Brand health tracking
Know where your brand stands, continuously and on autopilot.
For Brand, comms, CMO office
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.
The signature research each industry runs on, with a sample report you can read end to end.
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Original research with security practitioners, CISOs, IT and security leaders, turned into a branded, press-ready category report.
Earns analyst and press attention, arms sales with peer-sourced, defensible claims, and replaces a separate research and content spend.
First practitioner signal in hours. A publishable report in weeks, not a quarter.
Security buyers trust peer evidence over vendor claims. Original practitioner research is the category's credibility currency.
A state-of-the-category report, plus the positioning, messaging, and demand-gen assets that come out of it.
Feeds pipeline with research-backed content and sharpens positioning before launch. One platform in place of a research vendor plus a content agency.
A study live in about twenty minutes, insights in hours, campaign-ready assets in days.
In a crowded category you cannot out-spend, you have to out-understand. Differentiation lives in the buyer's own words.
Continuous shopper research on awareness, perception, and purchase drivers, plus the creative it informs.
Keeps brand and merchandising decisions grounded in current shopper sentiment, in place of an annual panel study and a separate creative brief.
Shopper signal in days. Brand-health tracking that updates continuously, not once a year.
Shopper preference moves faster than an annual study can track. Decisions on a stale deck cost real revenue.
A multi-brand brand-health tracker plus concept and claims testing, turned into ad and packaging creative.
Validates concepts and claims before spend and tracks brand health across the portfolio, in place of a panel vendor plus a CPG agency.
A concept and claims read in days. Continuous tracking from the very first study.
Consumer taste and competitive sets shift constantly. Continuous tracking beats a once-a-year brand study.
Win-loss and buyer-perception research, turned into board-ready insight, messaging, and sales enablement.
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.
First insights in hours. A decision-ready readout in weeks.
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.
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
Know where your brand stands, continuously and on autopilot.
For Brand, comms, CMO office
Test creative before you commit the media budget.
For Creative, performance, media buying
Find the words that move your market, before your competitors do.
For Product marketing, brand
Validate ideas before you build. Kill bad ones before they cost you.
For Product, PMM, innovation
Build a content plan from real audience demand, not guesswork.
For Content, demand gen, SEO
Primary intel from the buyers who actually evaluate you.
For PMM, competitive intel, strategy
Personas built from real conversations, not fictional composites.
For PMM, demand gen, ABM
Speak every vertical's language, with proof rather than guesswork.
For Vertical marketing, sales enablement
Price with confidence and package for conversion, backed by buyer data.
For Product, finance, RevOps
Know exactly what makes buyers say yes, and what makes them walk.
For Sales enablement, PMM, RevOps
Turn customers into advocates by actually listening to them.
For Customer success, CX, product
Understand why customers leave, before the next one does.
For Customer success, product, RevOps
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
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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
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
Hooks, headlines, ads, and landing pages ranked by the buyers you actually want.
Variant B wins with security buyers (illustrative)
One study becomes the report, the landing page, the posts, and the battlecards, all on message.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. Gather runs ongoing brand-health tracking across awareness, perception, consideration, and loyalty, updated as new research lands rather than rebuilt once a year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.