A New Paradigm for Financial and Economic Forecasting
Calculate value
Tixx™ can calculate the past, present and future value of any market sector (up to 4 years in advance)
Empirical forecasts
Tixx™ provides micro-economic and not macro-economic forecasts that are not based on conjecture, but on hard future data
Economic visibility
Tixx™ gives financial and economic visibility to Micro-, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)
Universal
Tixx™ can be used by any business in the world, from banks to bakers
The Global Trade Index
Tixx™ is a groundbreaking economic forecasting system that can accurately calculate the past, present and future relative growth, decline, share, size and value of any market sector and its players, up to four years in advance.
Unlike all other existing forecasting systems, Tixx™ does not use artificial intelligence or statistical extrapolations from past data to project a hypothetical future: it relies on data in public and private procurement contracts that are valid for weeks, months and years after their publication, and is thus capable of accurately calculating the relative future value of every market sector and that of its players.
The program specification was filed with the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) under reference no. DSO2023020065 in December 2023.
About us
Facts for Futures™
Ever since we first became aware of the future, foresight has been part of survival. From oracles to astrologers, cartomancy to quantum computers, whether as individuals or enterprises we try to foresee the pitfalls that lie in our paths in order to avoid them.
In today’s global economy, subject to rapid ecological, technological and geopolitical change, forecasting is vital in every industry, from weather reports to winning ratios, to help managers, analysts and investors make informed conjectures about the future, to allocate budgets, estimate trends, plan resources…
But all of these forecasting systems contain the same inherent flaw: they extrapolate data from past events in order to foresee a possible future. And although artificial intelligence now helps inform their predictive analyses, they necessarily remain conjectural. Due to contingencies, they can only be uncertain, and the farther a forecast projects into the future, the less precise it becomes.
Tixx™
The Tixx™ Forecasting Model
In countries with a regulated economy, all works of national importance such as infrastructure, transport, space, defence, education, health, etc., are the subject of calls for tender, to which large companies respond, currently representing around 15% of GDP.
These companies then launch calls for tenders for supplies and related services to which SMEs respond; these then call on MSMEs for smaller supplies and related services, together accounting for around 20% of GDP.
These combined public and private markets generate income through employment for consumer spending that accounts for the remainder of a country’s GDP.
Within the EU alone, public procurement represents an annual trade volume of 525 billion euros (2021 figures). But Tixx™ takes into account public and private contracts published daily in 194 countries, enabling economic forecasts of pragmatic precision, making it easier to understand the daily ebb and flow of markets worldwide.
With an initial database of some 8 million contract award notices for 2023 alone, valid for up to 4 years after their publication date, the Tixx™ model is capable of calculating exactly what the future holds for all market sectors and their key players.
Benefits
The Tixx™ Forecasting Model
Each day, Tixx™ provides comprehensive data on public and private procurement contract awards in 194 countries with unrivalled accuracy and reliability.
Its proprietary calculations on the source data result in business intelligence of unique scope and scale on each market sector and each player within it, with identical accuracy and reliability about their futures.
Companies of all sizes, in every country, from MSMEs to listed corporations, can use the real-time business intelligence generated by Tixx™ to:
Carry out market studies at local, regional, national and international level
Consider investments
Select new locations
Evaluate potential mergers and/or acquisitions
Find new suppliers
Find new recruits
Compare the past, present and future growth / decline rates for countries, cities, market sectors and players
Identify sectors at risk
Monitor the past, present and future growth or decline of competitors and any market sector
Find alternative market sectors
Justify their prices
Promote themselves, based on their Tixx™ rankings
Include current stock market data for listed companies
Identify new competitors
The Team
Chris Duff
Chief Executive Officer
Chris is the co-founder of Syspro, the leading mid-market ERP system, and as CEO managed the team that resulted in its adoption by companies in over 100 countries, in many of which he has worked. He is also one of the most knowledgeable and experienced SAP Ariba specialists, and has cooperated with a substantial number of multinational companies within a variety of roles to manage and support SAP Ariba implementation.
From Project Manager of the SAP Ariba implementation at the AA responsible for all aspects of the design and rollout of a full S2P Ariba implementation, to Country Lead for Astra Zenica’s Ariba P2P procurement system, Chris brings that exceptional experience to lead the team at Tixx™.
Jonathan Duff
Chief Strategy Officer
Jonathan is the former Senior Business Development Manager for Lloyd’s List Training, part of the Informa Group, a Director of Cape London Group which owns and oversees a number of café, restaurant and street food brands, and the MD for Nature Eye, for which he was in charge of fund-raising with investors from several countries, in many of which he has worked.
He brings his vast and detailed knowledge of the retail and logistics sector into the procurement domain and his exceptional track record of driving customer experience as well as project management makes him an invaluable part of the Tixx™ team
Malcolm Duff
Chief Operations Officer
Formerly the CEO of two ISO-9001 certified translation companies and senior translator in technology for UNESCO, Paris, Malcolm carried out the 2 years of groundbreaking conceptual and research work that resulted in Tixx™.
He has extensive experience in managing multinational projects, notably with translators from 33 countries for the Inttranet™, the world’s first multilingual portal (added to the UNESCO Observatory for the Information Society in January 2006). That and his in-depth knowledge of the Tixx™ application make him the ideal Chief Operations Officer for its global deployment.
Yana Levchenko
Chief Product Officer
The founder of her own web design company only one year after escaping from the war in Ukraine with her children and pets, Yana has extensive experience in cyber-security and computing, backed by the wide-ranging skills in web design for a fast-growing customer base. She also brings to the team her eye for detail and aesthetic sense of beauty as a professional photographer published in magazines worldwide.