Overview
Nicolas Deruytter co-founded ML6 in Ghent in 2013 alongside Michael Lemmer, building one of Belgium's most respected applied AI engineering firms. The company has grown to 136 employees and established a strong Google Cloud partnership.
As co-founder of ML6, Nicolas shaped the company's technical positioning and commercial focus on Enterprise AI engineering, helping large organisations move from AI experimentation to production-grade deployment.
Career history
In the news
- Club Brugge is building its own AI operating system, and ML6 is proud to help. Instead of a separate AI tool for each department, the Club Brugge OS brings all of the club's AI applications into one system, on and off the pitch. Data from different teams gets connected, so an insight in one team can support a decision in another. People stay in charge and staff decide, task by task, what AI takes on. A control tower shows which agents are active and what each one costs, per agent and per session. Built-in FinOps sets a hard cost
- Our team attended the Flanders AI Forum 2026 Expo in Ghent this week. Many of the conversations confirmed the direction we’re already taking with our clients. Here’s what stood out. From vision to everyday support Nicolas Deruytter shared a vision of AI that understands a whole operation, down to every email and call, and handles maintenance on its own. We see the first steps toward that in customer support. Many support questions are routine: a configuration, an access request, a “where do I find this?”. An AI agent can guide
- Steven Latré (imec) waarschuwt voor ‘naïeve’ AI-integraties: ‘Bedrijven plaatsen AI bovenop hun bestaande product, en krijgen enorme tokenkosten zonder meerwaarde’Bedrijven bijten zich stuk op de kosten die AI-integraties met zich meebrengen als ze niet nadenken over de juiste usecase, waarschuwt Steven Latré, vicepresident AI bij het onderzoekscentrum imec. Dat deed hij dinsdag tijdens zijn keynote op het Flanders AI Forum. “We moeten ongelooflijk geobsedeerd zijn door tokenkosten.” Nicolas Deruytter, CEO van ML6, gaf toe dat zijn bedrijf de tokenkosten za
DataNews · 21 Oct 2026
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