Act Before the Market Moves.

Real-time strategic intelligence for manufacturing leaders – so you can anticipate shifts, seize opportunities, and lead with confidence.

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Your Advantage

From Context to Confidence in Days, Not Months

A structured approach to continuous strategic awareness.

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Strategic Context

A 30-minute session captures your competitive landscape, strategic questions, and the decisions that matter most. We start with your priorities – not generic market categories.

Custom Intelligence Profile
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Continuous Monitoring

Our AI scans your competitive landscape using custom data pipelines – trade publications, patents, regulatory filings, supplier moves, regional news – filtered through your strategic context.

Automated Intelligence Feeds
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Strategic Delivery

Actionable intelligence delivered to Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or email. Every insight links to its original source – fully traceable, ready for board presentations.

Decision-Ready Insights

Trusted by 30+ manufacturing leaders across DACH

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Precision Manufacturing Industrial Automation Capital Equipment Automotive Supply Chain Medical Devices Aerospace Components Tool & Die Metalworking Plastics & Composites Electronics Manufacturing

Strategic Signals

Intelligence That Shapes Your Next Move

Every signal is personalised to your strategic context – with implications for your business, cross-checked against multiple sources. Delivered straight to Teams, WhatsApp, or email.

Energy & Geopolitics

Strait of Hormuz Blockade Continues Despite Truce

For an energy-dependent industrial group, the ongoing Strait of Hormuz disruption signals persistent volatility in global oil and gas markets. Despite a two-week ceasefire, physical supply constraints remain – with nearly 200 tankers backlogged and prices holding near $100 per barrel. This reinforces the need for robust supply chain resilience and alternative sourcing strategies.

Strategic Implications

  • Reassess energy procurement strategy and consider tariff adjustments under sustained high prices
  • Accelerate diversification of supply sources and investment in renewable energy infrastructure
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Edge AI & Health Technology

BrainChip Unveils Radar AI Platform for Edge Health Monitoring

For a health technology provider, BrainChip's new Radar Reference Platform – combining radar sensing with embedded AI for real-time human identification – signals an acceleration in edge AI for health monitoring. The platform enables privacy-preserving, non-invasive applications like contactless fall detection, creating both new integration opportunities and competitive pressure.

Strategic Implications

  • Evaluate integration of advanced edge AI radar technology to enhance product capabilities
  • Strengthen differentiation in privacy-preserving health monitoring before competitors adopt similar tech
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Critical Minerals & Mining

US Aggressively Expands Critical Minerals Strategy Geopolitically

For a mining and deep-sea resources company, the US broadening its critical minerals strategy to 60 commodities – including foundational materials like copper and metallurgical coal – signals a major shift towards security-first supply chains. The US is reshaping global sourcing around geopolitical loyalty, creating strategic opportunities for allied suppliers.

Strategic Implications

  • Leverage US prioritisation of allied mineral sources to accelerate strategic partnerships and offtake agreements
  • Engage allied nations to integrate new sourcing methods into their critical mineral security strategies
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Why Gopf

How We're Different

We monitor your niche, not the news

Generic tools miss 80% of what matters in manufacturing. We build custom pipelines for trade publications, patent databases, supplier announcements, and regional industry sources in multiple languages.

Continuous, not episodic

Strategy consultants deliver a snapshot. Markets move continuously. Gopf replaces CHF 150K+ in annual consulting spend with always-on intelligence that's never stale.

Every insight is traceable

No black boxes. Every signal links back to its original source. You can verify anything before presenting it to your board – exactly what high-stakes decisions require.

Delivered where you already work

No new platform to adopt. Intelligence arrives in Teams, WhatsApp, or email. Your team doesn't need to become analysts – they just need to stay informed.

"I was never better prepared for management meetings. I no longer need to read false signals and waste my time. Gopf provides me with what I need to know, shows me relevant sources, and different aspects on how the information affects our business."
– Business Development Manager, 350-person precision components manufacturer serving automotive OEMs

Results

Strategic Impact, Measured

30+
Manufacturing clients across DACH
36+ hrs
Saved weekly per client
CHF 150K+
Consulting costs replaced annually
3 Days
From engagement to first insights
"Gopf has fundamentally changed how we approach strategic planning. We no longer rely on quarterly market reports that our competitors read too. We have continuous awareness of what's happening in our competitive landscape – and the confidence to act on it."
– Head of Strategy, 800-person industrial automation group with operations in DACH and Eastern Europe

The Team

Built by People Who've Sat in Your Chair

Kevin Kuhn

Kevin Kuhn

Co-Founder & CEO

A decade in B2B sales and go-to-market leadership across technology and industrial markets. Founded Gopf after seeing how much strategic potential gets lost between data overload and decision deadlines.

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Dr. Marc Bravin

Dr. Marc Bravin

Co-Founder & CTO

PhD in Machine Learning and Market Research. Built the core technology that automates what used to take analyst teams weeks – from source monitoring to contextualised strategic signals.

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Prof. Dr. Donnacha Daly

Prof. Dr. Donnacha Daly

Co-Founder & Strategy

With a 30 year cross-industry track record in technology entrepreneurship, business innovation and M&A, Donnacha brings a wealth of leadership experience to bear on our strategic positioning and fundraising activities.

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FAQ

Common Questions

The questions we hear most often – answered, so nothing stands between you and your free trial.

Traditional market research delivers periodic reports that are often outdated by the time they reach your desk. Gopf provides continuous strategic intelligence – monitoring your competitive landscape in real-time, filtering through your specific business context, and delivering actionable insights when strategic questions arise. It's the difference between a snapshot and a live feed.

Yes. We build custom data pipelines to monitor the sources that matter to manufacturing leaders – including trade publications, patent databases, regulatory filings, supplier announcements, and regional industry news in multiple languages. This includes hard-to-reach sources that generic intelligence tools miss entirely.

We start with a 30-minute strategic context call to understand your priorities. Within 1-2 days, we configure your intelligence streams. You get two weeks of full access, free. After that, we discuss fit, pricing, and rollout based on what you've seen.

Every insight is fully traceable to its original source. No black boxes. You can verify any intelligence before presenting it to your board or leadership team. Our AI filters and prioritizes, but the evidence is always transparent – exactly what you need for high-stakes strategic decisions.

Gopf is ISO 27001 certified and fully GDPR compliant. Your strategic priorities and competitive intelligence remain strictly confidential, protected by Swiss data protection standards.

Gopf delivers intelligence directly to Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or email – wherever your team already works. There's no new platform to adopt. We complement your existing strategic planning cycle by providing continuous market awareness between formal planning periods.

Gopf works with annual contracts, payable in six-month instalments or upfront for the full year. There is a one-time onboarding fee of approximately CHF 5,000 which covers the initial strategic context session, data pipeline configuration, and your custom intelligence setup. The recurring yearly licence starts at CHF 14,800, with pricing tiers based on the number of markets you want to monitor and the signal depth required. We'll walk you through the options during your free trial so you can see the value before committing.

Ready for Strategic Clarity?

Start with a 30-minute call. We'll set up your intelligence streams and you get two weeks of full access – free, no commitment.

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