Software you are allowed to check

About

Bee Flow B.V. is a Dutch company building the AI workspace we wanted to be able to buy: one that can be read, run and moved by the organisation using it.

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Why this exists

Most AI tooling asks European organisations to make an uncomfortable trade: real productivity in exchange for sending your documents, your customers and your contracts to infrastructure you cannot inspect and cannot move. For a hospital, a law firm, a municipality or anyone else holding other people's personal data, that trade is often simply not available. So Bee Flow is built the other way round. The privacy layer is on by default rather than sold as an add-on. The deployment story starts with your own servers rather than ending there. The source is available to read, because a privacy claim you cannot verify is a marketing claim.

How we build

Three habits, not values on a wall

We publish what is NOT implemented next to what is - this site says plainly that there is no SAML connector, no desktop app and no meeting bot, because finding that out during a pilot is worse than reading it here. We prefer a smaller product that describes itself accurately to a larger one that does not. And we ship the source under a fair-code licence, so the claims on this page can be checked by anyone who cares to.

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Tom Kooy

Co-founder

Tom spent six years at Pricewise, the last three as Head of Technology & Security, building and then defending the data platform a price-comparison business runs on. That is where the habits behind this product come from: if you cannot say where a request went, you do not really control it. He also runs Kooy AI Consultancy, and completed two Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education programmes — Leading in Artificial Intelligence, and Leadership in Emerging Technology: Security, Strategy & Risk. Harvard went on to profile him about the second one, which is a fair summary of the job: the half that lets a technical answer survive a board meeting.

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Ewoud van de Kolk

Co-founder

Ewoud spent a decade in e-commerce and performance marketing before deciding the interesting part was the work underneath it. He builds the automations customers actually ask for — keyword research that runs itself, sales follow-up that does not need a person to remember it — for clients including ROK Groep, Boundless Digital and Op Adem. Trained at Nyenrode Business University and certified in prompt engineering through DeepLearning.AI, he is the reason this product gets tested against commercial reality rather than only against a specification.

Who this is for

Organisations that have to answer for where the data went

Regulated and public sector

Care providers, municipalities and anyone under a DPIA obligation: the deployment region, the audit trail and the retention are yours to set.

Professional services

Law, accountancy, consultancy - client confidentiality is not a setting you can afford to take on trust from a vendor.

Teams who would rather host it

If your instinct on reading "AI workspace" was to ask where it runs, this was built for you. One command, your own hardware.

The company

What we have built so far

Come and look under the hood

The repository is the documentation of record. If something on this site is not backed by code, we want to hear about it.

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