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Plant solution, contracting, recycling, cleantech product, measurement technology or operating software: planix tests the riskiest assumptions behind your idea against simulated respondents and official market data.

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Long sales cycles punish wrong assumptions twice

Decisions here are rarely spontaneous: budgets, payback calculations, funding conditions and several decision-makers stretch every deal. Finding out after development that the benefit is too small or the price too high costs years, not weeks. The test moves that answer to the beginning.

Decisions here are rarely spontaneous: budgets, payback calculations, funding conditions and several decision-makers stretch every deal. Finding out after development that the benefit is too small or the price too high costs years, not weeks.

What gets tested first

1

Is the benefit large enough to justify an investment?

What gets tested is whether the advantage justifies a purchase from the buyer side – the real bottleneck in this market.

What gets tested is whether the advantage justifies a purchase from the buyer side – the real bottleneck in this market.

2

Which model holds: purchase, rental or contracting?

The price corridor is determined per model. The financing form often decides the deal more than the technology does.

The price corridor is determined per model.

3

Who already serves the market?

Providers and projects in the segment come named and sourced, plus consumption and investment figures.

Providers and projects in the segment come named and sourced, plus consumption and investment figures.

The methods behind it

Method in detail
  • Price sensitivity (Van Westendorp)Delivers the price corridor per model – purchase, monthly rental or performance-based price.
  • Feature prioritisation (MaxDiff)Shows what tips the decision: savings, payback period, service, proof or price.
  • Target group fitCompares segments, business against private, or operators against owners.

Metrics that count here

  • Payback period
  • Annual savings
  • Price per unit of output
  • Sales cycle length
  • Contribution margin per project
  • Service ratio

Market data that feeds in

  • Providers and projects in the segment, named and sourced
  • Energy and consumption statistics for the market
  • Investment and funding programmes in the market
  • Patent and trademark registers

Market data from official sources: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Zefix, Swiss National Bank, Fedlex, opendata.swiss, ETH Library, Eurostat, OECD

Which package fits

Test the business model

The free entry level checks the direction. Because several decision-makers and models are in play here, Test the business model pays off: up to ten assumptions and four segments, plus a PDF with a methodology appendix for conversations with partners and investors.

The free entry level checks the direction. Because several decision-makers and models are in play here, Test the business model pays off: up to ten assumptions and four segments, plus a PDF with a methodology appendix for conversations with partners and investors.

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Common questions from this industry

No. What gets tested is the benefit in words, not the technology. Right before the expensive development stage is where the answer is worth most.

Funding programmes feed in as market data. Whether your solution is eligible or requires approval is for the responsible authority.

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