# About

Source: https://dinand.com/about/
Author: Dinand Tinholt

> Born in the Netherlands, at home in Chicago, with a lifelong habit of asking one more question.

Ideas across time · About

# About

Born in the Netherlands, at home in Chicago, with a lifelong habit of asking one more question.

## A life between worlds.

I’m Dinand Tinholt, an AI consultant, researcher, writer and builder. Originally from the Netherlands, I now call Chicago home.

My work at Capgemini brings me into conversations about how organizations use AI and data, and how those choices affect the people doing the work. I’m especially interested in decision intelligence and the relationship between human judgment and increasingly capable systems.

Beyond technology, my interests lead me into history, literature and philosophy. Old books and maps share shelf space with ideas about the future. I find inspiration in art, from Warhol’s repetitions to the questions Banksy leaves on a wall.

This is a place to bring those interests together, through essays, research, things I build and notes from what I read.

All writings and statements on this site, and in my publications elsewhere, are my own. They are not attributable to Capgemini.

![Portrait of Dinand Tinholt](https://dinand.com/assets/portrait.jpg)

A few coordinates

Home: Chicago, Illinois
Roots: The Netherlands
Work: AI Center of Excellence Lead
Capgemini Americas
On the desk: AI research, old maps,
books and a fountain pen

[Explore the research ](https://dinand.com/research/)

This personal site explores ideas and work in progress. Views expressed here are personal.

[LinkedIn/in/tinholt*Where most of my articles land first*](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinholt)[Medium@tinholt*The longer essays and the research write-ups*](https://medium.com/@tinholt)[GitHub@dtinholt*Public code goes here when it is ready*](https://github.com/dtinholt)[Threads@tinholt*Quick thoughts that have not become essays yet*](https://www.threads.net/@tinholt)[Instagram@tinholt*Photos from places I have been*](https://www.instagram.com/tinholt/)

A body of work

## Five years of thinking in public.

Writing began with data culture in 2022 and has moved, year by year, toward agents, oversight and simulation.

132: Published articles

28: Research studies

8: Systems & instruments

3: Recent public appearances

Articles per year

2022: 1

2023: 3

2024: 6

2025: 69

2026: 53

Counts include only articles with a known year.

What the writing returns to

- [Oversight & accountability](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=oversight-accountability#archive)19
- [The agentic enterprise](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=the-agentic-enterprise#archive)36
- [Data, context & memory](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=data-context-memory#archive)13
- [Models & the AI market](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=models-the-ai-market#archive)21
- [Work, economy & the future](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=work-economy-the-future#archive)23
- [Retail & consumer goods](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=retail-consumer-goods#archive)11
- [Ideas & culture](https://dinand.com/publications/?theme=ideas-culture#archive)9

Most recently

## Latest from the desk.

[The complete archive ](https://dinand.com/publications/#archive)

Oct 25, 2026LinkedIn

### [Chicago in Five Breaths](https://dinand.com/side-projects/chicago-in-five-breaths/)

A 51-second watercolor film of Chicago made with AI, and what an $11.65 video bill changes about exploring a creative idea.

Ideas & culture

Oct 21, 2026dinand.com

### [Power, with poise](https://dinand.com/publications/power-with-poise/)

A second Maison Agent experiment presents the AI control plane as a fragrance ad, with one gold ring gathering black ribbons and a single sentence beneath it.

The agentic enterprise

Oct 20, 2026Medium + LinkedIn

### [Engineering the Synthetic Organization](https://dinand.com/essays/engineering-the-synthetic-organization/)

Thirteen disciplines of AI engineering in four layers, all reporting to one control plane, and the five trust disciplines that decide whether an agent can be left alone.

The agentic enterprise

Oct 11, 2026dinand.com

### [Who Checks the Agents](https://dinand.com/research/who-checks-the-agents/)

The lab’s work on AI delegation and oversight in one film, with each published number shown beside the limits its campaign states.

Oversight & accountability

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Site guide for AI agents: https://dinand.com/llms.txt