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Knowledge

The VBS knowledge base

400 pages to learn, calculate and choose for yourself, on websites, SEO, software and AI.

Guides for the big decisions, tools to run the numbers yourself, short answers to what business owners ask us, terms, comparisons, templates and news. All free, no email address.

For each kind you see below what it holds, how many there are and where most readers start.

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Guides

In-depth guides on costs, choices and approach

All 123 guides

Custom software development cost

An honest price for custom work starts with scope: what the software must do, for whom, and what it talks to.

Tools

Calculate and test, result at once

All 29 tools

EU AI Act compliance checker

You enterA chatbot for EU customers

You getTransparency

58

Questions

The answer in the first sentence, with the exceptions

All 58 questions
Yes, if

Is Peppol mandatory in Belgium?

Yes, if you are a VAT-registered business established in Belgium invoicing another Belgian VAT-registered business: since 1 January 2026 that invoice must be a structured e-invoice, in practice sent over Peppol.

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Glossary

Every term in one sentence, by field and A to Z

All 93 terms

Headless CMS

A headless CMS is a content management system without its own front end: you manage content in it, and a separately built website or app fetches that content through an API.

Comparisons

Two options side by side, and when to choose which

All 21 comparisons

Nearshore or Offshore

The difference is not kilometres. It is the hours you share, the law you share, and how much talking the work needs.

Templates

Filled-in templates to download

All 14 templates
Software development contract template filled in: scope, changes, ownership of the code, repository and governing law for a fictional planning platform

Research

Our own measurements with open data

All 7 studies

ADA website lawsuits

Federal website accessibility cases rose again in 2025 after two years of decline, and moved south from New York to Florida.

News

What changes and when it takes effect

All 30 news pieces
2December 2026

AI-generated content labelling: the EU rule for every generative tool from 2 December 2026

2 December 2026

Blog

Practical articles, trends and lessons from our work

All 25 articles

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