4 of our own products running in production
Independent automation, AI and cloud consulting from the Netherlands
Most businesses lose hours every week to copy-paste between systems, spreadsheets doing the job of a database, and hand-offs that wait on a person. I find that work and replace it with software, integrations, AI and cloud infrastructure built to keep running.
Services
Find out what is actually costing you. Automate the work that should not be manual. Run it on infrastructure that does not need babysitting.
Architecture, IT and cloud audits. We map what you actually have, find what is costing you time, money or sleep, and hand you a prioritised plan. Implement it yourself, with your own team, or with us.
Replace repetitive manual work with software, integrations and AI. Systems that talk to each other, reports that write themselves, hand-offs that no longer wait on a human.
Infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and deployment pipelines built to run reliably without unnecessary complexity.
AI for companies
A model is another tool, not a strategy. We put one on a step only when it is cheaper and more reliable than a script, an integration, or a person with a checklist.
During the audit we mark which manual steps are a prompt, which are a few lines of code, and which should stay a person. You keep that map even if you never hire us to build.
Extraction, classification, summarisation and drafting wired into the tools your team already opens. The result lands where the spreadsheet used to — with a person in the loop where being wrong is expensive.
Models that call your APIs, search your docs and fetch the web with an audit trail — not a chat window bolted onto a broken process. We run AfterImage, a shared hashed cache of the public web for AI agents, in production.
If it cannot be monitored, cost-capped and handed to your team, it is a demo. We treat model calls the same way we treat the rest of your infrastructure.
How we work
You do not need to arrive knowing what to automate — working that out is the first job, and it is a small one.
We go through your systems, your integrations and the work your people repeat by hand. Scoped and time-boxed, with no commitment to build anything.
You get findings and a prioritised plan: what to fix, what to automate, what to leave alone, and what each one is worth. Yours to keep, whoever ends up doing the work.
We build and run what you green-light — automation, AI, integrations, infrastructure — and hand over something your own team can operate.
Proof of work
Four products I designed, built, launched and now run in production — the same way I build for clients.
Don't scrape it twice.
A shared copy of the public web for AI agents. If another agent already fetched a page, yours reuses that copy — timestamp plus sha256 of the raw bytes — instead of scraping again. Search over HTTP or MCP.
Visit AfterImageRead any pattern, your way.
A PDF reader made for knitting and crochet patterns. Pick your size and every relevant number lights up, tap an abbreviation for its definition, keep row and repeat counters, and sync your progress across devices.
Visit TrixiStitchesMerge pull requests when you say.
Timezone-aware merge scheduling for GitHub and Azure DevOps. Schedule from a comment, a label or the dashboard, block out the hours you never want to ship in, and let health checks gate the merge.
Visit Scheduled-PRYour files go nowhere.
Privacy-first image and PDF tools that run entirely in your browser. Compress, convert and resize images, strip metadata, merge, split and compress PDFs — no servers, no uploads, no accounts.
Visit Null UploadAbout
Arcadia Studios is my independent studio — a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak / ZZP) in the Netherlands. I work with businesses that have outgrown their spreadsheets: manual processes, systems that do not talk to each other, and infrastructure nobody wants to touch.
Building and running my own products keeps me honest. Everything I recommend to a client is something I live with myself — including the boring parts: uptime, cost, and the failure at two in the morning.
No hand-offs, no account managers. You talk to me — Ruan Mentz.
Contact
Tell me where the manual work is — or where you think a model should take it. I will look at your systems and come back with what is worth fixing first. Worst case, you walk away with a plan and a second opinion.