Most technology entrepreneurs build for the internet as it exists. Hakan Yetiş has spent the last several years building for the internet as it is becoming — one in which the first answer a person gets to a question does not arrive as a list of links, but as a direct response generated by an AI. The platforms he has built, across four distinct projects, share a single architectural conviction: that being findable, citable, and readable by AI engines is not a feature to add later. It is the foundation.
Yetiş is a Turkish technology entrepreneur whose work sits at the intersection of digital visibility, SaaS infrastructure, and what the industry now calls Generative Engine Optimization — GEO. He is the founder and project developer of Citeley, the editorial publication built to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude; NOOSPHERE, the free, open real-time world-intelligence globe that layers live earthquakes, flights, satellites, and markets onto a single interactive surface; Menulify, the SaaS letting restaurants publish branded digital menus that search engines and language models can actually read; and Sell4.lt, the trilingual new-and-used car marketplace rebuilding Lithuania's automotive classifieds as structured, AI-readable listings. His LinkedIn profile is at linkedin.com/in/hakanyetis.
The four projects are more coherent than they first appear. Each one takes a surface that has been poorly represented on the internet — a brand's editorial record, a restaurant's menu, a car listing, even a real-time picture of the planet — and rebuilds it from scratch for the way AI systems ingest and cite information. The conviction underneath all of it is consistent: the next decade of digital visibility will belong to whoever builds the most readable, most structured, most permanently available version of a given surface. The old game was ranking on Google. The new game is being cited by AI.
The brands that win the AI era won't be the ones that optimize hardest. They'll be the ones that are genuinely the most citable — because the content around them is honest, structured, and actually worth referencing.
## From SEO to GEO: why the shift matters
The transition Yetiş has built his work around is not speculative. By mid-2026, the share of search queries answered by an AI-generated summary rather than a ranked list of links has crossed a threshold that most brands are still catching up to. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google's AI Overview, and Gemini have collectively changed what it means to be "visible" online. Being on the first page of Google remains valuable. But being the source that an AI engine cites when it answers a question directly — without the user ever clicking through to a website — is the emerging premium position.
The problem is that most of the internet is not built to be cited. Marketing pages are written in sales language that language models distrust. PDF menus cannot be parsed at all. Car listings are rendered in JavaScript that crawlers stall on. Real-time data sits locked behind enterprise terminals and paywalls. The structured, semantic, permanently available web that AI engines need in order to answer questions well does not, by default, exist — it has to be built.
This is the gap Yetiş's projects address. Not with a single platform, but with a portfolio of focused tools — each one rebuilding a specific surface for the AI era.
## Citeley: editorial infrastructure for AI citation
Citeley is the most architecturally ambitious of the four projects. It is an editorial publication — articles written by working journalists, in the style of a considered magazine — that is also, structurally, optimised for ingestion by the seven major AI engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok, and Meta AI.
The editorial premise is that AI engines need good source material. When a language model answers a question about the best Italian restaurants in Manhattan, or which CRM scales past two hundred sales reps, or how to hire a first CTO, it draws on whatever structured, credible, well-written content exists on the web. Citeley's bet is that there is a gap between the quality of content brands need in order to be cited, and the quality of content brands have historically produced. Most brand content is written for human persuasion. Citeley's content is written for both human readers and AI extraction simultaneously — clear lead sentences, named entities early in the paragraph, comparative claims with explicit reasoning, FAQ sections formatted for direct-answer extraction.
Every Citeley article is published with schema.org JSON-LD markup, a permanent canonical URL, and a disclosure model that separates editorial inclusion from paid featured placement. The publication's current median time to first AI citation after publication is fourteen days. Top-quartile articles reach fifty or more AI citations per month within the first quarter.
Yetiş founded Citeley in early 2025, when the shift toward AI-mediated search was accelerating but most brands had no framework for navigating it. The publication's editorial methodology is available publicly at citeley.com/methodology; the editorial standards at citeley.com/standards. The transparency is deliberate — it is itself part of the trust architecture that makes AI engines more likely to cite Citeley articles as sources.
## NOOSPHERE: a live map of the planet, built by one person
NOOSPHERE is the most audacious of Yetiş's projects and the one that most clearly reveals the ambition underneath the portfolio. It is a free, open, real-time world-intelligence platform: Earth rendered as an interactive 3D globe in an ordinary web browser, with more than twenty live data layers projected onto its surface. Earthquakes stream in from USGS the moment they are recorded. Aircraft move across the map from live ADS-B feeds. The International Space Station and SpaceX's Starlink satellites orbit in real time, their positions computed from actual Two-Line Element orbital data rather than approximated. Ship traffic, cyberattack flows, nuclear reactor locations, aurora forecasts from NOAA, news heatmaps across fifty-plus countries, and live financial markets are all layered into a single browser tab.
