Claudia Solutions
Consulting & enablement

One week in your business.
By Friday, your team is saving time on their own work.

Your people are already trying AI, and nobody knows if it's allowed, safe or any good. We come in for a week, find where it saves time, teach your team to use it properly, and build your first agents alongside them.

Start with a morning See how the week runs
On-site, Monday to Friday · workshops in groups of 10–15 · you keep everything we build.
“They made big promises, but now I can't imagine working without the agent Claudia and Anton built for me.” Justina, The Book Photographer, Amsterdam
~8 hrs/weekof admin taken off one founder's plate by the first agent we built for her.
485 of 485bank lines matched and 105 of 105 deadlines found in our six admin tests. Made-up test data, scored blind.

Start with one morning: The Automation Morning.

By video, or on site if you prefer. By lunchtime you have a ranked list of the tasks worth automating in your business. The written report follows within two working days. If we can't show at least 5 tasks worth at least 15,000 euros a year together, using your own hourly costs, the morning is free. Book the full week within 30 days and the cost of the morning comes off.

Ask about a morning
The situation

The hard part is knowing where to start.

Most companies are in at least one of these four places. If more than two sound familiar, a week is probably worth your time.

Every proposal arrives as a licence to buy

Vendors want to sell you seats. None of them start by asking what your people do all day, because that isn't what they're selling.

Shadow AI is already happening

Some of your team are using AI daily and not mentioning it. Nobody is managing that, and nobody has told them what's safe to paste in.

The strategy never left the slides

There's a deck about AI. There's possibly a committee. What there isn't is one person whose Tuesday got measurably easier.

Someone ran a training day and nothing changed

A generic session on prompting, everyone nodded, and on Monday they went back to exactly what they were doing before. Training that isn't tied to real work doesn't survive contact with a normal week.

The expensive part isn't the tooling. It's the year you spend deciding. Most AI budget gets burned on licences nobody adopts and pilots nobody finishes. The point of the week is to end the deciding: you finish it knowing what's worth doing, what isn't, and who in your building can do it.
What you keep

What's different the Monday after.

The test of a week like this is what's still true a month later.

A ranked map you can act on

Where AI pays in your business, in plain language, ordered by effort against payoff, including the places we think it isn't worth it.

A team you don't have to worry about

People who know what good output looks like, what to check, and what never leaves the building.

A safe-use standard in writing

Short, specific to your business, and written so people follow it rather than route around it.

Named champions, not a committee

The two or three people who will carry this after we leave, picked by how they work rather than by job title.

Working agents you own

On your accounts, with your data, handed over completely. Nothing locked behind us.

The ability to build the next one

You shouldn't need to call a consultancy every time you want to automate something small.

How it works

The week, day by day.

Five days on-site. Management on Monday, your people mid-week, workshops at the end. Then, if it's useful, we come back and build.

Day 1 Monday With leadership

What the business needs, and what it will actually allow

We sit down with management and get the honest version: where the business is going, where time and money leak, what's already been tried, and what the constraints are (budget, compliance, the tools you already pay for, and anything that is not up for discussion). We also agree what "worth doing" means to you, so we're ranking against your definition rather than ours.

OutputA shortlist of candidate workflows, and the constraints everything else gets tested against.
Days 2–3 Tuesday & Wednesday With the people doing the work

The workflow on the org chart is never the real workflow

We talk to your team one-to-one and in small groups about how the work gets done day to day, which is rarely the documented process. That includes the spreadsheet they maintain on the side and the report nobody reads. This is where the useful findings come from. We're looking for two things: which work suits AI, and which people have the most to gain and the appetite to run with it. Those people become your internal champions, and this is how you find them.

OutputA ranked map of the real work, effort against payoff, plus the names of the people to build around.
Days 4–5 Thursday & Friday Workshops · 10–15 people per group

Your team, working on their own tasks.

Two days of hands-on workshops, run in groups small enough that everyone takes part. We cover how to get good output rather than plausible-sounding output, how to spot the moments AI is confidently wrong, what should never be pasted into a public model and why, and where the limits are. Everyone works on their own tasks, the ones we found on Tuesday and Wednesday, so nobody leaves with notes they'll never open again. Larger teams run in consecutive groups.

OutputA team that can use AI on their own work, and a written safe-use standard that fits how you operate.
Optional · week 2 Building With your champions

We build your first agents with your people, not for them

If the map points at something worth automating, we come back and build it, sitting next to the people who'll own it rather than disappearing and returning with a finished box. Two things come out of that: the first agent works properly, because we made sure it does, and the second one gets built without us. This is the part most consultancies skip, and it's the reason most AI projects don't survive the handover.

OutputWorking agents, running on your accounts, owned by you, and someone in-house who knows how they were made.
The workshops

Who runs the workshops

Anton runs them, and he's also the person who builds the agents afterwards. That matters because the moment that decides whether a room takes any of this seriously is when someone asks a question the slides don't cover.

