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    Use cases

    Your Customer Intelligence,
    powered by Win/Loss insights.

    Four things Gather does, and they are the same loop. Research builds the truth, the truth becomes your core assets, the assets let you simulate and train, and all of it drives creative that performs. Then the results feed back in.

    By industry

    Built for your market. Grounded in your buyers.

    The signature research each industry runs on, with a sample report you can read end to end.

    Cybersecurity

    The category threat-and-trust report.

    Fortinet · SailPoint · CloudBolt · HiddenLayer · Synack · Eclypsium
    Report output

    Original research with security practitioners, CISOs, IT and security leaders, turned into a branded, press-ready category report.

    ROI

    Earns analyst and press attention, arms sales with peer-sourced, defensible claims, and replaces a separate research and content spend.

    Time to value

    First practitioner signal in hours. A publishable report in weeks, not a quarter.

    Why it is a must-have

    Security buyers trust peer evidence over vendor claims. Original practitioner research is the category's credibility currency.

    SaaS and AI

    The state-of-the-category report.

    Datadog · Envoy · Monotype · Invoca · Altana · Spara
    Report output

    A state-of-the-category report, plus the positioning, messaging, and demand-gen assets that come out of it.

    ROI

    Feeds pipeline with research-backed content and sharpens positioning before launch. One platform in place of a research vendor plus a content agency.

    Time to value

    A study live in about twenty minutes, insights in hours, campaign-ready assets in days.

    Why it is a must-have

    In a crowded category you cannot out-spend, you have to out-understand. Differentiation lives in the buyer's own words.

    Retail

    The continuous shopper and brand-health report.

    Belk · Empire Today · Quill
    Report output

    Continuous shopper research on awareness, perception, and purchase drivers, plus the creative it informs.

    ROI

    Keeps brand and merchandising decisions grounded in current shopper sentiment, in place of an annual panel study and a separate creative brief.

    Time to value

    Shopper signal in days. Brand-health tracking that updates continuously, not once a year.

    Why it is a must-have

    Shopper preference moves faster than an annual study can track. Decisions on a stale deck cost real revenue.

    CPG and consumer

    The multi-brand tracker and claims test.

    Bagel Brands · Gregory's Coffee
    Report output

    A multi-brand brand-health tracker plus concept and claims testing, turned into ad and packaging creative.

    ROI

    Validates concepts and claims before spend and tracks brand health across the portfolio, in place of a panel vendor plus a CPG agency.

    Time to value

    A concept and claims read in days. Continuous tracking from the very first study.

    Why it is a must-have

    Consumer taste and competitive sets shift constantly. Continuous tracking beats a once-a-year brand study.

    Financial services, insurance and healthcare

    The win-loss and buyer-perception report.

    Cover Genius · AccessHope
    Report output

    Win-loss and buyer-perception research, turned into board-ready insight, messaging, and sales enablement.

    ROI

    Uncovers why deals are won and lost and arms sales and leadership with real buyer language, in place of siloed win-loss and analyst subscriptions.

    Time to value

    First insights in hours. A decision-ready readout in weeks.

    Why it is a must-have

    In high-trust, high-consideration categories, understanding objections in the buyer's own words is the difference between a stalled deal and a closed one.

    01 · Research

    AI-moderated interviews. Research-grade insight.

    Qual and quant in one study. Emma designs it, interviews real buyers with follow-ups that adapt in real time, and returns a readout you can take to the board. Every stage of the funnel, in hours.

    Feeds 02: every study updates your core assets

    AwarenessUnderstand how the market sees you, and test creative before you spend.
    InterestFind the words, ideas, and content that pull buyers in.
    ConsiderationMap the competitive set, the real buyer, and the vertical, in their own words.

    Vertical-specific research

    Speak every vertical's language, with proof rather than guesswork.

    For Vertical marketing, sales enablement

    DecisionPrice on buyer data, and learn exactly why deals are won and lost.

    Purchase criteria and win-loss

    Know exactly what makes buyers say yes, and what makes them walk.

    For Sales enablement, PMM, RevOps

    Retention and advocacyKeep customers, grow them, and turn the best into advocates.
    02 · One customer truth

    The model gets smarter. Everything downstream follows.

    Every study, sales call, and verbatim compounds into your Customer Intelligence Model. That model is the asset. Out of it come the six documents your org runs on, and because they are views of the model rather than files someone maintains, they sharpen every time it does. A study expires. A model compounds.

    Feeds 03 and 04: the assets are what the twins and the creative run on

    Messaging house

    v31

    Gather's own, live

    Value propMake customer decisions with conviction.
    Pillar 1Continuous, not quarterly
    Pillar 2Research-grade, decision-grade
    Pillar 3One model, every function
    Change ledger · 4 edits since the last wave

    Category positioning

    v18

    Gather's own, live

    We rejectResearch as a quarterly project
    We believeCustomer truth should compound
    We name itContinuous Customer Intelligence
    From: survey tools and agenciesTo: a model tuned to your brand

    Buyer personas and ICP

    v24

    Gather's own, live

    PrimaryCMO, B2B tech, 200 to 2,000
    Job to be doneProve the story is landing
    CommitteePMM, insights, CFO on renewal
    Objection"Is AI research credible enough?"

    Competitive framing

    v22

    Gather's own, live

    FieldSurvey platforms, agencies, DIY AI
    Our frameThey hand you data. We hand you decisions.
    TrapCompeting on panel size
    Win/loss themes · speed cited in most wins

    Brand health tracker

    sample

    Illustrative wave

    Awareness+6
    Consideration+4
    Preference+1
    Driver · "runs it for us" is the top attribute

    Verbatim library

    sample

    Illustrative quotes

    "I do not want another dashboard. I want the work done."
    CMO, financial services
    "Six weeks for an answer means the decision already happened."
    VP Marketing, SaaS
    03 · Simulate

    Talk to your buyers before you talk to your buyers.

