ECG
Enquirer Consulting GroupReachable Buyer Map
Prepared for SOFiSTiK ยท July 2026

The market, from the outside

The engineers who choose structural software, mapped.

The buyer roles and firm segments a trial download and a webinar cannot reach on their own, with how many of them are actually out there. Counts are deliberately banded, and describe the market, not any one company.

United States
3,000+

Bridge and infrastructure specialists

Bridge engineers, senior bridge designers, bridge design leads.

The segment where reference projects carry the most weight, and the same rooms the conference circuit meets a few days a year. A named-account approach reaches them the other 360.

United States
20,000 to 25,000

Engineering leadership at design consultancies

Directors and heads of engineering, chief engineers, engineering managers at engineering-services firms.

The people who approve a software switch, and who carry the delivery risk if the tools fall behind.

United States
50,000+

Principals and practice owners

Principals, managing principals and principal engineers across engineering-services firms.

The signature that signs. When the champion below has already made the case, this is where it lands.

United States
4,000+

BIM and VDC leaders

BIM managers, BIM coordinators, BIM directors, VDC managers. Exact-title count; the wider population is larger.

The daily users who champion a change, and the first people to notice when a workflow is better.

Italy
3,000+

The newest market's decision layer

Principals, technical directors, heads of engineering and BIM leads at civil and structural engineering firms.

A new subsidiary opens a market. A named list of these people gives it a running start instead of a waiting funnel.

Where we would start

Three openings, mapped to how this market actually buys.

1

Bridge-first

Open conversations with the bridge specialists between conference cycles, so the next event meets warm conversations instead of cold badge scans.

2

A running start for the newest markets

Give North America and Italy a named-account pipeline, researched engineer by engineer, running alongside the trial, the webinars and the partners. Nothing gets replaced.

3

Champion plus signer, same account

Reach the BIM lead who champions the change and the principal who signs it, in the same firm, so the trial that gets downloaded is the trial that gets bought.

What this becomes

In a working session, this map becomes a named list: the exact firms and the exact people, market by market, for you to mark right or wrong before anything is sent. You keep the read either way.

Built from public business registries and professional-network data. Counts are banded deliberately and describe roles and segments, never any company's internal numbers.