Company
From a university project to a company
NEST started as a reading list and an architecture sketch at Istanbul Commerce University in February 2026. Seven months later it is a working codebase, one withdrawn number, and a decision to incorporate. Here is the mission, the timeline, the people and how to reach us.
Mission
Two things worth building
Give people who cannot speak or type a non-invasive path to open text: no surgery, no fixed phrase set, a decoding layer that runs on any research-grade EEG system. And give the field a benchmark it can trust, in an area where published scores have repeatedly turned out to reward the wrong thing once someone checked them properly, including a number NEST itself had to withdraw.
Story
Seven months, in order
Principles
What we will not compromise on
Measure before claiming
A February 2026 estimate had to be withdrawn once the team compared it against real decoding, so nothing ships now until it has been decoded, not inferred from a loss curve.
Open by default
Code, data loaders and evaluation scripts are MIT-licensed and public, so any claim on this site can be checked instead of taken on faith.
Hardware-agnostic
NEST is a software layer, not a headset, so any research-grade EEG system that can output word-aligned frequency-band features is a valid input.
Research tool first, clinical product later
Making no diagnostic or therapeutic claim keeps NEST outside FDA, EU MDR and Turkish TITCK device scope today, and a future assistive product would take the CE/MDR path deliberately, not by accident.
Team
Who is behind it
One founder today. The first hires come after the first benchmark, on the clinical and regulatory side.
Machine learning and software. Computer Engineering, Istanbul Commerce University. First author of an IEEE SIU 2026 paper on cross-lingual evaluation of vision-language-action models (IEEE Xplore 11636432). Founder of CamelLayer.
NEST started as a research project at the university. Collaboration on ethics approval, participant access and EEG recording is planned; the team grows after the first validated result.
Ecosystem
Who NEST works with
Istanbul Commerce University
Home institution. Planned ethics board review, participant recruitment and EEG recording collaboration for the Turkish reading corpus.
Teknopark Istanbul Cube incubator
Planned incorporation venue.
TUBITAK BiGG
Planned grant application.
Hasat 2026
Application in preparation, September 2026, Biotechnology and Health track, hosted by Teknopark Istanbul.
Contact
Reach us
No mailing list and no support email yet. Use GitHub for anything code- or research-related, and LinkedIn for everything else.