How big is Bird Larsen?

Around 2 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Review: Bird Larsen

Q: Who are the clients of Bird Larsen?

Among others Delhaize, The Hub, Finehomes, Elan, Ken-Do-It, Alto Dental, ADG, Durieux, Cornelis & Partners, Surgi-Tec, 1st Quality, MYexpertise, ILA Studio, Hestor, iBadge.

Bird Larsen bestaat sinds 2021 en profileert zich als softwarebureau uit Gent. De bezetting ligt rond 2 VTE. De opgegeven expertise is webdevelopment. De klanten komen vooral uit kmo's die interne processen willen optimaliseren.

1

How this agency makes money

Revenue, margin and what an hour of work brings in. Everything on the earning side sits together here.

Revenue trendgross margin per financial year

2022202320242025

Latest year: € 106.319 gross margin, growth +7,4% against a sector median of +8,7%.

Growing slower than the sector

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

2022202320242025

Bird LarsenSector median

EBITDA margin 18,1%, sector median 23%. Value-added coverage 1,22 (median 1,19).

Healthy margin

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 53.159

Median (2025) € 82.528

Against a payroll cost of € 44.047 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Below the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 30

Median (2025) € 53

3.511 hours worked, 1.756 per FTE. Against that sits € 25 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 5 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Below the median

No hourly rate follows from this. Gross margin is already net of services and sundry goods, which mixes rebilled production with the agency's own overhead, and the accounts do not say how many hours were billable. Deriving a rate from this systematically understates it.

2

Can the agency take a hit

Buffer, cash position and payment behaviour side by side, so you can see where they disagree.

Bufferequity in months of payroll

Buffer: 6,8 months (median 6,7 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 48.809.

Adequate buffer

Cash positionAvailable cash, and whether it covers short-term debt

Cash € 63.017. Liquidity ratio 2,92: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 50,6%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 13 days of supplier credit, sector median 43. The accounts were filed 188 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays and files on time

3

Signals and strengths

Events from the CBE and the Official Gazette over the past 24 months, plus positive markers derived from the figures.

Continuity

No serious signals

Signals in the last 24 months

Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Registered office moved · 12 Feb 2025 · Staatsblad
The registered office relocated. Usually just a new office.

Click a signal for a plain-language explanation. Each signal is a fact from a public source, without the agency's own context. Best to ask them directly.

What this agency does well

Gross margin grew 3 years in a row
Profitable in every one of the last 4 years
Strong buffer: 6,8 months of payroll in equity
Stable team (no meaningful FTE loss)
Value-added per euro of payroll above the sector median (1,22)
Healthy working capital (current ratio 2,92)
Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 15,3× the capital contributed)
Comfortable cash position: 261 days of payroll

Each point is a fact from the filed annual accounts, measured against the same thresholds and sector medians as the signals above.

4

All the figures

Reference material, not a starting point. Expand it if you want to read the series yourself.

4 financial years, 2022 to 2025Result, staff and balance sheet

	2022	2023	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 37.602	€ 75.341+100,4%	€ 98.998+31,4%	€ 106.319+7,4%
EBITDA	€ 9.417	€ 21.782	€ 16.792	€ 19.219
EBITDA margin	25%	28,9%	17%	18,1%
Staff
FTE	0,8	1,3+62,5%	2,0+53,8%	2,00%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 47.002	€ 57.954	€ 49.499	€ 53.159
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 33.064	€ 40.362	€ 36.833	€ 44.047
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 8.828	€ 25.384	€ 36.771	€ 48.809
Cash	€ 21.293	€ 35.302	€ 52.224	€ 63.017
Liquidity ratio	1,69	1,40	2,69	2,92

Payroll cost per FTE comes from the social report where available, otherwise from the Remuneration line. Both are gross costs including employer contributions.

What this factsheet does not know

How good the work is. Figures do not measure creativity, strategy or chemistry.
How the client portfolio is spread. Concentration is not in the accounts.
Freelancers and subcontractors are not in the FTE figures. An agency with 40 staff may in practice run with 70 people.
The figures cover financial year 2025, filed on 07/07/2026. At a fast-moving agency reality today may differ.

Based on publicly filed annual accounts (NBB) and official records (CBE, Belgian Official Gazette). An indication, not financial advice. Sector medians calculated on 2 Nov 2026. Sector medians based on financial year 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.

What the agency actually does 1 services

Digital Experience & Tech

Website development

Sector focus

Real estate & constructionRetail & e-commerceHealth & pharmaB2B services

Publicly known clients

Delhaize, The Hub, Finehomes, Elan, Ken-Do-It, Alto Dental, ADG, Durieux, Cornelis & Partners, Surgi-Tec, 1st Quality, MYexpertise, ILA Studio, Hestor, iBadge

Based on IKAg research and public sources. Incomplete or outdated? Let us know.

1

People 5 people mapped

This is first a build crew — 3 of 5 are developers. Within that core, Backend, Full Stack and Frontend stand out. The titles skew top-heavy: lots of seniority, few juniors — you're mostly buying experience. A specialist, not a generalist: the expertise is narrow but deep.

AS

Alexander Synhaeve

Partner

ED

Emiel De Cuyper

Partner

TD

Thibault Denis

Founder

BV

Bjorn Van Hoorde

Full sack programmer

TS

Thibaut Santy

Lead programmer

Based on public profiles. Something wrong? Let us know.

2

Seniors or juniors?

Payroll cost per FTE is the best public proxy for a team's experience level. Higher is not automatically better, but it says something about who sits at the table.

Payroll cost per FTE

€ 44.047

-40% versus the median

Team composition

2,0 FTE

€ 44.047

Median Softwarebureau (2025) € 72.781All agencies (2025) € 62.294

Read with care. Directors and partners invoicing through a management company are not in the payroll cost. At small agencies this skews the picture downwards considerably.

3

Will your team stay?

Inflow and outflow from the social report. This series only counts people on the payroll: freelancers who invoice do not appear in it. A low figure therefore means two very different things, a stable permanent team or a small core with heavy outsourcing. A high figure usually points to short contracts. Compare only within the same type of agency.

Exits 2024

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Median for this type of agency (2025): 29,1%

Inflow 2024

0,0%

2022202320242025

Figures for financial year 2024: in 2025 this agency published no inflow or outflow.

Source: annual accounts and social reports (NBB), collected by IKAg. Financial year 2025. Calculations by IKAg; an indication, not financial advice. Sector medians based on financial year 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.