We are building Europe’s and world’s heating infrastructure, replacing fossil fuels with a system that saves money from day one. No buzzwords, just burners, boilers, pipelines, and proven results.
Carbon Neutral Heat. Zero Upfront Cost. The Math is Simple.
Where vision meets action.
Decentralized Heating Infrastructure
Utility & Asset-Backed Securities
A Distributed Energy Infrastructure Utility Generating Long-Term, Asset-Backed Recurring Revenue
Executive Summary
GI Group is a Bosnia and Hercegovina – based renewable energy contracting company focusing on green heating, pellet and wood chip production from waste, and long-term decarbonization projects across Europe, while offering modernisation of old facilities with zero up-front cost for end customers. The company prioritizes hiring youth and maintaining a 60% female workforce with equal pay.
The Problem
A Global System at Its Breaking Point
Europe is facing a forced renovation. Legally binding mandates require the phase-out of millions of outdated heating systems by 2030. The clock is ticking, but the problem manifests in two distinct, urgent ways.
In Southeastern Europe, the crisis is one of aging infrastructure. Buildings suffer from poor insulation and rely on obsolete, oil-fueled systems, creating a cycle of unreliable heat and volatile, unaffordable costs.
In the DACH, Benelux, and Nordic regions, the crisis is one of financial bleeding. Here, ultra-high energy prices make heating a massive and unpredictable operational expense. Businesses and municipalities are not just burning fuel; they are burning capital. This is not a mere cost to be managed, but a glaring investment opportunity.
The money is already being spent. It simply needs to be redirected from a recurring expense into a permanent solution.
Globally, the story is the same. Inefficient heating in cold climates drains capital and pumps out emissions, with the public sector and essential services left bearing the burden.
This isn’t just an environmental problem. It is a severe financial and operational crisis for:
- Schools & Hospitals struggling with unpredictable energy budgets.
- Municipal Buildings wasting public funds.
- Businesses in hospitality and industry watching their margins evaporate.
The market is legally and economically compelled to find a solution. The only question is who will build it.
Our Solution
Scalable Energy-Efficiency Model
Hybrid pricing for each country including delivery (Cost-Plus + Value-Based) tailored to client needs, pre-existing infrastructure, and building conditions. We modernize with biomass pellets, wood chips, heat pumps or geothermal and future tech (smaller scale solar or wind).
Key Benefits
No upfront costs for clients; we invest in upgrades (e.g., new systems, insulation, windows) and capture savings difference for recurring revenue. Client pays monthly for the heating delivered.
Dual Approach
Full renovations or no renovation but just boiler/heater swaps for max efficiency; targeted upgrades for faster ROI.
Competitive Edge
We take a easy approach, capture the object with a thermal camera, see heating loses, make all the calculations in 24 hours, while the contract is prepared, presented and signed we order the material and with our in-house team install it within weeks. No banks visits, no permissions needed, no endless waiting for approval. From deal to finish: done in 3 weeks.
A Better, More Credible Market Breakdown
Our Focused, Serviceable Market
We are targeting the biomass heating segment, specifically family homes, small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs), municipal buildings, and multi-family homes in the EU and Western Balkans.
- EU Annual Biomass Heating Equipment Market (2025): ~€5-7Billion
- This is the estimated value of new biomass boiler and pellet system sales and installations per year. This is a realistic TAM.
- Source: Aligns with data from the European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) and market reports.
- Our Initial Target Region (DACH + Balkans): ~€1.5-2Billion
- This is our Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM) where we will focus our first sales force.
- Our Goal (Year 5): more realistic:Capture of ~5% of this SAM Securing 5,000 – 6,700 contracts over five years across the entire EU region is a demanding yet achievable goal for a focused sales force. It sounds like a disciplined scaling plan, not a fantasy.
- This is the narrative of a pragmatic, numbers-driven founding team, not a dreaming and delusional one.
- This translates to €75-100 Million in Annual Revenue.
A 5% market share is an ambitious but highly credible goal for a focused company, making it a strong, defensible target for investment.
Why This is a Stronger Argument:
- It’s Defensible: Any of you can look up equipment market sizes. These numbers hold up to scrutiny.
- It Shows Focus: We’re not claiming to take on the entire global heating industry. We are targeting a specific, winnable segment that is realistic to our long-term goals.
- The Math is Clear: €1.5B market → 5% share = €75M revenue.
- It Highlights our Edge: We can then pivot to our real differentiator: Our unique advantage in capturing this market is our secured, cost-effective feedstock from the 18 million hectares of forest in Southeastern Europe, which gives us a supply chain MOAT no other European competitor can easily match.
- Market By Select Countries: China €60B (dominant in heat pumps/biomass), USA €30B, Germany €10B, Japan €8B, Russia €5B, Canada €5B, Brazil €4B, India €3B, Australia €2B, Turkey €2B.
Business Model & Competitive Advantages
Our Amazing Team
Overview
A world-class team of 6 experts with 80+ years’ combined experience. We’ve collaborated for 15-20 years on different projects, overcoming every challenge with mutual respect.
