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SyntoTech tells you what your business actually needs.

Melbourne-based digital consulting and IT services firm for small and medium-sized businesses — we assess how your business runs, then bring the right mix of AI automation, digital execution, and operational fixes to move it closer to the systems and structure of a larger, more established company.

// FOUNDER

Akif Barut

Founder & Principal Consultant

BACKGROUND

My path to SyntoTech wasn't a straight line, and that's exactly the point. I studied Energy Systems Engineering — a genuinely multidisciplinary degree spanning electrical, mechanical, environmental, and civil engineering — and stayed involved beyond the classroom as a member of the IEEE Kocaeli Student Branch and the ESMK Kocaeli Student Branch. I tested the degree itself across three very different placements: maintenance and production planning at a state power utility, thermal plant operations at a private energy company, and full solar project delivery — design, pricing, installation, and after-sales support — at a renewables firm. Seeing the same energy system from a maintenance desk, a control room, and a construction site taught me to read any business the same way: as interlocking parts, not a single problem to patch. Alongside the engineering, I was always working. Waiting tables and running laundry service in Turkish hotels since I was a teenager. Lifeguarding on a student exchange in the US. Later, solar sales — pricing and closing projects with customers, then coordinating installs and after-sales support end-to-end, domestic and international. When I relocated to Melbourne in 2023, I started again from zero: an English course, then warehouse work, roofing, solar installation, driving — rebuilding a professional footing in a new country and a second language, one unfamiliar job at a time. That range is where the observation comes from — quickly reading an unfamiliar system for what's actually wrong, not just what it looks like on the surface. It's also where the project management and communication come from: learned by pricing real jobs, managing installs remotely, and earning a room of strangers' trust fast. The same discipline shows up outside of work too — folk dance, swimming, tennis, football, rock climbing, taekwando — different sports, but the same habit of staying balanced under pressure and adjusting technique in real time until something works. SyntoTech's assessment-first model exists because of all of it — I've been on the floor, in the sales room, and in the engineering brief, and I bring all three views to every client.

WHY SYNTOTECH?

Most small businesses get sold a service before anyone's actually diagnosed the problem — a website when the real issue is process, an automation tool when the real issue is strategy. I've worked inside enough organisations to know a fix only sticks when it's matched to the actual bottleneck. That's why every SyntoTech engagement starts with an assessment, not a sales pitch — and why what we recommend next depends on what we find, not on what we happen to sell most.

VISION & MISSION

Vision

To grow into a global partner for businesses still running on outdated management systems and practices — helping them modernise for today's world, starting in Melbourne and expanding from there.

Mission

We work with small and medium-sized businesses. We assess before we advise — every engagement starts with an honest look at how a business actually runs, and we only recommend the mix of automation, digital execution, or operational fixes that brings it closer to the systems and structure of a larger, more established company.

VALUES

Diagnosis before prescriptionTransparency — no lock-in, no hidden pricingCross-disciplinary thinkingFollow-through, not just recommendations

FOCUS AREAS

Business AssessmentAI AutomationPrompt EngineeringStrategy & OperationsWeb & App DevelopmentSEO & GrowthDigital Transformation
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LocationMelbourne, VIC
LanguagesEnglish · Turkish
AvailabilityOpen to new projects
Response time< 1 business day

// TEAM

CG

Cihan Göymen

Türkiye Sales & Marketing Coordinator

I bring the cross-industry experience I've built in sales, marketing, and operations together with the technology and AI solutions we deliver under SyntoTech.

As Türkiye Sales & Marketing Coordinator, I run SyntoTech's sales and business development in the Turkish market — analysing what a business actually needs, then making sure the right digital transformation, AI automation, web development, and growth solutions are positioned for it.

By combining my experience in client relationships, sales strategy, and team and operations management with technology-led solutions, the aim is never simply to deliver a service — it is to create measurable, sustainable results for the business.

My goal is to help businesses in Türkiye genuinely benefit from what technology and AI make possible, and to turn SyntoTech's global vision into strong partnerships in the Turkish market.

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