The Brutally Honest Mentor is the founder brand of Brutally Honest Oy, a Helsinki company led by Ozan Sonmez and Alperen Zeki Gokmen.
Ozan mentors founders. Alperen builds the platform and the AI and automation behind it, and runs the mentor network.
Co-Founder · Mentoring and training
Ozan is a startup mentor, angel investor and accelerator builder with more than 15 years of work across Silicon Valley, MENA and Europe. He spent about 1,000 days in Silicon Valley as managing director of the investment arm of METU, investing in more than 20 Turkish founders scaling in the US.
Co-Founder · AI and automation
Alperen builds the company's digital products, AI systems and automation across its four brands. He co-founded two startups, has managed entrepreneurship programmes and writes Thinking In Public, a newsletter on AI, automation and practical workflows for startups.
Online worldwide. In person in Europe, Türkiye and the Middle East.
Each brand has its own site, written for one kind of reader.
Talk to the AI mentor for 20 minutes, free, and bring the question that keeps you up.
