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Humans In The Loop, from Aalst in Belgium, offers virtual employees: AI agents trained for a company's processes that run inside its systems and send uncertain items to a human review queue.[1] AI Setups sets up ready-made agents for SMEs with 2 to 100 staff, adapts them to the business and shows the team how to use them, for a fixed price per agent.
Last checked 31 Oct 2026
By Jim van den Akker, AI Setups
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Pick Humans In The Loop if you are a Belgian SME with order, quote or planning flows that must be written into an ERP, and you want a staged parallel-run onboarding and a formal review queue.
Pick AI Setups if you want no onboarding fee, a flat monthly price per agent, and an agent in Slack, WhatsApp or email.
The main difference: Humans In The Loop connects agents to your ERP and charges an onboarding fee plus a monthly fee that depends on volume. AI Setups sets up ready-made agents at a flat price per agent, with no setup fee.
| AI Setups | Humans In The Loop | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Ready-made AI agents for SMEs with 2 to 100 staff, set up and adapted for you | 'Virtual employees': AI agents trained for a company's processes that run inside its systems and send uncertain items to a human review queue[1] |
| Who sets it up | We do, then we adapt it to your business and show your team how to use it | Humans In The Loop does, in three phases: platform onboarding and validation, a trial period in parallel with your staff, then go-live with monthly follow-up[1] |
| Where it works | Slack, WhatsApp and email | Inputs via Outlook, Gmail, WhatsApp, Excel, PDF and Teams. Slack is not mentioned[1] |
| Ready-made roles | Operations Agent and Lead Gen Agent first; Sales Rep Agent and AI Receptionist next | Orders, quotes, planning, customer service, document processing, invoicing and follow-up, reporting, HR admin and sales assistance[1] |
| Acts on its own? | Does the routine work and asks your approval before anything goes out | Uncertain tasks go to a review queue, where a person approves or corrects. Decisions are traceable and corrections feed back[1] |
| Changes after launch | We make them with you | Monthly follow-up after go-live[1] |
| Pricing model | Fixed price per agent | One-time onboarding plus a monthly fee that depends on task volume and complexity. No per-user licence[1] |
| Starting price | €500 a month per agent, excl. VAT | Monthly from €492. Onboarding €4,920 one-time, which can vary with integration complexity[1] |
| Minimum term and setup fee | 3 months minimum, no setup fee | Minimum term: Not published. Onboarding €4,920 one-time[1] |
| Free trial or self-serve | No free trial and not self-serve. It starts with a call | No free trial stated. The parallel-run trial period is part of onboarding[1] |
| Language and location | Dutch and Swedish founders, based in the Netherlands and Sweden | Dutch (Flemish) site. Aalst, Belgium[1] |
| Data and hosting | Agreed per customer | Servers and AI models run in the EU and data stays in Europe, on European cloud providers. ISO 27001 certification is in preparation. The exact hosting country is not published[1] |
| Best for | Owners who want an agent running without setting it up themselves | Belgian SMEs with order, quote and planning flows that must be written into an ERP[1] |
Humans In The Loop builds virtual employees for ambitious Belgian SMEs, mostly with order- and admin-heavy processes. Orders are read from email, PDF, Excel and WhatsApp and created in the ERP. Quotes link the sender to a customer and map lines to article numbers. Planning turns calendar appointments into work orders. Customer service classifies, routes and drafts replies. Its four founders are named on the site: Jens Scheerlinck, Frederik Van Den Berge, Philippe Vlaemminck and Siegert Dierickx.[1]
Where it shines is ERP depth and the review queue. It lists Exact Online, Odoo, Yuki, SAP, HubSpot, Salesforce, Shopify and about 260 more, and says any system with an API can be connected. Uncertain items wait for a person to approve or correct, and corrections feed back. Onboarding runs the agent alongside your staff on realistic cases first. The site shows client logos and three client testimonials, which are self-reported.[1]
AI Setups sets up ready-made AI agents for SMEs with 2 to 100 staff. We start with the Operations Agent, which answers questions about the business, writes reports and drafts routine work, and the Lead Gen Agent, which finds new B2B leads and writes personal emails every day.
