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AI Agents · Workflows · Private AI

Your best processes, running themselves.

Kleine Koe builds reliable AI agents, automated workflows, and private AI systems around the way your company actually works—connecting your tools, reducing repetitive work, and keeping people in control of the decisions that matter.

  • Cloud, hybrid, or fully local.
  • Built around your current systems.
  • Human approval where it matters.

Initializing…

Built around the tools your company already uses.3

Your current stack does not need to be replaced. We connect it.

Microsoft 365  ·  Google Workspace  ·  Slack  ·  Teams  ·  HubSpot  ·  Salesforce  ·  Notion  ·  Monday.com  ·  Airtable  ·  Shopify  ·  Exact  ·  AFAS  ·  Jira  ·  ServiceNow  ·  PostgreSQL  ·  Internal APIs

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The problem

The work is repeating.
Your team should not have to.

Across most companies, valuable employees spend hours moving information, preparing recurring reports, checking systems, processing documents, and following up on predictable events. These processes are rarely difficult. They are simply fragmented.

Before — manual

  1. 1Email arrives with an attachment
  2. 2Employee downloads the attachment
  3. 3Information is copied by hand
  4. 4Spreadsheet is updated
  5. 5Manager is contacted for sign-off
  6. 6CRM is updated — again, by hand
  7. 7Follow-up is scheduled (or forgotten)

7 manual touchpointsper occurrence, every time it happens

After — automated

  1. 1Workflow receives the event
  2. 2AI extracts and validates the information
  3. 3Systems update automatically
  4. 4Exceptions go to a human
  5. 5A complete audit trail is stored

1 human touchpointonly where judgment is actually needed

Do not automate people. Automate the repetition around them.

What we build

From one workflow to a
private AI operating layer.

AI Agents

Digital teammates. Defined jobs.

Specialized agents that research, prepare, coordinate, monitor, and act across your systems. Each agent receives a clear role, controlled tools, business rules, and defined approval limits.

  • Sales research
  • Request triage
  • Internal knowledge
  • Reporting
  • Documents
  • Security analysis
Workflow Automation

Repetition, systemized.

Reliable workflows for the work your business performs every day, week, or month. Connect software, data, rules, AI, and human approvals in one maintainable system.

  • CRM enrichment
  • Onboarding
  • Reporting
  • Invoices
  • Support routing
  • Proposals
Private & Local AI

Powerful AI. Inside your infrastructure.

Run models, private knowledge search, and internal AI workflows inside infrastructure you control. Suitable for sensitive data, regulated environments, confidential research, and organizations that do not want core information sent to public AI services.

Projects typically start from €20,000.2

Integrations & Private Knowledge

Your tools already contain the data.
We make them work together.

Connect company documents, databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, and internal software. Create secure knowledge systems that answer with company-specific context and traceable sources.

Use cases

What would you stop doing manually?

Lead intake to first follow-up, without the busywork.

  1. Lead received TRIGGER
  2. Organization enriched
  3. Buying signal researched AI
  4. Lead classified AI
  5. CRM updated
  6. Personalized first draft created AI
  7. Salesperson reviews HUMAN
  8. Follow-up scheduled

Systems involved

  • HubSpot / Salesforce
  • Email
  • LinkedIn data
  • Company registries

Where AI is used

Research, classification and drafting — steps that need reading and judgment at speed.

Where humans stay in control

No outreach leaves without a salesperson's approval. The AI prepares; people decide.

Likely outcome

Faster response to every lead, consistent CRM data, and sales time spent selling instead of researching.

Requests handled the same way, every time.

  1. Request received TRIGGER
  2. Data checked for completeness
  3. Relevant systems queried
  4. Required documents generated AI
  5. Exception detected
  6. Manager approval HUMAN
  7. Status updated everywhere
  8. Report sent

Systems involved

  • ERP
  • Project tools
  • Shared drives
  • Email / Teams

Where AI is used

Document generation, extraction and summarizing status across systems.

Where humans stay in control

Only exceptions reach a manager — with full context attached, ready to decide.

Likely outcome

Predictable throughput, fewer dropped requests, and a complete audit trail per case.

Every ticket triaged before anyone opens it.

  1. Ticket received TRIGGER
  2. Intent and urgency classified AI
  3. Customer history retrieved
  4. Suggested answer drafted with sources AI
  5. Agent reviews and sends HUMAN
  6. Systems updated, customer notified

Systems involved

  • Zendesk / ServiceNow
  • Knowledge base
  • CRM
  • Slack / Teams

Where AI is used

Triage, retrieval and answer drafting grounded in your own documentation.

