People and AI, working together by design.
Most teams use AI one chat at a time, and working with it well is something most are still learning. Our skills are designed to draw your people in: they ask for the intent, surface the calls that need a human, and hand the decision back. Your team gets more done, and its AI fluency grows with every run.
Capability that stays with your team.
Third Vector builds capability three ways. We train teams to work with AI on their own stack. We turn how a company's best people work into skills an AI can run, so the whole team can use that expertise every day. And we run those skills on the Third Vector Platform, which shows which model does each job best and feeds the team's notes back into the skill.
A skill on its own is a starting point. Each one we build comes with the method to run it well and to improve it with every run.
We believe the best outcomes come when human judgement is embedded in the flow of the work. So every skill builds it in. AI does the heavy analytical work, and your people set the intent, weigh what matters and make the call. Working this way takes practice, and each run builds it.
Every skill we build for you is yours to keep, re-run and change. The capability stays with your team, and it keeps compounding after we are gone.
Founder
Tim de Rooij
Tim started Third Vector because he believes AI lets builders do things they would not have thought possible. Founding a company on an idea that sounds a little crazy, entering a market that is new to them, changing how the business makes its money: each used to take more people, more time and more certainty than most builders had. AI changes that. It gives people new abilities, and helping them put those abilities to work is what excites him most.
He started his career in corporate finance at Keijser Capital and Deloitte, where he built the corporate venturing proposition inside Deloitte's M&A practice.
At Tamr, a US enterprise AI scale-up, he led Professional Services across the US, Europe and APAC, running the teams that implemented and tuned machine learning models inside large enterprises. At 5CA he was Chief of Staff and Head of Product & Innovation, and led the product and go-to-market build of AICX, an AI platform for customer support.
Building together with
Janwillem van Leeuwen
Janwillem is a product operator. At Tele2 he grew the mobile business tenfold to 1 million customers as Head of Mobile B2C. He then ran ActievandeDag, Emesa's €30m+ e-commerce brand, and turned it from decline back to growth.
At Twelve he was CCO and then CPO, running product, marketing, software development and internal IT. At Third Vector he works on product, operations and applied AI.
Advisors
Operators and investors who pressure-test our thinking.
Friso Paping
Advises and invests in startups and scale-ups. Co-founded Sentinels, acquired by Fenergo, after starting out at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Co-writes The Blueishprint, our Substack on building companies in the age of AI.
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Wijnand Wieles
Entrepreneur and investor. Took Zelfstroom from zero to tens of millions as COO and Chief Strategy Officer, then built the B2C sales engine behind Saman Group's heat-pump business to €40m+.
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The advantage goes to AI-native teams.
In five to ten years the best-run companies will look very different. AI will be woven through how the work gets done, and the teams that learn to work with it well, and bring their people up with it, will out-compete their peers.
Working with Third Vector is how your team builds that: a durable AI-native way of working that you own and keep sharpening.
What are you building next?
Start with the expertise your business leans on most. We turn it into a skill with the people who hold it, and you keep it. Tell us what you are working on.