GripPoint turns economic data, policy analysis, and computational methods into industrial strategies that governments and investors can implement. From diagnostic to decision.
Every engagement follows the same arc: data first, then strategy, then a decision-ready implementation plan. The analysis is reproducible, and every recommendation ties to a specific data point.
We start with trade data, production statistics, and national surveys. We compute revealed comparative advantage, product complexity, and relatedness density to map where an economy has latent capabilities and where diversification is feasible. The output is a quantified picture of what exists and what's within reach.
We operationalize published research into working analytical tools applied to client data. Optimization models, network analysis, scenario testing. When new methods emerge in economic complexity or trade economics, they enter our pipeline within weeks. Each engagement gets purpose-built algorithms, not off-the-shelf templates.
Every engagement ends with a sequenced implementation roadmap: which products to target, which investment projects to build, which institutional decisions to make, in what order, with what prerequisites, and with quantified returns. The output is a plan that decision-makers can act on.
For governments, development agencies, think tanks, and companies investing in green industry, trade, or industrial policy in emerging markets.
Full economic complexity assessment. Relatedness computation, product space positioning, complexity rankings, diversification opportunity mapping, and constraint identification. Available at country, state, and sector levels.
For a target sector or product family, map the full value chain, identify missing inputs and capabilities, rank binding constraints, and design sequenced interventions with named actors, cost scenarios, and phase gates.
End-to-end advisory from product selection through integrated investment projects to institutional implementation roadmaps. Robustness-tested across parametric scenarios with quantified ROI.
For companies and investors evaluating opportunities in green technology, manufacturing, or supply chain development across Latin America and emerging markets. The same analytical depth applied to your specific investment decision.
Structured programs that transfer data-driven industrial policy methods and data infrastructure to government teams, researchers, and policy analysts. Custom curricula adapted to the client's data environment and policy priorities.
Recent engagements across Latin America and multi-country programs.
Economic insights for a university research lab covering three countries. Producing target activity profiles (inputs, standards, sequencing), ranked constraint maps (bottleneck diagnostics with finance annexes), and a cross-country analytical platform for net-zero industrial transitions.
Report series for a Mexican state's industrial diversification. Product selection using optimization across scenarios, infrastructure, national industrial policy and local capabilities. Integrated investment projects with market sizing and phase-gate roadmaps. Quantified 30:1 ROI case over a decade.
Policy report for a Washington-based think tank analyzing Mexico's data governance framework as a constraint on industrial competitiveness. Mapped how data infrastructure gaps limit participation in high-complexity supply chains and recommended specific policy interventions.
Interactive visualization mapping 45 investment projects ($30B announced) across Mexico's electrical and electronic manufacturing ecosystem. Four data layers: productive affinity (relatedness), employment, graduate pipeline, and renewable energy capacity.
Explore the map →Data-driven analysis of industrial policy, trade, and economic complexity in emerging markets. Each piece walks through the data, the method, and the implications.
45 projects, 8 sectors, 4 data layers. Where the money is going, where the capabilities exist, and where the constraints bind.
Read the analysis →Comparative analysis of lithium-ion battery value chain readiness. Coming soon.
GripPoint is an industrial policy and data strategy consultancy. We help governments, development agencies, think tanks, and corporate investors identify diversification opportunities, diagnose binding constraints, and build implementable strategies.
Our approach starts with data: trade flows, production statistics, and capability indicators from international and national statistical systems. We apply economic complexity metrics and purpose-built computational tools to map what economies can realistically produce next. The analysis goes beyond diagnostics: we design sequenced investment projects, institutional decisions, and implementation roadmaps with quantified returns.
The firm operates as an AI-augmented practice. When relevant academic research is published, we operationalize it into working algorithms applied to client data within weeks. The capability is the pipeline, not any single method.
Geographic focus: emerging markets, with operating depth in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica) and expanding coverage in South Asia (India) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Rwanda, Mozambique).
Selected published work on trade policy, industrial strategy, and economic complexity.
Analysis of tariff exposure and industrial vulnerability in emerging economies. Phenomenal World, 2025.
Read →Op-ed on the distributional effects of U.S. tariff policy. The Washington Post, 2025.
Analysis of tariff pass-through to consumer prices and industrial inputs. The New York Times, 2025.
Research on food trade networks and vulnerability concentration. Science, 2024.
Analysis of product complexity and geographic concentration in electronics manufacturing. OEC Blog, 2024.
We partner with governments, think tanks, university labs, development agencies, and corporate investors to build data-driven industrial strategies.
Describe the industrial policy challenge, the geography involved, and the decision you need data for. We respond within 48 hours with an initial assessment of how economic complexity analysis applies to your situation.
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