Where humans stay in control

Agents approve outgoing answers; low-confidence cases route straight to a person.

Likely outcome

Shorter queues, consistent answers, and support staff focused on the hard cases.

Invoices processed without retyping a single line.

  1. Invoice received TRIGGER
  2. Document data extracted AI
  3. Supplier matched
  4. Duplicate check
  5. Cost centre suggested AI
  6. Exception routed
  7. Approval requested HUMAN
  8. Accounting system updated

Systems involved

  • Exact / AFAS
  • Email intake
  • Banking exports
  • Approval flows

Where AI is used

Extraction from unstructured documents and cost-centre suggestions — always validated by rules.

Where humans stay in control

Payments and bookings above thresholds always require sign-off.

Likely outcome

Faster closing, fewer entry errors, and finance time shifted to analysis.

Signal noise filtered before it hits the on-call channel.

  1. Alert or request received TRIGGER
  2. Context gathered from logs and CMDB
  3. Severity assessed, summary written AI
  4. Known-issue check against runbooks
  5. Engineer approves remediation HUMAN
  6. Ticket updated, timeline recorded

Systems involved

  • Jira / ServiceNow
  • Monitoring
  • SIEM
  • Identity provider

Where AI is used

Correlation and summarization — turning raw signals into a readable incident picture.

Where humans stay in control

No automated remediation runs without an engineer's explicit approval.

Likely outcome

Less alert fatigue, faster triage, and documented incidents by default.

Company knowledge that answers back — with sources.

  1. Question asked internally TRIGGER
  2. Permissions checked per user
  3. Relevant documents retrieved AI
  4. Answer composed with citations AI
  5. Low-confidence answers routed to an expert HUMAN
  6. Answer delivered, interaction logged

Systems involved

  • SharePoint / Drive
  • Notion / Confluence
  • Databases
  • Local model (optional)

Where AI is used

Retrieval and answer composition over your private document index.

Where humans stay in control

Every answer cites its sources; uncertain answers say so and route to people.

Likely outcome

Institutional knowledge that stops living in individual inboxes — and can run fully locally.

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Under the hood

AI is one step in the system.
Not the entire system.

1

Trigger

Something happens in the business. An email arrives. A form is submitted. A record changes. A schedule fires. Every workflow starts with a concrete, observable event — never with "the AI decides to do something."

2

Context

The workflow gathers the necessary data. Customer history, document contents, system state, business rules. The model only sees what it needs — scoped, permissioned, and logged.

3

Reasoning

An AI model classifies, summarizes, extracts, or proposes an action. This is where AI earns its place: reading unstructured information and producing structured, checkable output. Proposals — not unilateral decisions.

4

Control

Rules, validation, access permissions, and human approvals limit what can happen. Schema validation, permission checks, thresholds, and approval steps sit between the model and your systems. Uncertain output stops here and goes to a person.

5

Action

The approved result is written back to the relevant systems. CRM updated, document filed, message sent, ticket closed — with a complete audit trail of what happened and why.

"Reliable automation comes from combining deterministic logic with AI—not from giving a model unlimited access."

Private & Local AI

Powerful AI.
Inside your infrastructure.

For organizations handling confidential documents, intellectual property, customer records, legal information, financial data, or sensitive operational knowledge — AI environments that run locally, on-premise, in a private cloud, or air-gapped.

YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE NO INTERNET ROUTE · CONTROLLED UPDATES ONLY Business systemsERP · CRM · documents EmployeesChat · internal tools OrchestrationWorkflows · approvals · audit Private RAG indexPermissioned retrieval Local inferenceModels on your hardware Public model APIsExternal providers Cloud servicesSaaS · storage

On-premise. Inference, retrieval and orchestration run on hardware in your own facility. No prompts or documents leave the building. Remote model APIs are not required.

  • Local model inference
  • Private RAG & document search
  • Internal AI APIs
  • Role-based access
  • Encrypted secrets & audit logging
  • Human approval controls
  • Hardware & model selection + evaluation
  • Backup & maintenance planning
  • No external model API required in fully local configurations

Typically from €20,000, depending on hardware, integrations, security requirements, and support.2

Process

From recurring task to production system.

01

Discover

We identify processes with enough repetition, cost, friction, or strategic value to justify automation.

02

Map

We document systems, data, exceptions, permissions, and human decision points.

03

Prototype

We build and test a controlled proof of value using representative data.

04

Deploy

We connect production systems, add monitoring and controls, and document the solution.

