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Gopf is a market intelligence and competitive intelligence platform for manufacturers – B2B software plus a team. We find, size and continuously monitor the markets you could grow into. Every candidate market is scored on five numbers – market size, growth rate, competition density, freight cost and government funding – so market analysis, market entry decisions and competitor monitoring run on data you can trace to its source, not on guesswork.

Yes – with a focus on markets rather than marketing. Gopf measures competition density for every market on your map: who is already there and how crowded it is. Once you've chosen a market, we keep monitoring its competitive landscape, so you see when new players enter or a niche tips from open to crowded. What we don't do: track your competitors' ads, social media or press releases. Our competitive intelligence serves one decision – where to grow next.

Yes – that's step four of our framework, and it never stops. Chosen markets are screened and monitored against the same rulebook: size, growth, competition, freight, funding. When something shifts – a market accelerates, a competitor moves in, a funding programme ends – you see it on your live map instead of finding out a year later. Market monitoring at Gopf is a subscription, not a report.

That's the core of it. For every candidate market we answer the market entry questions that matter: how big is it (market sizing), how fast is it growing, who is already competing, what import and freight costs eat into your margin, and what government funding you could claim to enter. The result is an opportunity map you can read at a glance – and defend in front of your board.

We're a tool and a team – not a consultancy. Classic market research delivers a slide deck after months, for CHF 50,000–100,000+. Gopf delivers a working opportunity map in days, at roughly a tenth of the cost, with every number traceable to its source – and the map stays live and monitored after the project ends. We also don't do strategic consulting: we give you the decision support – the data, the map, the monitoring – and the strategy call stays yours.

Ask a chatbot twice and you get two different answers, drawn from a few dozen websites a search happened to visit. That's fine for inspiration – not for a market decision. Gopf continuously monitors thousands of sources, filters them for credibility, and gives you the same reproducible, traceable answer every time. Your questions and data are never used to train anyone's models, and nothing leaves our infrastructure. It's the reliable, auditable layer a general AI chat can't be.

From the open web, at scale – with our own scraping infrastructure. We send thousands of niche keywords to multiple search engines twice a day, score every source for credibility, and keep a full archived copy of everything we collect. That's what makes every number on your map traceable: years later you can still open the original source, even if the website has disappeared. We can also build custom scrapers for specific sources and connect your proprietary data – from systems like SAP or feeds like Bloomberg – via secure APIs.

All data lives in Switzerland, in a Google Cloud data center in Zurich (europe-west6). Every customer runs on their own isolated instance – no customer can ever see another's data. AI models process your data with zero retention: nothing is stored by them or reused for training. Gopf is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant.

Manufacturing and industrial companies in Europe and the US that have growth on their strategy – from owner-led machine builders and engineer-led mid-sized manufacturers to strategy, business development, product management, R&D and market & competitive intelligence teams in larger groups. If your job is to decide where the company grows next, the map was built for you.

We start with a small proof of value on your real market questions, so you see the fit before committing. From there, an initial project sets up your markets, and a flat yearly licence keeps the platform and the monitoring running – with unlimited users. All in, you typically land at roughly a tenth of a comparable strategy consulting engagement, with no surprise invoices.

You see a first working opportunity map within days, and a full proof of value takes two to three weeks. Onboarding a new user takes 10–20 minutes – there's no steep learning curve. From the moment you choose a market, monitoring runs continuously, and within a few months the system is fully calibrated to your business.

Our name for the framework behind the map: Understand, Map, Choose, Screen & monitor. In ordinary terms it combines market analysis, market sizing, competitive analysis and continuous market monitoring into one repeatable rulebook for choosing your next market – strategic intelligence you can act on, not a one-off study.