The economy iswaiting on itself
Millions of businesses can sell today. Many would buy too, once their next customer signs.
CoSwap is building a way to connect those decisions — so you could secure the customer orders that make your next purchase or investment possible before committing to it.
Your company buys and sells. So do your suppliers and your customers. Each of you decides alone, even when your purchases depend on one another. CoSwap links those interdependent purchase decisions before anyone commits.
Each company waits for its next order.All three end up stuck.
Take three businesses. Each wants to buy something and has something to sell. Each holds its purchase until a new order comes in.
- Furniture company: Purchase on hold Showroom renovation, Can supply Office furniture, Waiting for orders
- Construction company: Purchase on hold Marketing campaign, Can supply Renovation services, Waiting for orders
- Marketing agency: Purchase on hold Office furniture, Can supply Marketing services, Waiting for orders
None of the three buys, though each could be another’s customer.
CoSwap adds no goods, money or capacity. It finds sound links between offers and needs that already exist.
Your next purchase can depend on your next sale
You state three things. CoSwap searches across many businesses for combinations where those statements fit together.
A service, a product or equipment, with a budget and a time frame.
Products and services you have now, or capacity you will have later.
Your trigger to go ahead, for example a signed counter-order of a set size.
When CoSwap finds a combination, each business is invited to agree to its purchase — on the condition that its own customer order is confirmed. If everyone agrees and all conditions are met, the linked commitments can take effect together.
Watch CoSwap link three separate decisions into one combination
Each business runs its own numbers. On its own, waiting makes sense.
Illustrative demo with scripted scenarios. It does not run the live matching engine.
Capacity you’ll have tomorrow can unlock a decision you make today
Many businesses know weeks ahead when capacity frees up. A furniture company expects a quiet January, so it can offer January production now. A confirmed future order could make its own investment possible today.
The participants agree delivery dates and terms between themselves. CoSwap does not finance deals or guarantee delivery.
One enginefor many markets
CoSwap is the core technology. CityLift is one of its first applications. You can run the same engine in different economic ecosystems.
From local business networks to a global coordination layer
Each application runs on the same technology. As the system matures, compatible networks could join one shared search space, where participation terms and law allow.
Market design builds markets where ordinary coordination fails
CoSwap builds on market design, the field that writes rules for markets where simple matching falls short. Its best-known case is kidney exchange. Two patient-donor pairs often can’t swap, yet several pairs linked in a chain or cycle can.
The question CoSwap exploresCan several independent businesses coordinate their conditional commitments so that purchases they would postpone go ahead?
Market designMultilateral matchingConditional commitmentsCoordinated confirmation of interdependent dealsMeasuring additional economic effects
CoSwap did not invent multilateral cycles. Our research and engineering task is to apply them to varied B2B purchases, to present and future capacity, and to real contracts.
We keep ambition and evidence apart
This is our research programme.
We have applied to SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation. We are in dialogue with Fraunhofer ISI about possible independent research support.
Neither means funding, a formal partnership or scientific proof of the effect.
An economy where businesses coordinate future demand across industries, regions and borders, turning postponed purchases and unused capacity, available today or in the future, into new commercial opportunities.