AI Innovation Studio · Profit × Planet

AI for the problems worth solving.

We find where AI pays off, build it with your own people, and stay until it is adopted. The extended creative tech engine for your innovation and data teams.

Extra capacityAn extended team for your data and innovation people, or the whole department you do not have yet.
The best ROI pathAn AI Value Scan scores and ranks your use cases on return, for profit and planet, before anything gets built.
Ideas from your peopleHackathons and labs that end in working tools, adopted by the people who use them.
How we plug in

Creativity meets machine learning.

We are applied AI experts with the instincts of creatives. Engineers and innovators who think in business value: we build and ship the model ourselves, get energised by a messy operational problem, and read a P&L as comfortably as a training curve. We sit with the operator, then build what the problem calls for, an agent, a forecasting model, an optimisation engine, a piece of computer vision. That is the bridge most organisations are missing.

That combination is what turns a good idea into a solution people actually use. It is also why we go after the problems worth the effort, the ones where profit and planet improve together.

01 · With your team

Extra capacity

Your data and innovation people already own a full roadmap. We take the exploratory work off it and hand back documented work they can maintain.

02 · As your team

The department you do not have

Nobody in-house to point at the problem. We run the whole thing, from diagnosis to handover, and you keep everything we build.

The agile innovation spiral

From stubborn problem to adopted solution

Every loop narrows the question and raises the evidence. You decide whether to go further at each stage, and nothing scales before somebody has used it and told us the truth about it.

Hackathon · 1 to 3 days 1 2 3 4
Stage 01

AI Value Scan

Remote. We interview the people who own the process and score every opportunity on profit and planet. A readiness score, your maturity stage, three costed starting points.

Stage 02

Idea Lab or Hack Pack

Your teams turn the top opportunity into concepts, facilitated in Amsterdam or self run with a Hack Pack. The concepts come out theirs, so nobody has to be sold later.

Stage 03

Prototype and test

We build the strongest concept on your data and put it in front of the people who would use it daily. A working build, evidence it fits, a straight answer on whether to continue.

Stage 04

Scale and adopt

Hardening, integration, monitoring and the training that gets people using it. It lands in production and adopted, run by your team or by us.

The shortcutA Hackathon compresses stages 01 to 03 into one to three days, then rejoins the spiral at prototype and test. For when the problem is already burning.
Why a spiralEach loop is short and cheap on purpose, so being wrong costs a week instead of a year. Phi is the golden ratio: every turn wider than the last.
Innovation Toolkit

Start small, ship something real

Five ways in, each scoped to a result before you commit. Most clients start with the Scan.

AI Value Scan

AI Value Scan Most clients start here

Remote diagnostic. Where AI creates most value in your business, scored and ranked on profit and planet.

RemoteDaysBest first step
Launch deal€750
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AI-Powered Idea Lab

AI-Powered Idea Lab

One of our Innovation Catalysts facilitates a session in Amsterdam where your team turns a real business problem into AI concepts worth building.

In Amsterdam1 dayTeam ownership
From€1.250
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Hack Pack

Hack Pack™

The Idea Lab in a box, shipped to your office. Run it yourself, at your pace, with your own people.

ShippedSelf runRepeatable
Fixed€550
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Rapid AI Prototyping

Rapid AI Prototyping

From concept to a working, tested build on your own data, ready to take into production.

BuildWeeksUser tested
From€1.500
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Hackathon

Hackathon

Your burning problem turned into a competitive sprint: your teams, industry experts and external hackers, all in the ring.

Signature1 to 3 daysPrototypes out
From€7.500
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All prices excl. VAT (btw).

Our Experts Pool

Meet our innovators

Anna Oñate

Anna Oñate, MBA candidate

Founder & Innovation Catalyst

Anna drives AmPhi Labs with startup-founder instincts, a track record in enterprise innovation at global scale, and the energy of a hackathon coach and competitor. MIT-trained in Applied AI & Data Science and pursuing an MBA in AI, Data & Analytics, she is obsessed with finding where AI solves problems worth solving.

Kevin Waller

Kevin Waller, MSc

AI/ML Engineer

Kevin turns complex operational problems into practical, testable AI systems. With a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and experience across applied machine learning, backend development and cloud infrastructure, he works the full tech stack, from data and model evaluation to deployments and user-facing prototypes. He combines technical depth with product thinking to build solutions that create measurable business value.

Camila Bühler

Camila Bühler, MSc

Venture Partner - Sustainable Innovation

Camila is a sustainability and strategy consultant. Formerly at Deloitte, she has deep expertise in digital transformation and a drive to advance a low-carbon, purpose-led economy. She turns complex ESG issues into clear, actionable strategies, combining innovation and stakeholder engagement to deliver impact and business value.

Our range

Everything from a forecast to an agent

Generative AI is the loud one right now, and it is a fraction of what actually pays off. We build across the whole spread.

Classic machine learning Predict and optimise on your own numbers. Forecasting, predictive maintenance, visual quality inspection, scrap and waste, route and load.
Generative AI Language, images and unstructured mess. Document extraction, search across your own knowledge, drafting at scale, voice of the customer.
Agents Work that spans several systems. Quote and order intake, supplier screening, back office reconciliation, monitoring and alerting.

