AI Colleague by VANDAM: A weekly call on what changed in AI and what it means for you

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# AI Colleague by VANDAM: A weekly call on what changed in AI and what it means for you

> A weekly call of 30 to 60 minutes, with a one-page brief sent the day before. We read the model launches, the updates to tools you already pay for, the new rules and what your industry is doing, check all of it against what your company run

URL: https://vandam.ai/ai-colleague  
Contact: hendrik@vibelab.be

# Hear what changed in AI each week and what it means for your company.

A weekly call of 30 to 60 minutes, with a one-page brief sent the day before. We read the model launches, the updates to tools you already pay for, the new rules and what your industry is doing, check all of it against what your company runs and is building, and tell you what to try, what to watch and what to ignore.

[Discuss the project](mailto:hendrik@vibelab.be?subject=VANDAM%20/%20AI%20Colleague)

**$2,400/mo** weekly call · monthly, stop any month

## AI ships faster than companies can read it.

- **88%**
  of organizations now use AI. [Stanford HAI](https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report), AI Index 2026.
- **1 year**
  for the best models to go from 60% to near 100% on SWE-bench Verified, a standard coding test. [Stanford HAI](https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report), same report.

> At dinner, someone asked the table, “If a new model drops next month, does your company get better or worse?” HALF the table went quiet!
>
> Greg Isenberg, CEO, Late Checkout, October 2026, [Source](https://x.com/gregisenberg/status/2110414696037716372)

The headline someone forwarded on Monday often ends up under ignore.

## More ships each week than anyone can read. One person reads it with your company in mind.

Every week a lab ships a model, Microsoft and Google add features to tools you already pay for, ChatGPT and Claude change what they can connect to, and a regulator publishes guidance. Most of it has nothing to do with your company. The few items that change what your team should try this month arrive in the same stream as everything else.

Without a filter the stream reaches the company anyway, through whoever reads the most. A board member forwards a headline, a competitor announces a strategy, and a decision gets made on what was in the news that week instead of on what fits your systems.

We do the reading. Each week Hendrik or a named VANDAM lead goes through the releases with your profile next to them: the tools you run, your industry, the projects you have open and the questions your team sent in. You get a one-page brief and a call. When something on the call is worth building, it becomes a scoped project, often a Pilot Workshop or an Agent-Ready Audit.

If a general read is enough for now, VANDAM Weekly is the free version: one email a week that Hendrik writes for every company at once.

[Read VANDAM Weekly](https://vandam.ai/weekly)

## How a week runs.

1. Read the week: From Monday to Friday we follow model launches, updates to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, ChatGPT, Claude and the other tools you use, open-source models, regulation such as the EU AI Act, and what companies in your industry announce.
2. Check it against your company: Each item is held against your profile: your stack, your industry, your open projects and the questions your team sent in. What passes gets a line on what it means for you and a mark: try, watch or ignore. Most items do not pass.
3. Brief, then call: The one-page brief arrives the day before. On the call we go through it, answer what came up during the week and agree who tries what by when. The decisions go into the brief archive.

## A record that builds up. Yours to keep.

Every brief, call note and decision is stored in your own workspace, so the record stays with the company when people change roles. The profile is updated as your stack and projects change. You can stop any month and keep everything.

- Weekly call: 30 to 60 minutes with Hendrik or a named VANDAM lead.
- One-page brief: Sent the day before, every item marked try, watch or ignore.
- Questions in between: By message, whenever something comes up during the week.
- Profile updates: Your stack, projects and questions updated as they change.

[Ask about AI Colleague](mailto:hendrik@vibelab.be?subject=VANDAM%20/%20AI%20Colleague%20care)

## What you receive.

- Weekly call: 30 to 60 minutes with Hendrik or a named VANDAM lead.
- One-page brief: What changed, what it means for you, and what to try, watch or ignore.
- Questions in between: Ask by message when something lands in the middle of the week.
- Brief archive: Every brief and decision kept, a record of what you chose and why.

$2,400/mo

weekly call · monthly, stop any month

An indication from past projects. The final price can move a little with the size and complexity of your company, and we agree it in writing before we start.

For CEOs, leadership teams and the people who own AI at 20–500 person companies. Useful when AI news moves faster than anyone in the company can read it, and decisions start to follow the headlines.

[hendrik@vibelab.be](mailto:hendrik@vibelab.be?subject=VANDAM%20/%20AI%20Colleague)

## Where the weekly call leads. Each next step has its own service.

### AI Opportunity Map

When the calls keep returning to the same ideas: rank them and pick the first.

**$9,600**

### Pilot Workshop

Turns one idea from the calls into a pilot in a day.

**$4,800**

### Team Harness

Brings what you learn on the calls to the whole team.

**$12,800**

## Before you ask.

### Who is on the call?

Hendrik or a named VANDAM lead on our side. On yours, usually the CEO and whoever owns AI, sometimes the full leadership team. It works best with the same people each week.

### What do you need from us to filter?

A first conversation about the tools you run, your industry, the projects you have open and the questions on the table. From there we keep the profile current with you.

### Is there a free version?

Yes. VANDAM Weekly is a general weekly email that Hendrik writes for every company at once. AI Colleague is the same reading, checked against your company, with a call.

### Will you push us toward a vendor?

We work model-agnostic and on the stack you already have. VANDAM is a Claude implementation partner and often suggests Claude first, and we say so when that is the case. Most weeks the advice is about tools you already pay for.

### What happens when something is worth building?

We scope it as a separate project with its own price, usually a Pilot Workshop or an Agent-Ready Audit first. The call stays the place where you decide what to start.

### Can we stop?

Any month. The brief archive stays with you.