I\u2019m in my office at Dotslash Utrecht. Startup world. 450+. Brick walls. Strong coffee. I start at 8. They start somewhat later… Somewhere, down the hall, a ping-pong ball refuses to give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is home base. From here I run GenAI workshops for education, researchers, SMBs and government teams. Here I build chatbots and agents. I talk to founders. Have coffee. Try to get out of their bloody beanbags. Young kids laughing at grandpa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the local startups and scale-ups have found me. They wander in. Some already know me, attended one of my GenAi workshop for startups. Others just heard there\u2019s \u201can old fart\u201d (their words) in the building who still has a few useful tricks. Turns out: I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The surprise? Most of them aren\u2019t using GenAI much at all. I understand education or SMBs lagging behind. But startups, well funded? Not using it in the product. Not in the back office. Not even in marketing. Focus on the app. Not on the customers. Value proposition of Osterwalder. Never heard off. Features over pain relievers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we sit down. We walk through what\u2019s possible. Do another workshop. And you can see it click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They\u2019ve been thinking in the old MBA way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nFixed capacity. Growing backlog. You have to choose.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
You don\u2019t. Not anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The real questions now: What needs to be done? What could a chatbot do? What could an agent handle end-to-end? And where do we draw the guardrails so we trust it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This changes everything. You stop fighting over human hours. You start designing for capability. Humans where they matter. Machines where they can help. Twenty-four hours a day. No coffee breaks. No sick days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s when I see it happen. The shift. From cloud native<\/em> to AI native<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloud native made you fast and scalable. AI native makes you smart and unstoppable. It\u2019s not a layer you bolt on: it\u2019s in the DNA from day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n