EV‑AI is Eva plus AI.
I build second brains for coaches, entrepreneurs and health professionals. Everything you know about your work in one place, on your own computer.
What is a second brain?
Picture a filing cabinet. Everything is in its place and in the right order, and you know exactly which book to pull out when you need something.
This is that same cabinet, only on your computer. Everything you know about your work is in it, and your computer knows where to find it. It can work with it too: it gets things ready for you. You look it over, make changes, and send it. What belongs to your clients stays with your clients.
Where I come from
Open a step if you'd like to know how it went.
Huizen · 2000
I grew up in a family of six, with three little brothers. I was the only girl among the kids. You learn early on to stand up for yourself, and to take a few knocks ;)
I spent the rest of my childhood on the hockey pitch, until I was seventeen.
Hotelschool Maastricht · 2019
As a little girl I wanted to be a hotel manager, preferably on the other side of the world. To get a head start, I worked in a pancake restaurant with all my friends, for €3.10 an hour.
Then Covid came, and going abroad was off. Luckily I had already lived in Spain for six months as an au pair, and later I still made a long trip through Asia.
Vrije Universiteit · master's
Policy, Communication and Organisation. That's where I learned to look at an organisation from the inside: how change plays out, why people talk past each other, and how communication shapes the way people behave. Lots of writing and lots of research.
Heineken · alongside my master's
I started at the end of hotel school and carried on during my master's. Big events, business development, projects all over the world. Whatever I came up with, I got to carry out.
I took three things away with me: that you're allowed to think big, what ownership means, and how to turn an idea into something that actually exists.
Amsterdam · now
This is where I live, and where I build. Preferably for people who are already doing something lovely themselves and could use a hand with it. Because they're stuck, or because they no longer get round to it.
You're allowed to think big. And you can do anything, as long as you believe in it yourself.
When I read this book, everything fell into place.
De bermudadriehoek van talent, by Simon van Teutem (in Dutch).
Suddenly I knew what I didn't want. And with that, what I did.
What the book is about
Van Teutem spoke to more than two hundred bankers, lawyers and consultants, and describes how idealistic students disappear into that triangle.
I honestly find consultancy interesting. The thing is, you don't get told which projects you'll end up working on, and I want to give my time to people I believe in.
I went to Cape Town to work out what I did want.
One thing I knew: something with AI, and helping people.
1 year, every day. And it has never stopped since.
To my own surprise, I found my place in tech. And these days it's made easy for us: you think of something, you say it out loud, and there it is. A few years ago I wouldn't have believed it.
Can you do this yourself?
Yes. And I hope you give it a go.
Start small. You already know how to chat with Claude or ChatGPT. The next step is called Claude Code or Codex, and it's less scary than it sounds: you type what you want in plain language, and it gets made for you.
Ask for something from your own work. One email, one bit of text, one task that normally takes you half an hour. You don't have to build a whole system straight away.
This is the moment to learn it, and that goes for everyone. For you too, even without a tech background.
Would you rather have it set up properly in one go, without spending months on it yourself? That's what I'm here for.
How I learned it
Back then, hardly anyone knew exactly what it was. I started by asking questions in a chat and seeing what came out. Then I started making my own GPTs. After that came the YouTube videos, the courses and the coaching, evening after evening.
Now I help entrepreneurs with the implementation: chatbots, dashboards, whole systems. But I started at the bottom, with an empty screen and a question. Anyone can do that.
As long as you add to people's wellbeing, I'm happy to think along with you.
Coaches, entrepreneurs and health professionals who do good work. Who help someone else become healthier, calmer or happier. I wish everyone a healthy life, and the people I most like to help are the ones who make that their work.
In a few years, nobody will understand how we ever managed without this.
Fancy bouncing some ideas around?
Together, we're all building the next generation of AI. Good things will come out of it, and nobody thinks those up on their own. Do you ever think: this could be better, nicer, more efficient? I'm happy to make time for that.