Work is changing, people stay at the helm

Work goes to whoever directs AI well. At Bemand you learn it by building yourself, on a task that eats your time today.

Build sessions we ran at

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Owner and team around the build table in the studio

Most companies try one of these three routes

They all work a little. Until Monday.

A course

Fun for a day. On Monday the work looks the same.

Outsourcing

It works, until the supplier leaves. Then you depend on them.

One more subscription

You pay for ten tools and use five.

Teach your own people to build

They know your clients, your work and your exceptions.

Stop buying tools, build them yourself

You want to be able to do it yourself.

unmanned

AI changes the work, we make sure the people keep up

Two separate trainings and a membership that keeps you sharp

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Training

The build day

Your team builds its first own tool on the real work. You keep a roadmap.

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Training

The team day

For when AI unsettles your team. Owner and team decide together what each person needs to keep up.

Two people going through an overview on paper
Every month

The membership

A monthly scan of where you stand and the AI café with the other members. That is how your team keeps up.

Pick one training or both, in any order. See what it costs →

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Case · energy label consultancy

In five months from consultancy to software company with paying clients

We taught the team the safe stack, they did the building. Their code has been reviewed independently ever since. Nobody planned for a second business model to come out of it.

Result
17tools built, without a software background
5months to paying clients
+1revenue stream nobody had planned
When did you start? Eight weeks ago? So in eight weeks I could be where you are?
A business owner, at a networking dinner, after hearing a participant's story. The answer was yes.

Six questions we hear all the time

And how we answer them. Tap the button for the next question.

Bemand
AI café · Delft & Zoetermeer

Curious what a year looks like? See the approach →

Someone is always learning alongside

Bemand builds on the labs at Dutch Innovation Park, where students and companies have been solving real problems together for years. We take the next step: changing the company itself.

An experienced professional directing the work on a laptop

The knowledge worker: from maker to director

Twenty years of craft becomes your biggest head start the moment you learn to direct agents. Professionals who think in systems turn out to be the best builders. What stays human: the client conversation, the judgement, the hard call.

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The junior: learning the craft as it is now

Next to the professionals there is always someone learning the craft. Juniors build along on real cases, paid and guided. That is how knowledge work stays in the region.

Want to build along as a mentor or junior? Read the manifesto →

We only work with knowledge businesses

B2B service firms and knowledge businesses: that is where AI hits the business model hardest. It works best at companies of 30 to 100 people. Big enough to change, small enough to do it without a steering committee.

Accountancy & administration

New AI-native firms do the same work for a tenth of the price. You keep up with a system of your own instead of loose tools.

IT & software

The portfolio shifts and the ranking inside the team changes: whoever directs agents delivers the most.

Legal & actuarial

Experts with twenty years of experience still do a lot of work by hand. That is where the jump is biggest.

Research & education

Knowledge that sat with the teacher now also sits in AI. Lecturers and programmes need a different way of learning.

Sales & commerce

Long processes full of list work: emailing, calling, updating the CRM, following up. Agents do the list work, your people have the conversation.

Your field?

If your business runs on knowledge and processes, AI hits your business model. Come and test that at an AI café.

hallucinating

Our people do not hallucinate. They simply call the client.

The AI café: members watching a demo in the studio

Try an AI café first and join after that

Free the first time, in the studio in Delft or at the Innovation Lab in Zoetermeer. If you like it, you pick a training. Cohort 1 starts this autumn with five to eight companies.