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Competitive + Category Intelligence Services

Fuel strategy and action through competitive and category understanding.

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With a suite of proprietary and best-in-class, AI-powered tools, our team of marketing strategists, cultural insights experts and data analysts sifts through the noise to deliver focused, actionable category and competitive intelligence. We partner with leading businesses to answer dynamic and challenging questions, quickly synthesizing countless sources into clear, story-driven reports built to shape strategy, spur action and drive impact.

Our team dissects business questions to pinpoint the right approach and most relevant sources for analysis. Our category and competitive intelligence solutions can function as standalone engagements or be designed to bring new context and clarity to larger, ongoing research programs.

Explore Our Competitive + Category Intelligence Services

Online Anthropology

Derive rich, actionable insights from millions of organic online conversations about brands, competitors and industries, from overall sentiment to key consumer themes and pain points.

Cultural Foresight + Insights

Semiotics, ethnography and social analytics identify where culture is going and create rich context for innovation and a powerful vision for sustaining relevance.

Prior Research Synthesis

Distill or reframe historic research based on today’s pressing business questions and priorities. Our team brings fresh thinking to recontextualize and unlock new value from prior research.

AI-Enabled Secondary Intelligence

Leveraging AI-powered tools, our strategists distill publicly available data into actionable intelligence to drive strategy and inform decision-making.

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