I put AI to work inside your business.

I build the agents and tools that take whole jobs off your team, train the team to run them, and tell you where AI isn't worth the money. I take on a handful of clients at a time.

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Who it's for

An AI consultancy for teams already paying for Claude or ChatGPT.

Most of them use it for first drafts. I work with any business whose team repeats the same jobs every week. Venture funds and the companies they back are my specialism, after eight years on the investing side.

One job, start to finish

Watch an agent run the monthly investor update.

A sample run with made-up figures. Your playbook names your own folders, template and investor list.

01AgentRead the month's numbers

Inbox and Drive

Management accounts, September

Bank balance at 30 September

Sales pipeline export

August's update, for the format

02AgentCheck each one against last month

FigureAugustSeptember

Revenue£412k£445k

Monthly burn£96k£101k

Cash£1.84m£1.74m

Runway19 months17 months

FlaggedRunway is down two months. Explain it in the update.

03AgentWrite the update in your house format

September update

Revenue up 8% on August, to £445k.

Runway is 17 months, down from 19.

04YouApprove the final draft

Waiting for you

September updateTo 14 investors, from your own address

Approve and sendSend back with comments

Nothing leaves the business until you approve it.

05AgentSend it to your investors

Sent from your address

September updateSent 09:12

Hi Priya,

14 investors, each addressed by name

06AgentFile it and update the tracker

Drive / Investor updates / 2026

September update.pdfSaved

Investor tracker

SeptemberSent 1 Oct14 of 14

Next month's run starts on the 1st.

Services

Three ways I can help.

01 · Build
Custom AI tools, agents and automations.

For work you know should be automated, where the case for AI holds up.

I build on the accounts and systems you already use, test on last quarter's real work, and hand it over. The code and the playbooks live in your own GitHub.
- Agents that run a whole job from a written playbook, and ask you before anything leaves the business
- Connectors that let Claude or Codex work in a system your agents can't reach yet
- Tools for one job, like scoring every inbound pitch against your criteria
Best when“We know which job we want gone, and we need it built properly.”
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02 · Train
Playbooks and training for your team.

For teams that were handed a chat box and left to work it out.

I sit with whoever does a job now, write it down as steps an agent follows, and teach the team on the work in front of them that week. Twenty minutes on a real brief does more than a day's workshop.
- Briefing an agent, and turning the firm's habits into skills it can load
- Keeping the firm's knowledge where the agent can reach it
- When not to use it, and what it costs to run
Best when“Everyone has a licence, and nobody's week has changed.”
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03 · Advise
A part-time AI lead, and due diligence.

For leadership teams asked what AI is worth, with nobody senior to answer.

Someone senior owns the AI question for you, part time: where the money goes, and whether the team uses what you already pay for. For investors, I run technical and investment diligence on companies you're considering, written up for your IC. The decision stays yours.
- A written plan for what to build, buy or stop
- A second opinion on any vendor, proposal or AI project that has stalled
- Diligence on a company's technology and its AI claims
Best when“The board wants an AI plan, and nobody in the building can own it.”
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Work

What I've built, and what it changed.

From aerospace engineering to venture funds. Clients stay unnamed, and I'll take you through any figure here on a call.

Fund figures to 27 October 2026

Venture fund · Since August 2026
The Vorkane Connector, in the fund's Google Workspace.

16,000+actions by three people's agents, and 0.5% returned an error

BeforeIn July 2026, Claude could read the fund's mail but wasn't allowed to send it, and had no way into its contacts or task list.

I built the connector and installed it in the fund's own Google account. Their agents search and send mail, file to Drive, edit Docs and Sheets, and keep the task list and diary. Every action is recorded on the fund's own deployment.
- 228 emails sent and 775 tasks created
- 8,625 label changes in one day, by one agent
Single-family office · Ongoing
The system of record behind a venture book.

One personruns the venture book, with agents doing most of the work

I built the office's system of record so Claude can read and write it: holdings and cap tables, property, debt, cash and bookkeeping, with every change attributed to the person who made it. Beside it sit the skills I run my own deal flow on. They score a deck against the thesis, pressure-test an investment case and draft replies in my voice.
- Venture, property, debt and cash in one place an agent can query
- Every write attributed to a named person
Open source · Since November 2025
Nojoin, an AI meeting recorder with no bot in the call.

