For the past year, Beysco ran out of a co-working space in Şişli and a shared calendar full of video calls. It worked. Five people can build a lot from anywhere, and we did. But every workshop meant booking a room by the hour, and every whiteboard got wiped by someone else before the week was out.
This month we moved into our own floor at Büyükdere Plaza, in Esentepe, Şişli. There is room for the whole team, a wall we can write on and leave written, and a door that closes.
The last part matters more than it sounds. Most of our work is either deep focus or a long conversation with a client about a system that does not exist yet. Both are hard to do in a room you are borrowing, and neither survives being interrupted on the hour because somebody else booked the slot.
What we looked for
We looked at the space the way we look at an architecture: what does it need to support, and for how long. The answer was never square meters. It came down to four things:
- A room that fits a two-day workshop without anyone moving three times.
- Wall we can leave written on between sessions, because a diagram nobody can see again is a diagram nobody drew.
- Enough quiet that a focused afternoon is the default rather than something you schedule around.
- A lease we can grow into, so that adding a few people does not mean doing this again.
The floor we took clears all four, with room we do not need yet. That last part is deliberate. Moving is expensive in ways that have nothing to do with rent — a week of everyone's attention, a month of small things not working — and we would rather carry the space early than plan another move in eighteen months.
What changes
Starting in September, client workshops happen here. Discovery sessions, architecture reviews, the first days of a project when the scope is still soft — those move in-house, with the engineers who will actually build the thing sitting in the room. Those early days set more of a project's direction than any week that follows them, and running them properly is worth a room of our own.
It also shortens the distance between a question and an answer. A client can bring the person who knows how the current system really behaves, and we can bring whoever will maintain the new one, and the awkward part gets found on day one instead of in month three.
Nothing changes about how we work remotely. Clients outside Istanbul are served exactly as before, and the team still works from home when the work calls for it. The office is a place to bring people together on purpose, not a requirement to be somewhere at nine.
If you have a project starting this autumn and want to spend a day mapping it out with us, the address is at the bottom of every page.