Review: IDA

IDA is een digitaal bureau (web & platform) uit Kontich. Op de loonlijst staan ongeveer 25 voltijdse equivalenten. De opgegeven expertise is webdevelopment.

ContinuitySolid0,1 months of wages without income · median 2,8

littlea lot

Team stabilityLittle churn12,5% a year, roughly 1 in 8 · median 28,0%

stablea lot

SenioritySenior profile€ 78.757 per FTE, € 6.563 a month · median € 59.418

juniorsenior

Price levelMarket rate€ 51 per hour worked · median € 45

keentop

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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

2021202220232024

Latest year: € 2,16 mln gross margin, growth -9,2% against a sector median of +1,3%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

2021202220232024

IDASector median

EBITDA margin 5%, sector median 17,6%. Value-added coverage 1,05 (median 1,16). Value-added coverage sits in the sector-wide grey zone (0.95-1.15): context, not an alarm.

Below sector level

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 85.020

Median (2024) € 74.559

Against a payroll cost of € 78.757 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Above the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 51

Median (2024) € 45

42.515 hours worked, 1.674 per FTE. Against that sits € 47 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 4 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Above 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.

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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: 4,8 months (median 4,9 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 797.240.

Adequate buffer

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

Cash € 14.126. Liquidity ratio 2,19: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 54,7%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 31 days of supplier credit, sector median 48. The accounts were filed 234 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Filed late

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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

Late filing · 22 Aug 2025 · NBB
The annual accounts were filed after the statutory deadline. Over a third of the sector does this; rarely alarming in itself.
Late filing · 21 Aug 2024 · NBB
The annual accounts were filed after the statutory deadline. Over a third of the sector does this; rarely alarming in itself.

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What this agency does well

Profitable in every one of the last 4 years
Healthy working capital (current ratio 2,19)
Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 11,9× the capital contributed)
Turnover below the median (3,9%)

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

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All the figures

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

4 financial years, 2021 to 2024Result, staff and balance sheet

	2021	2022	2023	2024
Result
Gross margin	€ 1,89 mln	€ 2,06 mln+9,2%	€ 2,38 mln+15,3%	€ 2,16 mln-9,2%
EBITDA	€ 497.000	€ 282.137	€ 300.721	€ 106.910
EBITDA margin	26,3%	13,7%	12,6%	5%
Staff
FTE	22,8	26,4+15,8%	27,2+3%	25,4-6,6%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 82.895	€ 78.190	€ 87.477	€ 85.020
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 60.088	€ 66.577	€ 75.021	€ 78.757
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 418.000	€ 543.165	€ 737.976	€ 797.240
Cash	-	€ 24.213	€ 40.720	€ 14.126
Liquidity ratio	-	1,74	1,83	2,19

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 2024, filed on 22/08/2025. 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 27 Jul 2026. Sector medians based on financial year 2024: 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

Grote organisaties met Adobe-stack in de Benelux; enterprise digital experience

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

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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

€ 78.757

+33% versus the median

Team composition

25,4 VTE

22% women
78% men

€ 78.757

Median Digitaal bureau (web & platform) (2024) € 59.418All agencies (2024) € 59.129

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.

2

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

3,9%

Median for this type of agency (2024): 28,0%

Inflow 2024

3,9%

1,0 FTE in, 1,0 FTE out

Net team change

0,0 VTE

2021202220232024

Source: annual accounts and social reports (NBB), collected by IKAg. Financial year 2024. Calculations by IKAg; an indication, not financial advice. Sector medians based on financial year 2024: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.