Title: AI agency in the Netherlands that builds AI applications | AI Heroes URL: https://aiheroes.io/en/ai-agency-netherlands Description: An AI agency that builds, across the Netherlands, from Groningen. What to look for when choosing an AI agency, and how we do it. A six-day start sprint, from €8,000. # An AI agency that builds, across the Netherlands Based in Groningen, AI Heroes builds AI tools your team uses every day, for organisations from the Randstad to the north. The first step is a six-day start sprint, fixed price, from €8,000. Plan a start sprint How to start ## What we build - A new AI tool · An assistant, a workflow or a tool you are missing today. [More about new AI tools](https://aiheroes.io/en/new-ai-tool) - Replace old software · Software that is too expensive or too old, replaced while the old system keeps running. [More about replacing software](https://aiheroes.io/en/replace-software) - Self-hosted AI · On your own servers or with a European provider. [More about self-hosted AI](https://aiheroes.io/en/self-hosted) ## What to look for when choosing an AI agency Five questions you can ask any agency. With each question: how we do it. - Do they build, or only advise? · Advice only becomes worth something when someone builds it. We build ourselves, and keep maintaining and developing afterwards. - Is there a fixed first step with a price? · We always start with a start sprint: six days, from €8,000. - Is compliance part of the design? · With us, AI Act classification, logging and human oversight are part of the design from the start. - Do they train your team? · We train the team that will work with it on the system itself. - Are you tied to one AI vendor? · Not with us: models can be switched and everything is documented. ## How to start: the start sprint The same six days, at your place or remotely. You can start within two weeks of the first call. - 6 days: from question to result - €8,000: fixed price, for every way in - 2 weeks: from the first call to the start After six days you have A working prototype or build plan and the business case on one page. [How the start sprint works](https://aiheroes.io/en/start-sprint) Then we build in two-week sprints, from €15,000. Case · Strive ## The package out, paid back in one year Strive, a gym, paid every year for a membership management package it only partly used. We built Strive its own software alongside the package, with only what Strive needs, and the subscription was switched off only when everything matched. - 1: year payback period Since 2019 the AI Heroes brand has helped more than 50 organisations and trained more than 1,000 professionals. [Read the case](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/strive) ## More of our work - Case · INQ22 · [Their own web shop, live at inq22.com](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/inq22) · INQ22, a wholesaler of tattoo supplies for professionals, wanted a web shop that works the way they sell. We custom-built it, with AI as a tool in design, code and testing. · Read the case - Case · Kwakkel BV · [From question to working prototype in six days](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/kwakkel) · Kwakkel BV wanted to see whether the manual administrative work could go, and did not want to read it in a report. Within six days a prototype was running on their own records, with the business case on one page. · Read the case - Case · IC Commerce · [From WooCommerce to a platform of its own, automated step by step](https://aiheroes.io/en/cases/ic-commerce) · IC Commerce wanted to grow without the manual work growing with it. We replaced the WooCommerce shop with a platform of its own and automated the work around it step by step, each step running alongside the existing work first. · Read the case ## Who this is for ### A good fit if you - have a concrete problem: a process, system or idea that costs money or holds back growth - have someone who can decide on the build ### Less of a fit if you - mainly want to do something with AI without a question or an owner: start with [cost and return up front](https://aiheroes.io/en/business-case) ## Included in every build - Business case first · Before we build, you know what it costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. - Compliance by design · AI Act classification, logging, human oversight and European hosting are part of the design. - Your people can work with it · We train the team that will use the system on the system itself. That also covers Article 4 of the AI Act. - Not tied to one AI vendor · You can switch AI models without rebuilding. Everything comes with documentation. [How we work](https://aiheroes.io/en/how-we-work) ## Frequently asked questions ### Do you work across the Netherlands? Yes, on site and remotely, from Groningen. See also [AI agency Groningen](https://aiheroes.io/en/ai-agency-groningen). ### What sets you apart from other AI agencies? We build ourselves, we always start with a start sprint at a fixed price, and every build includes the business case, compliance and training for your team. ### Are you an AI agency or an AI consultant? We are an AI agency that builds. Call us an agency, a firm or a consultant: with us you get the business case first, and then the software your team uses every day. ### What does an AI agency cost? With us it starts with a start sprint from €8,000; a build starts from €15,000. More in [what AI implementation costs](https://aiheroes.io/en/ai-implementation-costs). ### Do you work for SMEs too? Yes, if there is a concrete problem and someone who can decide. ### Can you just advise? Yes, for organisations that do not yet have a concrete system in mind. See [cost and return up front](https://aiheroes.io/en/business-case). Who leads this at AI Heroes Frans Hoorn Co-Founder, business case and strategy Frans leads the start sprint and the business case: what it costs, what it returns and when it pays for itself. He combines strategic thinking with a sharp eye for how people actually use software. [The team](https://aiheroes.io/en/about/team) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frans-hoorn-057b082a) ## Tell us what you want to build You will hear from us within 24 hours, usually with a proposal for a start sprint. [info@aiheroes.io](mailto:info@aiheroes.io) [+31 50 200 3373](tel:+31502003373) ### Book an introduction - [Frans Hoorn Business case and scoping](https://calendar.app.google/juFpF3MDmikH4BVS8) - [David Homan Build, hosting and compliance](https://calendar.app.google/GcA1oBNwzyFZtW5W6) - [Jan Brusse Adoption and training for your team](https://calendar.app.google/un3fLvb7ht4f7PBWA)