AI agency ’s-Hertogenbosch: automating processes in and around Den Bosch

The kind of companies in and around Den Bosch

’s-Hertogenbosch is the capital of Brabant, and the mix shows it. The city itself holds a lot of professional services. Around it, on the business parks and along the roads towards Veghel, Oss and Uden, sits the work we visit most.

• Wholesale and distribution: a warehouse, hundreds of order lines a day, customers who each order their own way.
• Construction, installation and maintenance: contractors, installers and service firms with engineers out every day.
• Food and agricultural supply: towards Veghel, Oss and Uden, with plenty of batch, origin and shelf-life records that cannot be sloppy.
• Professional services in the city: accountants, consultancies, engineering firms, law offices. Heavy document flows, much of it checked by hand.
• Transport and logistics: the A2, A59 and A50 cross here, drawing hauliers, forwarders and warehousing.

The work that gets left undone here

The question is never whether AI can do something, but which work comes back every week, is done by a person, and requires no judgement. In this region we hear the same five things.

• Orders arriving by email, PDF or phone and retyped by inside sales. At peak times that is where the delay starts.
• Delivery notes and order confirmations: different layouts, different article codes, matched by hand against your purchase order. Discrepancies only surface once the goods are in.
• Job sheets and timesheets from the field. The engineer hands them in, someone retypes them, and the invoice follows a week later.
• Certificates and origin documents: a paper trail that has to be collected per order.
• Questions about lead times. A customer calls, and the answer lives in two systems and in one colleague’s head.

What AI automation means here in practice

For us it almost always comes down to two things: reading documents and connecting systems that do not know each other. An incoming order is read and put ready as a draft, so inside sales checks instead of retypes. Approved job sheets flow into invoicing on their own. Supplier confirmations are matched against your purchase order, and only the discrepancies reach a person.

What we do not do: put an AI assistant on your website and call that automation. We also build nothing on top of a process that has not been agreed internally. If three people on the sales desk each work their own way, writing that down comes first.

For food and agricultural supply there is one more thing: data tied to inspection and liability does not go through any random service. We agree up front what may be processed where.

Visiting ’s-Hertogenbosch: how it works in practice

To be blunt: we have no office in ’s-Hertogenbosch, no address in the city centre. What we do have is proximity. Eindhoven is about half an hour away and the founder lives in Schijndel, in between. This is home turf.

In practice: a visit usually happens the same week, and travel costs are a small line rather than a discussion. A half-day does not have to be stretched into a full day to justify the drive, as it does for places far from both bases.

• Intro call: online or at your office, usually the same week.
• Core session: on your shop floor, a half-day of 4 hours, on a day we are in Brabant anyway.
• During the build: short catch-ups by video. We come over as soon as there is something to see or test — more often here than elsewhere, because we can.
• Travel costs: €0.45 per kilometre from wherever we set off. For Den Bosch that is small, listed separately on the invoice with no mark-up.
• The 040 phone number belongs to that Brabant presence; it is not a line forwarded up to the Gooi.

What it costs

Our rates are the same everywhere. The only difference is the kilometres, and here those work in your favour.

• AI scan: free, five minutes online. A score, a few concrete opportunities and a first price indication. No sales pitch.
• Core session on your shop floor: a half-day of 4 hours, €596 excluding VAT and travel costs. A full day is €1,192; our advisory rate is €149 per hour.
• Building: €110 per hour for straightforward work, €165 per hour for complex development. Paid monthly in advance from a budget you set.
• Travel costs: €0.45 per kilometre, a small item for ’s-Hertogenbosch.
• Running costs: what the AI models and connected services cost per month once it is live.
• A subsidy partner checks as standard whether a scheme applies. If there is none, we say so.

Where it goes wrong

Four things come back every time. None of them is about AI, and three sit on your side of the table.

• No owner. The director finds it interesting, the operations manager is too busy, and the project disappears behind the rush. Us being nearby helps, but someone on your side has to decide.
• Data that is wrong. The same customer twice, three article numbers for one product, dimensions in a free-text field. Cleaning up is dull work and often the bulk of the first weeks.
• A package that keeps its door shut. Some ERP and accounting systems have no open connection, or only on a pricier plan. We check that before we build.
• The wrong first process. Invoicing or costing is tempting, but a mistake there costs money and trust. Start where a mistake is visible and repairable.

How to start

The order is deliberately dull, and you can stop after every step.

1. 01Do the free AI scan. Five minutes online, no sales pitch.
2. 02Book an intro call. By video or at your office in Den Bosch, usually the same week. Half an hour, in which we decide whether a session on the shop floor is worth it.
3. 03Core session on your shop floor. A half-day of 4 hours, €596 excluding VAT plus travel costs. We follow one or two processes end to end.
4. 04Core report with a go or no-go per opportunity. It is yours; take it to your own IT supplier if you like.
5. 05Build it if you want to. The same people who ran the session, at the fixed hourly rates.

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Start with the free AI scan

Five minutes online, no sales pitch: you get a score, concrete opportunities and a price indication. Based in Den Bosch or nearby and you would rather talk first? Book an intro call — coming from Brabant, that usually fits into this week.