State-of-the-art AI,
from pilot to production.
Most AI projects stall in pilots. We design, build, and ship production-grade AI systems together with your team. Working prototype in weeks, not months.
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Research-driven engineering for organizations ready to unlock AI, together.
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Together with your team, we transform complex challenges into production-ready AI systems. Your domain expertise combined with our engineering ensures scalable, reliable, and impactful solutions.
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Investing in, acquiring, or inheriting an AI product? We assess it fast: architecture, code quality, model performance, and scalability risks. You get a clear, evidence-based report within days, before you commit.
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Featured Projects
AI systems built in partnership across diverse industry domains.
Murmel
ProductA frontier Dutch speech-to-text AI model, trained on thousands of hours of spoken Dutch. Fully hosted in Europe with no dependency on external parties.
Key Features
- Optimised for Dutch speech
- Fully hosted in the EU
- No dependency on external parties
FirstRing
IndustryTogether with crisis communication experts, we built an AI-powered platform that generates response plans and messages within seconds. Engineered for safety-critical environments.
Core Components
- Rapid Response Generation
- Model agnostic with fallback systems
- Optimised for the crisis communication domain
Parlinq.com
VentureAn AI-powered intelligence platform monitoring millions of policy documents. Features advanced vector search and LLM-driven synthesis for legislative monitoring in The Hague and Brussels.
Technical Stack
- High quality debate transcriptions
- Agentic system for alerting users of relevant developments
NPO Radio AI
Client ProjectIn partnership with NPO's editorial team, we built AI systems that unlock archived audio in seconds and accelerate radio production workflows.
Technical Stack
- Making large quantities of audio searchable
- Editorial workflow with AI assistants
- Large scale search engines
Applied Research
ResearchInvestigating the infiltration of synthetic media in global search results. Our technical audit for De Volkskrant exposed the critical challenges to information integrity in an AI-saturated world.
Research Impact
- Societal impact of AI
- Large scale data collection
- Automatic detection of generative AI
Computer Vision
ProductTogether with our clients, we engineer production-grade computer vision systems for organizations that cannot afford black boxes, vendor lock-in, or fragile demos.
From data pipelines and model training to deployment on sovereign infrastructure, we design systems that remain auditable, scalable, and under your control, even in high-stakes operational environments.
Core Focus
- End-to-End CV System DesignData ingestion, annotation strategies, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Sovereign & On-Prem DeploymentFull control over models, data, and runtime. No third-party dependency.
- High-Reliability Visual IntelligenceBuilt for real-world variability, not lab conditions.
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Research · 2026
Introducing Murmel: a Dutch speech-to-text model built in the Netherlands
Murmel v1 achieves 17.3% word error rate on Dutch parliamentary audio, beating every open-source speech-to-text model. Purpose-built for Dutch, hosted in Europe.
Engineering · 2026
European AI Hosting: Full Sovereignty, Zero Compromises
We specialize in AI setups fully hosted in Europe without making any concessions on quality. GDPR-compliant, sovereign infrastructure? Tell us what you need.
Case study · 2026
FirstRing: building a model-agnostic crisis communication platform
How we built a model-agnostic AI crisis communication platform in partnership with Compaijen C&C. Strategies, statements, and Q&As within one minute.
Engineering Core
Maarten Sukel
ML Engineer & Founder
Ph.D. in Multimodal Machine Learning. Bridges frontier research with scalable production systems.
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Technical collaboration reflected in project success.
With The AI Factory, we quickly developed a smart and effective AI product that perfectly aligns with modern crisis communication. Efficient, purposeful, and high-quality. Great collaboration with Maarten, we could move quickly and it took relatively...
Maarten turns ideas into products immediately. He created a model using AI to direct Amsterdam citizens' reports to the right place. By demonstrating what worked, bureaucratic discussions disappeared. He led a team and organization into the future. C...
Maarten worked with us on an AI research project for radio. He built an amazing prototype with AI features that we designed together with the editorial team. Working with Maarten was great: he communicates clearly, thinks along, responds quickly, and...
We asked Maarten to give an inspiring talk about AI possibilities and get the group working on concrete AI assignments. Overall a great success. Maarten knows AI from multiple angles, presents with flair and concretely with a sense of realism. The gr...
Maarten gave a very engaging presentation on the fundamentals of AI and the opportunities and possibilities AI offers for Rijkswaterstaat. The audience found it very interesting and it certainly lowered the threshold for them to start working with it...
During our management days, where we discussed the impact of digital transformation on our work, employees, and customers, Maarten provided us with a realistic view and expectation about AI and digitalization. Maarten brings insights and experience t...
Highly Recommend AI Factory: My experience working alongside Maarten leaves me with no doubt that any entity partnering with AI Factory will reap significant benefits. They can expect not only cutting-edge solutions but also an approach centered on e...
Positive, to the point. Both our visitors and we as an organization experienced Maarten's keynote as interesting. Feedback from the post-event survey is very positive. It was appreciated that it wasn't too detailed. Maarten had adapted his presentati...
Maarten delivered the keynote at the UWV Data Event 2025. Great guy and inspiring speaker!
On February 14, 2025, Maarten took us on a captivating and informative journey into the world of AI. Our staff was not only informed but also inspired to use AI more intensively in their work and daily lives. Maarten is a passionate and inspiring spe...
With The AI Factory, we quickly developed a smart and effective AI product that perfectly aligns with modern crisis communication. Efficient, purposeful, and high-quality. Great collaboration with Maarten, we could move quickly and it took relatively...
Maarten turns ideas into products immediately. He created a model using AI to direct Amsterdam citizens' reports to the right place. By demonstrating what worked, bureaucratic discussions disappeared. He led a team and organization into the future. C...
Maarten worked with us on an AI research project for radio. He built an amazing prototype with AI features that we designed together with the editorial team. Working with Maarten was great: he communicates clearly, thinks along, responds quickly, and...
We asked Maarten to give an inspiring talk about AI possibilities and get the group working on concrete AI assignments. Overall a great success. Maarten knows AI from multiple angles, presents with flair and concretely with a sense of realism. The gr...
Maarten gave a very engaging presentation on the fundamentals of AI and the opportunities and possibilities AI offers for Rijkswaterstaat. The audience found it very interesting and it certainly lowered the threshold for them to start working with it...
During our management days, where we discussed the impact of digital transformation on our work, employees, and customers, Maarten provided us with a realistic view and expectation about AI and digitalization. Maarten brings insights and experience t...
Highly Recommend AI Factory: My experience working alongside Maarten leaves me with no doubt that any entity partnering with AI Factory will reap significant benefits. They can expect not only cutting-edge solutions but also an approach centered on e...
Positive, to the point. Both our visitors and we as an organization experienced Maarten's keynote as interesting. Feedback from the post-event survey is very positive. It was appreciated that it wasn't too detailed. Maarten had adapted his presentati...
Maarten delivered the keynote at the UWV Data Event 2025. Great guy and inspiring speaker!
On February 14, 2025, Maarten took us on a captivating and informative journey into the world of AI. Our staff was not only informed but also inspired to use AI more intensively in their work and daily lives. Maarten is a passionate and inspiring spe...
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