Founder

Kerem Albayrak.

Founder. Leads the watch. Based in London.

Founder of the watch. Direct on every file. Background spans identity-side, wealth-side, and structural risk reading. Selective on press and speaking. Full profile at /about/.

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Field notes.

26 entries by Kerem Albayrak.

2026-04-17
What we mean by private watch

Founder's note. What we are and what it isn't, in plain language.

2026-03-17
What we do during your first thirty days

What an interested client should expect from the first month with we.

2026-02-24
Why we extend coverage to family

A note on why family is part of the watch on Cover and Standing.

2026-02-03
Private intelligence vs public OSINT, the difference that matters

Why a closed register beats public-record tools when something material moves.

2026-01-13
The reading discipline behind continuous monitoring

Why we have rules about how senior reads happen and what they cover.

2026-01-02
What a real-time alert actually looks like

An anonymised example of a real-time alert from the encrypted channel.

2025-12-23
School directories and child safety on the open record

What private schools and youth programmes routinely publish, and what we do about it.

2025-12-12
How we handle incoming press enquiries about clients

What happens when a journalist contacts us looking for comment on a client.

2026-02-03
Why we offer an anonymous option, and how it works

Some clients never tell us who they are. The system is built for that.

2026-01-27
How the voice line works on Standing

What happens when something needs you on the phone, and the protocol that wraps around it.

2026-01-13
Why we called them Watch, Cover, and Standing

Plain words for plain things.

2025-12-16
How we set up a new client quietly

Onboarding is mostly invisible. Here's how that's possible.

2025-12-02
Why identity and wealth are the same problem

Founder's note on why we run them together rather than as separate services.

2025-11-25
How we think about pricing

A short note on why the prices look the way they look.

2025-11-11
There are no photographs of us on this site

Short note. We want this to be clear.

2025-11-07
A short year-in-review

Kerem Albayrak Consulting's first six months in operation.

2025-10-24
Our quarterly calibration

Once a quarter we score everything we did and adjust how the team reads.

2025-10-03
What Cover actually adds over Watch

A plain comparison.

2025-09-30
How an anonymous client actually works on the system

We get asked this often. Mechanics, plain language.

2025-09-23
The three rules that don't move

Founder's note on the things we won't change.

2025-09-19
A real case, anonymised

We don't publish case studies but it helps to describe what a real case looked like.

2025-08-29
Our first month in numbers

What August looked like as we started up.

2025-08-19
How we decline members

We decline most applications. A short note on why and how.

2025-08-15
Our position on marketing

Why most of what we do isn't marketing.

2025-08-12
How we bill, plainly

Monthly or annual. Wire or card. No surprises.

2025-08-08
The one thing we wish clients knew

What we'd actually want our clients to take away.