# Jef Van Gool - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-13

## Identity
- Name: Jef Van Gool
- Role: Owner
- Company: Activate
- Location: Begijnendijk, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefvangool

## About
Jef Van Gool is the owner of activate, a position he has held since February 2018, and is based in Begijnendijk. Since July 2015 he has also been founder and CEO of Sherlock SEO Agency.

Between January 2018 and January 2021 he was a franchisee of SmartNinja, and from September to December 2018 he was a public speaker for Google. At BNI® Business Network International he was social media manager from March 2016 to October 2017, and he went on to serve as powerteam coordinator at BNI hekla until June 2018.

Van Gool began at Bedtime Beddenspeciaalzaak as a management trainee in sales marketing from 2008 to 2013, working in sales and marketing at Bedtime from July 2008 and as online marketing manager there from October 2013 to June 2015. From March 2013 to June 2015 he worked as a search engine marketing consultant under his own name.

He studied communication and media studies at AP Hogeschool Antwerpen, webdesign in adult education, PHP webscripting at CVO Antwerpen, programming and JavaScript at SmartNinja, and completed a permaculture design course at aardebloesem.be.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] activate: https://techwiki.ai/companies/activate/llms.txt

## Recent News
- [2026-08-14] Laten we AI gebruiken voor deze taak… Dit denk ik vaker en vaker. Maar vaak is het compleet belachelijk. En dus probeer ik direct daarna te… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefvangool_laten-we-ai-gebruiken-voor-deze-taak-dit-activity-7493964694500761601-vSoM)
- [2026-08-11] no comment (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefvangool_no-comment-activity-7492881937515081730-b0Zp)
- [2026-07-16] Door het feit dat ik geen laptop meer heb en gedwongen ben van op mijn telefoon te werken, gebruik ik nu mijn agents voor de volle 100%.… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefvangool_fck-laptopbatterij-heeft-het-begeven-activity-7483444971317039104-VUSO)
- [2026-07-16] Mijn onboarding is nu volledig agentic. De agent scrapet de website en draait een SEO-pipeline op basis van de huidige content. We bouwen… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefvangool_mijn-onboarding-is-nu-volledig-agentic-activity-7483443844294979584-DnhT)
- [2026-07-15] F*ck laptopbatterij heeft het begeven 😭 Gelukkig bouwde ik een agentic brain die ik via mijn telefoon kan bedienen. Die agent stuurt per… (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefvangool_fck-laptopbatterij-heeft-het-begeven-activity-7483093799716495360-_Ktz)

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefvangool
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