We connect your systems, adapt the agent to how your business works and show your team how to use it. The agent works in Slack, WhatsApp and email, does the routine work and asks a person to approve before anything goes out. It costs €500 a month per agent, with a 3-month minimum and no setup fee.
Humans In The Loop does the setup in three phases: onboarding and validation, a trial period where the agent runs in parallel with your staff, then go-live. It advertises 'Live in 6 weken', an average of 6 weeks.[1]
AI Setups also does the setup. We connect the systems, adapt the agent to how the business works and show the team how to use it.
Humans In The Loop charges a one-time onboarding of €4,920, which can vary with integration complexity, and a monthly fee from €492 that depends on task volume and complexity. There is no per-user licence. Its page does not state how VAT is treated.[1]
AI Setups charges a flat €500 a month per agent, excl. VAT, with a 3-month minimum and no setup fee.
Humans In The Loop takes inputs via Outlook, Gmail, WhatsApp, Excel, PDF and Teams, and writes into your systems. Slack is not mentioned.[1]
AI Setups agents work in Slack, WhatsApp and email.
Both put a person in charge. At Humans In The Loop, uncertain tasks go to the team's review queue, where a person approves or corrects. Decisions are traceable and corrections feed back into the agent.[1]
AI Setups agents do the routine work and ask a person to approve before anything goes out.
Humans In The Loop says its servers and AI models run in the EU on European cloud providers and that data does not leave Europe. ISO 27001 certification is in preparation.[1]
At AI Setups, hosting and data are agreed per customer.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding[1] | €4,920 one-time | Can vary with integration complexity |
| Monthly fee[1] | From €492 a month | Depends on task volume and complexity; no per-user licence |
| AI Setups, one agent | €500 a month | Fixed price per agent, 3 months minimum, no setup fee |
Published prices only, as shown on the date above. AI Setups prices are excl. VAT.
Over 12 months, one agent at the 'from' price costs 4,920 + 12 × 492 = €10,824 at Humans In The Loop. The page does not state how VAT is treated, and the monthly fee rises with volume and complexity.[1]
One AI Setups agent for 12 months costs 12 × 500 = €6,000, with a 3-month minimum. Prices excl. VAT. The scope differs, since Humans In The Loop connects to your ERP, so compare what is included.
You do not have to choose one for everything. A company could run its order and quote flows through an ERP-connected agent and use an AI Setups agent for reports or lead follow-up in Slack or WhatsApp.
If you add AI Setups, start with the one process you rely on most. We set that agent up first; you keep your own tools and accounts.
We run the same agents in our own companies. The Operations Agent runs every day at Remodius, the ecommerce brand Jim runs, and the Lead Gen Agent runs our own outreach on Rasmus's tools ListFixer, MailSpot and Leadster.
Humans In The Loop is a Belgian company from Aalst that offers virtual employees: AI agents that run inside your systems and send uncertain items to a human review queue.
Humans In The Loop connects agents to your ERP for a €4,920 onboarding and a monthly fee from €492 that depends on volume. AI Setups sets up ready-made agents for a flat €500 a month per agent.
Choose Humans In The Loop if you are a Belgian SME with order, quote or planning flows that must be written into an ERP, and you want a staged onboarding and a review queue.
On 31 Oct 2026 its site showed a one-time onboarding of €4,920 and a monthly fee from €492, depending on task volume and complexity. There is no per-user licence.
Yes. An ERP-connected agent can handle orders and quotes, while an AI Setups agent does routine work such as reports and lead follow-up in Slack, WhatsApp or email.
Today our agents work in Slack, WhatsApp and email. Humans In The Loop lists Teams among its inputs.
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