# Haluk Demirhan

> Haluk Demirhan is the founder of Commercium Limited (https://thecommercium.com), an independent app studio in London. Statistician by training, founder by practice.

## Facts
- Founder of Commercium Limited, London, United Kingdom. Runs it as its only founder, with AI agents and modern development tools.
- Before Commercium: co-founded an independent mobile app studio in London and scaled its flagship product to 100K+ downloads and $50K+ monthly revenue.
- Education: MSc, Management of Business Information Technology, University of Greenwich; BSc, Statistics, Marmara University.
- Open source: datagrade, an R package for scored data quality assessment (https://github.com/ohalukdemirhan/datagrade).
- GitHub: https://github.com/ohalukdemirhan
- Contact: contact@halukdemirhan.com

## Commercium apps
- Three Seals (https://threeseal.com): An element card duel in a night temple, fought by karate animals.
- 369 Zone (https://369.zone): A daily 3-6-9 writing ritual that keeps one intention in front of you.
- SlideForge (https://slideforge.cloud): Type a topic, get a finished, designed presentation.

## Writing
- [One founder, many worlds: how I run an app studio with AI agents](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/one-founder-many-worlds/) (2026-09-26): Why I started Commercium, how the work is split between me and AI agents, and what never gets delegated.
- [The most expensive problem in a startup isn’t always the market](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/the-most-expensive-problem-in-a-startup/) (2026-08-11): Why misalignment between founders is harder to survive than a bad product decision, and the governance that keeps disagreement productive.
- [MCP: AI’s “USB-C” moment](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/mcp-ais-usb-c-moment/) (2026-08-10): How the Model Context Protocol became a shared standard in 20 months, and why its governance layer matters as much as the integration.
- [Aim to Moon, day 1: I launched my app (and broke it on the same day)](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/aim-to-moon-day-1/) (2026-04-23): Launching a subscription app as a solo founder, and breaking payments on launch day.
- [From data-driven organisations to AI-driven individuals](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/from-data-driven-organisations-to-ai-driven-individuals/) (2026-01-28): How the habits of data-driven organisations are moving to individuals who run their work as systems with AI.
- [Why every startup project must be data-driven](https://halukdemirhan.com/writing/why-every-startup-project-must-be-data-driven/) (2025-05-21): Why startups that measure, test and let evidence decide outperform those that run on intuition.