Competitive intelligence services for manufacturers

A competitive intelligence service for a manufacturer is an outside team that watches the company's competitors, export markets, public tenders and regulation every week and delivers a short brief with every fact linked to its source, so the leadership team decides on the kind of sourced picture a large group's strategy department provides, without a hire or a platform.

By Raluca Baciu

Last updated: 9 October 2026

D1, D2, D3 are the decisions this leadership team named at the kickoff; each AI reading says which decision it serves.

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What changes when a leadership team has it

Instead of articles forwarded from each country, the leadership team gets one shared view. The weekly leadership meeting opens with what changed and what it means. Decisions on pricing, a new plant, a tender or a competitor's move rest on dated, sourced facts rather than the last conversation someone had at a fair.

What arrives every week

• Competitor and peer moves
• Market developments: the facts, then a labelled AI reading and the next step to watch
• Regulation that reaches your products
• Open tenders with deadlines
• Trade fairs, events and speaking routes, checked on the organiser's site
• Follow-through on last week's items

Five questions to ask any provider

• Does every fact link to a source you can open?
• Is a reading marked as a reading, so nobody mistakes an assessment for a fact?
• Is it built on your priorities, competitors and markets, set by your leadership team, not a generic sector feed?
• What does it cost your team in time each week: a page to read, or a platform to run?
• What happens if it is not useful: can you leave in the first month with your money back?

What it is not

Not a database you search, not a clipping service and not a strategy project. A weekly decision aid for the people who own growth across markets.

Price and terms

1,900 a month (CHF, EUR or USD). A 6-month subscription. Cancel within the first 30 days for a full refund and nothing further owed. A 45-minute kickoff call or a self-paced interview starts the service. Your first edition arrives within 48 hours of the kickoff. Our standards

What a leadership team receives every week

The full specimen edition shows the structure of every brief. 1,900 a month (CHF, EUR or USD). A 6-month subscription. Cancel within the first 30 days for a full refund and nothing further owed.

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What a weekly brief should include · Service pricing

FAQ

How is this different from Google Alerts and trade newsletters?

Google Alerts send every hit for a search term; a brief selects, sources and explains what matters for your decisions this week.

Do we need someone inside to run it?

No. The leadership team sets priorities at a 45-minute kickoff; afterwards it reads one page a week.

Which industries?

Machinery and plant engineering, flow, drive and motion technology, electrical and power equipment, building products and materials, packaging, plastics and paper, materials and chemicals, and leadership teams in other industries without a market intelligence function.

Where does the information come from?

From publicly available sources and what you give us; we do not solicit third parties' confidential information.

What does it cost?

1,900 a month (CHF, EUR or USD). A 6-month subscription. Cancel within the first 30 days for a full refund and nothing further owed.

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You will speak with Raluca Baciu, founder of Vias Digital.

You will speak with Raluca Baciu, founder of Vias Digital.