TR · ECONOMY
S. Serkan Ay
Dünya Dururken
"While the World Stands Still"
Istanbul · Finance & AI
Numbers, languages
Numbers, languages
and the systems
between them.
I read numbers for a living and translate under oath in four languages. Asenar is where those two habits meet: research platforms for Turkish and global markets, built on one stubborn rule. No number goes on a page without its source.
About
Finance by trade, translator by oath.
I started working young. Since then I've worked in publishing, tourism and finance. Today I'm a CPA trainee (SMMM) in Türkiye and a sworn translator for Turkish, English, Swedish and Dutch.
Swedish publishing taught me the inverted pyramid: say the important thing first, explain it after. I use the same rule when I analyse a company. The conclusion goes on top, every source can be traced, and nobody makes up a number.
Asenar is where it all comes together. It started as a new division inside the company I work for, and the idea is simple: move from tourism into finance and AI. Where someone has already built a good tool, I'd rather partner with them than reinvent the wheel.
TRTurkish
ENEnglish
SVSwedish
NLDutch
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Finance and accounting
Financial statements, Turkish tax law and my CPA (SMMM) traineeship.
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Sworn translation
Certified translation between Turkish, English, Swedish and Dutch.
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Fintech product design
I design the architecture, data contracts and roadmaps behind the Asenar platforms.
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Writing
Economic history, essays and fiction. The publishing years still shape how I write.
The Asenar ecosystem
Four sites, each with one job.
Turkish equities, Turkish tax, global markets, and a lighter corner for games. Every domain sticks to its own job.
Borsa Istanbul · Turkish
asenarborsa.com
Research on Borsa Istanbul companies, KAP disclosure tracking and stock analysis in layers. Built in Turkish, for Turkish investors.
BISTKAPResearch
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Tax SaaS · B2B & B2C
asenar.com
The Vergi App. Turkish tax analysis in seven modules: income, corporate, VAT, special consumption, wealth, fees and collection. It works for every legal entity type, individuals included.
7 modulesRule enginesDeterministic
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Global Markets · English
asenarfinance.com
Global markets in English, plus forensic analysis. Evidence maps follow how a company reports and what its numbers actually say.
GlobalForensicEvidence maps
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Fun & Gaming
asenar.io
The lighter side. Games and a small data layer. SOFRA, a match-3 game whose revenue model is built around charity, lives here.
GamesSOFRALite data
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House rule: no invented numbers. Tax figures come from deterministic calculators, never from a language model. If a figure is missing, the page says N/A and explains why.
Books and writing
History told through the ledger.
Economic history, a children's series, essays and fiction. In English and Turkish.
The Interwar Ledger
Published · AmazonAn English-language series that reads the years 1914 to 1945 as a set of accounts. Each volume asks one country the same questions, in the same order, and answers them from its own public records. Every figure has a source the reader can open. Published under the name S.S. Ay.
Volume 1 · Turkey
Ashes to Assets
How a Penniless Republic Out-Built the Great Depression, 1919–1938Turkey's fifteen years from 1923 to 1938, read as a balance sheet: what there was, what was decided, what came of it, and who paid. Sums are given in the lira of the day, the dollars of that year and the dollars of today.
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Volume 2 · United States
Creditor to Debtor
How the United States Weathered the Great Depression, 1914–1945By 1930 the United States was the world's lender, and its government still could not say how much the country produced. The book follows what America built to measure and run itself, who paid for it, and how the creditor of 1930 became a debtor again.
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Children's series · Ages 3 to 6
Robi's Garden
Five coloring and activity books, one for each sense. Robi is a little robot who can't do anything until a child gives him instructions, so the child ends up being the coder. Each book wakes up one of Robi's senses and teaches one small piece of computational thinking.
robigarden.com →In progress
TR · ESSAY
S. Serkan Ay
Yol Olur..
A philosophical essay
TR · NOVEL
S. Serkan Ay & Claude
İyi ve Kötü Tanrı
"The Good and the Evil God"
Contact
Building in finance and AI? Let's talk.
Partnerships, data or tech collaborations, publishing, translation. If it fits, I'd like to hear about it.