Market & Macro Cluster: simulate demand, price indices and interest rates

Introduction: external factors shape your strategy

Whether start-up or enterprise — you’re never independent of the market. Volatile demand, fluctuating prices and rising interest rates can upend strategy in weeks.

• How does your business change as rates rise?

• What happens if demand drops suddenly?

• How do price indices affect your margins?

The cNode Market & Macro Cluster gives you answers: simulate demand, prices and interest-rate movements — and gain clarity on external risks and opportunities.

What is the Market & Macro Cluster?

Your simulation layer for external influences. It blends internal data with market feeds, indices and macroeconomic factors to produce realistic scenarios.

Core capabilities

• Demand simulations: market-volume and consumer-behaviour trajectories

• Price-index analysis: projections for inflation and sector indices

• Interest-rate scenarios: financing and cash-flow impact

• Explainability: clearly shows which external factors drive forecasts

Typical goal models in the Market & Macro Cluster

• Demand forecast — demand projections for products and markets

• Price Index projection — inflation and pricing dynamics

• Interest-rate scenario — simulate the effects of rate changes

• Macro Risk Index — overall assessment of macro risk

Your benefits

• Resilience: identify early which external factors threaten your business

• Planning certainty: test how rates or demand shifts will play out

• Strategic clarity: make external risks transparent to management and investors

• Agility: adapt strategy quickly to market and macro scenarios

👉 Example: “How does our runway change if interest rates rise by 2% in Q2?” — the Market & Macro Cluster instantly simulates financing, cash-flow and risk impact.

Real-world use cases

1. Start-ups: runway simulation under rate changes and demand swings

2. Enterprises: price-index scenarios for procurement and sales markets

3. Investors: assess portfolio exposure to macroeconomic risks

Conclusion: manage external forces — don’t just react

With the Market & Macro Cluster you can simulate external uncertainty — and make decisions that increase your organisation’s resilience.

👉 Want to see how markets, prices or rates affect your strategy? Start a Market & Macro pilot now.