03.01

SaaS products under our own brands.

Four consumer applications across astrology, health, and voice analysis. We design, train, and ship them directly from our own laboratory.

category health · astrology · hr
user b2c · b2b2c
architecture microservices
models voice · text · vision
03.02

Fine-tuned models hosted in Turkey.

We retrain open-source language models with your data and serve them from our own infrastructure. Massive models become practical VRAM footprints ready for production.

vram 128→6gb
latency <400ms
host tr · on-prem
domain tr · en · ar
03.03

Company-specific agent architecture.

Executive assistants, agents working inside ERP/CRM systems, and systems that read market and data flows to produce decisions. Each agent learns the client's tools and policies.

tooling erp · crm · sql
audit full log
policy role-based
memory in-house
03.04

On-prem AI: data stays inside.

We install the model, vector database, and gateway on the institution's own servers. University, city, or enterprise data is processed with full sovereignty.

egress none
deploy k8s · docker
model llama · mistral · qwen
support 24×7 sla
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enterprise · 05.00

AI for universities,
municipalities and institutions.

approach · 05.01

When an institution works with us, it builds its own model, its own data layer, and its own policy. We design the architecture, build it, and keep it alive; the data stays under the institution's roof.

A student asks, a citizen submits a request, an executive makes a decision. Every institution's assistant speaks from its own documents and applies its own policy.

"Trusting AI to the outside is a decision. We propose the opposite."
outputs · 05.02

Fast path: an assistant working from existing institutional documents — 4 weeks. Middle path: an ERP/CRM-integrated agent — 6-10 weeks. Long path: fully on-prem architecture, fine-tuned model, internal vector DB, and continuous support.

At every stage, the client receives code, documentation, and training — not a dependent license.

05.03 · selected clients

What we have built together.

10+ enterprise clients
01Hacı Bayram Veli Universityuniversity · ankara
02Osmaniye Korkut Ata Universityuniversity · osmaniye
03Social Sciences University of Ankarauniversity · ankara
04Yeditepe Universityuniversity · istanbul
05Giresun Municipalitymunicipality · giresun
0610+ more clients
case · 05.0400We reduced a massive language model into a production variant running with 6 GB VRAM.
case · 05.0500weeksA university assistant answering from institutional regulations — from concept to live.
case · 05.060egressAn enterprise client's data reached its model without sending a packet to the outside network.
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team · 06.00 · eight people

One laboratory,
eight specialties.

06.01 · team composition

Software, model training, product, and operations — eight names around one laboratory. Different disciplines, same question.

01İÇİskender ÇevikFounder, Full-Stack Developeristanbul
02TKTalha KarakuşChatbot Developerankara
03Muhammed ÇalışkanAI Model Specialististanbul
04İÜİlber Çağ ÜstünSoftware Architectistanbul
05GKGüven KarakuşMarketing Strategistankara
06APAslı PeriAI Model Specialististanbul
07CBCeyhun BingölCustomer Supportremote
08YDYusuf DenizCustomer Supportremote
contact · 07.00

Do you have a why?
Tell us — let's build from there.

An enterprise AI project, a SaaS collaboration, or simply the right question. Whatever it is, we are one email away.