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Consumers benchmark brand values and product technology of existing brands to map existing need gaps, create new ones and spot previously unrecognized product shortcomings.


Starts at the end-point -- recognition of personal goals & aspirations -- and backtracks the logic chain to discover the tangible product technologies that accomplish the abstract goal.


Discovery of breakthrough levels of innovation that lie beyond the ability of end-users to envision the technology -- or even the fundamental need -- it serves.


Avoiding the reason most breakthrough new products fail -- a disregard for the realities of the adoption curve and the early adopters that drive it.


Creating a new brand designed to jar prospects out of a habitualized repeat purchase of "the brand I always buy" and then -- and only then -- states its case.


Designing a new product that stops impulse buyers in their tracks and whispers "just-do-it" in the only place that counts -- the retail environment.


Leveraging the input of hi-volume -- and only hi-volume -- users to develop product concepts with built-in frequent usage and dedicated brand loyalty.


A consumer driven, do-it-yourself way to generate "big idea" concepts that fit corporate realities...in a hurry.


Overcoming the proverbial "failure to communicate" -- and the inevitable disaster -- that occurs when the concept says "apples" and the consumer hears "oranges."


When it comes to picking a winning concept from also rans, the difference between a qualitatively assisted guess and a statistical fact is only a 150 consumers and $10,000...the consequences however may run to millions.