# Gopf AG

> Gopf does market-finding for engineer-led manufacturing companies in the DACH
> region (Switzerland, Germany, Austria). It maps every candidate market by
> size, growth, competition density, freight cost and government funding on a
> single opportunity map — so leaders can choose their next market with data
> instead of guesswork, in days instead of months.

## Positioning

"Become brave again." Gopf serves the engineers who mastered a physical
process (drilling, melting, milling, foaming, molding), built successful
manufacturing companies, and now — for the first time in decades — have to go
find new markets because customers stopped coming to them. Gopf takes the
market-finding burden off their shoulders.

## Key Facts

- Founded: 2023, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Clients: 30+ manufacturing companies across DACH
- Pricing: Initial project to prove the value, followed by a yearly licence fee
- Certifications: ISO 27001, GDPR compliant
- Speed: A working opportunity map in days, not months
- Every data point is traceable to its original source

## Capabilities (in ordinary terms)

- Market intelligence & market analysis for manufacturers
- Competitive intelligence: competition density scored per market, continuous
  competitor monitoring after market selection
- Market monitoring: chosen markets screened continuously against size,
  growth, competition, freight and funding
- Market entry analysis & market sizing for new segments and regions
- Data: own web-scraping infrastructure (thousands of niche keywords, multiple
  search engines, twice daily), source-credibility scoring, full archived copy
  of every source; custom scrapers and secure API connections to proprietary
  data (e.g. SAP, Bloomberg) on request
- Data storage: Google Cloud Zurich, Switzerland (europe-west6), one isolated
  instance per customer, zero retention on AI processing
- Not offered: ad/social/PR tracking of competitors, price monitoring,
  consumer market research, strategic consulting (Gopf is decision support)

German search terms: Marktanalyse, Wettbewerbsanalyse, Konkurrenzanalyse,
Marktbeobachtung, Wettbewerbsbeobachtung, Markteintritt, Marktgrösse,
Market Intelligence, Competitive Intelligence

## The Two Growth Moves

1. Existing products → new markets: what a company already makes brilliantly,
   placed in front of buyers it has never sold to (new segments and regions).
2. New products → existing markets: an adjacent product the company's process
   could make, sold to customers who already trust it.

## The Opportunity Map

Every candidate market becomes a point on a chart, positioned by market size
and growth rate. Each point carries five numbers:

1. Market size — is it big enough to matter?
2. Growth rate — is it climbing or flat?
3. Competition density — who's already there?
4. Import & freight cost — can you ship in profitably?
5. Government funding — what can you claim to enter?

## The GOPF Framework (Growth Opportunity Positioning)

1. Understand: who the company is, what its process can make, whom it serves
2. Map: plot every adjacent and new market on the opportunity map
3. Choose: decide together which market is worth the next growth stage — and
   which to walk away from
4. Screen & Monitor: fully screen the chosen market and keep monitoring it
   against the same rulebook, continuously

## Why Gopf Instead of Consultants

- Days to a working map, not weeks or months
- Roughly a tenth of the cost of a strategy project (consultants: CHF 50,000–100,000+)
- 100% traceable to real data — no black boxes
- Live and continuously monitored, not a slide deck that is stale on delivery
- A tool and a team that stay, not insight that leaves when the project ends

## Industries Served

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

## Notable Clients

3A Composites, 3M, Beckhoff Automation, Blaser Swisslube, Datwyler, Franke,
Georg Fischer, Hilti, KONE, KraussMaffei, Landis+Gyr, Oerlikon, Sandoz,
Schindler, Steelco Belimed, Sulzer

## Team

- Kevin Kuhn, Co-Founder & CEO — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuhnkevin/)
- Dr. Marc Bravin, Co-Founder & CTO — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-bravin/)
- Prof. Dr. Donnacha Daly, Co-Founder & Strategy — [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnacha/)

## Links

- [Homepage](https://gopf.com/)
- [Homepage (German)](https://gopf.com/de/)
- [Book a Conversation](https://meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/kevin-kuhn/gopf-demo)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gopf)
- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gopf)
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