Unsal Partners
We fund and operate AI-only companies.
Firms designed from the first line to run on AI and robotics, with human labor removed by design. Not AI-first. Not AI bolted on. AI-only.
AI-only.
A company is AI-only when it is structurally unable to function without AI. The org chart is machines first, people as exception. Operations, decisions, service delivery, and most of the capital-intensive work in the field are performed by models, agents, and robots.
It is not AI-first, which still assumes a human org underneath. Not AI layered onto a legacy workflow. Not automation around the edges. The assumption is inverted: the company exists because the machines do, and humans appear only where the machines cannot.
Portfolio — In Flight
Heavy industry.
A global services group on the path to AI-only.
A global energy services platform with operations across fifty-plus countries. The build-and-integrate phase is largely behind us. The next phase is the harder one — deploying field robotics for inspection and overhaul work that today still pulls a human technician to the site, and bringing the AI operating brain online. Robotics in weeks. The brain not far behind.
Writing
The thesis is not theoretical.
Two years of essays tracing what happens to scarcity, dignity, institutions, and markets when most human labor becomes optional. The companies we fund are the execution of that argument.
Who runs this
Operator. Investor. Writer.
Unsal Partners is a single-partner firm led by Oltaç Ünsal. Three decades of tech investing, operating, and international development work across more than thirty countries. Stanford MBA, Goldman and Credit Suisse before that, five venture-backed exits after.