The local business fabric
Few cities of this size have a technology profile as sharp as Leuven's. KU Leuven and imec sustain a deeptech ecosystem — semiconductors, sensors, medical technology, AI — that spreads physically across the Arenberg Science Park in Heverlee, the Haasrode Researchpark and the bio-incubators. The companies there rarely need a conventional online shop; they need a credible English-language shop window, a careers page that can actually convince engineers, and sometimes a dashboard that makes their research data usable. Alongside that, Leuven remains an ordinary Flemish market town, with AB InBev as its large employer, dense hospitality around the Oude Markt and the Vaartkom, and hundreds of independent traders. Those two audiences come to us with completely different questions.