The Automation Group
    About · Over OnsN° 2026 · 03

    We are The Automation Group

    One of the leading AI consultancies in the Netherlands. We guide organizations from strategy to implementation with a team of Agentic Engineers — technical consultants working with a 10x mindset.

    Boutique studio · Utrecht · sister company of ai.nl
    § Sister company

    The Automation Group is the sister company of ai.nl

    ai.nl is the leading AI platform in the Netherlands — news, community and events. We build the AI Agents and agentic systems that platform writes about.

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    Our Mission

    "Bridging the gap between AI ambitions and actual results. We build solutions that don't disappear in a drawer, but contribute to efficiency and innovation from day one."

    Team The Automation Group

    Our ambitious team of AI specialists and engineers

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    Our Agentic Engineers

    Technical consultants working with a 10x mindset. Driven by curiosity, built to make impact.

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    Hasan

    Senior Agentic Engineer

    Document Intelligence & AI Agents

    Wout

    Wout

    Agentic Engineer

    Document Intelligence & AI Agents

    Madelon

    Madelon

    Agentic AI Consultant

    GenAI Content Specialist & Low-Code Orchestration

    Rienk

    Rienk

    Senior Agentic AI Consultant

    Scaling AI Initiatives & Compliance

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    Bas

    Agentic AI Consultant

    AI Frameworks

    Bob

    Bob

    Agentic AI Consultant

    Mid-Code Solutions

    Joost

    Joost

    Agentic AI Consultant

    Intelligent Workflow Automation

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    Angus

    Agentic Engineer

    Agentic Frameworks

    Osman Hersi

    Osman Hersi

    Agentic Engineer

    Multi-Agent Systems & Implementation

    Sam van Roosmalen

    Sam van Roosmalen

    Technische Consultant

    AI Strategy & Client Advisory

    — Join the team

    We are hiring Agentic Engineers and builders who can't stop shipping.

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    Our leadership

    Experienced entrepreneurs and engineers building the future of AI.

    Job van den Berg

    Job van den Berg

    Co-founder

    Co-founder AI.nl & The Automation Group. Strategic leader with a passion for AI innovation.

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    Remy Gieling

    Remy Gieling

    Co-founder

    Co-founder AI.nl & The Automation Group. Building bridges between technology and business.

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    Stefan van der Leeden

    Stefan van der Leeden

    CTO & Co-founder

    CTO and Co-founder The Automation Group. Technical leader with expertise in scalable AI architectures.

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    Our Philosophy

    The 10x Engineer

    Our Agentic Engineers are technical consultants working with a 10x mindset — 1 engineer with hyper-effective AI Coding Agents does the work of entire teams. This lets you innovate at the speed of Silicon Valley.

    "One Agentic Engineer with the right AI agents is more powerful than an entire development team. That's not future talk — that's how we work today."

    Our values

    Curiosity

    Our world changes weekly: new models, new frameworks, new possibilities. We want to truly understand how technology works, explain it to others, and share what we learn — with the team, with clients, with the world.

    Responsibility

    We do what we say and say what we do. Our name is on every client, every project, every deadline. We're honest when things take longer and we build agents that act transparently and accountably.

    Perseverance

    AI implementation is rarely a straight line. Systems fail, models hallucinate, integrations break. We see obstacles as puzzles, not walls — and build agents as resilient as the people who make them.

    Pragmatism

    Our clients need working solutions today, not in six months. Sometimes that's an advanced multi-agent system, sometimes a simple n8n flow built in an afternoon. The right tool for the job.

    Ambition

    We don't want to be just "an AI agency" — we want to be the partner that truly transforms Dutch organizations with AI. "Good enough" isn't good enough, for ourselves or our team.

    Our tech stack

    We work with the best tools and technologies to build scalable solutions.

    OpenAI
    Anthropic
    Azure OpenAI
    Python
    LangChain
    CrewAI
    AutoGen
    Swarm
    LlamaIndex
    Pydantic
    FastAPI
    Weaviate
    Pinecone
    Qdrant
    ChromaDB
    AWS
    Azure
    GCP
    Kubernetes
    Docker

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