Your work, not a curriculum

Everyone spends the two days on the tasks we found on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nobody sits through a demo of somebody else's job.

Nobody has to become technical

The person at the front is an engineer. The room isn't, and doesn't need to be. It's run in the language your team already uses about their own work.

The sceptic is the useful one

There's usually someone who thinks this is all nonsense. They ask what everyone else is too polite to, and they get a straight answer rather than being talked over.

Anton Deken is an engineer, has used AI in his own work daily since 2022, and builds what you end up owning. He managed a 90-member Formula Student team.

Why our advice is worth having

We don't sell licences. We're not tied to a platform.

Most companies offering AI advice are resellers, implementation partners, or tied to a platform, and their recommendation was decided before they met you.

No ties to the big vendors

We are not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft or any company like them. No reseller agreement, no commission and no partner tier with any of them. If you've already committed to a platform we'll make it earn its keep; if you haven't, we help you pick on the merits. Sometimes the answer is that the tool you're already paying for is fine.

Including when nothing may leave the country

If your data cannot go outside the Netherlands, that rules out most of the obvious options, but not AI itself. Through our partner, a company specialising in high-security environments, we can use models that run in the Netherlands, so the data doesn't leave.

Honest fit

When this works, and when it doesn't.

We'd rather tell you now than take a week of your time and your budget to arrive at the same conclusion.

This is built for you if

  • You have enough people that their work differs. Roughly 10 to 50 is the sweet spot.
  • Someone in the room can change how work gets done, not just recommend it.
  • You'd rather your own people ended up capable than keep a consultancy on retainer.
  • You have a lot of admin: quoting, scheduling, reporting, client correspondence, compliance paperwork.
  • You want a straight answer about where AI won't help, as well as where it will.

Probably not, if

  • What you want is a platform recommendation and a deck. Plenty of firms will sell you that, and more cheaply than we would.
  • Nobody is permitted to change a process without a long approval cycle. The week will produce good findings that then sit still.
  • You're looking to reduce headcount. That's not what we do, and your team will work out the real agenda by Tuesday afternoon regardless.
  • You need one specific agent built and nothing else. That's a smaller, cheaper job, so ask us for that instead.
Before you ask

Common questions.

Our data can't leave the Netherlands. Is this even possible for us?
Yes. It rules out most consumer AI tools, not AI. Through our partner, a company specialising in high-security environments, we can use models that run in the Netherlands, so the data doesn't leave. We'd establish exactly what your constraints are on the Monday, before anything gets recommended.
We already pay for Copilot / ChatGPT for the team. Is this redundant?
The opposite. It's usually the strongest starting position, and a common pattern is a company paying for seats that maybe a third of the team uses. You've removed the procurement question already. The week is then about making what you own earn its keep, and we'd have no reason to move you off it.
Half our people are already using AI without telling anyone. Is that a problem?
It's very common, and it's better acknowledged than policed. Those people are usually your fastest adopters. They've just been doing it without guidance on what's safe. The workshops are where that becomes visible, supported, and safe, rather than something people hide.
How do we know it won't fade out after you leave?
It's the main risk, and it's why the week is shaped the way it is. Training that isn't tied to someone's real Tuesday doesn't stick, which is what Tuesday and Wednesday are for. And an agent built for people gets abandoned, whereas one built with them gets maintained, so we build alongside your champions rather than handing over a finished box. We can't guarantee adoption. What we can do is remove every excuse for it not happening.
The timing isn't great. Can we look at this next quarter?
Sometimes that's the right answer, and we'd rather you came back in three months than booked a week you're too stretched to use. What matters is whether the quarter after this one will be quieter. If it won't, then the work you'd be fitting this around is the work we'd be trying to take off you, and every month it stays manual costs the same hours it costs now. Either way, tell us and we'll check back in when it suits you rather than chase you.
I'm not the only person who has to sign this off.
Then bring them to the first call. It's half an hour, and it saves you relaying our answers second-hand. The questions that decide this (what it costs, what changes, what it means for people's jobs) land far better asked directly than passed along. If that isn't practical, tell us what they'll want to know and we'll put it in writing in a form you can forward.
What does it cost?
Most teams start with The Automation Morning, a small fixed price that comes off the week if you book within 30 days. The week is a fixed scope and price agreed in advance, with no licences or per-seat fees owed to us afterwards. You get the numbers on the first call.
Do you have to be on-site?
For the middle of the week, strongly preferred. The Tuesday and Wednesday conversations are where the real workflows surface, and people tend to be more candid about how work gets done in person than on a call. Monday and the build week can be remote if that's easier.
Get in touch

Start with a conversation, not a proposal.

Tell us roughly how big your team is and where you think the time goes. We'll tell you whether a morning or a week would be worth it, and if neither would, what we'd do instead.

We reply the same working day.

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