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Consumer Insight, Applied
What we deliver

Customer proof for the
bets you can only make once.

A program for consumer leadership teams about to re-price, reposition, or launch a new line. You get the customer evidence behind the call — synthesized into a buying thesis your whole team can use. Not a deck. Not a study.

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The Program

Live signal to playbook.

We're not a substitute for a full-time hire. We run the program, separate signal from noise, and turn it into a playbook your whole team can act on. Not another deck nobody reads.

01 · Diagnose

Scope the bet.

We start with the decision on the table — the pricing change, the new line, the reposition — and design the program around it. Most teams skip this step and pay for it later.

02 · Fieldwork

Run the program.

20–40 deep interviews with the customers who matter, recorded and transcribed. We do the recruiting, the asking, the noticing. You stay focused on running the company.

03 · Install

Synthesize the proof.

Every claim ties back to a customer voice. You get a buying thesis your whole team can act on — not a 60-slide deck nobody reads.

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The "we already know our customer" trap, illustrated.

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N° 010
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What twenty haircare founders actually have in common.

Pulled the synthesis from four engagements in one category. The shared thread isn't the customer — it's the same wrong assumption about where loyalty comes from.

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N° 009
Methodology

Stop asking customers what they want. Ask them what they almost left for.

The single question that has produced more usable insight than any other in the last hundred interviews. Free, in this issue.

Mar 20, 2026 Read →
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Lorel SimEx-D2C and consumer health GTM and Product operator. VaynerCommerce · Aegis Ventures · Upliv Health.
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Customer proof programs · consumer cos.Services · goods · tech · marketplaces