A growth chamber in a refugee camp should be built to the same standard as a control system in a power plant.
An app for the ADHD brain should be designed by someone who actually has one.
That’s CognaWorks.
A Canadian technology holding company based in Ottawa.
Humanitarian agriculture and cognitive health. Every system designed with the same safety-critical methodology.
Every system designed to be safety-critical, offline-first, and AI-assisted — where the AI recommends but never controls.
Different domains. Same engineering discipline. Same obsession with building things that work where it matters most.
Leadership
Ahmet Mikail Bayindir
Founder & Director
Born in Turkey.
Built his first autonomous growth system at sixteen. Researched microgreen nutrition at a pharmacy lab. Gold medal at an international science olympiad.
Moved to Canada.
Spent a year volunteering with an organization that settles refugees in Ottawa. Fixed their computers. Learned who they were. Understood what they needed.
Then built technology to feed them.
Manages ADHD unmedicated. So he built an app for that too. Not from a research paper. From years of waking up with a brain that doesn’t remember what it just decided.
Every product built from the problem he lived closest to.
Muhammet Furkan Yalcin
Co-Founder & Electrical Engineer, ReliefSense
Electrical engineering at Carleton University.
Embedded systems. PCB design. FPGA verification. The kind of engineering where a mistake doesn’t throw an error — it burns a board.
He builds the layer where code meets the physical world. The sensors. The actuators. The circuits that have to work at 50°C in a dust storm and at −40°C in an arctic winter.
If the software is the brain of ReliefSense, Furkan is building its nervous system.
Headquarters
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Knowledge Applied.