About us

AI is ready. We help your organization catch up.

Sensemakers keeps leadership teams up to date with AI, teaches people to work with it, and helps run the change. We're practitioners who still do the work we teach.

Our vision

Organizations where people lead AI, not the other way around.

Our mission

We equip leaders and teams with the skills, insight and support to get the most out of AI in a responsible way.

Who you'll work with.

Ben Mellaerts

Strategy, change and adoption

Ben advises organizations on AI strategy, change and adoption. He leads adoption programs in big organizations and translates business needs into technical solutions. He visits business schools, gives keynotes and guest sessions at companies and hosts podcast sessions with AI leaders.

Niels Rogge

Open models and AI research

Niels was one of the early engineers at Hugging Face. The Vision Transformer and DETR are among the models he brought to the open-source community. He reads new AI research every day and explains it in plain language in courses, keynotes and expert sessions. His breakdowns of new papers and AI news reach a large audience of AI engineers worldwide.

Tim Leers

Agentic AI products and platforms

Tim builds agentic AI products, platforms and the teams behind them. At dataroots and Talan he built the generative and agentic AI practice from scratch, with more than 50 agentic deployments serving millions of users. He then led product and forward deployment at Hyde in New York, working with Fortune 500 companies and AI labs. He started out as a research psychologist at KU Leuven.

How we work.

Hands-on, in plain language.

Hiking the Grand Canyon beats looking at a photo of it. We teach AI by doing it, on your own work, in plain words.

Still doing the work.

None of us teaches full-time. We all keep working on real AI projects, so what we teach comes from this month, not last year.

Responsible by default.

Every course and every plan asks what should stay a human call, what never goes into a tool, and who answers for the result.