European business arbitrage

Somewhere, a market is overpaying for what you already know how to do.

Europe is 30+ markets pretending to be one. Demand, skills, prices and rules diverge across 24 languages and a thousand registries nobody reads — and every divergence is somebody's opening. Arbitra finds them: unmet demand, shortages nobody can hire out of, price spreads, regulation that mints whole markets overnight, procurement pipelines, subsidies. Then it matches what it finds to your competences, capital and goals. Entering, expanding or scaling in Europe, wherever you're based: a ranked opportunity report and a 90-day entry plan.

Opportunity radar
How it works

From profile to plan in three moves

This is a real sequence — each step feeds the next.

1

Tell the engine who you are

Your background, competences, capital range and growth goal — starting fresh or scaling an existing business. Two minutes, any language.

2

Get your arbitrage report

The engine ranks live opportunities by spread score: where subsidies, unmet demand or skills gaps make your exact profile unusually valuable right now.

3

Validate with a sector expert

Book hours with a vetted operator in that market. Pressure-test risks, licences and first customers — leave with an action plan, not a hunch.

The engine

Run your arbitrage scan

Free teaser scan below. The full report unlocks all matches, complete 90-day plans and expert booking.

Your profile

We'll read it when you run the scan — no need to describe what you do.

The engine reads it to learn what you do and what to watch for you. Plain-text files work best right now.

Demo: English. In production, ask in any of 100+ languages — the report comes back in yours.

Your arbitrage report

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Fill in your profile and run the scan. The engine will rank global opportunities against your exact competences and capital.

Opportunity radar

What the engine is tracking this quarter

A live sample from across the EU, UK, Nordics and reconstruction markets. Every signal is sourced from subsidy programmes, trade data, vacancy statistics and price spreads — refreshed continuously.

Method & sources

Where the answers come from

You're about to make decisions with real money. You deserve to know how the engine thinks — and where it stops.

Public data, read like an analyst

Seven kinds of gap, from seven kinds of source: unmet demand (trade flows, Eurostat), skills shortages (vacancy statistics, EURES), price spreads (comparative price levels), regulation creating new markets (EUR-Lex transposition deadlines), procurement pipelines (TED, every EU public tender daily), reconstruction programmes, and subsidies (EU and national registries). Monitored continuously, cross-checked before anything becomes a signal.

What the spread score measures

The overlap between your competences and a market's unmet need, your capital fit, and the strength of current drivers. Our scale tops out at 88 on purpose: no market is a sure thing, and a tool that says 99 is selling, not scoring.

What we don't promise

No guaranteed returns. Markets move, subsidies get revised, competitors exist. That's why every report ships with a risk map — and why the Validation Sprint puts a human operator between you and your capital. Decision support, not investment advice.

Pricing

Pay for the spread, not the search

One good arbitrage pays for itself a thousand times over. Start free, upgrade when you're ready to move.

Scout

€0
Test the engine
  • 1 teaser opportunity match
  • Spread score + key demand signal
  • Weekly radar email (5 signals)
Most chosen

Arbitrage Report

€190
One-time, per scan
  • Full ranked report — all matches
  • 90-day entry plan per opportunity
  • Risk map: regulation, licences, competition
  • Delivered in your language
  • Includes 3 months of your personal Radar — alerts when new spreads match your profile. €19/mo after, cancel anytime

If the report tells you nothing you didn't already know — full refund. No forms, one email.

Validation Sprint

€990
Report + expert
  • Everything in Arbitrage Report
  • 3 hours with a vetted sector expert
  • Risk & feasibility assessment
  • Validated action plan, signed off

Arbitrage Desk

€390/mo
For operators in motion
  • Quarterly refreshed opportunity radar
  • Alerts when new spreads match your profile
  • 1 expert hour every month
  • Priority expert matching
The expert bench

Operators, not consultants

Every expert has built or run a business in the exact market you're entering. Illustrative profiles below — the bench grows with every market we cover.

EN

Energy & installations expert

DE / NL heat-pump & solar market

12 years building installation businesses in Germany. Knows the subsidy paperwork, the certification path, and where crews actually come from.

TX

Timber & modular construction expert

UK / IE / Nordics export

Scaled a Baltic timber-frame exporter from 12 to 140 employees. Knows the buyers, the building codes and the margins at every step.

LG

Logistics & trade expert

Baltic–Nordic corridors

Former COO of a cold-chain operator. Can tell you in one call whether your route, licence and unit economics survive contact with reality.

Second chances

People who stopped waiting for their market to improve

Some were stuck for a decade. Some just needed someone to say the obvious out loud. All of them found their spread.

Eleven years selling skincare to Lithuanian pharmacies, convinced that was the ceiling. The report pointed at German drugstore private-label: same lab, same formula, forty times the volume, and buyers who came to us because EU-origin natural formulation is exactly what they can't source at home.

Natural cosmetics producer, 12 staff
Lithuania → Germany, private label
2.4× revenue in 16 months

Our oat drink was losing a shelf war at home against three multinationals. Nobody told us Gulf importers pay a premium for EU-origin and were actively looking. We stopped fighting for shelves and started filling containers.

Plant-based drinks producer
Baltics → Gulf export
First container in 5 months

My boss said I'd be back within six months. He now asks whether I'm hiring. I left a corporate job, followed the certification path in the 90-day plan, and my crews work in a market where demand simply exceeds the people qualified to serve it.

Ex-corporate manager, went independent
Lithuania → Germany
€0 → €40k monthly revenue in 7 months

The report gave me the idea. The expert deleted half my plan in one call and saved me €80 000 of mistakes I had already budgeted for. Most profitable three hours of my life — and I once found a wallet.

Retail founder, Validation Sprint client
Baltics → Nordic wholesale
€80k of mistakes cancelled before spending

Illustrative scenarios, not client testimonials — we launched this year. Real names and faces go here the moment there are real names and faces.

FAQ

Fair questions

Who is behind Arbitra?

The Gooliver team — consultants who have spent the last decade running EU-funded growth projects and moving businesses across borders. Arbitra is that experience turned into an engine, so it doesn't depend on catching us on a good day.

Where does the opportunity data come from?

From public sources the engine monitors continuously: trade statistics, vacancy and skills-shortage data, comparative price levels, procurement pipelines, regulation timetables, reconstruction programmes, and subsidy registries. Subsidies are one signal among several — the biggest openings are usually demand nobody is serving or skills nobody can hire. The AI layer reads all of it the way an analyst would, then matches it to your profile.

Is the report really personalised, or a template?

Personalised. The same market looks completely different to a bizdev professional with an energy background and €50k than to a manufacturer with 40 staff and €2M. The ranking, the entry plan and the risk map are all computed from your inputs.

Can I use it in my language?

Yes. Ask in any language, get the report and the plan in that language. This demo runs in English; the production engine answers in 100+ languages.

Who are the experts?

Operators who have built or run businesses in the target market — vetted manually today, with a marketplace ("gig engine") planned so experts can join, get rated and be booked automatically.

What if the opportunity doesn't work out?

Arbitra is decision support, not a guarantee. That's exactly why the Validation Sprint exists: a sector expert stress-tests the idea against licences, competition and unit economics before you commit capital.