Independent practice · Anton van den Berg

Make your operations feel lighter.

Senior-led automation and AI delivery for growing teams. Find the friction, build the right fix, and get it into people’s hands.

Fixed-fee packagesFounder-led deliveryUS, UK/EU, LatAm & South Africa

Workflow snapshot · example

New client onboarding

A clearer path from signed to ready

10workflows mapped
90day action plan
Current handoffs3 manual steps
Form submitted→Details re-entered→Team notified

Automated route: one capture, records created, team alerted

A senior partner for the work that keeps a business moving.

Personally deliveredCompliance-awareBuilt around your processClear handover

The best place to begin

A clear view of what to automate, in five days.

The AI & Digital Opportunity Scan replaces vague ideas with a short list of worthwhile opportunities and a plan your team can act on.

MAPYour top 10 workflows, as they work today
PRIORITISEAn opportunity register ranked by effort and ROI
MOVEA practical 90-day roadmap

One fixed fee. A useful next step.

US / UK / Europe$2,900
Latin America$1,950
South AfricaR18,500
Explore the scan

50% to begin, 50% on delivery. Regional pricing reflects where your team is based.

Small steps, real progress

From a first conversation to work your team can own.

No black-box handoff. You see the work as it takes shape, and the people who will use it help shape it.

  1. Discovery

    Understand your goals, current tools and the day-to-day work behind the request.

  2. Prototype in 5 days

    Map a priority workflow and make the first practical direction visible quickly.

  3. Weekly sprints

    Build in focused increments, with regular demos and decisions along the way.

  4. Handover

    Document the setup, walk your team through it and leave a clear path to maintain it.

Useful automation, carefully chosen

Less chasing. Fewer repeated steps.

Good automation makes a process more dependable. It gives people time back without making the business harder to understand.

  • Approvals and exception handling
  • Client, staff and member onboarding
  • Invoicing and reconciliation
  • Management reporting
  • Document generation
  • WhatsApp and email intake
  • AI document reading

Experience across the whole system

Complex work, made useful for the people doing it.

A selection of the kinds of challenges Anton has worked through. Client and employer names are kept private.

Digital transformation

Three connected platforms for a national regulator

Mobile app, content administration and device-access management, designed as parts of one service.

Business rules

A configurable rules engine

Complex tariff, billing and evidence-validation rules brought into a system teams could update and trust.

Member experience

WhatsApp membership and rewards

A membership bot with unique QR codes, issued monthly and redeemable at the point of use.

Strategy & investment

Plans that make the opportunity legible

Business plans and investor packs for a national sports platform and a large member-based organisation.

Privacy & response

POPIA compliance and breach response

Practical experience with South Africa’s data-protection requirements and incident response, closely aligned to GDPR.

Leadership

Organisational leadership in practice

Anton runs an organisational leadership programme for MIT and Rotman School of Management.

Anton personally leads each engagement, with a small bench of independent developers when the work needs it.

Free checklist

10 processes to automate this quarter

A practical checklist to help your team spot repetitive work and choose what to fix first.

Your email app opens with the request ready to send to antonvdb84@gmail.com.

A personal practice, not a sales layer

Work directly with Anton.

BergStep Digital is Anton van den Berg’s independent consultancy. He brings senior digital and operations experience to every engagement and stays involved from first discovery to handover.

For larger builds, a small bench of freelance developers adds capacity under his direction. The work stays practical: understand the process, agree what success looks like, then build and transfer something your team can use.

Free · 30 minutes · No preparation needed

Bring one process that is taking too much time.

On an AI Opportunity Call we talk through how the work gets done today and whether a scan, a sprint or a different next step makes sense.