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AI: from 25% to 25×
Why AI-powered builders will eat the consultancy model alive — and how your organisation joins them
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There’s a dirty secret in the consulting industry: a significant portion of what strategy firms sell you — the market scans, the benchmark reports, the operating model slides — can now be built faster, better, and cheaper by your own people. If you give them the right tools and the right skills.
Renout van Hove doesn’t just claim this. He proves it. As AI Accelerator at PerPetum Energy, he built over 20 production-grade internal applications in a single year — using AI-assisted development tools like Lovable, Cursor, and Claude. Not mockups. Not prototypes. Tools that his colleagues use daily and that replaced processes that would have cost €50K-200K each through traditional consulting or development.
This is the keynote where Renout pulls back the curtain on what he calls “the 25× shift”: the moment where AI stops being a 25% productivity boost and becomes a 25× transformation of what a small team can achieve.
The audience will see — live on stage — what happens when the distance between “I have an idea” and “it works” collapses from months to hours. This is not science fiction. This is how a growing number of companies already operate. Renout calls them the 7% Club.
What the audience sees and takes away:
The consultancy illusion exposed.
When a strategy firm charges €150K for a “digital transformation roadmap,” what you’re buying is 6 weeks of junior consultants in PowerPoint and a partner who shows up twice. The deliverable is a deck. The outcome is dependency. Renout shows what the same budget looks like when spent on building internal capability — and why the ROI difference is not 2× but 25×.
The rise of the builder-operator.
A new category of professional is emerging: people who don’t just advise but build. Using AI-assisted tools, a single person can now create what previously required a team of developers, designers, and project managers. Renout shares how he personally built customer portals, financial dashboards, energy trading tools, and training platforms — and what this means for every organisation’s build-vs-buy calculus.
Vibe coding: the skill your workforce doesn’t know it needs.
The audience gets introduced to “vibe coding” — the practice of building functional software through natural language and AI collaboration, without traditional programming skills. Renout demonstrates this live: taking a real business problem from the audience and building a working solution on stage in minutes. This is typically the moment where the room goes quiet.
The 7% Club framework.
Why do 93% of organisations stay stuck at incremental AI gains while 7% achieve genuine transformation? Renout shares the three characteristics of the 7%: they build instead of buying decks, they enable instead of training, and they measure capability growth instead of “AI awareness.”
What this means for your people.
The most valuable employees of 2026 are not the ones who can write the best prompts. They’re the ones who can build solutions. Every organisation has these people — they’re currently trapped in PowerPoint and Excel, building workarounds because IT has a 6-month backlog. AI-assisted building unlocks them.
The live demo moment
This is what makes this keynote unforgettable. Renout takes a real challenge from the audience — a workflow problem, a reporting need, a client-facing tool — and builds a working prototype on stage using AI. Not a mockup. A functional application.
The audience watches in real-time as natural language becomes working software. It’s the most concrete possible demonstration of what “25×” actually means.
Typical audience reaction: “Wait — we could do this for our problem?”
That’s exactly the point.
Format: 60-90 min | EN, NL, FR | Physical strongly preferred (live demo)
Best for: Board retreats, leadership off-sites, innovation days, annual conferences, C-suite strategy sessions
Tags: AI Strategy, Innovation, Digital Transformation, Future of Work, Leadership
Post-keynote extensions:
Half-day Builder Workshop — Teams identify their top 3 “build candidates” and create their first working prototype with AI-assisted tools. Hands-on, facilitated, competitive (teams present results).
AI Enablement Programme — Full programme: keynote + policy preparation + hands-on training including train-the-trainer format. Custom to sector and organisation size. From 50 to 5,000 employees.
Executive Sparring Session — 2-hour private session with leadership team: “What should we build vs. buy vs. outsource?” — mapping the organisation’s AI capability roadmap.
Renout van Hove doesn’t just advise on AI — he builds with it, every day.
As AI Accelerator at PerPetum Energy, one of Belgium’s leading renewable energy companies (600MW+ capacity), he built over 20 internal applications using AI in the past year alone. Not prototypes. Production tools that changed how a 50-person organisation operates.
That hands-on experience is what separates his keynotes from the typical consultant talk. When Renout speaks about AI transformation, he’s sharing what he’s learned from actually doing it — at scale, in a regulated industry, with real employees and real resistance.
Before his current ventures, Renout held senior positions at Dell, Salesforce, and Showpad. He authored “Obsessed” (2019), a book on customer data strategy that was already warning businesses to prepare for the AI era before ChatGPT existed.
Today he operates across multiple ventures: Quest2S (his management consultancy), GrowthAgent (AI-powered customer growth), and SiNergy (a joint venture with Delaware targeting €10M ARR in financial orchestration for renewable energy). He also co-founded Spectra Lash, bringing AI-assisted R&D to the beauty industry.
His keynotes aren’t motivational speeches with robot stock photos. They’re structured, honest, sometimes uncomfortable sessions that show leadership teams what AI really means for their organisation — the opportunity, the risk, and the math.
Renout speaks in English, Dutch, and French. He delivers keynotes, half-day workshops, and full AI enablement programmes including train-the-trainer formats for organisations of 50 to 5,000 employees.
AI Strategist & Builder-Operator | From 25% to 25× | Author of Obsessed
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