Your market analyst for food & beverage procurement and sales
Know more. Negotiate smarter. Buy better.
Your counterparty has analysts. Now you do too: Terensis gives your food & beverage procurement and sales teams four virtual market analysts.
- Official spin-off of ETH Zurich
- Servers in Switzerland
Partners and clients
A virtual market analyst for buying and selling in the food industry.
In large companies, market analysts sit right next to purchasing and sales. They check every price demand before the negotiation starts. Terensis gives your team exactly this role, without hiring anyone and without you having to analyse raw data yourself.
A research provider
- Delivers reports and data.
- You read, interpret and argue on your own.
- The same content for every subscriber.
- Published on a fixed editorial schedule, not when you negotiate.
Terensis: your analyst team
- Works for you and gets in touch on its own.
- Checks your counterparty’s arguments and drafts your reply.
- Knows your products, suppliers and negotiation dates.
- A fraction of an in-house analyst position. In Switzerland, one costs from around CHF 90,000 a year, plus roughly 24 months to get up to speed.
Hire a team of four virtual market analysts now.
For more negotiating power and better prices.
Three specialist analysts look at your market from different angles and disagree where the data calls for it. A senior analyst weighs their views and writes the recommendation for your negotiation.
Macro analyst
Inflation, interest rates and bond yields, plus oil, energy and fertiliser prices, always in historical context.
Fundamental analyst
Supply and demand, weather, satellite data, crop forecasts and trade flows. For every square kilometre where your commodities grow.
Market structure analyst
Futures curves, local basis, quality and origin spreads, and how market participants are positioned.
Senior analyst
Weighs the three views, resolves contradictions, sets the confidence level and writes the recommendation.
A human checks too. A Terensis analyst, one of the two founders, guides your onboarding, reviews every output and debriefs your first negotiations with you.
What your analyst team does for you.
We work for you.
Your analyst team gets in touch on its own as soon as something important moves in your markets, with an assessment of what it means for your next negotiation.
We deliver scenarios.
A low, medium and high price scenario with probabilities. We map the whole causal chain behind each scenario, from weather to harvest to price, so every assumption stays traceable.
We give you arguments.
For every negotiation: the expected price direction, the 3–5 price drivers that matter, arguments for and against a price change, and a concrete recommendation.
We check your counterparty’s arguments.
Forward us your supplier’s or customer’s reasoning. We rate every argument, traceable back to the data source, and draft your reply.
For buying and selling teams in the food industry.
Your counterparty backs its price demand with market arguments. They are rarely wrong, but always selective. We tell you which demand is justified.
In purchasing
Your supplier announces a price increase and justifies it with the market situation.
Before the meeting, you know which arguments hold and which don’t.
In sales
Your customer demands a price cut, pointing to falling commodity prices.
You push back with a neutral, evidence-based view of the market.
As a buyer or seller, you get:
A virtual analyst around the clock.
Your analyst team monitors your commodities and growing regions 24/7, with more than 14 million data points a day from weather, satellites and official statistics.
Negotiations prepared thoroughly and for you personally.
Every briefing knows your products, suppliers and dates. As a PDF by email, or via WhatsApp or Microsoft Teams if you prefer.
Your data stays in Switzerland.
Purchase prices and supplier relationships are among your most sensitive information. We treat them accordingly.
Servers in Switzerland
Data, models and language models run on servers in Switzerland. We control the entire chain.
Data security
Your prices, suppliers and cost structures stay confidential. They are never used for model training or for other clients.
Traceable
Every statement can be traced back to the underlying data source.
ETH Zurich spin-off
Officially recognised spin-off of ETH Zurich. Our work builds on the founders’ doctoral research in agricultural sciences.
We don’t need much from you.
Lean onboarding, no data integration, no IT project. You start at low cost and see what your analyst team delivers in your very first negotiation.
One onboarding workshop
4 hours: negotiation calendar, products, suppliers and success criteria.
Your analyst team starts working for you
For your next negotiation. The first briefing arrives 20 working days before, then weekly.
About one hour per negotiation
Plus 15 minutes of feedback afterwards. That is all the effort on your side.
What we need from you
- A product list with suppliers and volumes
- Your negotiation calendar
- For scenarios: a rough cost structure per product, no recipes
What you don’t need
- Your own market data or a data connection
- An IT project or new software
- An in-house analyst position
1 % better price
= CHF 100,000 a year on CHF 10 million purchasing volume.
What our partners say.
Terensis combines scientific excellence with entrepreneurial thinking. The team understands the challenges of the food industry and develops solutions that create measurable value.
Paola GhillaniConsultant and former board member of Migros
More accurate yield forecasts create optimization potential for Schweizer Zucker AG. Together with Terensis, we are working on solutions for how digitalization can help here. Using AI models, large volumes of data (e.g. from satellites or weather stations) are to be processed so that they enable more precise planning of the beet harvest and campaign. Specifically, this optimizes transport and processing costs.
Oliver NussliCEO Schweizer Zucker AG
From the first idea to implementation, Terensis was a reliable partner. We especially valued their hands-on, practical approach and their ability to quickly translate complex technologies into a solution that genuinely helps our employees.
Hannes SchärerCanton of Schaffhausen, Office of Agriculture
Two agronomists. From the field to the negotiating table.
We have stood in the field and in the barn ourselves, sat on the tractor and in the offices of food companies. That’s why we know what a commodity price means for your production and your margin.
Together we bring more than ten years of hands-on experience in agriculture, agricultural markets and AI. Terensis is an official spin-off of ETH Zurich.
Dr Lukas Graf
CTOAgronomist with a doctorate from ETH Zurich. He knows agricultural markets from the inside and makes sure our analyses rest on solid data.
Dr Gregor Perich
CEOAgronomist with a doctorate from ETH Zurich. He bridges research and practice in agriculture and the food industry, and runs the business.
Next step
When is your next negotiation?
In 30 minutes, we go through your negotiation calendar and sourcing regions and set the date for your onboarding.