05

Improve

We review failures, usage, costs, and business outcomes, then refine the workflow over time.

  • Process map
  • Technical architecture
  • Prototype
  • Production workflow
  • Test cases
  • Monitoring
  • Documentation
  • Team handover
  • Support options

Timelines depend on data access, integrations, security requirements, and process complexity.

See how we work in detail

Why us

Built for operations,
not demonstrations.

Business-process first

We start with the process, not the model. If a spreadsheet formula solves it, we will tell you.

Model-agnostic architecture

We select technology based on the job rather than forcing every use case into one platform or one vendor.

Cloud and local options

Public cloud, private cloud, on-premise or air-gapped. Sensitive workloads can remain inside controlled infrastructure.

Human control by design

Approval steps, thresholds and escalation paths are part of the architecture — not an afterthought.

Maintainable workflows

We design for failure states, exceptions, permissions, and monitoring. Systems you can operate, not demos you babysit.

Evidence-led engineering

You receive documentation and ownership — not a mysterious black box. Our public research works the same way.

Selected engineering work

We publish our research.
Judge the engineering yourself.

hogeheer499-commits / strix-halo-guide
Open researchLocal inference

Strix Halo Local AI Guide4

An independent, practical, evidence-led guide to deploying and benchmarking large language models locally on AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 / Strix Halo systems. The project covers local model serving, Ubuntu configuration, Ollama, llama.cpp, Vulkan/RADV, model selection, benchmarks, raw evidence, and reproducibility.

  • documentation
  • benchmarks
  • reproducibility
  • community-findings
  • local-inference

View Engineering Project

  • README.md — deployment guide
  • benchmarks/ — raw evidence
  • ubuntu-setup.md — configuration
  • model-selection.md — Ollama · llama.cpp
  • vulkan-radv.md — GPU acceleration
Client case studies We publish client results only with permission and only when they are real. This space is reserved for verified case studies — not invented logos and quotes. About our work policy
Diagnostic

What is repetitive work costing you?1

Adjust the sliders to your situation. Useful for prioritizing — not a promise.

Annual hours spent on this process
Estimated annual labor cost
Potential capacity recovered
Indicative annual value
Indicative payback period

Directional estimate—not a guaranteed financial result. Assumes ~46 productive weeks per year.

Get a process-specific estimate
Engagement models

Start with the process that matters most.

Find the opportunity

AI Opportunity Audit

For companies that need to identify and prioritize automation opportunities before committing to a build.

  • Stakeholder session
  • Process opportunity map
  • Initial technical feasibility
  • Risk and privacy considerations
  • Recommended first implementation
  • Indicative roadmap

Custom scope

Discuss an audit
Build the system

Production AI Workflow

For a specific recurring business process that should become a reliable, monitored system.

  • Process design
  • Integrations
  • AI and logic layer
  • Human approvals
  • Testing & monitoring
  • Documentation

Project-based

Discuss your process
AI Operations Retainer. Monitoring, improvements, new workflows, evaluations, and ongoing support after launch. Custom monthly engagement. Discuss support

Questions, answered honestly.

What is the difference between an AI agent and a workflow?+

A workflow follows a defined path: trigger, steps, output. It is predictable and easy to test. An AI agent operates with more autonomy inside boundaries — it can decide which tool to use, gather missing information, and adapt its approach to the situation.

Most production systems combine both: deterministic workflows for reliability, with agents handling the steps that need reading, judgment or research. We choose per step, not per fashion.

Which business processes are suitable for automation?+

Good candidates repeat frequently, follow recognizable patterns, touch multiple systems, and consume meaningful employee time. Invoice intake, lead qualification, report preparation, ticket triage, onboarding steps, and document processing are typical examples.

Poor candidates are one-off tasks, processes that change every week, or decisions that genuinely require accountability and human judgment. Part of our job is telling you which is which.

Can you connect to our existing software?+

Usually, yes. If a system has an API, database, webhook, email interface, or even a structured export, it can typically be connected. We work with common platforms (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, Salesforce, Exact, AFAS, and many more) as well as internal software.

We confirm compatibility during technical discovery rather than promising it blindly.

Can humans approve an AI action before it is executed?+

Yes, and for consequential actions we recommend it. Approval steps are first-class citizens in our workflows: the AI prepares the work, a person reviews it in a familiar tool (email, Slack, Teams, or a simple dashboard), and only after approval does the system act.

Approval thresholds are configurable — small routine actions can run automatically while anything above a defined impact level waits for a person.

