Overview
Benjamin Vandermarliere co-founded Ravical in 2025 alongside Joris Van Der Gucht (CEO) and Ken Bastiaensen. He holds a PhD in physics and AI research and brings AI product leadership experience to the team. Ravical raised EUR 7.3M in pre-seed funding led by Lakestar.
Career history
In the news
- This week we started the roll out of our Client Memory across all our clients. All our agents that work on a client can now automatically write back the interesting observations they make while working on it to this memory. As you can see in the screenshot below, these can be different types of observations: a preference, a concern, a certain decision that was made at some point in time, etc. For work the agents were not (yet) involved in, you can also just add to it yourself. When testing this, we learned that it became a bit of a
- When we were brainstorming about Ravical in 2024, one of the things we agreed on is that we have to show up where the work happens. Not yet another tool people have to open. Low friction, high adoption. That's why we started with an inbox agent. After a while we learned there was a need for a space to do more advanced and deeper work, where a control center should live, and so we introduced the workspace. Now we're following that same thesis again and soon we'll be adding add-ins for Word and Excel, because whether we like it or not,
- Little new dropdown in the product today, but with huge impact: the client picker. It enables consistency across the firm and saves time, over and over again. Accountants and tax specialists work for many clients. With most tools, you always have to specify which client you’re working on, so the system can pull the right data and context. Or worse, you have to upload all the client's context yourself before you can even start. Today, we've made this simple. There's a "Choose client" dropdown right above the chat box. Pick a client
- We zoeken iemand voor een nieuwe rol bij Ravical, accountancy engineer. Een paar jaar echte ervaring in een Belgisch accountantskantoor, zodat je weet hoe een jaarafsluiting er van binnenuit uitziet. En je hebt zelf al dingen gebouwd met AI. Scripts, agents, kleine tools, wat dan ook. Het hoeft nog niet mooi te zijn. Herken je je hierin en ben je nieuwsgierig, stuur me een DM. https://lnkd.in/eN9X8mYb
- In the Netherlands, payroll and HR are not a side offering for most full-service firms serving SMEs. For a lot of firms it's half the relationship with a client. So if you're running agents across the rest of a client file, you want them working there too. That's what the new Nmbrs Payroll connector gives us. Our agents now work directly with Nmbrs Payroll and Nmbrs Accounting, so payroll sits next to the books instead of living in a system nobody opens unless something's wrong. This has been one of the most requested
- Today we're launching Workflows. Structuring the tax advice for a complex restructuring, preparing the quarterly meeting with a client, reviewing a year-end file against the checklist: the best way to do each of these usually sits with one person, and the client only gets that quality if that person is around. Workflows fixes that. When a chat in Ravical lands on exactly the right result, turn it into a workflow, and you get that same outcome every time. Or start from one of the workflows that ship out of the box and tailor it to
- You don’t know what you don't know. Trust is the entire product in accounting. The moment an answer is wrong, it doesn't matter how fast it was. A client told us about this recently. They had a question about setting up a tax reserve and asked an AI tool for help with the tax rule. They got back a confident answer. The rule had changed recently, and the answer applied the old version. The tool didn't know its own information was out of date, so it never said so. Our chat agent runs on the same kind of underlying LLMs, so the same
- Among the things AI can do, I really like this one. Because it unlocks something new, couldn't realistically be done without AI and adds value for both our customers and their clients. Opportunity spotting inside of Ravical brings up services that might otherwise never surface. And now a fee estimate is automatically added, opening up much-needed pricing innovation. Benjamin Vandermarliere explains it better :)
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