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🔬 Investor Pitch — 2026

Your Glass Industry
Source of Truth.

Glazio is a community-owned, self-correcting intelligence platform for the global glass industry — real-time data on companies, contacts, and machinery.

B2B Data Platform Glass Industry €5 Lifetime Access
Today's Pitch

What we'll cover.

01 — 03

The Problem & Opportunity

Why B2B data decay in the glass industry is an unsolved, costly problem.

04 — 07

The Solution

How the credit economy, validation layer, and data schema work together.

08 — 10

Business Model & Market

Three revenue streams, market size, and the network effect flywheel.

11 — 16

Competition, Tech & The Ask

Why we win, how we're built, our roadmap, and what we're raising.

📉 The Problem

B2B data decays faster
than you can act on it.

✕ Today's Reality
No glass-specific database exists — sales teams cobble together LinkedIn scrapes and old spreadsheets
No equipment visibility — who owns which furnace, cutting line, or laminating system?
Generic tools (ZoomInfo, Apollo) charge thousands per year for data that isn't glass-specific
27% of B2B contact data becomes inaccurate every single year
27% of B2B data decays annually (global average)
$15B+ lost globally per year due to bad contact data (Gartner)
0 dedicated glass-industry intelligence platforms exist today
🏭 Why the Glass Industry?

A fragmented, global sector
with no data layer.

Thousands of manufacturers, suppliers, and equipment vendors — with no single source of truth connecting them.

$280B+ Global glass industry market size
1st Dedicated intelligence platform for this sector
100s Countries with glass manufacturing operations
Equipment brands, types, and configurations to track
✦ The Solution

A community that maintains
its own intelligence layer.

Glazio solves data decay by turning the industry's own professionals into quality guardians — and rewarding them for it.

Contribute

Add companies, contacts, equipment. Earn credits — more for rare, high-value data.

+ Credits

Validate

Review submissions from peers. Entries go live only once consensus is reached.

+ Credits
🔓

Access

Unlock contacts, export data, sync CRMs. Spend the credits you earned.

− Credits
🗄️ What We Track

Every layer of the glass industry,
from group to machine.

🏢

Organizations

Parent groups, manufacturers, subsidiaries, and distributors worldwide.

📍

Facilities

Site addresses, phone numbers, regional presence, and plant types.

👤

Contacts

Named individuals — C-suite, engineering, procurement, and sales.

⚙️

Equipment

Machine brand, type, and year — tempering furnaces, cutting lines, laminators.

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Products

Glass types manufactured — float, laminated, tempered, coated, fire-rated.

Quality Rating

Every record carries a live 1–5 star score based on recency and consensus.

⭐ Data Quality System

You always know
how fresh the data is.

A live 5-star rating on every record. The Staging Layer ensures nothing bad goes live without consensus.

★★★★★

Verified

Community-validated, multi-source, recently updated.

★★★★★

Reliable

Multi-source. Awaiting next validation cycle.

★★★★

Unverified

New submission. Treat as a lead, not a fact.

🔒

Penalty System keeps quality high

False data = credit deductions. Persistent offenders = account bans. Pay a penalty fee to reinstate. Bad actors are financially discouraged.

💳 Business Model

Three revenue streams.
All aligned with quality.

🚪

Individual Entry Fee

€5 one-time lifetime fee per user. Prevents bots. Ensures commitment. Scales with community size.

€5 / user / lifetime
🏢

Corporate Subscriptions

Monthly flat-rate for manufacturers and large suppliers. Includes API access, bulk CRM sync, and team management.

€TBD / month
📊

Data Services

Custom reports, market intelligence exports, and API access for enterprises and research firms needing glass industry data at scale.

Custom pricing
📊 Market Opportunity

A global market with
no dedicated data layer.

We're not creating a new market — we're unlocking intelligence in one that already exists at scale.

