Built and run in Antwerp.
AI Smith works from Simone's Kitchen, where the first Hub still helps run the kitchen: rotas, bookings, stock and menus.
The building is more than an office. By day, the ground floor is the forge, where people come to meet and work. By night, it is the restaurant, with rooms upstairs for staying over.
We are preparing an offer for remote teams to come together in person, with meeting spaces, food and accommodation in one place. Meet, work, eat, sleep. Full circle.
Alistair Smith, founder.
Alistair builds, runs and supports the Hubs. AI Smith brings together his experience in systems engineering, finance and running businesses.
He started as a systems engineer at Busch Consulting in Honolulu, with MCSE, Cisco and CompTIA A+ qualifications. He then spent some years as a financial advisor at Lloyds TSB in London.
Since then, he has run venues and wholefood businesses in London, Amsterdam and Antwerp. Six countries and several industries taught him the same thing each time: the back office is where the time goes.
The Hubs are what he built to give some of it back, starting with the tools he needed to run Simone's Kitchen. That practical experience shapes what AI Smith builds and how Alistair looks after the organisations using it.
Tools shaped by real work.
A kitchen is where this began. The same approach supports different kinds of work, from client projects to programmes and bookings.
The first users
The chefs, general manager and volunteers at Simone's Kitchen use the first Hub in their daily work. Their experience helps shape what we improve. Meet the team at Simone's Kitchen.
The Forge Academy is part of the Hub offer: a place for your team to learn to use it. See how we build and care for the software.