I started Aksoy Capital because evolution had already solved this

I am fascinated by evolution — especially evolutionary psychology. To me, evolution is the real identity card of every living thing. Whatever feature or behavior you observe in any creature, the real reason for it can only be known through what evolution tells us about it. We have seen, again and again, the magnificent capabilities evolution produces. So I have always believed, and always trusted, that evolutionary simulation could achieve the same kind of result. The three-year track record we have built has not betrayed that trust.

When you combine evolutionary simulation with the magnificent technologies humanity has developed — deep learning and AI — I never doubted for a moment that we would arrive somewhere both faster and more accurately. That is the motivation that built Aksoy Capital.

I am an attorney by training. I have a motto: Two kinds of people are stubborn — fools, and scientists. The irony matters. Scientists are stubborn because their views do not change unless the evidence changes. Evidence is the foundation of law. It is also, I believe, the foundation of every honest decision in a financial market.

Investment markets are arenas where human behavior and decisions yield mathematical results. I believe everything in the universe can be measured, and the language of the universe is mathematics. To stray from evidence in finance is to invite destruction.

This is why Master Darwin — the system at the core of Aksoy Capital — produces every decision based on as many alleles of evidence as it has. Every decision must have an explainable proof.

Anyone can reach the evidence. So what is our difference? Creativity in the methods of solving.

I am also a composer, a lyricist, a poet. The contribution of that part of me to this project is exactly this: doing what has not yet been done. The evidence is public. The instruments — evolution, deep learning, artificial intelligence — are public. The way we orchestrate them is ours alone.

The US markets are a beginning, not the destination. We started here because the deepest, most reliable data lives here. Data is our raw material. Data is our evidence. Without enough of it, no amount of cleverness saves a model from fragility.

The truth is: the first purpose of this project was to manage our own investments. We built it for ourselves. Only later did we decide to share it — and to make it a business.

What we share is not advice. It is information sharing, like bees do. A bee finds food, describes the location, and signals: “There is food over there. Come, or do not come.” Aksoy Capital does the same. We surface what our system has found and what our evidence has built. The decision — whether to fly toward it — has always been, and will always be, yours.

I am certain we will not stay only in the field of finance. From the everyday investor, to the smallest business, to the largest institutional player — we want to produce economic, fiscal, and financial information that actually works.

But the longer arc is bigger than that. Our end-of-day goal is for the entire body of work at Aksoy Capital — every signal, every backtest, every piece of macro reasoning — to become the most competent dataset on Earth for an advanced AI trained in economics and finance. We want to feed the model that comes after us.

We are, after all, the last players who live with money. Ahead of us is a world where everything is produced by super-intelligent AI and advanced robotics — a world without money in any form we recognize today.

Let us close this era beautifully.