Hey everyone, Mertcan here. I ve been reading the forums for a few weeks and figured it s time to say hi properly.
A bit about me: I live in Istanbul and finished computer engineering at zye in University last year. Since then I am building shim.
shim started as an AI gateway: We even launched the gateway without any experience, right now we are trying to do this properly :). Companies route their LLM calls through it, and it masks personal data before anything reaches the model provider. We spent a lot of time on Turkish data specifically, things like national ID numbers and IBANs, because most tools miss them. Over time we noticed the bigger problem was employees pasting things into ChatGPT, which no gateway ever sees. So our main product now is AI Usage Control, a managed browser extension that checks prompts before they re sent and lets the company decide what s allowed. It s still early and we re testing it with the first companies.