    Because the model is grounded in your real research, you can query it as digital twins of your segments. Pressure-test an idea, rehearse a pitch, or train a new rep in minutes, then validate what matters with real people.

    Grounded by 02, and low-confidence answers trigger a real study in 01

    Rehearse a pitchOnboard new repsObjection trainingPre-test a conceptScreen 20 ideas fastReach hard audiencesStress-test a launchRehearse analyst Q&A
    m
    mayank
    Push back on our pricing like a skeptical CFO would.
    DT
    CFO twin MID-MARKET SAAS
    Your per-seat model punishes us for rolling this out widely, which is exactly what you are asking us to do. Show me the number this replaces, or I am comparing you to doing nothing.
    04 · Creative

    Creative that is built to perform.

    The model writes on-brand, and every version gets pressure-tested against real buyers before you spend. You ship the winner knowing buyers already picked it.

    Next up: closing the loop by feeding live performance back into 01

    Test before you spend

    Hooks, headlines, ads, and landing pages ranked by the buyers you actually want.

    A52%
    B78%

    Variant B wins with security buyers (illustrative)

    Ship the whole set

    One study becomes the report, the landing page, the posts, and the battlecards, all on message.

    Industry reportLanding pageAd creativeLifecycle emailBattlecardsExec posts

    Start anywhere. It all compounds.

    Pick the job that is urgent this week. Whichever one you start with, it makes your Customer Intelligence Model sharper for every job after it.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Which industries does Gather work with?+

    Gather works across cybersecurity, SaaS and AI, retail, CPG and consumer, financial services, insurance, and healthcare. Customers include Fortinet, SailPoint, Datadog, Envoy, Cover Genius, Belk, and Bagel Brands, among others.

    What research use cases does Gather cover?+

    Gather covers the full funnel: brand health tracking and ad testing for awareness; messaging and positioning, concept testing, and content preference for interest; competitive intelligence, buyer persona and segmentation, and vertical research for consideration; pricing and packaging and purchase criteria or win-loss for decision; and customer experience, advocacy, and churn analysis for retention.

    What does Gather deliver for each use case?+

    Every use case produces a branded research report, the ROI case behind it, a fast time to value, and the ongoing voice-of-customer that keeps strategy and storytelling current. Each also fans out into campaign-ready assets like decks, posts, landing pages, and battlecards.

    How fast is time to value?+

    A study can be live in about twenty minutes, first insights come back in hours, and a publishable report typically lands in days rather than a quarter.

    How is this different from a research tool?+

    A research tool hands you data. Gather runs the research and turns it into the report, the messaging, and the creative your team ships, one platform in place of a research vendor plus a content agency.

    Can Gather track brand health continuously?+

    Yes. Gather runs ongoing brand-health tracking across awareness, perception, consideration, and loyalty, updated as new research lands rather than rebuilt once a year.

    Which research job should we start with?+

    Start with the decision your team has actually been arguing about, not the study that sounds most impressive. In practice the highest-return first studies are win-loss when your win rate moved without an obvious explanation, message testing before a launch or a repositioning, and churn research when renewals are slipping. If no decision changes based on the answer, that is the wrong study to start with.

    How long does one of these studies take?+

    Hours to days from a plain English brief rather than the four to twelve weeks a traditional agency cycle takes. General population and standard B2B audiences field fastest. Senior, niche, or regulated audiences take longer because recruiting is genuinely harder. Ask any vendor, including us, for a timed pilot on one real question rather than trusting a marketing page.

    Do we need a researcher on staff to run these?+

    No. You brief the question in plain English to Emma in Slack, Teams, or the web app, and study design, screening, fielding, and analysis run automatically with research and design experts reviewing before anything reaches you. If you do have researchers, they get faster rather than replaced, because the mechanical work stops consuming their week.

    What does a study cost?+

    B2B starts with an $8,000 pilot covering 100 real interviews, then annual plans at $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000. B2C starts with an $8,000 pilot covering 400 interviews, then $25,000, $50,000, or $100,000. One credit is one real interview or four synthetic interviews, and credits draw down across interviews and content generation so you choose the mix.

    How is this different from just running a survey?+

    A survey returns a number with no reason attached. A focus group returns a reason with no number you can defend. Gather runs both in the same conversation: the respondent answers the scale, then the AI probes the answer they just gave with a follow-up written from what they actually said. You get the percentage and what is behind it together, which is what makes a finding actionable rather than interesting.

    What happens to the research after the readout?+

    It compounds rather than expiring. Every study, sales call, and verbatim feeds a Customer Intelligence Model tuned to your brand, and the six core assets, messaging house, positioning, personas and ICP, competitive framing, brand health tracker, and verbatim library, are views of that model rather than documents someone maintains. The campaign work is generated from the same place.

    Can we use this for both B2B and B2C research?+

    Yes. B2B studies recruit by role, seniority, firmographic, and in-market status and cover win-loss, purchase criteria, messaging, competitive intelligence, personas, and pricing. B2C studies recruit by demographic, category behavior, purchase recency, and region and cover brand health, ad and creative testing, concept and flavor testing, shopper journeys, price and pack trade-offs, and lapsed buyers.

    How do you make sure the respondents are real and qualified?+

    Screening does more for data quality than sample size. Every wave runs profile verification, spam scoring, and speeder, straight-liner, and duplicate checks before responses enter the corpus, with screener and quota design set before fielding. A hundred verified in-market buyers tells you more than a thousand people who matched a loose demographic filter.