$280B Global glass industry value (2024)
$15B+ Lost annually globally to bad B2B data
10,000s Glass companies, facilities & professionals globally

Expansion path: Glazio starts with the global flat glass sector, then expands to adjacent markets — architectural glass, automotive glass, solar glass, and other industrial verticals that share the same data decay problem.

🔄 The Network Effect

More users = better data.
Better data = more users.

Unlike static databases, Glass-Link compounds. Every new contributor makes the platform more valuable for everyone.

1️⃣

Users join → contribute data

Each user adds what they know about their part of the industry.

2️⃣

Data quality improves

More validators = faster consensus = higher star ratings.

3️⃣

More users are attracted

A better database draws in more sales pros, recruiters, and corporates.

4️⃣

Moat deepens

Community and data compound — impossible for a late entrant to replicate quickly.

🔄

Self-reinforcing flywheel

The data gets better every day — without any central editorial team.

Defensible Moat
⚔️ Competitive Landscape

Why Glazio Wins.

✕ Generic Competitors
  • ZoomInfo — broad B2B, €15k+/yr, no glass specifics
  • Apollo.io — lead gen, no equipment or facility data
  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator — contacts only, no industry structure
  • No platform tracks glass equipment at all
✓ Glazio Advantage
  • Glass-industry-specific from the ground up
  • Equipment & machinery data — unique in market
  • Community-maintained — self-correcting at scale
  • €5 entry vs. thousands per year
  • First mover — no comparable platform exists
⚙️ Technology

Built on a modern,
scalable stack.

⚛️

Next.js

App Router, SSR, SEO-optimised landing pages

🐘

Supabase

PostgreSQL + Row Level Security + Staging tables

🎨

Tailwind + Shadcn

Responsive UI, dark/light mode, accessible components

🔗

LinkedIn OAuth

Social proof login — identity verified on entry

Staging architecture: All new data enters a staging table and requires consensus validation before merging to the master database. This is the engine behind the quality system — no single user can corrupt the dataset.

🗺️ Roadmap

Three phases to market leadership.

PHASE 1 — NOW

Foundation

  • ✓ Investor deck complete
  • ✓ Landing page & brand live
  • → Waitlist open for early users
  • → Pre-seed fundraising round
  • → Legal entity & GDPR setup
  • → Core team hiring begins
Active
PHASE 2 — MVP

Core Platform Build

  • → User auth + €5 entry gate
  • → Contribution & validation flows
  • → Credit wallet & quality ratings
  • → Company & contact search
  • → Data export & CRM sync
  • → Penalty & moderation system
Next 6–9 months
PHASE 3 — SCALE

Growth & Expansion

  • → Corporate subscription tier
  • → Data Services & custom APIs
  • → Community reputation leaderboard
  • → Equipment tracking module
  • → Adjacent sector expansion
  • → Series A preparation
12–24 months
👥 The Team

Built by someone who lives
in the glass industry.

This platform is being built by a glass industry professional — not an outside tech team guessing at the problem.

Founder — Industry Experience

Direct experience in the glass sector. Knows the contacts problem firsthand. Building the product they wished existed.

Domain Expert

Support Needed

  • → Full-stack developer (Next.js / Supabase)
  • → UX/UI designer
  • → Legal (payments / data privacy)
  • → Go-to-market advisor
🤝 The Ask

We're raising a pre-seed round
to build the MVP.

What we're raising

€TBD

Pre-seed round to fund MVP build, legal setup, and first-year operations. Amount confirmed with advisors.

Pre-Seed

Use of funds

  • 🛠️ 40% — Product development (dev + design)
  • 🗄️ 25% — Data acquisition & seed content
  • 📣 20% — Marketing & community growth
  • ⚖️ 15% — Operations & legal (GDPR, payments)
🚀 Let's Build This Together

Be the first investor
in the glass industry's
source of truth.

A real problem. A real market. No existing competition.

Request a Meeting →
hello@glazio.com
Pre-Seed Round Open · First Mover Advantage · Network Effect Model