Sources

Where our figures come from

Every number on this site traces back to research you can read yourself. What we can't back up, we don't present as fact. Examples and illustrations are marked as such on the page itself.

  1. Visma, with Kantar (2025)

    Research among more than two thousand business owners into how small companies spend their time. More than four in ten Dutch owners spend half of a normal working week or more on administrative tasks; one in ten reaches eighty percent or more.

    Used on: Home, What we automate · report on accountant.nl

  2. Exact MKB Barometer 2025, conducted by Markteffect

    Annual research among Dutch companies with 2 to 250 employees. Nine in ten face late payments. On average 14.2 percent of invoices are paid late and 2.4 percent never arrive at all, costing owners thirteen thousand euros of revenue a year.

    Used on: Home, What we automate, Who it's for · Exact press release

  3. Statistics Netherlands, CBS (2025 and 2026)

    Figures on the use of AI technology by Dutch companies. Of micro companies with two to ten employees, 13.8 percent used at least one AI technology in 2025, against 29.8 percent of small and mid-sized firms and 66.2 percent of large ones. Companies that considered AI but did not proceed name lack of experience as the main reason.

    Used on: Home, Who it's for · CBS report

  4. Atradius, B2B payment trends Netherlands 2025

    Research into payment behaviour between businesses. Around 46 percent of all business invoices in the Netherlands are paid late and the average payment term has risen to 45 days, where the statutory norm is thirty.

    Used on: What we automate · Atradius explainer

  5. PwC, research into regulatory burden (2024)

    The cost of complying with laws and regulations reached 16.8 billion euros in 2024, close to one and a half percent of gross domestic product. More than nine billion of that falls on business.

    Used on: Who it's for · report on accountantweek.nl

Research by software vendors such as Visma, Exact and Atradius covers their own market. That doesn't make the figures useless, but it does make them interested parties: they benefit from administration being seen as a problem. The CBS and PwC figures stand apart from that. We mention it so you can weigh the numbers yourself.