MUNICIPALITIES

You take responsibility every day. For schools, heat, water and roads. And usually on your own.

Every project starts from zero: your own planner, your own tender, your own risk. Meanwhile a hundred other municipalities are planning almost the same.

What changes with .GUT

Municipalities with the same project describe together, once, what they need, and then procure it together. Less effort, lower costs, financing included.

Much about your project is specific. Most of it, though, another municipality has already solved. You adopt that and adapt the rest. And everything is in the open: the requirements, the procurement route, who pays what. Municipalities pay nothing.

How it works for municipalities

COMPANIES

For you, taking responsibility means building solutions that work. You do that. They just reach municipalities too slowly.

Every municipality wants convincing anew, every tender is different, every financing starts over.

What changes with .GUT

You sit at the table with municipalities that are planning the same thing right now. Together you define what the solution must do. Then the municipalities tender jointly, against exactly those requirements.

You adapt your solution once and can offer it to all of them, instead of convincing each municipality on its own. That also holds for a new solution that still has to prove that municipalities need it.

How it works for solution providers

START-UPS

Your solution is meant for municipalities. Whether it is already running or still taking shape: you need municipalities that really need it, and proof that the demand is real.

Both are hard work as long as you have to convince each municipality on its own.

What changes with .GUT

Municipalities that have confirmed their demand tell you what they need and whether your solution fits. You learn that early, in one place and without cold calling. You get pooled demand instead of single pilots. And you sit next to established providers that complement you.

For your next funding round, that is proof that counts.

How it works for solution providers

SCIENCE

What you research today solves tomorrow’s problems. Heat in school buildings, ageing neighbourhoods, infrastructure for a different climate.

Too often research stays in the paper. The municipalities that have the problem and the companies that could build a solution find it too late.

What changes with .GUT

.GUT brings you together with municipalities that already have the problem today, and with companies that turn it into a solution. That way your research gets to where it is needed and flows into what many municipalities procure later.

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INVESTORS

Taking responsibility also means steering money to where it works. Municipal infrastructure is the country’s largest need, and for capital the hardest to reach.

Thousands of projects, each planned, tendered and financed on its own. Too small, too different, too slow for any kind of scale.

What changes with .GUT

Many single projects become one solution that many municipalities procure together. Financing is part of the solution from the start. That creates projects large and uniform enough to take on capital. And you can see publicly how many municipalities have confirmed their demand.

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