What happens when the AI is uncertain?+

Uncertainty is routed, not hidden. Workflows include confidence checks, validation rules, and structured output requirements. When a result fails validation or the model signals low confidence, the case is escalated to a human with full context — the original input, what the AI attempted, and why it stopped.

Can the system run without sending data to OpenAI or another public provider?+

Yes. In on-premise and air-gapped configurations, models run on hardware you control, and no prompts or documents leave your infrastructure. In private cloud configurations, data stays within your tenancy.

Which architecture fits depends on your data sensitivity, performance needs and budget — we design this per project and document exactly where data travels.

What does a private AI deployment include?+

Typically: architecture design, hardware and model recommendations, a local inference environment, a private knowledge/RAG system, role-based access control, an internal API for your tools, monitoring, documentation, and deployment support. Projects typically start from €20,000, depending on hardware, integrations, security requirements and support.

Is local AI always better than cloud AI?+

No. Cloud models are often more capable per euro and easier to scale. Local AI wins when data must not leave your infrastructure, when regulation demands it, when latency or cost profiles favor it at volume, or when you need guaranteed availability independent of a provider.

Many clients run a hybrid: sensitive workloads local, everything else in the cloud. We will recommend the boring, correct option — not the impressive one.

Can you work with sensitive or confidential information?+

Yes. We design for data sensitivity from the first architecture sketch: data minimization, role-based access, encrypted secrets, audit logging, and — where required — fully local processing. We are happy to sign an NDA before technical discovery begins.

How long does an implementation take?+

It depends on data access, integrations, security requirements, and process complexity. A contained workflow prototype can be a matter of weeks; a private AI infrastructure project takes longer. After discovery we commit to a concrete plan with decision gates — we do not quote fixed timelines before understanding the process.

Who owns the workflows and code?+

You do. Deliverables include documented workflows, configuration, and code with a proper handover. You are not locked into us — although most clients keep us involved for improvements and operations.

What happens after launch?+

Every system includes monitoring and documentation at launch. From there you can operate it yourself, or engage an AI Operations Retainer: we watch performance and costs, handle failures, evaluate model updates, and build the next workflows on the same foundation.

Can we begin with one small workflow?+

Yes — we recommend it. One well-chosen process proves the approach, builds internal trust, and creates the technical foundation (integrations, monitoring, approval patterns) that every following workflow reuses.

How is usage monitored?+

Each workflow logs its runs: inputs handled, decisions made, approvals requested, failures and costs. You see this in dashboards and periodic reviews. Monitoring is part of the initial build, not an upsell.

How do you prevent incorrect actions?+

Honestly: no one can guarantee a model never produces a wrong answer, and you should distrust anyone who claims otherwise. What we can do is make wrong answers inconsequential: structured outputs with schema validation, business-rule checks, permission boundaries, human approval for consequential actions, test suites against representative cases, and monitoring that catches drift.

The model proposes; the system verifies; people approve what matters.

How much does an AI automation project cost?+

Single production workflows are project-based and scoped after discovery. Private AI infrastructure typically starts around €20,000, depending on hardware, integrations, security requirements and support. An AI Opportunity Audit is the lower-commitment way to find and prioritize the right first project. We will tell you early if the economics do not make sense.

Do we need an internal technical team?+

No. We handle design, build, and deployment, and we document everything for handover. An internal contact who knows the process well matters far more than internal developers. For on-premise deployments, someone responsible for your infrastructure is helpful; we plan maintenance together.

Can you sign an NDA?+

Yes. For sensitive projects we can sign an NDA before any technical discovery. Mention it when you book a call and we will arrange it up front — yours or ours.

Can existing workflows later be expanded?+

Yes — that is how the best systems grow. The first workflow establishes integrations, approval patterns and monitoring. Later workflows plug into that foundation, which makes each subsequent automation faster and cheaper than the first.

Which AI models and automation platforms do you use?+

We are deliberately model-agnostic. Depending on requirements we work with leading commercial models, open-weight models served locally (via e.g. Ollama or llama.cpp), and orchestration platforms such as n8n or custom code where a platform is the wrong fit.

The selection criteria are boring and correct: capability for the task, data-handling requirements, cost per run, and maintainability — in that order.

Find the process your company should never do manually again.

Bring us one recurring process, one operational bottleneck, or one sensitive AI requirement. We will help determine whether it should become an agent, a workflow, a private AI system—or remain human.

  • No generic AI sales pitch.
  • Technical discovery available under NDA.
  • Cloud, hybrid, and local options.