UMRAN

Research·Engineering·Strategy

Understanding systems. Building futures.

Book a scoping workshop One hour. Your system on the table. A clear read on whether a mission makes sense.
01 · Essence

Every organization is a system.

The best decisions come from understanding how the system actually behaves, before committing budgets, tools or teams.

UMRAN works from first principles: map the system, test the assumptions, then build. The result is a working solution your teams run without us.

02 · Method

One trajectory, three phases

Phase I · Observe

Research

We map how your system actually works: data flows, decision points, bottlenecks, costs. You get a documented model in weeks.

Phase II · Intervene

Engineering

We design and build the solution ourselves, whatever form it takes: software, data pipelines, decision models, redesigned processes. Delivered working, in your operations.

Phase III · Equilibrium

Strategy

We deploy, measure and hand over. Success is one number agreed before we start: hours saved, errors cut, cost per operation reduced.

03 · Expertise

Where we work

04 · Sectors

Designed for critical environments

Defense & Security

Decision-support and data systems where reliability and confidentiality come first. Sovereign by design: your data stays in your infrastructure, documented for audit.

Energy

Models and automation for asset-heavy operations: load and capacity analysis, maintenance data pipelines, scenario models for investment decisions.

Industry

Production and supply-chain systems made measurable: where hours, scrap and delays actually come from, and the automation that removes them.

05 · Value

What you keep when we leave

Intelligence

A documented model of how your system behaves: where time and money leak, and which change pays back first. You decide on evidence, not vendor promises.

Knowledge

Every model, assumption and decision is documented and handed over. Your team runs and extends the solution without calling us back.

Return on investment

Each mission is scoped against one measurable target set before day one. If the outcome can't be measured, we don't start. Where relevant, we structure the work so its results can support a funding application or an investment case, public or private.

06 · Positioning
Neither a traditional consulting firm, nor a software agency. A Research, Engineering & Strategy company.

Our job is not to add complexity. It is to make your system understandable and measurable, and to give you clear, testable scenarios you can act on.

07 · Founder

The person who does the work

Yavuz Sarikaya, founder of UMRAN

Yavuz Sarikaya

Founder and systems designer. Yavuz designs and ships products built on large language models: RAG pipelines, data infrastructure, from architecture to deployment. He works with research teams on applied R&D, from problem framing to proof of concept, and designed the pedagogical architecture of an EU-backed AI training programme (ULB / sustAIn.brussels).

When this site says we, it means him, leading every mission personally, and the academic and industry experts, PhDs, ML researchers and engineers he brings in when the work calls for it.

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08 · Contact

Bring us a system worth understanding.

The scoping workshop costs an hour of your time, nothing more. You leave with a clear read, whether or not a mission follows.

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Registered office: Boulevard Bischoffsheim 39, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Enterprise number (BCE/KBO): BE 1001.261.318.
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