Tim Cakir

AI Operator

Chief AI Officer & Founder

September 2024 - present•aioperator.com

AI Operator came to life from my passion for making technology practical and helping businesses simplify their operations with AI. Our goal? To support small and medium-sized businesses in embracing AI in a way that feels natural, effective, and, most importantly, useful. What We Focus On: - Curiosity-Driven Solutions: We’re always exploring how AI can be applied in unexpected but meaningful ways. For us, curiosity is key to finding creative answers that really work for our clients. - Keeping It Simple: AI can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. We break it down, so our clients can easily see how it fits into their business without needing a tech background. - Efficiency in Everything: We help businesses get more done with less effort by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining processes, letting teams focus on the work that really matters. Here’s What We Do: 1. AI Strategy & Consulting: We sit down with businesses to figure out where AI can make the biggest difference. From getting started to rolling out full AI setups, we’re there every step of the way. 2. Custom AI Solutions: Whether it’s automating tasks or building tools tailored to specific needs, we design solutions that help businesses run smoother and faster. 3. Team Training & Leadership Coaching: We make sure teams feel confident using AI, and we guide leaders on how to bring AI into their operations in a way that sticks. Why I Started AI Operator: I’ve worked across industries—everything from growth consulting and marketing to teaching and even sound engineering. My journey with AI started in 2017, driven by a desire to make work more interesting by letting technology handle the tedious stuff. Since then, I’ve made it my mission to help other businesses do the same. At AI Operator, we keep things simple: we explore, we innovate, and we focus on solutions that truly help. If you’re interested in finding out how AI could fit into your business without the overwhelm, I’d love to chat.

At TaskDrive, I had the privilege of leading an incredible team committed to helping professionals streamline their workflows and reclaim their time. Our mission was bold: to enable over 10,000 professionals to work smarter, not harder, through a blend of AI-powered virtual assistant services and personalized solutions. Key Wins & Learnings: - AI-Driven Innovation: Integrated top-tier AI tools (like ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Bard) into our services, transforming the precision and efficiency of our virtual assistants. This experience deepened my understanding of how AI can truly enhance business operations. - Tailored Solutions: Developed custom GPT prompts for clients, showing me the power of personalized automation and how bespoke solutions can drive impactful results. - Team Growth & Collaboration: Expanded our team with specialists across marketing, sales, and tech, reinforcing my belief in the importance of diverse expertise when scaling a business. Client-Centric Strategy: Shifted our focus to highly personalized client engagements, emphasizing that true success comes from becoming an integral part of each client’s growth journey. At TaskDrive, I saw firsthand how AI and human expertise can work in harmony to deliver incredible value. It reinforced my passion for simplifying complex tech and making it work for businesses in a practical, impactful way.

Planet of the Vapes is the world's largest e-commerce vaporizer store, beloved by thousands of customers, and the only one to offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. During my time as Chief Growth Officer, I: - Implemented a complete restructuring of the company. This began with change management and workshops on organizational structure. There was no formal structure in place when I arrived and I knew this had to change if the company were to sustain their impressive growth. - Introduced sprints for the marketing team, and put goals and KPIs in place. This helped the team find focus and motivated them to achieve results. - Brought in a variety of tools. Notion for knowledge management, ShipUp for order tracking, Fellow for more productive meetings, and Elevar for analytics. These tools are still used successfully today. At POTV, I learned the importance of amazing customer service. The company is dedicated to customer success and values customer satisfaction above immediate profit. I'd like to carry this vision on to other companies I work with in the future.

As a COO in Carts Guru, I worked on a variety of activities aimed at growing and improving the company, its value proposition, and the smooth running of daily tasks. As responsible with the management, strategy, and operations of the entire company, I developed and ran a business strategy that changed the face of the company’s operations, as well as worked extensively on the launching of Carts Guru’s new multi-channel marketing automation product. - Established and developed a fully functional marketing department - Launched and iterated different meeting, management, and documentation styles to see what suits the company best - Successfully launched our new multichannel marketing automation product for e-commerce due to extensive researching, planning, and testing of our market - finding the right product-market fit - Constantly overviewed project and task deliverability from the departments, with an emphasis on the marketing and U.S market ones. - Prepare and lead the design of investment pitch decks, strategise around them, as well as present them to investors.

Brought in to oversee a major marketing programme as well as develop and deliver training programmes for tools like Asana Task Management software, HubSpot, Heap Analytics, Databox and more. This role also involved creating a digital growth strategy with the Chief Growth Officer and on-boarding new team members. - Defining digital marketing strategy, including developing new marketing management processes - Engaged as speaker at events to promote Restb.ai as a company - Delivering improved ROI through creation of new low-cost content marketing strategies - Involved in structuring business to prepare for growth and higher levels of inbound business - Streamlining processes to make the business leaner, fitter and more proactive - Developed new strategies including HubSpot Marketing Automation and Search Marketing

Through maximising the potential of growth marketing, I delivered a lasting influence on the business. This included delivering exemplary revenue growth since start-up. I also improved delivery of Talaia’s offering by reducing sales cycle thus enabling sales team to on-board new customers. Also, delivered greater automation of marketing processes and campaigns delivering vastly improved ROI. - Utilised HubSpot automation to improve sales conversion - Introduced new CRM and tracking tools to develop new “data driven” leads - Led re-branding of company from logo through to responsive website

- Customize brand positioning and benefits to a trade audience, tailor right messaging to right audiences - Build marketing plans to support marketing and sales objectives - Manage allocation of limited trade marketing resources – money and time – to highest ROI activities in short and long term - Plan which shows Zest should attend, sponsor in conjunction with Brand X Managers - Build relationships and negotiate with conference & event organizers - Manage trade side of social media, influencer marketing, trade advertising & other channels as relevant