About SUPRA

There's management consulting. And there's SUPRA consulting.

Competence is free now. Ask any model for a strategy and it hands you the same plausible answer it gives your competitors. Your organization then polishes that answer until everyone nods, and the lowest common denominator was never going to win. SUPRA is the opposite discipline. We keep your strategy above the mean instead of letting it slide back to it.

Why we exist

Every year, leaders bet billions on guesses dressed up as insight.

Our enemy is the say-do gap, the comfortable lie that people can explain their own behavior. Most companies don't fail from a lack of data; they fail because they believe the wrong story about their customer. We're not selling research. We're rescuing leaders from expensive self-deception.

It's about courage, not analytics. Clarity is what lets a CMO act with conviction, so our why isn't "we measure better." It's that we make courage rational. We give leaders permission to be bold, because they finally know what's true. And truth compounds: better products get built, capital flows to what people actually want, and less is wasted on strategy that was guesswork from the start.

SUPRA exists so that no leader ever again has to bet the company on what people merely say, instead of what actually moves them.
Dr. Frank Buckler and Prof. Dr. Axel Lippold analyzing causal decision data
What guessing costs

Truth compounds. So does its absence.

Ten household names. Ten high-stakes decisions built on the wrong story about the customer. None of them were short on data.

Ford
$19.5B written off chasing an EV curve customers never walked.
Meta
~$85B spent on a metaverse nobody asked to live in.
Peloton
$55B to $2B, mistaking a lockdown spike for the new normal.
Volkswagen
First German plant closures in 87 years, paced to demand that never showed.
Apple Vision Pro
Production halved. Even Apple overread the appetite.
GM Cruise
$10B lost, under $500M earned, on robotaxi demand that wasn't there yet.
Zillow
$500M lost, 7,000 homes bought on an algorithm that misread buyers.
Bud Light
$27B in value and #1 to #3, from one campaign that misread its own drinker.
Nike
$25B wiped out in a day, walking away from where its demand was discovered.
Intel
Passed on OpenAI, then fell 60% in a year. They didn't want AI. Customers did.
Every one of them had data. None of them had the truth about their customer.
The category we define

Supra is Latin for above.

An advisory built to keep your strategy above the mean, not regress toward it. It's also the root of the German Supraleiter, the superconductor that carries its full charge with zero resistance. That's the job: zero loss between customer truth and the decision.

Growth comes from a truth about your customers that neither AI nor your own experts can produce. We isolate the one lever that actually moved your number, not the ten that just moved alongside it. That is decision-grade evidence you can audit, surfaced through Deep Implicit Research and proven with Causal AI.

You don't need another strategy deck. You need evidence you can take to the board.

We don't take credit for standing near the growth. Our method isolates which single decision drove the number, before the client committed the budget.

100+
Projects delivered
$10B+
Value generated for clients
2008
Founded by Dr. Frank Buckler
The trust of category leaders
Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile Sonos Allianz P&G L'Oréal
Dr. Frank Buckler, Founder & CEO, SUPRA

Dr. Frank
Buckler

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Meet the Team

Growth advisory needs intuition earned through experience, and grounded in science. SUPRA is built on both.

Dr. Buckler founded SUPRA, the scientist dedicated to real-world impact.

Prof. Dr. Lippold joined with 20 years of management consulting, adding a rare insistence on scientific rigor.

Together, they work at the intersection of growth, pricing, and brand, uncovering the drivers that traditional advisors miss.

Advisory without science is guesswork. Science without intuition and experience is an ivory tower in PowerPoint.

Prof. Dr. Axel Lippold, Scientific Partner, SUPRA

Prof. Dr. Axel
Lippold

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SUPRA Insights Team, senior researchers, causal-AI analysts and behavioral scientists

Our Insights Team

Senior researchers, causal-AI analysts and behavioral scientists working alongside Frank and Axel across DACH, the UK and the US.

Senior Advisor Network

External specialists engaged for projects where deep category or methodology expertise is required. Each advisor leads a specific domain.

Frank Frohmann
Frank Frohmann
Pricing strategy & B2B commercial excellence
Philipp Haesili
Philipp Haesili
Brand strategy & consumer behavior
Patrick von der Gönna
Patrick von der Gönna
Innovation & market entry
Prof. Dr. Zi Wang
Prof. Dr. Zi Wang
AI-era consumer behavior & brand strategy
Start with clarity

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