Ozan Sönmez
Co-Founder
Choose your seat in the ecosystem
Four brands on one honest method. Each seat leads to advice written for the role you are in.
FoundersFoundersStraight feedback on the pitch, the numbers and the decisions behind them.
AngelsAngelsRead a deal the way an operator would, starting with what the deck leaves out.
CorporatesCorporatesAn outside view of your innovation work and the startups you plan to back.
ProgrammesProgrammesAccelerators and ecosystems shaped around the founders inside them.
One honest method, four seats
The Brutally Honest is the umbrella brand behind four programmes giving startup founders, angel investors, corporate innovators and accelerators direct, unvarnished guidance. It is run from Helsinki by Ozan Sönmez and Alperen Zeki Gokmen, and every seat leads to a site written for the role you are in.
Alperen Zeki Gokmen
Co-Founder
- 15+Years mentoring
- 5,000+Startups mentored
- 250+Accelerated
- 13Invested in
- 25+Countries
From California to Riyadh
A sample of the startups we mentored, and the cities our mentors work from, across the US, MENA and Europe.
Startups we mentored
- Türkiye 6
- United Kingdom 2
- Finland 2
- Austria 2
- Germany
- Romania
- Georgia
- Ukraine
- Lithuania
Where our mentors are
- California
- Michigan
- Atlanta
- Miami
- Riyadh
- Ankara
- Helsinki
Read and listen
Each seat writes its own Shift on Substack and talks it through in its own Beacon on Spotify.
Follow us
Short clips, carousels and the occasional argument, on six channels.
Honest notes
Pick your seat and get the notes written for it. One e-mail every other week.