AI workshops in Drachten
Drachten is a manufacturing town through and through, with an innovation cluster grown from the high-tech of Philips. With an AI workshop your team learns to put AI to practical use straight away, in-company at your own location.
Why a workshop, and why here
Around Drachten there is strong manufacturing industry and many suppliers, with the De Haven business park as the largest industrial estate in the north of the Netherlands. That means quotes, work orders, scheduling and purchasing: admin that takes a lot of manual work.
AI only works once your team actually uses it. That is why we often start with a workshop: hands-on, with examples from your own work, so it saves time the very next day.
The workshops we run
Claude Workshop
Teach your team to work with Claude, practical and immediately applicable to your own work.
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Vibe Coding
Build working tools with AI yourself, even without a coding background.
Read moreIn-company training
We come to you and train your team hands-on with AI, tailored to your own work.
Read moreFrom practice
From sceptical to building your own in a day
In an in-company workshop your team gets hands-on: drafting emails and quotes, summarising work orders and documents, and building a first tool of their own with AI.
No theory, but applying it straight to your own work. We finish with an adoption plan, so it sticks and does not stay a nice day out.
This is how we run an in-company workshop; we tailor the content to your team.
Spots for a workshop in Drachten
A few recognisable business venues. We are also happy to come to your premises.
Van der Valk Hotel Drachten
Ten multifunctional rooms, centrally located with free parking and charging points.
Schouwburg De Lawei
A well-known spot in the centre with rooms for gatherings and training.
Close by, from Groningen
Our office is in Groningen and Drachten is about three quarters of an hour away. We are happy to come to you for an in-company workshop at your own location.
Short lines, a coffee in person, and no consultant who arranges everything from a distance.
Leonard Springerlaan 35, Groningen
Frequently asked questions
Do you come to Drachten in-company?
Yes, from Groningen we are there in about three quarters of an hour. We run the workshop at your location or at one of the spots above.
Do we need prior knowledge?
No. We start where your team is and work with examples from your own practice.
Which workshops are there?
From a broad Claude workshop to Vibe Coding and a tailored in-company training. We tailor the content to your team and your goal.
Meet Empathree
Empathree is an AI agency from Groningen. We help SMEs use AI not as a toy, but as something that genuinely takes work off your plate. Always with a human checking the output.
What we believe
AI is fast, but speed alone delivers nothing. The value sits in the last 30 percent: judgement, nuance, knowing which question to ask. So we never start with a tool. First we map your process, then we look at where most time leaks away, and only then decide what AI handles and what stays human work.
How we work
We work at fixed prices, no billing by the hour. You know where you stand up front. We often start with a workshop to get your team on board, then build a working system step by step, and make bespoke software where it pays off. In our own Empathree Studio we build in our developers' coding style, so everything ships secure and production-ready.
Who you get
Behind Empathree are Marc Cornelius, Maarten Oostland and René Vrieling. Marc and Maarten handle strategy, workshops and implementation, René is the lead developer who makes the software watertight. All three of us live in Groningen, so you deal with local people who build with AI every day. We only teach what we use ourselves.
Why humans in the loop
The world is filling up with automated AI slop. Our answer is simple: the human stays in the loop. With us, and with you. That is how you keep control, quality and trust, even as the technology keeps getting faster.