About

Small on purpose.Built the way we redesign yours.

We translate a company's goals into the roles, structure, and hiring plan that deliver them. Led personally, staffed per engagement with senior operators and AI builders assembled around the goal.

Track record

20+ yrs
inside companies growing faster than they knew how to handle
Unicorns
Watched grow into unicorns from the inside, across operating and advisory seats.
10×
headcount growth designed and sustained inside a three-year window
Global
20+ countries across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Where we've been

Some of these, from the inside. Others, alongside.

Backbase
City of Amsterdam
Fourthline
Mambu
Solid Ventures
Uberall
V Capital
Backbase
City of Amsterdam
Fourthline
Mambu
Solid Ventures
Uberall
V Capital

Founder

Sebastiaan van den Ouweelen

Amsterdam · since 2021

Spent two decades inside companies that grew faster than their structure allowed. Saw the same pattern repeat: more people, more layers, and the system that once worked quietly becoming the thing that slows every decision down.

Built FlowCrafting to translate a company's goals into the roles, structure, and hiring plan that can actually deliver them, in that order, not as separate fixes bolted on after the fact. AI is part of the stack, but only where it removes real friction. The rest is judgment, standards, and a practice that ships working results.

This is the same translation, from goal to structure to the right hire, refined over two decades of doing it inside fast-growing companies, not a framework built afterward to explain it.

Alongside FlowCrafting, the same thinking gets applied to a different system: Haeven, a prevention-first family health platform helping parents catch problems early instead of late. Same conviction, different domain. Earlier, CNTR.ai explored the same idea for hiring and performance decisions.

Beliefs

Four convictions.

  1. 01People × system.A company is its people multiplied by the system they work in. Get either wrong; the other can't compensate.
  2. 02Less structure, more clarity.Most companies need less structure than they have, and more clarity than they've ever had.
  3. 03Standards, not supervision.The best teams run on standards and trust. Only works when roles and decisions are deliberately designed.
  4. 04Hiring is the last step.Hiring is the last step of design, not the first response to pain.

How the practice is built

01

Led personally.

Every engagement is run by Sebastiaan. No account layer, no handoff to juniors.

02

Staffed per goal.

Senior operators for the domain, AI builders for the internal tooling. Assembled for the engagement, not carried on the payroll.

03

Working results.

Roles restructured, decisions rewired, hiring stood up. Delivered inside the team, not as a deck from outside it.

30 minutes.We'll tell you if it's a design problem.