AI workshops in Haren
Haren is a prosperous commuter town just below the city of Groningen, with the Rijksstraatweg as its lively shopping heart. With an AI workshop your team learns to put AI to practical use straight away, in-company at your own location. And our co-founder is from here himself.
Why a workshop, and why here
Haren has been part of the municipality of Groningen since 2019 and has a high level of amenities for its size. Around the Rijksstraatweg there is a strong mix of speciality shops, fashion, hospitality and service providers, plus business activity at Nesciopark along the A28.
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 customer emails 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
From the city you are in Haren in ten minutes, along the Rijksstraatweg or via the A28. Coming over for an in-company workshop costs us no travel time.
All three of us live in Groningen. Short lines, quick to respond, and someone who knows the region.
Leonard Springerlaan 35, Groningen
Our co-founder is from Haren
Maarten Oostland grew up in Haren, between the Rijksstraatweg and the woods towards the Paterswoldsemeer. He knows the village scale and the down-to-earth entrepreneurial mentality from the inside. At Empathree he runs the AI workshops and the consultancy: he helps teams understand what AI can and cannot do for them.
That makes a workshop in Haren just a little different for him. Not an outsider coming to sell something, but someone who knows the place and the people. For him, Haren is simply home.
Frequently asked questions
Do you come to Haren in-company?
Gladly. We are ten minutes away in Groningen and Maarten is from Haren himself. 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.