IT consultancy
We reinforce IT teams across the Benelux with experienced consultants and carefully screened freelancers. No stack of CVs, but the colleague who fits your team.
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The difference
Everyone screened
Every consultant and freelancer is screened before they start with you.
The right match, not a pile
Forwarding ten CVs is easy. We look for the person who fits your team and context.
One consultant, 40+ experts behind them
If your consultant gets stuck somewhere, the knowledge house stands ready with the answer.
We build software ourselves
From analysis to maintenance: we know the pitfalls and help behind the scenes in ways other consultancy firms cannot.
We grow together
Your success is our success. So we help you with more than just a strong IT profile.
Trusted by organisations with critical digital questions
The trade-off
Open a vacancy or bring in a consultant? Both choices can be right, but they bring in something different. A direct hire delivers exactly one head, and the recruitment, onboarding and follow-up are yours.
With IT consultancy from dotNET lab, a knowledge house stands behind that one person. If your solution architect gets stuck on a security question, a cloud migration or a data model, they bring in the colleague with exactly that specialisation. The knowledge house builds software itself from analysis to maintenance, with development, security, cloud and identity under one roof. You pay for one profile and get that full critical eye with it.
IT consultancy fits when the need is now, the expertise does not fill a full-time role, or you are not yet sure which profile solves the problem.
Hiring fits when the role permanently belongs to your core and you have the time to recruit, onboard and follow up yourself.
40+
in-house experts in the knowledge house
1,100+
screened freelancers in the network
Positioning
Extra hands are no longer scarce; AI provides those too. Scarce is someone who understands, thinks along and translates.
So you do not get a CV to figure out on your own, but a colleague who understands the challenge with you.
Why dotNET lab
dotNET lab is a software company itself. We build solutions from analysis and development to maintenance, so we know the reality and the pitfalls of a software project from our own experience.
So our role does not stop once a consultant has started.
Among ourselves we sometimes call that “being in the same boat” : we stay involved, follow up and think along when needed.
Not from the sidelines, but as a partner of your team, with the same goal: making sure people, technology and collaboration keep working in the long run.
one vacancy, dozens of CVs that do not fit
only the best matches
We only put forward profiles we would hire ourselves. No promise of perfection, but of experience and commitment to see it through together.
We build software from A to Z. That lets us assess expertise on substance and spot sooner where an assignment could get stuck technically.
Technical fit, the match with your team and practical matters such as location and travel time take priority over forwarding quickly.
We align on both sides, with you and with the consultant or freelancer, until form, duration and expectations work for everyone.
After the start we stay involved. If something gets stuck, we work along behind the scenes and use our own experience of building software to support you.
Profiles
The concrete fill-in depends on the request. These are the profiles asked for most often.
Our centre of gravity: .NET, C#, Azure and everything around it, the stack we owe our name to.
Something needs building? These profiles write production code from week one.
Looking for technical leadership? Solution and application architects draw the lines and guard them.
Is the translation from business to IT running rough? These profiles bring structure to demand and delivery.
Does your platform have to grow along? Cloud, DevOps and data profiles lay the foundation.
Does security have to become demonstrable? These specialists make it concrete, up to and including identity.
What we offer
Sometimes one consultant is enough, sometimes a composed crew: at an SME without its own IT team or in an established IT department. Whatever form it takes, we are ready for your project.
Support in sharpening profile requests, technical expectations, architecture choices or project approach.
Carefully screened freelancers from a network of more than 1,100 profiles, backed by the dotNET lab matching approach and soon the IT4ITservices platform.
Experienced professionals who work in your team or project, temporarily or structurally.
A targeted combination of profiles for projects or assignments that need several kinds of expertise together.
When it helps
Organisations usually come to us when more is needed than quickly forwarding a profile. These are the six situations we see most often.
A project has to move forward, but the team is at capacity. Then we look for reinforcement that can land quickly and knows clearly what is expected.
For example around .NET, cloud, security, architecture, DevOps, analysis, integration or identity. We look at which knowledge is needed and how to put it to work.
A CV says a lot, but not everything. Technical fit, communication, independence and team context matter at least as much.
Sometimes a single profile is not enough. Then a small combination of expertise can work better than loose reinforcement.
We do not only supply people. We also understand the technical context they have to work in.
We take on the training, coaching and personal growth of our people ourselves, among others via dotNET academy. You get a strong colleague, not the care around them.
