HakanKaynar
25 years scoping information systems for Swiss public administrations. Today, the same discipline applied in two new fields: a psychological well-being app, and a software production chain run by AI agents.
Three worlds, one method: work out what has to be achieved, write it down so it can be held to, settle what blocks, and check what gets delivered. The rest is a question of tools.
01The craftSince 2001
I take functional ownership of a domain, end to end.
Single point of contact between business departments, the IT division and vendors. I work at the scale of cantonal transformation programmes, with the political and budgetary trade-offs that come with them. A former supply chain manager in industry, I approach the information system through the operational value it delivers, not through the technology.
- I Frame
- Strategic IS plan, alignment of the system with the business, application roadmap and urbanisation. Portfolio prioritisation and steering of decision committees.
- II Choose
- Opportunity study, requirements gathering, market benchmark, functional specification and management of public tenders under Swiss AIMP procurement law.
- III Deliver
- General and detailed specifications, programme management, functional review and acceptance through to go-live, then change management.
They trusted me with a domain
Frameworks
BABOK and IIBA ECBA certification. COBIT and PRINCE2 Foundation. Swiss public procurement under AIMP.
Education
General engineering degree for industry, CESI Paris.
02The projectSince 2026
Kalisme: a tool, not something you join.
Kalisme helps people step back, breathe, read, write, and ask for help when they need it. No account, no sign-up: the app opens and works straight away, asks for no name or email address, and the notebook stays encrypted on the device. You don't join Kalisme, you use it: no members, no coach, no certification.
Kalisme brings together existing approaches: some studied in research (acceptance and commitment therapy, mindfulness, self-compassion, positive psychology), others drawn from philosophy, from Carl Rogers to the Stoics. I am its architect: I design the tools and make them available. I don't coach anyone.
Its foundations have been studied; its own effect has not yet been studied: that is what the pilot phase is for. The app is available on the App Store, published under my own name, in 15 languages, culturally adapted rather than translated word for word.
- Type
- non-medical
- Account required
- none
- Languages
- 15
- Books
- 13
- On the App Store since
- May 2026
- Manifesto legal deposit
- June 2026
03The methodMarch to October 2026
Let an AI produce without letting go of the result.
I do not write the code. I built and run, on my own, a software production chain where AI agents do the writing and everything else stays with me: framing, specification, arbitration and acceptance. It was proven on a product that is on sale, not on a demo.
Me: framing, arbitration, acceptance. · The agents: writing the code, under specification and under control.
Figures measured on the repositories, with no favourable rounding.
The control framework in detailWhat it taught me about running a project
- 01Framing an AI project on its real constraints: data confidentiality, inference cost, the trade-off between hosted and on-device models, and vendor lock-in.
- 02Telling apart what a demo shows from what going live actually requires: backup, recovery, monitoring, secret management.
- 03Specifying and accepting AI-produced deliverables through an explicit control system, rather than trust granted by default.
- 04Talking to engineering teams in their own terms without stepping out of the functional role.
04Career2001 to today
25 years, 18 of them in consulting.
05InformationFrench-speaking Switzerland
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