Leadership Bios
Sales Excellence
We are a team that has built together for 20+ years. We are here to build a company our own children will be proud of. We are looking for a partner who shares that multi-generational perspective.
Structured Investment Timeline
De-Risked Phases
- Seed Round (€7M, Months 0-6): HQ setup, pellet production facility, IT/brand, core team (incl. sales hires) 30+ pilot projects in DACH Region incl. first 2 branches in Austria and Germany.
- Series A (€10.2M, Months 6-12): 15 EU branches in Eastern Europe, 450 projects start, first installations, marketing scale, ISO/EN/carbon credit certifications.
- Series B (€20M, Months 12-24): additional EU markets with main focus Scandinavia/UK, 1.000+ pellet/50+ heat pump projects, O&M infrastructure.
Each building, vehicle, and project adds secured value to the company. Installations remain our property under 25-year contracts, serving as long-term collateral and revenue security.
Revisited Financial Milestones
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total Revenue (25 Years) | EUR 2.8B+ |
| Total Gros Profit | EUR 2.0B+ |
| Brake-Even Point | Year 2 |
| Full ROI for Investors | Year 4 Incl. 24 month grace |
| Average Annual Profit (Steady State, Post-Year 10) | EUR 100M+ |
Break-Even: Year 2
Full ROI: Year 4
(incl. 24-month grace)
€100M+
Average Annual Profit
Average Annual Profit
Trajectory
This is built on signing 5,000 contracts to achieve €75M in annual revenue by Year 5.
- Year 1: €5M+ revenue (Foundational contracts & pilot scale)
- Year 2: €20M+ revenue (Break-even achieved through operational scale)
- Year 3-5: Scaling to €75M annual run rate (Market leadership)
The Foundation
This accelerated path is possible because our model turns each signed contract into a profitable, long-term asset from day one. We are not building a company that hopes to be profitable someday. We are building a cash-flow engine from the start.
The math is clear, the model is proven, and the execution is underway. This is the blueprint for a fundamental infrastructure business, not a speculative bet.
Long-Term Growth
Reinvestment loop for exponential scalability; global potential for ultra-profitability.
Risk Mitigation & Why Invest
Our Unfair Advantages: A De-Risked Model
Our business is built on structural advantages that are difficult to replicate.
- Our Moat. Our #1 advantage is not the team or the sales plan. It is the vertically integrated model: we control the fuel supply (pellet production) combined with the customer contract (HaaS) and zero up-front cost.
- Supply Chain Control:We own the fuel source from waste to pellet, insulating us from market volatility and creating a permanent cost advantage no pure-installation or pure production competitor can match.
- Asset-Backed Revenue:Every installation is a company-owned asset generating a 25-year recurring revenue stream. This creates a growing collateral base that secures investment and makes our cash flows predictable and bankable.
- Built-In Community Alignment:Our commitment to a 60% female workforce and youth mentorship is operational policy, not PR. This builds immense local goodwill, simplifies permitting, and attracts talent, turning social impact into a competitive shield.
We are not in a race to the bottom on price. We are building a moat through substance, making competition irrelevant for years to come.
Investment Appeal
Our appeal is not in a speculative trend, but in the timeless method of replacing a broken system.
Your capital secures tangible assets, the heating systems we install which generate predictable, 25-year revenue streams. This is a high-margin, recurring revenue business built on solving an urgent need in a 25-year partnership to build a permanent, profit-generating legacy, not a short-term flip.
You are investing in the unsexy foundation of the future. The upside is monumental, the risk is managed, and the impact preventing millions of tons of CO₂ and building a more equitable workforce is built directly into the business model.
About GI Group & Mission
Who We Are
- We are builders.
- We are physically replacing fossil fuel heating systems with carbon-neutral infrastructure across Europe and the world.
- Our focus is on the unsexy essentials: family homes, schools, hospitals, apartments, and factories.
- We don’t just advise.
- We install, we own, we operate.
Our Mission
Make fossil fuel heating obsolete.
We do this with a model that requires zero-upfront investment from our clients, while generating predictable long-term profits for our partners.
We are building a permanent, profitable utility for the 21st century, and reinvesting every euro into scaling this essential transition globally.
Hire young people with 0 work experience, train them, pay them equal as well as focus on hiring 60% of female work force.
Founder Message
For the next 25 years, my mission is singular: to build the infrastructure that ends our reliance on fossil fuel heating.
This isn’t a new idea. Since 2018, I have lived this problem. I consulted with a leading Austrian company to learn their model, dissected every mistake, and personally financed the feasibility study to prove the concept but also helped in building a better heating for “kindergarten Marija Mažar” in Banja Luka. I have spent years consulting experts, rebuilding the business model from the ground up, and securing a real sales pipeline across the Balkans.
That entire journey was preparation. Now, with a proven plan and an unbreakable team, we are execution-ready. We have already done the hard work of thinking. Now we are building. Our persistence is our greatest asset, and we are deploying it to create a lasting planetary legacy and a new financial standard for what infrastructure can be.
Join us in building a cleaner, profitable, energy future. Ideal for impact-driven investors/family offices/renewable funds preferring long-term partnerships.