Sometimes consultancy is simply not the right form for the question.
Track record
dotNET lab is the consultancy brand of a group that has been building software and reinforcing IT teams since 2000. That history shapes how we look at expertise.
25+ years
of experience in software and IT consultancy
Our people have been building software for Belgian organisations since 2000. Enough technology cycles to know which choices hold up and which will be ripped out again in three years.
2000
BIT IT Consultancy
The start of the group, and of the experience we put to work today.
2013
Bitconsult
BIT IT Consultancy continues under the trade name Bitconsult.
2016
IT4IT Services
Second company within the group, focused on IT services.
2020
The dotNET lab name
The consultancy brand we present ourselves under today.
2023
dotNET lab holding BV
The current legal entity, incorporated on 23 January 2023.
Every freelancer in our network is screened before they reach a client: technical depth, experience and way of working. Only then do we look at whether the profile fits your request.
Via dotNET academy we take on the training, coaching and growth of our consultants ourselves.
Whoever starts with you gets to know your processes, your people and your habits. The right questions only come once you understand the story behind the work.
Awarded by external parties, not by ourselves. This list grows with the team.
Our approach
We do not believe in forwarding as many CVs as possible. A good match starts earlier.
We listen to the context, the technical environment, the team dynamics, the timing and the expectations.
Together we determine which knowledge, experience and maturity are really needed.
We search in our own team of 40+ experts and in a network of more than 1,100 screened freelancers. Permanent, freelance or a combination: the choice follows from the request.
We look at technical quality, experience, communication and independence, but also at the match with your team and practical matters such as location and travel time.
A good match does not stop at the start. We stay involved where that is useful.
Platform
For freelance matching, dotNET lab is starting up its own platform: IT4ITservices. Today we already work with more than 1,100 screened freelancers, and that network grows every month.
The platform will structure freelancer expertise, availability and preferences better. For clients, dotNET lab remains the point of contact: the quality promise, context analysis and follow-up stay with us.
IT4ITservices will support the freelance matching. dotNET lab remains the technical partner for the client.
Who it is for
We work for organisations that need technical capacity or expertise and value quality and fit: from SMEs without their own IT team, to scale-ups growing fast, to larger organisations and public institutions with an established IT department.
For an SME we are often the experienced IT partner who thinks along; for larger organisations we deliver targeted reinforcement in a team that is already running. The common denominator is not the size, but the need for expertise that fits the context.
We work from Westerlo for clients across Flanders. In practice that is mostly organisations in the province of Antwerp, the Kempen, Limburg and the Antwerp-Brussels-Ghent axis, on site or hybrid.
Related
What often comes up alongside the same question.
FAQ
IT consultancy is bringing in external IT expertise that works inside your own organisation: not on your payroll, but fully part of your team, your project and your technical environment. The question that really matters: is it about advice, about execution, or about both? That determines which profile you need.
An IT consultant brings in knowledge and experience your team is missing, temporarily or structurally. That can be hands-on (developing, analysing, testing, automating) or advisory (testing architecture choices, preparing a migration, sharpening a technical approach). In most assignments the two mix: someone who builds along and guards the direction at the same time.
That depends on the profile, the seniority, the duration and how specialised the assignment is. We do not work with a fixed rate card, because a junior developer and a solution architect with fifteen years of experience are not comparable. Once the request is sharp, we make a concrete proposal. That sharpening costs you nothing. The notice period is typically one month and negotiable at the start: a collaboration continues because it works, not because the contract forces it.
Yes. Architecture and technical leadership are a core of what we offer: lead developers, technical leads, application architects and solution architects, with a centre of gravity on .NET and Azure. Such a request often starts with sharpening what the role actually has to solve; we help with that too.
Yes. They are different names for what we do: experienced IT profiles that reinforce your team, temporarily or structurally. Whether you call it IT staffing, staff augmentation, team extension or secondment, the approach stays the same.
Neither in the classic sense. We are an IT consultancy firm that builds software itself, from analysis to maintenance. We select on technical fit, stay involved on substance during the assignment and do not forward profiles we could not assess ourselves.
Yes. IT consultancy, ICT consultancy and IT consulting are used interchangeably and mean the same thing. We do not make that distinction.
We work from Westerlo, in the province of Antwerp, for clients across Flanders. On site or hybrid, depending on what the assignment requires.
