Pre-seed · Seed
Continuous competitive intelligence on your aerospace market, delivered weekly, specific to your venture.
Monitors
The Synthetic Market Analyst runs a continuous watch across your competitive landscape. It does not produce generic sector overviews, it monitors the specific companies, technologies, and funding signals relevant to your venture's domain and target market.
Startup registrations, academic spinouts, stealth company signals, and product launches in your technology category. Sources include Crunchbase, PitchBook, EU CORDIS, national patent filings, and aerospace trade press.
Seed, pre-seed, Series A, and grant awards in your domain. Tracks round size, investor identity, and stated use of funds. Sources include Crunchbase, PitchBook, SEC EDGAR, EIC Accelerator awards, ESA BIC announcements, and Horizon Europe grant databases.
Procurement awards, contract announcements, and tender publications that reveal real buyer budgets and decision timelines. Sources include TED (EU procurement), SAM.gov (US), Find a Tender (UK), and national defence procurement portals.
Adjacent technology developments that could accelerate or threaten your roadmap, including materials advances, sensor improvements, propulsion developments, and software capabilities entering the aerospace domain.
Delivers
Every week, the Synthetic Market Analyst produces a structured competitive brief specific to your venture. It arrives in your inbox before your Monday, formatted for a founder who needs to make decisions, not read a report.
A structured summary of the week's significant movements in your competitive landscape. What happened, why it matters, and what it implies for your positioning. Length: 600–900 words. No padding.
Any company that entered your competitive space in the past seven days, with a one-paragraph profile covering technology approach, funding status, and assessed threat level.
A weekly list of relevant funding events with investor names, round sizes, and a one-line implication for your fundraising narrative.
Sent immediately, not held for the weekly brief, when a significant event occurs: a direct competitor raises a large round, a major customer awards a contract to a competitor, or a strategic acquirer signals interest in your space.
On the first Monday of each month, a broader view of how your competitive landscape has shifted over the past 30 days, with a recommended positioning adjustment if warranted.
Replaces
Role
Junior market research analyst
Cost
CHF 80,000–100,000/year fully loaded
Time to value
3–4 months to hire, 2–3 months to reach full productivity
A junior market research hire at a Zürich-based aerospace company costs CHF 80,000–100,000 per year including social contributions, equipment, and overhead. They take three to four months to hire and two to three months to reach the point where their output is useful. They need briefing, supervision, and direction. They are unavailable on sick days and holidays. The Synthetic Market Analyst is active from day one, runs continuously, and costs CHF 10,800 per year. It does not replace strategic judgment, it gives you the raw intelligence to exercise it.
Scope
The Synthetic Market Analyst is an intelligence function, not a strategy function. Understanding where it ends helps you use it correctly.
It surfaces what is happening in your market. Deciding what to do about it is your job.
It does not run customer interviews, attend conferences on your behalf, or make calls. It monitors publicly available and commercially licensed signal sources.
It cannot access non-public information, internal roadmaps, confidential pricing, or unpublished financials of private companies.
The funding signals it surfaces are starting points for your own investor research, not a substitute for direct investor engagement.
For
A technical founder at pre-seed or early seed building in aerospace or defence who is spending time on competitive research that could be automated. You know your technology. You do not have a dedicated person tracking who else is building in your space, who is funding them, and what the market is doing week to week. You are making positioning and fundraising decisions with incomplete information. The Synthetic Market Analyst closes that gap without a hire.
Active from week one. Weekly brief delivered every Monday. Cancel anytime after the first month.
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