14,000+container pulls across its four images

BeforeI wanted call notes without a bot joining the meeting, or another subscription.

Nojoin captures the call from your own computer, transcribes it on a server you control, and writes the notes. It's open source under the AGPL, and the code is there to read.
Nojoin on GitHub
Rolls-Royce · 2017
Machine learning on an engine's supply chain.

38%fewer supplier defects on the EJ200 engine, about £1m a year saved

As an aerospace engineer at Rolls-Royce, I applied machine learning to supplier quality on the EJ200, the Eurofighter Typhoon's engine. That was 2017, before AI was a line in every pitch deck.

Approach

What happens after the call?

LookWhere the hours go: the jobs your team repeats, and which of them an agent can take.A call, then a short review
DecideWhat to build, what to buy and what to leave alone. Sometimes the answer is a better process or a tool you already pay for, and you'll hear that.A written recommendation
BuildOn your own accounts, tested against last quarter's real work until the output is something you'd send without editing.One job running within a month
Hand overPlaybooks written down in your own GitHub, and the team trained to run them. You own all of it.Yours to keep

Who you'd work with

Taylan Durmus.

I run the venture book at a single-family office and sit on portfolio company boards as an observer. Before venture I was an aerospace engineer at Rolls-Royce. Someone who builds the software and knows how the business runs is hard to hire, and Vorkane is how you get one part time.

Eight yearsin venture capital
Tens of millionsdeployed into startups and funds
Since 2018building AI tools inside the funds I've worked at

“Thank you for being so responsive and for developing such an excellent project. Nojoin has become the foundation of our meeting workflow, and the quality of your work is the reason we are comfortable considering it as the authoritative meeting subsystem for this broader PM Copilot architecture.”
albertsole33, a Nojoin user, on GitHub

Pricing

Retainer£1,500 a month Two days of my time a month, for everyone at the business, spent on whatever matters that month: training, new playbooks, fixes and advice.
A first projectScoped on the callFor a business that wants to see the work before a retainer: one tightly scoped build or training project, done in a few weeks.
BuildsQuotedAnything bigger than the retainer's two days, from a single tool to a connector for a system you run on, with cost and lead time agreed before you commit.
Due diligencePer dealPriced as three to five days, discounted. The technology, team, market and terms of a company you're considering, with at least one founder call, and a reference call if you want one. Written up for your IC; the decision stays yours.
The Vorkane ConnectorIncludedBuilt for teams on Google Workspace, and I can extend it to your other tools. Installed in your own Google project, hosted and kept current by me. It can run on your own cloud account instead, and you pay that provider directly.

FAQ

Questions you'd ask on the call.

01 of 06

We already pay for Claude. What do we need you for?

For a first draft, you don't. You need me for what no subscription includes: someone who sets the work up in your business, trains the team and fixes it when it breaks.

02 of 06

Do you only work with venture funds?

No. Funds and the companies they back are where I know the work best, because I do it myself. The method is the same for any business whose team repeats the same jobs every week.

Nor do you need Google Workspace. Claude and ChatGPT have their own connectors for Microsoft 365 and many other tools, and the playbooks use them. Where one is missing, I extend the Vorkane Connector to cover it.

03 of 06

Why per business, and not per seat?

You're paying for my time, and that doesn't change with how many of you use it. So everyone can use it, and nobody has to decide who to leave off.

04 of 06

What happens if we stop working together, or you get hit by a bus?

Your data stays in your own accounts and never passes into mine. The playbooks and the code live in your own GitHub, so they stay too.

You'd lose my time, and the Vorkane Connector if you use it. Claude's own connectors do most of what mine does, so your agents keep working. After the first three months, either of us can end it on a month's notice. I'd rather set that out in the first meeting than the last one.

05 of 06

And when you're on holiday?

You'll hear at least a week ahead, usually two. There's no SLA: you're buying my time, not a helpdesk.

06 of 06

Is this safe? What'll my compliance person say?

The Vorkane Connector signs in as each person, not as the firm, so nobody reaches anything they couldn't already. Nothing can be deleted for good: mail and files go to the bin and come back for thirty days. Every action is recorded, and the record never includes what was in the email or the file. The connector's source isn't public, and your auditor can review it on request.

There's a page written for them at vorkane.com/compliance, and I'll join that call if they want me there.