Knowing where to start is the whole game. Right family, right order, on the use case with the best return. That is what the AI Value Scan is for.

Our Work

Testimonials
Marco Eikelenboom,CEO at Sappi Europe

"Anna has transformed the way we innovate. Our Hackathon and her idea acceleration labs didn't just generate creative concepts. They unlocked hidden value and turned promising ideas into scalable business opportunities. She brings structure, energy, and vision to innovation, making it both inspiring and results-driven."

Jos Steutelings,Managing Director at VIGC

"A game-changer for our Hackathon. Teams were guided with sharp insights and contagious energy, we kept momentum high, and roadblocks turned into real progress. We finished not only with strong prototypes, but with a renewed mindset on innovation."

Christian Vezjak,Co-Founder & CEO at TAP

"Anna's creativity pushed our Hackathon team beyond the obvious, we didn't just compete, we won! She has that unique ability to turn complexity into playful problem-solving, and to rally everyone around it."

Stage 01, in the open

What an AI Value Scan gives you

Pages from a real scan report. Scored, ranked, costed, and specific to the company that answered.

AI Value Scan report page: rated
Rated

An AI Readiness Score across five dimensions, with your maturity stage.

AI Value Scan report page: evidenced
Evidenced

Findings mined from your own datasets, each one with the so-what spelled out.

AI Value Scan report page: ranked
Ranked

Opportunities sized on your numbers: ROI, payback, prerequisites and what it takes.

AI Value Scan report page: prioritised
Prioritised

Every opportunity placed on profit and planet, with the build-first quadrant marked.

We ask for real production data, so we treat it that way. EU-based processing, access limited to the AmPhi experts running your scan, and never used to train a model. How we handle it.

Start your AI Value Scan

AI for good

The best cases cut cost and waste in the same move

Every opportunity we find gets two scores: what it does for the business, and what it does for the planet. We go after the ones that are high on both, because those are the projects that survive a budget round and keep their momentum after the pilot.

tetrik.ai
Tetrik.ai: void space and PPWR readiness
Born in the lab

Tetrik.ai

You are paying to ship air.

Machine learning on box stock and procurement, so every order ships in the right size box. Less void space means less cardboard, fewer trucks and lower cost in one move, with a head start on the EU packaging rules.

Visit tetrik.ai A venture incubated inside AmPhi Labs
Why AmPhi Labs

Hands-on AI, with a conscience

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We build as well as advise

Diagnosis, modelling, prototyping, production. Classic machine learning, generative AI and agents, chosen on merit. We will also tell you when the honest answer is that AI is the wrong tool.

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Domain deep

Our roots run through sustainable packaging, print, paper and regenerative agriculture. We have run innovation at global enterprise scale and built ventures from scratch, so we know your problems from the inside.

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Profit × Planet

Two scores on every opportunity. We look for the cases where the business result and the footprint improve together, because those are the ones that get funded and stay funded.

Before you ask

Straight answers

We already have data scientists. What would you add?
Capacity and a different angle. Your team usually owns a roadmap that is already full, so we take the exploratory work: the new use case, the proof of value, the format that gets the business excited enough to fund it. We work alongside your people and hand back documented work they can maintain.
Our data is messy. Are we too early for this?
That is a normal starting point. The AI Value Scan includes an honest read on data readiness, so you learn which use cases are viable with what you already have, and which need groundwork first. We would rather tell you to fix a spreadsheet than sell you a model.
Is this all generative AI?
No. We work across three families: classic machine learning for prediction and optimisation, generative AI for language and unstructured content, and agents for work that spans several systems. Choosing between them correctly is where most of the value is won or lost.
Do we have to replace our current systems?
No. We work around your existing stack, whether that is ERP, MES, CRM or something built in house. What we build is designed to sit alongside what you have.
Do you stop at the prototype?
No. A prototype is stage three of four. We stay through hardening, integration, monitoring and the training that gets people actually using it, then hand over documented work your team can run without us.
What actually comes out of a Hackathon?
Working prototypes, usually several, one per team, plus a ranked view of which are worth taking further and a team that has now built with AI hands on. We stay available afterwards to turn the winner into something production bound.
Where do you work?
Based in Amsterdam, working across Benelux, the UK and DACH. Scans and prototyping run fully remote. Idea Labs and Hackathons run at our Amsterdam space, and the Hack Pack ships to your office if you would rather run it yourselves.
What about GDPR and our data?
EU based and GDPR compliant by default. We agree data handling and processing terms up front, and we can work with anonymised or synthetic data during the scan phase if that is easier for your legal team.

Tell us the problem that keeps coming back

We will tell you whether AI is the right solution for it, and if it is not, where to start. Bring the problem, the constraints and whatever data you already have. You leave knowing what it would take to solve and whether the return is there.

Lab Notebook

How agile innovation works in practice, and how to get real value out of AI. What worked, what did not, and ideas you can put to use on Monday. Roughly monthly.

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