AI talks a lot and finishes little. Orkhon builds models and agents that do real work in real businesses.
Orkhon was founded by Can Uzay, a Turkish restaurant operator in Reno, Nevada. He runs Piatto Reno, a build-your-own pasta counter inside Reno Public Market, and is opening Bora Mediterranean, a Turkish kitchen and bakery in Midtown Reno.
Usta and Orkhon grew out of the work in those kitchens: purchasing, staffing, kitchen prep and guest messages, the many small decisions an owner holds together every day. A tool earns its place at his own counter before it goes to anyone else's.
He studies psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and co-authored a published survey of large language models in the journal Electronics.
Usta runs first in our own kitchen: Piatto Reno, Reno, Nevada.
Usta takes on the daily work of running a restaurant, starting in our own kitchen. Ermut is a set of free character tests on how you meet people and work with them.
Routine, narrow decisions go to a fast model. When confidence is low, the decision escalates to a reasoning model or a human.
No generated prose: a typed decision from a defined set. A decision can still be wrong, so each one carries its probability and an audit trail.
Bengü-1's training data is real business email. A local model labels it, and the mail never leaves the lab's own machine.
Bengü-1 is in use in-house. When we release it publicly, its benchmark on a public data set will include the cases where we lose.
The Orkhon inscriptions were carved in the Orkhon Valley of Mongolia in the 730s. They are among the oldest surviving texts in any Turkic language, and they call themselves bengü taş: the eternal stone. After 1,300 years they are still standing.
The mark is that stele, with two petals opening beside it: the stone that lasts, and something new growing from it. Wild tulips are native to the mountains of Central Asia, long before Istanbul or Amsterdam.
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