Do you make (most of) your money by clients booking time in your calendar – for example as a consultant, coach or therapist? And are you frustrated by all the time you spend on administrative tasks? We can help. Since 2026 programmers Lucas & Teun and me (Ordo ab Chao) helped optimize and automate many tasks for ergonomist Sanne (DeskGuru).… Continue reading Selling Your Time? Stop Losing It to Admin.
In the last few months, I helped Stichting Bostherapiecentrum get ready for working with companies. Stichting Bostherapiecentrum (“Forest Therapy Center)” is a group of experienced coaches who are specialised in “nature based inventions” in the forest like Shinrin-Yoku (“Forest bathing”). The coaches have helped many individuals reconnect with nature (of course I did a session too!) and now decided to… Continue reading Project case study – Stichting Bostherapiecentrum
In the last years, I’ve increasingly felt anxious about my dependence on a few big U.S. tech giants. I waited too long, but finally pulled myself together and did it! What I did: moved my personal data over to European servers. And made sure no private information about me is sent to American servers anymore. It took me a year… Continue reading Goodbye U.S. Big tech (+ step by step guide)
6 hours a week. That doesn’t sound like too much — until you realize it’s 7 full 40-hour work weeks every year, gone to repetitive admin tasks. Here’s how we got them back. The situation Since DeskGuru launched in 2020, the “Guru” at DeskGuru (Sanne) has been been almost exclusively spending time on the “real” work for clients: online ergonomic… Continue reading Project case study – automate boring tasks at DeskGuru
The latest project I finished was a very fun one: generate concrete ideas to improve ROI (Return on Investment) for a small publisher. Return on Investment is simply a way to see which activities bring in the most income for the time or money spent, and which ones consume a lot of resources without paying off. The goal I focused… Continue reading Project case study – ⬆ROI ideas
This year, I started working with L&T Studio – 2 passionate young programmers (Lucas & Teun) who are studying computer sciences in Amsterdam. They help me automate processes for clients. I describe what needs to be done, L&T do the coding and make sure everything runs smoothly on their servers, I do the testing and we go live. It’s a… Continue reading We can automate your processes
After the acquisition of Spotted by Locals in 2021 – the beloved community Sanne & myself founded in 2008 – I stayed on as “Interim CEO” for a while. Spotted by Locals was the third start-up I co-founded that was acquired, after Eurodidakt Suriname (1997) and Gezond Verzuim (2001). What I did To prepare the acquisition I: After the acquisition… Continue reading Project case study – Spotted by Locals
Reben is a really cool Amsterdam start-up producing a better Spritz. With local Dutch rhubarb – and way less sugar! Geerben – a daring entrepreneur I really admire – started Reben with his mother’s unique recipe, using rhubarb from her backyard. Now it’s rapidly popping up in some of the best restaurants and bars in Amsterdam. And: you can order… Continue reading Project case study – Reben
My client is a Youtube star! 🌟 Dimitris Hall founded Easy Greek, a super fun way to learn Greek. His business and team grew fast (11 people now!), and with success comes… chaos and plenty of last-minute stress and working nights and weekends. My job was to bring structure to Easy Greek’s processes, set up a task management system and… Continue reading Project case study – EasyGreek
Since the 1990’s I’ve been keeping a list of business ideas that I will most likely never execute. I’ve shared three social business ideas on LinkedIn. Hopefully I can inspire someone, in some way. Do get in touch to brainstorm, or if you need a co-founder who can do the back-office 💩 ! Idea 1: LocalTees The concept Sourcing t-shirts… Continue reading Never-started social businesses
