@burakdelibacakFounder, Omnius Creative
Omnius Creative: building digital products in İzmir since 2007
I run Omnius Creative, a digital product studio in İzmir, Türkiye. I've been building digital products and content since 2007. I don't work solo: our education products are built with a team of senior educators (20+ years in the classroom, special education, music) and a research lead experienced in assessment design, field data collection and statistics.
What we build for schools and education institutions:
- Classroom learning platforms: students work through units and practice tests, teachers track each student's progress and add support material. Every student and teacher has their own private login. Designed to scale from a single class to a whole school.
- Curriculum products: Life Skills Academy OS, an 11-module life-skills curriculum for teens (taxes, budgeting, coding logic, public speaking, personal safety, career readiness and more), with 1,800+ practice questions, a final exam and an educator edition. Grounded in established frameworks such as CASEL, CFPB/Jump$tart and CS Unplugged. A California personal finance course aligned with the state's new graduation requirement is in the works.
- Assessment design: question banks built and audited so students answer from knowledge, not test-taking instinct (balanced answer positions, no "longest option is correct" tells, every question checked against what the unit actually teaches).
- Family Game Compass: a parent guide to game safety that translates ESRB/PEGI ratings and risk signals into plain language.
- Next: an education-focused LLM. We're at the early stage, exploring curriculum-grounded AI tutors and assistants that schools can actually trust with students.
Outside education:
- Compliance tools for Turkish companies: COP31 Uyum Radarı (climate and carbon-border readiness, free and offline) and KVKK data-protection tools.
- Market pre-assessment for brands moving between the US and Türkiye.
What's working: narrow, practical tools for problems people are required to solve. Compliance and curriculum requirements beat "nice to have".
Two things I need:
- Founders who have trained or fine-tuned models for education. I'd love to learn what you'd do differently.
- Has anyone here looked at Türkiye as a market? I'd like to hear what you learned, or what stopped you.
Also happy to help bring more Turkish builders into Lounge.
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The California personal finance course fits your own rule that required beats nice to have, since every high school there now needs one. Will you sell it district by district, or start with teachers who need a course ready before the requirement kicks in?
Teachers first, districts second. The timing argues for it. Every California high school has to offer the course from 2027-28, and the teachers assigned to it, many of them teaching personal finance for the first time, need something classroom-ready before then. District adoption cycles move slower than that. So we start with individual teachers. The course is designed to work on day one: each topic in the law gets its own unit, and there are no student accounts and no student data, so there's nothing to put through a privacy review. The free platforms are good, but they all start with a teacher account; we want to be the option that works in a classroom tomorrow. We'll align it with the state's curriculum guide as it lands. Teacher adoption then becomes the case for districts: "your teachers are already using it." That second step is where I'd welcome help. We're based in Türkiye, so I'm looking for a partner in California who knows how districts buy curriculum. If anyone here has sold into California districts, or knows someone who has, I'd be grateful for an intro.
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The California personal finance course fits your own rule that required beats nice to have, since every high school there now needs one. Will you sell it district by district, or start with teachers who need a course ready before the requirement kicks in?
Teachers first, districts second. The timing argues for it. Every California high school has to offer the course from 2027-28, and the teachers assigned to it, many of them teaching personal finance for the first time, need something classroom-ready before then. District adoption cycles move slower than that. So we start with individual teachers. The course is designed to work on day one: each topic in the law gets its own unit, and there are no student accounts and no student data, so there's nothing to put through a privacy review. The free platforms are good, but they all start with a teacher account; we want to be the option that works in a classroom tomorrow. We'll align it with the state's curriculum guide as it lands. Teacher adoption then becomes the case for districts: "your teachers are already using it." That second step is where I'd welcome help. We're based in Türkiye, so I'm looking for a partner in California who knows how districts buy curriculum. If anyone here has sold into California districts, or knows someone who has, I'd be grateful for an intro.