AI Strategy Session

More than two years ago, I hit the wall every service business hits: growth demands execution capacity. The default answer is hiring, more people, more overhead, more management, more training, and the constant risk of churn.

When my fourth assistant quit, I realised I wasn’t replacing a person, I was choosing a workforce model. Either keep adding overhead, or build AI agents that execute permanently.

I chose agents.

I’m Vincent de Vos, computer- and data scientist, entrepreneur, and founder focused on reinventing how service businesses scale. Over 15+ years I built apps, SaaS, and service companies. In 2021 I founded Chainforce, scaling to 135+ clients across 35 countries and contributing to over $350M in enterprise value, yet I was still the bottleneck.

My options were simple:

1. keep doing it myself,
2. hire another person, or
3. systematize the work and let AI-agents execute.

I documented SOPs, codified processes, and built agents for the repetitive but essential. The result: 70 percent of core workflows automated across marketing, sales, finance, and operations, while profitability increased. My team shifted from task execution to outcome management, and we grew without proportional headcount.

Today I run The Agentic Group, helping professional service firms transform into Agentic Organizations where employees work with digital employees to deliver results.

WHO THIS IS FOR

✓ Owners, directors, and management teams at SME service businesses facing growth constraints, rising wages, shrinking margins, endless repetitive work, and headcount dependency.

YOU ARE EXPERIENCING

✓ Strategic anxiety, competitors feel faster, more leads, higher visibility, quicker quotes, smoother delivery.

✓ Operational pressure, admin, invoicing, quoting, hour tracking, customer service scaling linearly with revenue and forcing a choice between hiring overhead or slowing growth.

✓ AI confusion, AI is everywhere yet impact is nowhere. You have tried tools like ChatGPT but nothing sticks. You want one FTE freed, but lack clarity to separate hype from reality.

WHY WORK WITH ME

→ Strategic and Operational Fluency

Ex CTO turned founder, I bridge tech architecture and commercial priorities, cutting through AI noise and focusing on profit levers, enabling the shift from hiring more people to one person directing 10 to 20 agents.

→ Systems, Not Tools

I start with business objectives, then architect automation around them, fast wins in weeks plus 12 to 18 month roadmaps that create structural advantage while competitors chase disconnected tools.

→ Operational Scar Tissue

Four assistants quit before I understood the pattern, every growth stage forced the same decision, hire overhead or train agents. After 70 percent automation, I no longer guess what works, I have done it.

Share with me these three things:

1. The task stealing most hours every week
2. Where you have tried AI so far
3. Where you want the business to be in 12 months.