Q&A
Answer: GI Group is uniquely positioned at the intersection of Europe’s urgent shift to sustainable heating and the rising demand for turnkey, carbon-neutral solutions. With zero upfront cost systems, recurring revenue, and first-mover advantage, GI Group offers investors the rare combination of strong financial returns and measurable climate impact.
Answer: Revenue comes from fixed monthly payments for heating services. By combining renewable energy supply, maintenance, and carbon credit capture, GI Group builds a stable, high-margin, recurring revenue model.
Answer: Unlike traditional suppliers, GI Group offers an end-to-end energy contracting solution: zero upfront cost, fully managed installation, maintenance, and carbon neutrality. This reduces adoption barriers for customers and creates a unique competitive advantage.
Answer: GI Group primarily installs wood pellet and wood chips-based heating systems, optimized for efficiency and sustainability. These systems are carbon-neutral and designed for long-term reliability and low operational cost.
Answer: While other companies produce wood pellets or offer heating solutions, very few provide the full energy contracting model with zero upfront cost and recurring revenue on top of not owning a production facility, but rather rely on suppliers.
District heating without rural or full coverage.
No global competitor combines pellet manufacturing at scale with a consumer-focused, zero-upfront, monthly-fee heating contracting business. This is our edge — a true differentiator and disruptor.
Answer: Europe’s building heating sector represents a multi-billion-euro market transitioning rapidly to sustainable energy. With carbon regulations tightening, demand for turnkey, carbon-neutral solutions is surging. GI Group is well-positioned to capture significant market share.
TAM (Total Addressable Market): Over €1 trillion globally in heating upgrades and replacements, with billions of m² in need of decarbonization.
SAM (Serviceable Available Market): Roughly €100–150B across EU markets targeted by GI Group (15 countries).
SOM (Serviceable Obtainable Market): Initial target of 1–5M m² heating area, equal to €0.5–1.5B in project value within 10 years.
Answer: GI Group invites investors to participate in short monthly meetings to align strategy, review progress, and make key decisions together. This ensures transparency, collaboration, and shared direction for long-term growth.
Answer: By replacing fossil fuel heating with renewable, wood pellet systems, GI Group significantly reduces building emissions. Additionally, carbon credits generated from operations enhance financial returns while supporting climate goals.
Answer: GI Group offers predictable recurring revenue, strong unit economics, low customer acquisition barriers, and high scalability. Early investors benefit from first-mover advantage in a growing, regulation-driven market.
Answer: GI Group combines a scalable business model, early mover advantage, and Europe’s urgent need for sustainable heating solutions. Investing now positions you to capture significant returns while driving a carbon-neutral future.
Competition Analysis
Short, honest answers to our competitors: no large, global company exactly replicates GI Group’s vertically integrated combo (own pellet production + direct-to-home energy-contracting / zero-upfront HaaS at scale).
Here’s the precise picture and why that matters.
What the market actually looks like
- Big pellet players are mainly producers/traders who sell bulk pellets to utilities, power stations, or large industrial buyers — not to end-consumer HaaS programs. Examples: CM Biomass and Balcas are focused on production/trading and supply. CM Biomass+1
- Some full-service energy companies exist, but they don’t usually produce pellets. Many HaaS / Heat-as-a-Service companies (Aira, HoSt, Viessmann’s service offers) focus on heat pumps, installation, financing and service — they source fuels or equipment rather than running pellet mills. Aira Home+1
- There are local/regional companies that combine supply + service at small scale, e.g., installers who also deliver pellets or run local supply chains (Maine Energy Systems, SunWood, local biomass contractors). Those are typically regional and don’t own large pellet production capacity. maineenergysystems.com+1
- A few integrated energy companies exist that produce fuel and run energy plants, but they tend to operate at utility / industrial scale rather than offering consumer-facing subscription heating products worldwide (examples include Indeck’s broader biofuel / energy services activity). indeckpellets.com
- Large industrial pellet producers (e.g., Enviva) mainly target power producers and have faced financial and reputational pressure — demonstrating the risk profile of scale pellet production when detached from diversified downstream contracts. AP News+1
Bottom line (precise)
- There is no clear global competitor that both manufactures pellets at scale and runs a consumer-focused ‘zero-upfront, monthly fee’ heating contracting business across markets the way GI Group proposes.
- The market is fragmented: pellet production + trading on one side; HaaS / heat subscription (mostly heat-pump focused) on the other; and small regional players that combine delivery + installation locally.
Strategic implications for GI Group (actionable)
- This is an edge, a real differentiator and disruptor. Few can match owning fuel + installing + operating consumer contracts across territories.
- But vertical integration is capital & operationally heavy (pellet mills have scale, regulatory and sustainability constraints) – look at how big producers behaved (and struggled). AP News
- Near-term tactic: secure medium-term supply with exclusive contracts from reliable regional pellet makers while we scale our own production — faster and lower capex than building mills immediately. (Most successful HaaS providers source rather than produce.) Aira Home+1
- Long term moat: We can reliably certify sustainable pellets + guarantee supply to our contracted customers while running HaaS, that becomes a defensible offering few can copy quickly.