The local business fabric
Louvain-la-Neuve compares to no other Walloon town: it was built from scratch in the 1970s, in the Lauzelle woods, to house the French-speaking Catholic university after the split from Leuven. The result is a pedestrian town raised on a concrete slab, whose registered population of just over ten thousand swells and empties with the academic calendar, and whose economy revolves around UCLouvain and its science park — the first in Belgium. The business fabric here exists nowhere else in the region: two-person academic spin-offs, biotech, imaging, materials and scientific-software companies, most of them born in a laboratory and funded round by round. These firms are not looking for an online brochure; they need a product — a back office, an API, a dashboard that a first customer or an investor will actually use. The rest of the town, with its shops on the slab, practices, non-profits and conference venues, runs on a completely different clock: the academic year.
How we work here
With a spin-off or a lab, we start by separating what belongs to research from what belongs to the product: we do not rewrite your algorithm, we build everything around it — interface, user accounts, billing, API, cloud deployment — so that someone other than its authors can use it. We work in short increments, because young companies here usually face a hard deadline: an investor demo, a grant milestone, a first pilot customer. The code and the technical documentation stay yours, with no lock-in — a condition academic teams rightly insist on. That product layer is custom work, and it now has a stated starting point: €99/month over 12 months, or €79/month on a 24-month commitment. For the shops and non-profits on the slab, our €29/month and €59/month plans — same commitment terms — cover the website without tying up a budget. We come and scope on site — Brussels to LLN is 35 minutes on the E411, or a direct train via Ottignies — and the free 24-hour quote sets the exact price of the scope we mark out together.
