Not “what is AI?” — you’ve heard enough about that.
More like: “How do I get AI to read our incoming contracts and flag what matters?”
Or: “How do I make 15 years of client data searchable without rebuilding everything?”
Or: “Can we run financial analysis in-house, without any of it going near the cloud?”
Those are the right questions. And the honest answer is: most people pitching AI right now will respond with a presentation. I’ll respond with working code.
Himschoot Consulting works with companies across the French Riviera and Belgium to deeply embed AI into daily operations — not as a side experiment, but as real, running infrastructure. That means writing the code that plugs AI into the systems you already have. Building RAGs that make your most valuable company knowledge — manuals, contracts, client history, internal data — instantly queryable by your whole team. Deploying local, private language models that analyse your financials, profile your customers, flag your risks, and never send a sensitive byte outside your walls.
There are a thousand people who will explain AI to you. Very few will actually do it.
Let me help you do it.
We don’t just deliver a report and leave. We build the engine, install it, and teach you how to drive it.
We start with a seat at the table with your core leadership. We don’t talk about “AI trends” — we talk about your business. What are your highest-value processes? Where is the friction? What keeps you up at night? We identify the business-critical jobs where AI can have an immediate, measurable impact.
Next, we get under the hood. We analyse your current software stack, your data architecture, and your security requirements. We identify your High-Value Data — the proprietary knowledge, contracts, and history that will form the backbone of your private AI systems.
We define the Low-Hanging Fruit — the quick wins that show ROI in weeks, not years. This stage includes a clear consultation on your investment needs: from the right software licences to the specific hardware (local servers or high-spec Mac infrastructure) required to run powerful LLMs privately and securely.
This is where the doing happens. We write the code. We build the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines that make your data queryable. We deploy the local LLMs for private financial and customer analysis. We integrate these new tools directly into your everyday workflow so they feel like a natural extension of your team.
A tool is only as good as the person using it. We stay on-site (or on-call) to coach your teams, showing them exactly how to prompt, interact with, and leverage these new systems. We don’t just hand over a login — we ensure your culture adapts to its new capabilities.
From architecture to deployment, I cover the full spectrum of software development — not just the code, but the thinking behind it.
PHP, JavaScript, modern frameworks. I've built billing systems, booking platforms, crew management tools and everything in between.
Integrating AI tools into workflows, using LLMs as force multipliers, building smarter applications that do more with less.
Architecture reviews, technology choices, helping teams ship better software with less friction and more confidence.
A decade of domain expertise: connectivity billing, fleet management, crew platforms, and offline-first systems for demanding environments.
Native and hybrid iOS apps, RESTful and JSON APIs, integrations with third-party platforms. Shipped to production, not just to staging.
Multi-currency, multi-brand, audit-trail-first. Payment processing APIs, ERP integrations, and the unsexy plumbing that makes businesses run.
I've been building software since the web was young — billing systems for superyacht operators, satellite data pipelines, mobile apps, maritime platforms. Twenty-five years of knowing where the bodies are buried.
Then AI tools reached a level of genuine capability, and it triggered something I hadn't felt in years: the same electric sense of possibility I had in the late nineties. The feeling that the ground is shifting and that paying close attention right now is the most valuable thing you can do.
The company HQ is in Eeklo, Belgium. We spend a lot (!) of time on the Riviera in France, because... where you physically are doesn't matter so much anymore. Right? Come to me with the right project and I'll jump on a plane to come meet your team and get to work. Nice airport is very well connected.
Say helloMulti-currency, multi-service billing platform for e3 Systems in Palma, Mallorca. VSAT, Inmarsat, cellular — reconciled, invoiced, and auditable. We love the team in Mallorca and have really enjoyed working with them over 14 years.
A multi-tenant, multi-currency invoicing platform that started as a solution to a problem we had ourselves and evolved in a Peppol-compatible, multi-jurisdiction (BE/FR/MC) giant that does the job beautifully. Find out more at https://beancounter.appserve.cloud/about.
Our first in-house, offline, AI-first application that trains a local LLM on all maritime law and lets you have 'a lawyer in your back pocket'. Crew and maritime staff love it, we think it's an incredible tool. Sign up now at https://nemonik.app.
Built an in-house XML-based exchange platform for chasing unpaid water bills all over Belgium. The first of its kind, this technology was brand new when we built it. It plugged us into the corporate world early on & thought us how to manage client expectations.
The shift is already underway — and the gap between companies that move early and those that move late is compounding every quarter. I've been at the intersection of software and business for twenty-five years, and I have a clear-eyed view of where this is going and what it means for your team, your products, and your competitive position.
Let's have a conversation. Not a sales pitch — a genuine exchange of ideas about where the puck is going, over a coffee or a Zoom call. No agenda, no obligation. Just the kind of direct, informed discussion that tends to be worth having before everyone else is having it.
Have a project in mind? A technical problem to untangle? Just want to talk software? I'm genuinely happy to have that conversation.