Jacob Verhoeks
Data & AI Technology Lead at Schuberg Philis
I build data platforms, write about AI and cloud architecture, and create things on the side. Based in The Netherlands, focused on making data infrastructure you actually own.
Books

Nine Minutes Early
When AI Outruns Human Judgment
A valid receipt certifies a test nine minutes before it exists. The only independent clock belongs to the engineer everyone has reason to discredit, and the names signed to the proofs belong to people who never read them. Free EPUB & PDF.
Read in: English · Nederlands · Español

The Totality Engine
Ten days before totality · a techno-thriller
A false shipment, a vanished engineer, and eleven seconds of video from a room that does not exist. Free EPUB & PDF.
Read in: English · Nederlands · Español · Català

Fable's Echo
A techno-thriller
An engineer pulls one warm blade from a rack of cold ones, and finds something hidden in the machines that keep his country dry. Free EPUB & PDF.
Read in: English · Español · Català · Nederlands

From Idea to KDP
Writing a Book with a Crew of AI Editors
How I write books with AI, fiction and non-fiction. Write it yourself or let the AI draft it — the framework watches the structure and layout. Free EPUB, PDF & HTML — plus the template and the skill.

Sovereign by Design
Building a Production Query Engine on DataFusion
Replacing Trino with a purpose-built Rust query engine. PDF & EPUB available — actively being written.
The Art of Agents
Sun Tzu's 13 chapters applied to agentic AI
13 principles for building AI systems that think before they code. Read the preview and chapter summaries.