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Customer Research Built for Your Industry

The research questions are different, but the need is the same: customer intelligence deep enough to act on. See how teams in your industry use AI-moderated interviews that probe 5–7 layers deep — replacing slow, shallow research with always-on customer understanding.

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TL;DR

An AI research platform for verticals is software that runs the same scaled qualitative methodology across industry-specific research questions — SaaS user research, CPG shopper insights, retail path-to-purchase, financial-services trust, healthcare adherence, education enrollment, agency white-label studies, and private-equity diligence. User Intuition extends to 8 vertical configurations with the compliance footprint each demands — HIPAA-aligned for healthcare, FERPA-compliant for education, independent recruitment for PE diligence. Across 18,000+ vertical interviews run on User Intuition, the methodology stayed consistent across regulated and unregulated industries, replacing the 4-8 week vendor cycles vertical research has historically required. User Intuition's Customer Intelligence Hub indexes every vertical study against a shared ontology — cross-vertical patterns surface automatically when teams run CPG, SaaS, and healthcare programs in parallel. Each industry gets deliverables shaped to how that vertical actually decides — JTBD evidence for software, motivation hierarchies for CPG, trust-driver maps for financial services. The output is practical: vertical-specific customer evidence for product, marketing, CX, insights, and corporate development teams.

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Research Workflows for Your Vertical

Same methodology. Industry-specific lens.

Software

Research that fits inside sprint cycles — so you ship on evidence, not assumptions.

  • UX research with screen-sharing
  • Feature validation
  • Churn diagnosis by segment

CPG

Understand why shoppers switch, stay loyal, or abandon — beyond purchase data.

  • Shopper mission mapping
  • Brand switching analysis
  • Concept testing with verified purchasers

Retail

Go deeper than transaction data on channel choice, brand loyalty, and path-to-purchase.

  • Path-to-purchase friction
  • Channel preference research
  • Loyalty program effectiveness

Agencies

Research-backed strategy fast enough to scope into client engagements.

  • Message testing
  • Brand perception
  • Competitive positioning

Private Equity

Add customer voice to investment theses, portfolio monitoring, and value creation.

  • Pre-acquisition customer validation
  • Portfolio NPS deep-dives
  • Churn risk diagnosis

Healthcare

HIPAA-compliant patient research that surfaces care experience gaps and adherence barriers.

  • Patient experience research
  • Treatment adherence insights
  • Medical device user research

Financial Services

Compliance-ready research into trust drivers, churn psychology, and product switching behavior.

  • Digital banking UX research
  • Win-loss analysis
  • Fintech onboarding churn

Education

Understand why students enroll, persist, or leave — beyond satisfaction surveys.

  • Enrollment yield analysis
  • Student retention research
  • EdTech adoption insights
Why Teams Trust Us

Proof that matters to your team

Software

  • 24-hour turnaround fits sprint cycles
  • Screen-sharing captures real UX behavior
  • 98% participant satisfaction drives honest feedback

CPG

  • Verified purchaser interviews, not survey panel recyclers
  • Multi-layer fraud prevention on all panel participants
  • Global panel across 100+ countries

Retail

  • Omnichannel journey research across touchpoints
  • Brand switching analysis with real shoppers
  • Path-to-purchase mapping beyond transaction data

Agencies

  • White-label ready deliverables
  • Scale across client accounts
  • Evidence-backed creative recommendations

Private Equity

  • Pre-close diligence in days, not weeks
  • Consistent methodology across portfolio
  • Searchable intelligence hub preserves institutional knowledge

Healthcare

  • HIPAA-compliant research with built-in consent management
  • Patient experience insights in 24 hours, not 8 weeks
  • Longitudinal care journey tracking across touchpoints

Financial Services

  • GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001-aligned, HIPAA-ready data handling
  • Trust psychology surfaced through 5–7 level laddering
  • Compliance infrastructure that clears legal review in days

Education

  • Enrollment yield insights before the next admissions cycle
  • Retention research that goes beyond satisfaction surveys
  • Institutional memory that survives staff turnover
How It Works

Get started in minutes

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5 min

Design The Study

Every study starts with a research plan. Define your objectives and audience — our AI builds the discussion guide, screener, and timeline for your industry.

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24 hrs

AI Conducts the Conversations

Each participant completes a 10–20 minute AI-moderated voice interview. The AI moderator adapts questions in real time, probing deeper on industry-specific triggers.

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Seconds

Get Evidence-Backed Results

After interviews are complete, you receive a full research report with quantified findings, participant verbatims, and strategic recommendations tailored to your vertical.

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Ongoing

Create Compounding Intelligence

Every study feeds your searchable intelligence hub. Query past research, surface patterns across studies, and re-mine interviews for new insights — so your industry knowledge compounds over time.

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Methodology

Consistent Rigor, Industry-Specific Lens

Every industry gets the same research rigor: structured laddering methodology, consistent AI moderation, and evidence trails with full transcripts and recordings. What changes is the lens — the questions, recruiting profiles, and analysis frameworks are calibrated to your industry's specific decision contexts.

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Featured Research

Original Studies, Real Participants

User Intuition publishes original research on questions the industry keeps debating. Recent studies include synthetic data quality, the real reasons deals are lost, and what makes products go viral. All conducted on our own platform.

Original Research NEW · APR 2026

The Synthetic Mirage in Market Research

  • 5 failure modes
  • 117 real interviews
  • 90 synthetic interviews
Disengaged interviews
55%
0%
Pushed back on study premise
26%
0%
Hesitant about AI access
13%
0%
Tool-specific operational complaints
5%
0%
Range of willingness-to-pay responses
$0–$1,500
$25–$300

We compared 117 real voice interviews to 90 LLM-generated 'participants' across Claude, GPT, and Gemini. Synthetic data passed the smell test — and failed the comparison test on every dimension that matters.

