# BerkeML

> BerkeML is an independent applied AI studio (sole proprietorship of Berke Dilekoğlu, based in Istanbul, Türkiye). It builds production machine learning systems for client companies worldwide and ships its own AI-native consumer products. Development is Claude-native: Claude Code for engineering and the Claude API inside products.

- Website: https://berkeml.com
- Contact: berke@berkeml.com
- Founder: Berke Dilekoğlu, Founder & ML Engineer (MSc Computer Science, Sabancı University)

## Services

- Applied AI engineering: LLM pipelines, agents, retrieval (RAG), NLP systems, evaluation and cost control.
- Document intelligence: OCR, table/field extraction, multi-class document classification, label cleaning.
- AI-native products: design, build and launch of web and mobile apps with models at the core.

## Client work

- Areal.ai (https://www.areal.ai/). AI automation for the mortgage and title industry. BerkeML is a contracted, invoiced engineering partner. Scope: table and field extraction from scanned PDFs, document classification, ensemble-based label cleaning, and LLM agent workflows for mortgage processing, closing and post-closing.

## Products

- Bedtime story app (in development, iOS & Android): a parent records a voice sample once; every new bedtime story is generated by Claude (Claude API) and narrated to the baby in the parent's cloned voice using ElevenLabs voice cloning and text-to-speech.
- Promil Tracker (live): https://promiltracker.com. Free web app that tracks drinks and estimates blood alcohol content with the Widmark formula; optional Google sign-in for history and statistics.
- InfluencersBid (live): https://influencersbid.lol. Competitive leaderboard where influencers bid their way to the #1 spot.

## How we build

- Claude Code is used for day-to-day development, refactoring, testing and code review.
- Claude API powers story generation, document reasoning and agentic steps in production.
- ElevenLabs powers voice cloning and narration.

## Founder background

- Areal.ai, Senior NLP Engineer (2023–present)
- Ginoa.io, Machine Learning Engineer (2023)
- Huawei, NLP Research Engineer (2021–2023)
- Ford Motor Company Turkey and Durham University, Visiting Researcher (2017–2018)
- Open source: LangChain contributor (8x faster batched ChromaDB document updates)
- Publications: Bioinformatics (2022), bioRxiv (2023), ASYU (2021), privacy-preserving ML for genomics (2021)
- GitHub: https://github.com/berkedilekoglu
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berke-dilekoglu-53177a11a/