Make Vision Real

Strategy, market, build, launch.
One owner, start to finish.

Sixteen years across advertising, fintech and executive search led here: Co-Founder & CPO at Birlika Collective, running four ventures. The flagship, Cardixx, is live on both app stores. The system they all run on, Venture OS, is mine: built AI-native, live nine weeks after its first commit.

Different Industries, Same Impact

Campaigns that moved millions, platforms that move money, talent systems for executive search, and four ventures of my own. Sixteen years of work that shipped.

The Methodology

Human behavior runs on pattern recognition, and evolution spent millennia writing those patterns. Sixteen years across five industries taught me to read them and to build the shortest path from zero to one on top of them.

Logic explains what
evolution built.

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The Full Stack

Strategy, design and shipping share one owner here. Fewer handoffs, faster decisions.

STRATEGY
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Zero-To-One Strategy

Market scan to shipped product. Every bet gets sized before it gets funded.

INTELLIGENCE
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AI-Native Delivery

Production systems, built with AI, governed by a written process.

LEADERSHIP
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Team & Design Operations

Hiring, cadence and design systems for a team of up to twenty.

DOMAIN
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Regulated-Domain Product

Credit scoring, treasury, compliance. Software that survives an audit.

VENTURE
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Venture Operations

Budgets, equity and workforce for four companies, run in one system.

Selected Works

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Role
Co-Founder & CPO

B2B/B2C SAAS, Mobile App

Cardixx - Business Networking App

Defining a new standard for professional networking. A complete ecosystem that transforms networking from moments into a process.

Year
07/2026

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B2B SAAS, AI Talent Intelligence

MapX - AI Powered Exec. Talent Mapping

The most reliable way to start an executive hiring process is grounded in real data, not assumptions. Map the Market. Then Write the Brief.

IMPACTS

25

Role
Product Designer

Year
2022-2025

%

Increased reach beyond LinkedIn

1-4

Weeks saved per executive search

Live products, public numbers.
Check any of them.

20M+

Categorized leadership profiles

2min

Stakeholder-ready report generation

IMPACTS

13

Months from first concept to both app stores

1K+

2

Countries live on day one

Sign-ups before launch day

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If you want to talk about a role, a venture, or a hard product problem, write to me. I read every message and answer it myself, usually the same day. oguz@oguzatilan.com

Make Vision Real

Make Vision Real