Netherlands · Data & AI

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.

NewNine Minutes Early — one witness signed nine minutes early. All three thrillers are now free to read in English, Dutch and Spanish.

Books

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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.

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