Find out if they want it, before you pay to build it
We measure real demand — search volume, competitor gaps, customer interviews — and tell you whether your product idea has a market. Including when the answer is no.
"We'll figure out the market after launch" is how budgets disappear
- Your confidence in the idea comes from your own experience, not from data.
- You don't know who your actual buyer is — so you're about to build for everyone.
- Competitors exist and you've never systematically looked at what they get wrong.
What we deliver
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Demand analysis
Real search and market data showing whether people are looking for this.
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Customer personas
Built from interviews and behaviour, not from a workshop whiteboard.
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Competitor analysis
Who’s in the market, what they charge, where the gap is.
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Keyword & channel research
Where your customers are, and what it costs to reach them.
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Pricing & positioning input
What the market will pay and what to say to earn it.
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Go / no-go recommendation
A clear answer, with the reasoning behind it.
Process
Four stages, ending in a document that says yes or no — with the reasoning and the data behind it. Most research projects run [3–5 weeks], and you'll know by the end whether this product has a market worth building for.
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01
Define
What problem you think you're solving, and for whom.
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Measure
Demand data, keyword research, competitor mapping.
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03
Talk
Interviews with real potential customers in your target segment.
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Report
A decision document — not a slide deck that ends in "it depends."
We run this on ourselves first
Every product in our own portfolio went through this process before development. It’s also why some ideas never became products.
Who It's For
Research is worth paying for at exactly one moment: just before a decision that’s expensive to reverse. Three of those come up most often.
Founders about to commit serious budget to a first build.
The build is the biggest cheque you’ll write, and right now the confidence behind it comes from your own conviction. A few weeks of research is the cheapest insurance available on that number.
Companies entering a new market or vertical.
What works in your current market is exactly what misleads you in the next one — different buyers, different competitors, different reasons to say no. We find out what’s actually true there before you commit a team to it.
Teams whose product launched and didn't land, who need to know why.
Low numbers tell you something’s wrong but never what. We go back to the market and find out whether the problem is the product, the positioning or the audience — because the fix is different for each.
FAQ
Then you've saved a build budget, and we'll tell you what a viable version looks like. We'd rather lose a development project than deliver a dead one.
Usually [3–5 weeks].
Yes — most clients run research and UX strategy together to save a month.