Robin Everaars
Co-founder and Chief Data Architect at HOIST IT, building portable, sovereign data platforms for regulated organisations. His research on cognitive lock-in shapes how HOIST IT helps clients break free of it.
Robin Everaars is co-founder and Chief Data Architect at HOIST IT. Before starting the company in 2025, he spent years building data platforms in the field, including the Carabine framework: a configuration-driven approach that delivered a 30× efficiency gain over hand-built pipelines.
His Nyenrode research on cognitive lock-in underpins HOIST IT’s view that lock-in lives in habits as much as in contracts, and that phased sovereignty breaks both. He writes here about what it takes to own data in the senses that matter: the right to possess, use, and dispose of it, across hardware, software and data.
