AI workshops in Grootegast
Grootegast is one of the larger centres of the Westerkwartier, with a solid local SME base from bakers and butchers to family businesses. 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
The Westerkwartier has dozens of villages, and Grootegast, together with Zuidhorn, Leek and Marum, is a place with a wide range of shops and businesses. The municipality actively backs the local SME sector, from making it greener to initiatives such as the OK app.
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 invoices and quotes, summarising 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.
Close by, from Groningen
Our office is in Groningen, about half an hour from Grootegast, straight through the Westerkwartier. We are happy to come to you for an in-company workshop at your own location.
All three of us live in Groningen. Short lines, quick to respond, and someone who knows the region.
Leonard Springerlaan 35, Groningen
Frequently asked questions
Do you come to Grootegast in-company?
Yes, from Groningen we are there in about half an hour. We run the workshop at your location.
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 bespoke 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.