12 min read · Read →
Consumer Research

OpenClaw: Why It Went Viral and What Consumers Actually Want

117 voice interviews on the consumer demand behind OpenClaw's 232K-star viral rise.

10 min read · Read → B2B Win-Loss Research

Why Price Is Almost Never the Real Reason You Lost the Deal

10,247 post-decision buyer interviews reveal a 44-point gap between stated and actual loss drivers.

9 min read · Read →
FAQ

Common questions

Both options are available for every industry. Import your own customer lists for deep experiential insight, recruit from our vetted global panel for independent validation, or blend both in a single study. For PE diligence, teams typically use the target company's customer lists. For agencies, panel sourcing is common when client customer access isn't available.

All participants — whether your customers or panel recruits — pass multi-layer screening including bot detection, duplicate suppression, and professional respondent filtering. For consumer and retail studies, we offer verified purchaser screening to ensure participants have actual category buying experience, not just stated interest.

Core deliverables are consistent: themes, sentiment analysis, verbatim quotes, recordings, and presentation-ready recommendations. Industry-specific framing is applied — PE teams get investment-thesis-aligned findings, agencies get client-ready reports, software teams get feature-level prioritization.

Most studies complete in 24 hours from launch. AI-moderated interviews fill in parallel — 200 conversations finish in roughly the same time as 5. Industry-specific recruitment (e.g., HIPAA-compliant patient screening, accredited investor verification, B2B decision-maker filtering) adds 24 hours upfront but does not slow per-interview turnaround.

Yes. User Intuition is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001-aligned, and HIPAA-aligned by default. For healthcare, BAAs are available via our BAA-covered sub-processors (full list at /sub-processors/). For financial services, ISO 27001-aligned controls plus SOC 2 Type II examination underway cover most enterprise procurement requirements. For LATAM consumer research, LGPD compliance applies. Full trust center at userintuition.ai/security/.

Yes. User Intuition runs research across CPG, SaaS, private equity, education, healthcare, financial services, media, real estate, and dozens more verticals. Our 4M+ panel covers 50+ industries and roles. The AI moderator adapts probing strategies to your vertical's specific decision dynamics — whether that's a 3-second shelf decision or a 6-month enterprise procurement.

AI-moderated research uses an AI interviewer to conduct 30+ minute conversations with 5–7 levels of laddering, adapted to your vertical. The AI adjusts probing depth, terminology, and follow-up questions based on industry context. A CPG interview explores brand perception differently than a SaaS interview exploring churn — the methodology flexes while maintaining research rigor.

CPG research needs to probe emotional triggers, sensory associations, and split-second brand recall — requiring specific probing for implicit decision-making. SaaS research explores workflow pain points, switching costs, feature prioritization, and relationship dynamics over longer buying cycles. User Intuition adapts interview depth and probing strategy accordingly. Both get results in 24 hours.

PE firms use User Intuition to interview 15–20 customers of an acquisition target within 24 hours. The research validates management's claims about customer satisfaction, surfaces concentration risk, identifies competitive vulnerability, and quantifies expansion potential. This customer-validated evidence protects the investment thesis and surfaces deal-breakers before the LOI — not after close.

Yes. User Intuition is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001-aligned, and HIPAA-aligned. SOC 2 Type II examination underway. Healthcare teams run patient, caregiver, and HCP interviews with sub-processor BAAs covering authentication via Clerk and voice via the HIPAA-enabled mode. Direct UI BAA evaluation is available on request for qualifying deployments. Data encryption, access controls, and audit trails meet enterprise security requirements.

Yes. EdTech companies and higher education institutions use User Intuition to interview prospective students, current learners, and program completers. Recruit specific segments — adult learners, first-generation students, career switchers, international students — and understand enrollment drivers, dropout friction, and career outcome expectations at depth.

Yes. Our 4M+ global panel includes B2B decision-makers segmented by role (CTO, VP Operations, Procurement Director), company size, industry vertical, tech stack, and geography. We recruit SaaS power users, PE portfolio company customers, healthcare administrators, and education leaders — typically within 24 hours.

Every interview across every study is searchable by industry, theme, participant type, and date. An agency running CPG, SaaS, and financial services research can search across all verticals to find cross-industry patterns. A PE firm can compare customer sentiment across portfolio companies. Knowledge compounds with every study.

Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey deliver quantitative breadth but lack qualitative depth. Their panels have documented fraud rates of 30–40% for CPG studies. User Intuition runs 30-minute AI-moderated interviews where fraud is structurally impossible — you can't fabricate 7 levels of laddering. For understanding why customers buy, churn, or switch, depth beats breadth.

User Intuition studies start at $150 — $25 per quality interview using your own audience, only billing for interviews that pass automatic Length, Depth, and Coverage checks. Per-quality-interview pricing means you pay for usable research, not failed sessions. A 5 quality interview CPG brand study, a 15 quality interview PE due diligence, or a 6 quality interview SaaS feature test all scale to your budget. Enterprise teams can run unlimited studies through annual agreements.

Published case studies include Turning Point Brands (CPG tobacco/alternative products), WhatsTheMove (consumer social app), and research examples across SaaS, private equity, and financial services. Book a demo and we'll share an anonymized study from your specific vertical.

User Intuition only bills for quality interviews — sessions that pass automatic Length, Depth, and Coverage checks. Misses aren't charged, no refund request required. Kantar reports researchers discard 38% of survey data on average due to quality concerns — competing platforms bill regardless. User Intuition customers don't pay for that waste.
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