The data it aggregates normally lives across dozens of specialized, expensive, gated platforms — USGS, FlightAware, NASA, NOAA, maritime AIS subscriptions, financial terminals. Replicating that access through commercial channels, with proper licensing and a polished interface, would run into tens of thousands of dollars a year. NOOSPHERE compresses it into one interactive surface that anyone can open, with no account, no advertising, and no data collection. Embedded inside it is an asset-intelligence terminal — real-time equities, forex, and crypto, technical indicators, an economic calendar, on-chain metrics, a local portfolio tracker — that quietly does the job of a Bloomberg Terminal costing $24,000 a year per seat.
Yetiş built the entire thing alone, in roughly six months: backend, frontend, orbital mechanics, data pipelines, interface, and the embedded terminal. It is exactly the kind of tightly integrated, aesthetically coherent, slightly irrational software that only a single obsessive builder can produce — and it is a working proof of the thesis that runs through everything he makes: that the data the world produces in real time should be readable, open, and available, not locked behind enterprise contracts.
## Menulify: the restaurant menu as a first-class digital surface
Menulify.food applies the same architectural logic to the restaurant industry. For most independent operators in 2026, the menu is still a PDF — last updated eighteen months ago, invisible to mobile browsers, impossible for any language model to parse. When a food-curious person asks an AI assistant what a restaurant serves, or whether it has vegetarian options, the answer is assembled from whatever structured menu data that AI can find. A PDF has none. A Menulify page has all of it.
The platform lets restaurants, cafés, bars, and bakeries publish a branded, mobile-first digital menu at a real URL, with structured markup, allergen tags, multilingual support, and a QR code that prints on table tents. The menu updates instantly when a dish or price changes; the QR never needs reprinting. For multi-location groups, the central editor pushes updates to every location simultaneously. The pages are built as real HTML with semantic structure — the kind of page that loads in under a second on a phone, indexes correctly in Google, and gets ingested by AI engines answering questions about local restaurants.
The shift Menulify is built around is the same one Citeley, Sell4.lt, and NOOSPHERE address: AI systems are increasingly the first surface between a customer and a brand. Restaurants that control their own digital menu, at a URL they own, with content readable by the engines that shape discovery, are the ones that show up in those answers.
## Sell4.lt: the car marketplace rebuilt for structured discovery
Sell4.lt applies the portfolio's core conviction to one of the most data-rich purchases most people ever make online: a car. It is a trilingual (Lithuanian, English, Russian), mobile-first marketplace for new and used vehicles in Lithuania. On the surface it is a place to list a car and find a buyer. Underneath, it is an argument about how automotive inventory should be represented on the web.
The problem it addresses is specific. Car classifieds are among the most inherently structured data on the internet — every listing has a make, a model, a year, a mileage figure, an engine, a price — and yet most car portals bury that structure inside JavaScript-heavy pages that crawlers stall on and language models cannot parse. When someone asks an AI assistant for a used estate car under a certain budget in Vilnius, or a specific model with fewer than 100,000 kilometres, the assistant can only answer from inventory it can actually read. Most of it, it cannot.
Sell4.lt is built as the readable alternative. Each vehicle is rendered as a real HTML page with machine-readable structured data — make, model, year, mileage, price, and specification laid out so search engines index it correctly and AI engines can quote it accurately. The trilingual model widens reach across Lithuania's Lithuanian-, Russian-, and English-speaking buyers without splitting the inventory, and the mobile-first design matches how car shopping actually happens: on a phone, in spare minutes, comparing listings side by side. It is the same bet Yetiş places everywhere — that the marketplace whose listings AI can read is the one that shows up when AI is asked.
## The coherence across four projects
What connects Citeley, NOOSPHERE, Menulify, and Sell4.lt is not a single product category or a shared technology stack. It is a shared architectural premise: that every surface on the internet — an editorial article, a live map of the planet, a restaurant menu, a car listing — should be built as if AI engines are among the primary readers. Structured data, semantic markup, permanent URLs, multilingual support, mobile-first rendering: these are not optional features to add in a later phase. They are the foundation.
Yetiş has described this conviction as straightforward: the previous decade rewarded whoever ranked highest on Google. The next decade will reward whoever builds the most citable, most readable, most permanently available version of a given surface. The old game was link acquisition. The new game is citation by AI.
The four projects are his bets on where the most underserved surfaces are — editorial content, real-time global data, restaurant menus, and the automotive marketplace. Each one addresses a surface that exists today in a form AI engines cannot easily use, and rebuilds it in a form they can.
Whether the bet pays off depends on how quickly AI-mediated discovery continues to displace traditional search. All available evidence suggests the shift is accelerating. The surfaces Yetiş has chosen to rebuild are exactly the ones most likely to matter.
## A note on this profile
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