Dev candidate — Spibel founder (Amsterdam)
⚠️ Name unknown — never spoken in the 2026-06-28 intro call transcript. Rename this page once captured. Identifiers: founder of Spibel (voice-note app) and co-runs Keuspodium; met vincent-mcleese via Dennis (ex-Accenture contact of Vincent’s); lives next to Noorderpark, Amsterdam-Noord.
Current truth
- First candidate on the co-located Amsterdam dev track (2026-06-dev-strategy-quan); intro call with Vincent 2026-06-28 (Dutch, ~1h). Sourced via Dennis, who forwarded the Ghostteam site.
- Background: informatica (CS) started 2019, 5 years incl. entrepreneurship + top-level rowing; thesis = photogrammetric 3D modelling of high-voltage pylons (1,000+ 120MP photos → inspection-grade model; graded 9; pushed the cutting-edge topic through against his professor by reading ~200 papers in a week; abandoned commercially when drone-proximity regulation made the approach obsolete). Then freelance websites/apps/ERP for startups; data scraping at Cultuur Connects (180k+ NL events; dedup via vector-embedding similarity thresholds escalating to expensive models/Perplexity for edge cases; location matching via an alternative Google-Maps-style API).
- Own projects (both deliberately low-maintenance, so he has real time): Spibel — React Native voice-note/structuring app (RevenueCat payments, OpenAI API backend), aimed at AI-newcomers, marketing-led with co-founder Luca; Keuspodium — study-choice platform for prospective students (podcast snippets + personality-test funnel; his companion runs the year-long university sales trials). Long-term arc he describes: personal-agent ambitions (Jarvis since Iron Man 2008), needs a running business first.
- Working style (self-described): driven by cutting-edge work — becomes a workaholic when activated (3h sleep during thesis); dislikes explaining basics to non-tech/older audiences; debugs by tracing datapoints to source; unblocks by calling smart people in his network or stripping his own assumptions with AI. Uses Cursor (no Codex experience); no MCP-building experience yet — researched it, estimates ~2 weeks to get productive.
- Motivation fit
[idea]: says he wants a startup environment + learning over cashing (turned down/deprioritized a lucrative freelance website quote); needs income to fund Spibel marketing while keeping momentum on his own projects. Vincent’s stated filter on the call: won’t work with people in it purely for the cash. - Agreed next steps: Vincent discusses with Elliot (+ possible joint call), then a paid half-day working trial on something small; if the klik is good → short-term contract, open to longer.
Open questions
- His actual name (and Spibel/Keuspodium URLs) — capture at next touch.
- Availability/rate expectations — not discussed on the intro call.
- Does the paid half-day happen, and with what outcome?
Timeline
- [2026-06-28] (call — Vincent, Dutch-language intro) Full intro/screening call: background, projects, motivation, mini interview questions (debugging approach, vague-task first-hour approach — he’d open Cursor, design the cheapest test to validate the metric idea, run one test in hour one). Vincent pitched Ghostteam (agent discoverability = SEO for tools; gigabytes of Claude run data daily; monday.com as early user with a broken prompt→connector link; retainer dream; rebrand planned because the current name can’t move with the company). Agreed the paid-half-day-first structure above.