🇦🇹 Vienna Founding Pilot Now Open

The local search & indoor navigation platform for independent shops.

StartToFind helps customers discover local shops online, guides them straight to the product once they're inside, and gives shop owners the data-driven advertising big retailers already have, all free at the core.

Apply for the paid pilot → See what's already built

A live screen recording from the working app: searching for a room and getting routed to it.

The problem

Local shops lose out in three ways today

Not because they're worse. The system that decides what customers see wasn't built for them.

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Search friction, online

Customers search nearby and mostly see big chains and marketplaces. Independent shops are invisible before anyone even walks in.

2

Search friction, in-store

Customers who do walk in still can't find the product, room, or shelf they're after. Wasted time for them, wasted staff time for the shop.

3

Advertising you can't target

Big retailers optimize every ad euro using customer and product data. Independent shops usually don't have that data, so budget gets spent on guesswork.

How StartToFind closes the gap

Free at the core. Built for shops, not just search engines.

Every feature below is already working in the app today. See the full walkthrough on the Product page.

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Always free to be found

A digital storefront, product listings, and search presence discoverable by distance, local origin, sustainability, and price. No website or ad budget required.

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Guided indoor navigation

Floor plans become navigable maps automatically. Customers get routed straight to the shelf, room, or counter they need.

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Advertising that gets smarter

Every search and in-store interaction feeds predictive models that make ad spend work harder over time, the same targeting big retailers use.

The unfair advantage

Advertising that actually learns

Every search, every in-store route, every "add to list" is a signal. StartToFind turns that data into an explainable predictive model, scoring how likely a shopper is to buy, so a shop can put advertising budget exactly where it will land.

This is the same data-driven targeting big retailers already have, and it's why the founding pilot's advertising credit is worth more than its face value: it buys access to a targeting engine, not just banner space.

  • Surfaces exactly where advertising could grow revenue, product by product
  • Target by likelihood to buy, proximity, similar-product interest, or purchase history

See it in the product walkthrough →

StartToFind explainable predictive model scoring shopper buying likelihood

Explainable predictive model

StartToFind advertising targeting options by intent, proximity, and purchase history

Buy advertising space, by intent

In the app today

A quick look

Real screenshots from the working build, not mockups.

StartToFind Shops & Places grid with building, campus, and shop cards

Explore every shop & place

StartToFind floor-plan editor showing rooms, aisles, and doors mapped onto a real building plan

Floor plan → navigable map

StartToFind Buyer Interest & Advertising dashboard showing a predictive model and ad targeting options

Predictive advertising engine

See the full product walkthrough →

Paid Founding Pilot · Vienna

Help shape the product. Get 200% back in ad credits, plus 3 years of free analytics.

A limited cohort of Vienna shops is co-funding development with a one-time pilot fee. That fee converts into ad credits at a 200% rate and includes 3 years of free analytics once StartToFind launches publicly in your area. The first pilots get mapped in person by the founding team, no setup required.

See pilot details →

Vienna launch partners

XISTA Startup Austria