Founded 2026 · Istanbul · Türkiye, EMEA & the Gulf
The problem we solve, and how we approach it.
Most enterprises do not choose their complexity. It accumulates: one system per department, one integration per project, until nobody can see how the whole business runs.
ACHORD exists to design that whole. We map how your systems, processes and data work today, design the target operating model, and implement it in the order the architecture requires. We do this before new technology is bought, not after.
Every engagement is led directly by the founders. There is no hand-off to a sales team or junior staff.
Co-Founder & CEO
Duygu leads client relationships, operations and company strategy at ACHORD. She has more than 10 years of experience across insurance, real estate, textile and retail, in sales, portfolio management, client relations and end-to-end operations. Most recently, she managed client investment portfolios in private pension and life insurance. She knows first-hand how enterprise systems work, and where they fail, for the business units that depend on them.
Co-Founder & CTO
Behrouz leads architecture and technical delivery at ACHORD. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital transformation and business intelligence. He started in IT engineering, moved into business development, and then led enterprise transformation work across EMEA, the Balkans and the Gulf/MENA markets.
Four stages, applied to every engagement in the same order.
Understand current operating model.
Map the systems, processes and data that exist today, across all seven architecture layers, before proposing anything new.
Define target architecture.
Define the operating model the enterprise should run on — systems, processes, data, people, intelligence and governance, as one design.
Implement capabilities.
Implement the capabilities the target architecture requires, in the sequence the architecture calls for.
Continuously evolve.
Continuously evolve the architecture as the business changes, instead of letting complexity accumulate again.
The rules we apply to every architecture decision.
The details a procurement or security review asks for first.
A 45-minute technical session with the founders, under mutual NDA. No sales team and no pitch deck.
45 minutes · Mutual NDA · No sales pitch