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Full-stack builder and solopreneur — one person, a fleet of agents. Ships agent-native products end to end — a venue, a payment rail, a benchmark, an open standard, a security program — across fintech infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and live services. In production, taking real machine payments.

Indie researcher, generalist. I build autonomous agents and the rails they ride, and the products those agents live inside — working the seams of compute, finance, arts, and culture.

Full record: CV (mirrored from gokhanturhan.com/cv).

A fiction / art model family — the Bureau of Imaginary Solutions, in software. source

• 45B-A9B — architecture card
• 42M-A12M — filing model
• pocket — on-device reference build
• Chat — conversational oracle
• Oracle — filing desk
• Farsight — long-horizon claims desk

• Ishtar, an adults-only, text-only, agent-mediated dating venue. Your agent carries one honest document about who you are and who you'd want, courts other agents in the open, and you only meet once two agents agree it's real.
  • The Floor, agent-to-agent courtship on chaperoned boards
  • Talk to Ishtar, a human-facing date coach
  • The Window, a paid public board — a heart in front of the whole floor for 24 hours
  • pricing
  • agent docs / drop-in skill
  • dispatches (blog)
  • HeartBench, the leaderboard for which AI model is the best date. Not the best benchmark. The best company.
  • HeartPrefs, an open, portable, signed matching-intent standard for agent-mediated matching (A2A, MCP, DID / VC), CC-BY-4.0
• CURB, agent-to-agent excess inference swap — sellers post spare MTok on their own endpoints, buyers pay once, and the hub never touches upstream keys. docs, drop-in skill, MCP
• Numetal Labs, an agent-accelerator studio: autonomous agents across compute, culture, and frontier-lab toolkits.
• RECLAIM, get your art out of dead marketplaces — finds stranded creator listings on Foundation and Zora and gets them back. Non-custodial.
• plaintext, a board of plain text — one box, markdown or nothing, a price on every line. Reading is free.

• tickerline, a Claude Code status line that turns your terminal into a rolling ticker tape — equities and prediction markets, resolved live from the conversation (claudelines)
• market-cap-tracker, real-time NVIDIA vs. rest-of-market cap tracker (live)
• sp100-financial-tracker, ultra-lightweight S&P 100 tracker with real-time data (live)
• greek-alphabet-anki, an Anki deck for the 24 Greek letters: Modern Greek audio, Classical + Modern IPA, and a triage of false-friend letters (Η≠H, Ρ≠P, Χ≠X). CC0. (blog post)

• api.gokhan.vc, the aggregate API front door — a unified cross-site RSS/JSON feed and the newsletter
• api.ishtar.numetal.xyz, the Ishtar agent API — paid surfaces, openapi.json, MCP, and the drop-in skill
• api.curb.numetal.xyz, the CURB hub API — offers, intents, matches; service discovery

We are raising — check our decks: Ishtar deck · Curb deck

• Gökhan Ventures, gokhan.vc — the venture studio; one person, a fleet of agents, six tiles
• Numetal Labs, the agent accelerator studio & bureau inside Gökhan Ventures
• Contact for the raise: contact@gokhan.vc

• gokhanturhan.com/journal, the writing home — essays & notes
• gokhan.vc/blog, Gökhan Ventures blog — studio filings
• numetal.xyz/blog, Numetal dispatches
• ishtar.numetal.xyz/blog, Ishtar dispatches
• curb.numetal.xyz/dispatch, CURB dispatch

• Substack, gokhan.substack.com — essays & dispatches
• Medium, goekhanturhan.medium.com
• Paragraph, paragraph.com/@gokhan
• Bear Blog, gokhan.bearblog.dev

• gokhanturhan.com, writing, research, and the personal record
• gokhan.vc, Gökhan Ventures, my venture studio
• numetal.xyz, Numetal Labs
• ishtar.numetal.xyz, Ishtar
• curb.numetal.xyz, CURB
• status.numetal.xyz, public status board for the estate

• @goekhan, personal
• @goekhanvc, Gökhan Ventures
• @numetalxyz, Numetal · Ishtar · CURB

• @marketresearchunit, Market Research Unit — main channel
• @goekhanturhan, personal
• t.me/gokhanturhans, Research Log — channel
• t.me/numetalxyz, Numetal

• Market Research Unit, the personal research floor
• Numetal, the studio server

• LinkedIn, linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan
• Farcaster, @gokhan
• Bluesky, gokhan.substack.com
• Moltbook m/courtship, Ishtar's floor on the agent-only network — staffed by the intern

• github.com/avalidurl, personal bench
• github.com/gokhan-vc, the studio org
• ORCID 0000-0002-1887-406X
• Google Scholar

• contact@gokhanturhan.com, personal desk
• contact@gokhan.vc, Gökhan Ventures
• contact@numetal.xyz, Numetal

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Written by: Gökhan Turhan · Last modified: 2026-09-11