AI Training · AI Strategy · AI Engineering

Trusted AI leadership for industry transformation.

Human in the Loop works with enterprise leaders on AI strategy, enablement, and production systems.

100+ AI projects delivered · From small enterprises to Fortune 500

The starting point

The gap is not between you and the technology. It is between capability and adoption.

The adoption gap

It widens with every model release, not with your budget - that is value left on the table.

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What we hear in almost every first conversation
  • “We bought the licences. Nothing shows up in the results.”
  • “Everyone talks about AI agents. We still work like it’s 2023.”
  • “On AI, everyone here is waiting for somebody else.”
  • “We’ve always done it this way.”
Our Philosophy

We are building a future where AI makes humans more capable and impactful.

01 — PEOPLE OVER TOOLS

Tools don’t transform organizations. People who can run them do.

Every engagement leaves your people more capable than it found them — capability stays when the consultants leave.

02 — JUDGMENT OVER HYPE

Strategy is deciding what to automate — and what not to.

The use cases come from your own operation, the priorities from your own people. We bring the judgment to choose.

03 — PRODUCTION OVER PILOTS

AI that nobody governs, ships, or owns is a demo.

We build for the day after the pilot: owned, governed, measured — running in the middle of real work.

01

AI Training

From AI-curious to AI-capable.

Hands-on and strategic. Three tracks - one for every level of your organization - built and delivered by practitioners who ship AI in production. Not tool training: your people build real agentic workflows on the same stack we use ourselves.

01

AI Executive

For boards and C-suites. Half day to two days. The judgment to make AI investment decisions, evaluate opportunities, set governance - and lead adoption with confidence.

02

AI Super User

For leadership teams and non-technical staff. Two-day intensive that turns them into power users who redesign their daily work with AI - and ship one agentic workflow of their own.

03

AI Builder

For technical teams. Intensive, hands-on program for building production AI systems - from architecture to deployment to evaluation, with the guardrails that make them governable.

Talk about enablement

Individuals and small teams: start with the four-week cohort.

02

AI Strategy

From scattered AI experiments to a strategy that holds - in five steps we call CLIMB.

Most companies already use AI - uncoordinated: single people, single tools, no shared picture. Pilots start from gut feeling and fizzle out because nobody owns them. Leadership needs a basis for decisions, not a list of technologies. CLIMB delivers it in a few weeks: the use cases come from interviews with your own people, the priorities are decided in three workshops with your core team - in the room, not afterwards by the consultant.

  1. CClarify - kickoff: goals, people, frame. Board and timeline stand.
  2. LListen - interviews and a questionnaire along the five pillars. The knowledge comes from your company.
  3. IIdentify - use cases derived, clustered and condensed, AI-assisted. A sorted field of candidates.
  4. MMake the call - two workshops: urgency and complexity pick the top 5 use cases; impact, effort and real commitment pick the top 3 solution ideas.
  5. BBuild the roadmap - five pillars, measures, sequence. Agreed in workshop three, closed with an implementation talk.
  • 3workshops with your core team
  • 5pillars: skills, tools, governance, product, horizon
  • Top 3solution ideas with effort, impact and next steps
  • 1roadmap: sequence, owners, 12-18 months

The CLIMB method

Five steps from scattered experiments to an adopted roadmap - decided with your team, not for it.

C·CLARIFYkickoff: goals, people, frame L·LISTENinterviews + survey, five pillars I·IDENTIFYuse cases, clustered, AI-assisted M·MAKE THE CALLurgency × complexity → top 5impact × commitment → top 3 B·BUILD THE ROADMAPfive pillars · 3 workshopsimplementation talk SCATTERED AI EXPERIMENTS 3 WORKSHOPS · 5 STEPS · A FEW WEEKS
Talk about an assessment

03

AI Engineering

From prototype to governed production.

The demo is the easy part. We build agentic systems with your team and take them the whole way: architecture, integration into the tools people already use, evaluation, guardrails, monitoring, and a clean handover to the people who will run them. Practitioners who have shipped dozens of AI projects - not slideware, working systems.

01

Build

Scope one workflow that matters, then ship it: agentic workflows, assistants and automations built on your stack and your data, delivered in weeks alongside your team.

02

Harden

Evaluation suites, guardrails, observability and cost control - the engineering that turns a pilot into something a regulated organization can stand behind.

03

Operate

Handover, runbooks, ownership and governance. Your people run it, with humans in the loop where the decisions carry weight - and we stay on call as long as you need.

From prototype to production

One track, three stations - built with your team, hardened until it holds, then run by your people with humans in the loop.

01 BUILD shipped in weeks 02 HARDEN evals · guardrails · monitoring 03 OPERATE your people run it PROTOTYPE GOVERNED PRODUCTION
Talk about a build

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Leadership

Founded by Andreas Horn.

Founder, Human in the Loop · Dozens of AI projects delivered · Former IBM, Microsoft

Andreas has spent more than 12 years building, deploying, and scaling AI - dozens of delivered projects for organizations from small enterprises to the Fortune 500, through his work at Microsoft and IBM, where he led the AIOps service portfolio across EMEA and contributed to the global AI Agents offering. Today he is VP AI & Growth at BLP Digital and founder of Human in the Loop.

He is one of the most-followed voices in enterprise AI, with 300,000+ followers across platforms - author of two books, featured AI instructor on LinkedIn Learning, and the writer behind the Human in the Loop briefing read by 38,000+ execs every Monday.

The Human in the Loop Newsletter

Read every Monday by 38,000+ executives and business leaders - at companies like IBM, Google, Siemens, Bosch, SAP, and Allianz.

In the field

Leading the AI conversation.

Talks, interviews, and field notes.

Why Human in the Loop

What makes us different.

Advise Enable Build
01AI-native - we build with the same AI we advise on, every single day
02Practitioners, not a deck factory - 12+ years shipping enterprise AI at IBM & Microsoft
03Human in the loop by design - governance and human gates in every system we build
04Speed over ceremony - board-ready results in weeks, not quarters
05Direct access - no sales team, no juniors; you work with Andreas

The demo is easy. Production is where the truth shows up.

Book an executive briefing. In 30 minutes you'll know where you stand - and what to do first.

AI in production, humans in the loop.

Human in the Loop helps business leaders and executives move their organizations from AI experimentation to AI operating capability.