About Us

Built in Leiden, running everywhere .

The Dutch Selection is a team of engineers building AI and data systems that run in production, for organisations at home and far beyond. Since 2014, from Leiden, The Netherlands.

Since 2014
building data products
Since 2022
AI in production
2 weeks
to a working proof of concept
100B+
data points and counting
01 The story

Twelve years, one standard.

2014

Four entrepreneurs, one hard market

The Dutch Selection is founded by four entrepreneurs to help companies make better decisions with data, starting in the complex Dutch telco market. The technical foundation laid there still carries our systems today.

2014 - 2022

A decade of data operations

The practice grows into managed data operations for major telecom operators and international enterprises: collection, processing and delivery across 17+ countries, 100B+ data points and counting.

2022

AI goes into production

Our first AI system ships into legal-financial workflows for a US client, built the way we build everything: verifiable down to the source, running in production, not in slides.

Today

Two practices, one standard

Document AI and hands-on AI engineering, next to the data operations we have run for over a decade. The same technology powers Aedifai, our own product for the UK property market. If it doesn't run in production, it doesn't count.

02 How we work

Four things we hold on to.

Engineers at the table

No layers between you and the people building. The engineer who scopes your work is the one who ships it.

Verifiable by design

Every conclusion links to its source. If it cannot be checked, it does not ship.

Fixed prices, honest scope

Priced before we start, from the first scan to the full build. You always know what you are buying.

Our own products first

The platform we sell runs Aedifai, our own product. We hit our own rough edges before you do.

Curious where AI would pay off in your organisation?

A small team of engineers in Leiden, building for organisations at home and far beyond. Mail us or call, and you will speak directly with Gerard Meijer, founder.