STARTUP CASE STUDY

The civic intelligence platform for cities.

Cittopia turns fragmented public-sector data into measurable insight and meaningful partnerships between cities, regions and districts — with the agency behind every channel: Team Knocknock.

4 cities

Live profiles on cittopia.com today

88,000+

Open-data municipalities mappable in Europe

€392B

EU Cohesion Funds 2021–27

Client
Cittopia (Mazovia, Poland)
Stage
Seed round · Live with 4 cities
TKK Role
Digital strategy · Brand · Web · Investor materials
Year
2025 — ongoing
ABOUT THE COMPANY

What Cittopia does, in one breath.

Cittopia is a civic intelligence platform that gives cities, regions and districts a single, comparable view of how they’re actually doing — against their own past, against their neighbours, and against the EU goals they’ve signed up to. It runs on real Eurostat data, scores every city across nine UN SDG-aligned dimensions (the Pulse), and matches cities that should be working together.

THE PROBLEM

Cities are drowning in data — and starving for insight.

Eurostat publishes 350+ indicators per city. None of it lands in a non-statistician’s hands. Civic trust drops. Engagement drops. Participation drops.

WHY NOW

Three forces are converging. The window is open.

Record EU cohesion investment (€392B 2021–27), 88,000+ unseen municipalities across Europe, and a 14-point collapse in civic trust since 2018 — a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the intelligence layer cities need.

THE PRODUCT

One platform. Four lenses. Built for citizens, admins, regions and districts.

Each user sees the same underlying truth, presented in their language: a citizen wants to compare their city; a city admin wants to act on what’s slipping; a region wants to see the whole network at once.

THE PULSE ENGINE

A single score — backed by nine UN-SDG-aligned dimensions.

Pulse is Cittopia’s proprietary scoring layer. Every city gets a 0–100 score, broken down by Transport, Energy & Buildings, Waste & Circularity, Environmental Quality, Urban Policy, Social & Economy, Quality of Life, Education & Innovation, and Health & Wellbeing.

From a single city profile to a whole region in one view.

Warsaw — a real city profile

Live on cittopia.com today. Pulse score, trends, peer comparison, district drill-down, and Pulse-category radar.

Mazovieckie — the regional rollup

314 municipalities. 5.4M citizens. One pane of glass for cohesion-fund management, peer benchmarking and partnership matchmaking.

FOR CITY ADMINS

Where the work actually gets done.

City administrators get a working dashboard — not a dashboard for the sake of a dashboard. Pulse-driven KPIs, projects board, partnership recommendations, EU funds pipeline, district-level drill-down, and team management.

MARKET SIZE

A multi-layered opportunity — from district to region to nation.

€1.5B

TAM — global cities + regions, 2030

€312M

SAM — European cities + regions, 2030

€7.2M

SOM — realistic 3-year target by 2027

GO TO MARKET

From a strong local foundation in Mazovia to an EU-wide platform.

Anchor in Mazovia · expand to neighbouring cross-border partners · national rollout in Poland · cluster expansion across CEE · EU-wide deployment.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

The first end-to-end city collaboration platform.

Bloomberg Cities, UN-Habitat, CityPossible, OASC and Sister Cities each cover one part of the puzzle. Cittopia is the only platform that combines AI city matchmaking, sustainability scoring (CCFP), public-data transparency, partnership and know-how transfer, a Web3 trust layer, and the broader city-network ecosystem.

TRACTION

Live with 4 cities. Public profiles on cittopia.com.

Warsaw · Istanbul · Sofia · Varna — each with a public Pulse profile, real Eurostat data, and a working comparison engine.

ROADMAP

From a single city’s data to a global open-data network.

MVP foundation (Q1 2025) → engagement layer → onboarding pipeline → network growth → CTP token launch → token economy expansion → analytics + API → Smart City + IoT → global reach by 2030.

HOW TEAM KNOCKNOCK HELPED

From founder’s deck to investor-ready brand and product surface.

Cittopia came to us with a strong technical thesis and a working data pipeline. We provided the digital strategy and brand layer that turned that thesis into a coherent investor-ready story — and we keep it running as the product evolves.

Brand Identity & Visual System

Logo, the multi-dot “Cittopia” wordmark, palette, typography and the visual language used across the deck, the platform and cittopia.com.

Pitch Deck & Investor Materials

Seed-round deck design, financial-summary visualisation, market sizing visuals, pulse-engine explainer and traction storytelling — all made to brief.

Web Presence & Always-on

Cittopia.com positioning, public city profiles polish, social channels and the digital strategy that keeps the product visible to the cities and partners that matter.

Outcomes so far

See Cittopia in motion.

Browse the live city profiles, explore the Pulse engine, and read the case for civic intelligence — all on cittopia.com.