Co-founder · Research
Dr. Gloria Shkurti Özdemir
PhD in International Relations. Directs the Emerging Technologies and AI Research Center at Khazar University and leads research at the AEGIX Institute.
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We are an applied-AI studio, founded by an AI engineer and a scholar of AI governance. We build our own products, put AI to work inside organisations, and advise on doing it well, with people in charge.
01 · Who we are
AI that does the job, quietly.
We help organisations find where AI creates real value, build practical systems around the way they already work, and advise on the strategy, readiness and oversight that keep it responsible. No hype, no black boxes: just work that gets done, and keeps getting done.
- Who
- Founded by Tea Shkurti and Dr. Gloria Shkurti Özdemir. A small team that does the work itself, from the first meeting to the last line of code.
- What
- We build our own products, put AI to work inside organisations, advise on doing it responsibly, and research what comes next.
- Aim
- AI that is useful, reliable, responsible, and built for real work.
02 · How we work, and why
Judgment over hype.*
- 01
Useful over impressive
A demo proves it can happen once. We start from how the work is really done, let the problem choose the tools, and build for the thousandth time, not the first.
- 02
Reliable by measurement
If we can’t measure it, we don’t trust it, and neither should you. Evaluation is part of the build, and monitoring keeps checking long after launch day.
- 03
People keep the hard calls
Oversight is designed in, not bolted on. AI carries the load; people keep the decisions that matter, and your team can run what we build without us.
- 04
Research that becomes product
We follow new capabilities closely, publish what we learn, and turn the ones that hold up into systems that scale.
Our filter, every time: if it doesn’t make the work better, it doesn’t ship.
03 · People
An engineer and a scholar.
Tea builds the systems; Gloria studies what they mean for institutions, security and power. Two disciplines, one studio. And yes, we are sisters.
Co-founder · Engineering
Tea Shkurti
Computer engineer researching LLM-driven agents. Leads technical delivery on web and AI projects for universities and companies.
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- 2027The New Logic of Power: AI, Security, and Knowledge Geopolitics Gloria Shkurti Özdemir (ed.) · Palgrave Macmillan, forthcomingEdited volume
- 2024Artificial Intelligence ‘Arms Dynamics’: The Case of the U.S. and China Rivalry Gloria Shkurti Özdemir · SETABook
- 2024Strategic Price Optimization: Machine Learning’s Role in E-Commerce Dynamics Tea Shkurti, Cüneyt Bayılmış · Recent Trends and Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer NatureChapter