About Cem Koşmaz

An economist and serial entrepreneur who now builds AI.

Founder with successful exits across telecom, food, and hospitality — and, since 2024, a hands-on builder of production AI systems. 27+ years of operating experience behind every recommendation.

Summary

From running companies to shipping AI.

Cem Koşmaz holds a BSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ). Over 27+ years he founded and scaled businesses in telecom, food, and hospitality — with three successful exits — while serving as a board member and management consultant along the way.

His expertise sits at the intersection of technology and business: building robust organizational frameworks across IT, operations, and finance, implementing ERP systems, and leading companies from their earliest stages to mature enterprises.

In 2024 he turned his full attention to artificial intelligence. Under ComturkAI he has personally designed, coded, and deployed 14+ production AI systems from a single GPU server — and now helps corporate executives build AI themselves.

Today

What I do now

I help companies implement AI — not in theory, but in production. I'm not a technologist who lectures from slide decks; I'm an economist and serial entrepreneur, and my team and I build the systems ourselves — then help executive teams do the same.

What I build

Customer service platforms (87% automated resolution across WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, email), industrial computer vision (YOLOv11, SAM), predictive analytics (XGBoost + ARIMA), agentic applications, RAG knowledge systems, and image & video generation pipelines.

What I teach

Hands-on "AI Masterclass" workshops for C-level executives and corporate teams, where participants build a real, working AI application in a single session using "vibe coding" — natural language as the programming interface.

How I advise

Operations and AI consulting focused on efficiency, cost-cutting, and practical technology solutions — grounded in decades of having actually carried payroll, run franchises, and built infrastructure.

Career

Three decades of building systems

2025 — Present

Senior Consultant

Helping companies implement AI in production — across customer service automation, computer vision, predictive analytics, agentic web development, and content generation — and teaching executives to build it themselves.

2024 — Present

ComturkAI — Founder

Founded an enterprise AI customer-service platform that combines intelligent chatbots with seamless human handoff. Owns strategy, product, and architecture: knowledge ingestion, RAG, LLM orchestration, guardrails, multi-channel connectors (web, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, email, Telegram), analytics, and admin.

RAGLLM orchestrationMulti-channel
2016 — Present

NexDock — Investor

Early investor in NexDock, a laptop shell that runs on your smartphone, tablet, or mini PC.

2014 — 2024

Habit Healthy Foods — Co-founder & Partner

Co-founded a venture built on changing unhealthy eating habits — weekly and monthly delivery of gourmet, gluten-free, sous-vide meals; home-made packed products; and event catering.

2018 — 2022

Orion Capital Partners — Senior Advisor

Senior advisory engagement in Istanbul.

1999 — 2022

Pizza House Türkiye — Co-founder & Partner

Founded Pizza House in 1999 and scaled it to 32 locations across Turkey, Cyprus, and Kazakhstan, with multiple concepts (Express, Gourmet, Coffee Corner, Bistro). First successful exit in June 2022.

32 locationsFranchiseExit 2022
2014 — 2018

QuickPBX — Partner

Virtual phone system for small businesses, delivering full PBX features without hardware. San Francisco Bay Area.

2010 — 2018

UFRAD (Turkish Franchise Association) — Board Member

Eight years on the board of Turkey's national franchise association.

2002 — 2015

Komturk Telecom — Managing Partner

Built a global VoIP network to bypass legacy carriers and offer low-cost, end-to-end internet telephony — pay-as-you-go service, single-account access, and BYOD across PC, home/business, and mobile.

VoIPTelecom infrastructure
2011 — 2014

Otoman Partners — Partner

A specialist advisory house on Turkey and the Turkish market, with offices in Istanbul, Madrid, and London, advising multinationals on market entry across IT, F&B, and transport.

1995 — 1996

RAM Dış Ticaret A.Ş. — Finance

Began his career in finance within the Koç Holding group.

Education

Foundations

1991 — 1995

Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ)

Bachelor of Science — Economics.

1989 — 1991

TED Ankara College

Secondary education.

Bornova Anadolu High School (İzmir College)

Secondary education.

Let's talk

Bring your AI problem.

Thirty years of operating experience, applied to your AI roadmap — and the engineering to prove it works.