AI workshops in Smilde
Smilde grew out of the peat cutting of the Smilder Venen, with agriculture, dairy and potato starch as its engine. 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 economy around Smilde and Hoogersmilde runs on agricultural businesses, food processing, transport and local services along the canal. Exactly the sectors with a lot of manual work in quotes, planning and admin.
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 quotes and emails, summarising requests, and building a first tool of their own with AI that fits the work of a contracting or transport firm.
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 our office in Groningen you reach Smilde via the A28 in about 35 minutes. We are happy to come to you for an in-company workshop at your own location.
Fixed prices, short lines, and an approach that fits how you work.
Leonard Springerlaan 35, Groningen
Frequently asked questions
Do you come to Smilde in-company?
Yes, from Groningen we are there via the A28 in about 35 minutes. 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 tailored in-company training. We tailor the content to your team and 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.