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Before the budget is committed

Most market research ages in a folder. This one gets tested.

Sizing a market is arithmetic, and you can do the first pass yourself — below, on real Portuguese denominators. What arithmetic cannot tell you is whether anyone will actually buy, at what price and through which channel. That part needs a live pilot, and it is the part we are for.

01 · Size it yourself
Official denominators, your assumptions
Section 01

How big is the market, really

Market sizer Population and enterprise counts from INE and AIMA · your penetration assumption
Who buys from you
Consumers Companies
Narrow it
Where you would sell
Realistic share in year oneBe pessimistic
1.0%
Annual value per customer
€120 €600 €3,000 €12,000 €50,000
Your numbersLive
Total market
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Reachable, after your filters
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Realistic in year one
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Revenue if that lands
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Population and enterprise counts are official. Everything after that is your assumption, and the share you chose is the one that decides the answer — which is precisely why a number produced this way is a starting hypothesis rather than a forecast. The purpose of a pilot is to replace it.
02 · What you need to know
Builds the method as you choose
Section 02

Research is a set of questions, not a document

Tell us which questions are actually open for you. Everything else is padding, and padding is how a research report becomes something nobody reads twice.

Research plan builder
Select the questions you cannot currently answer with confidence. The method, the timeline and the deliverables assemble themselves on the right.
Is there demand at all?Whether the problem you solve is recognised here, and by whom.
What will they pay?Price bands the market accepts, against what it currently pays for alternatives.
Which channel brings customers?Where buyers in your category actually come from, and what one costs to acquire.
Who else is doing this?Incumbents, their positioning and the space they have left unoccupied.
Do partners or distribution work?Whether the sector opens through relationships, and who is worth approaching.
What regulation applies?Licensing, sector rules and labelling that decide whether you can sell at all.
Your plan
Nothing selected yet. Most entries have three or four genuinely open questions; the rest people already know and do not need to pay for.
03 · Deliverables
Usable next week, not next quarter
Section 03

What you actually receive

If a document cannot be acted on within a week of delivery, we do not produce it.

01

Market map

Who plays in your category, what each one occupies, where the gaps are and which of them are gaps for a reason.

With named
competitors
02

Price model

The band the market buys in, what it currently pays for the alternative, and the justification for where you sit in it.

Tested, not
benchmarked
03

Channel plan

Which channels get tested, with what budget, over what period and against which success criteria agreed in advance.

Budget and
criteria fixed
04

Pilot figures

Cost per lead, cost per customer, conversion and sales cycle length — measured, not modelled. These replace the assumption you set in the sizer above.

The reason the
work exists
05

Partner shortlist

Vetted counterparties with contacts and the status of each conversation, rather than a list scraped from a directory.

Checked before
introduction
06

Twelve-month plan

What to do next, in what order and with what resources — built on your data rather than on category averages.

Or a
recommendation to stop
Next step

Send us the sizing you just built. We will tell you which number to distrust.

The share you assumed decides the whole answer, and it is the one figure nobody can verify from a desk. That is what a pilot is for, and where the conversation usefully starts.