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Demand Intel

If you're building for what customers say instead of what they'll pay for.

Find out where demand actually lives, what blocks it, and how to capture it. Revealed behaviour analysed against transaction data, search patterns, and competitive movements. Not what people say they want. What they already spend on.

You get a demand map, a friction analysis, and a capture strategy with specific recommendations for product, positioning, and pricing. Every recommendation traces back to observed behaviour.

One senior consultant. Direct access. No handoff.

Built For

Product leaders about to commit a quarter's roadmap to a bet they can't fully evidence. The conviction is there. The proof isn't.

Founders hearing contradictory signals from customers, sales, and the market. Surveys say one thing. Revenue says another. Someone needs to settle it with behaviour data.

Growth teams watching acquisition costs climb while conversion stays flat. The funnel looks fine on paper. But demand is flowing somewhere else.

Boards and investors asking for evidence before the next funding round or market entry. You need a demand case that holds up to scrutiny, not a pitch deck that holds up to optimism.

What You Get

Transaction data, search behaviour, competitive movements, and substitute purchases analysed to show where demand currently flows. Not where people say it might. Where it does. You see which segments are spending, what they tolerate, and what workarounds they have built instead of waiting for a better option.

Because expressed demand and revealed demand are different behaviours. Surveys capture intention. This captures action.

Maps every friction point across four stages: awareness, consideration, purchase, and usage. Each one is a leak. Some you created. Some your market created. Some your competitors created. The analysis shows which friction points are costing you the most capturable demand and which ones are actually filtering for quality.

Because not all friction is bad. But you need to know which friction is protecting you and which is bleeding you.

Ranks every identified demand pocket by capturability: how much exists, how reachable it is, how defensible your position would be, and how quickly you could act. Not a list of everything possible. A ranked list of what is worth pursuing first, second, and not at all.

Because knowing where demand lives is only useful if you know which demand you can actually win.

Specific recommendations for product, positioning, and pricing based on observed demand. What features matter. What messaging lands. What price points the market has already validated through competitor behaviour. Every recommendation traces back to revealed behaviour, not conjecture.

Because strategy without evidence is just opinion with a deadline.

A structured approach to testing the assumptions your strategy rests on. Which assumptions carry the most risk. How to test each one quickly. What evidence would confirm or kill the thesis. Designed so you can validate before you commit resources.

Because the most expensive mistake is building for demand that was never really there.

How It Works

01

Scoping Conversation

What you are building, what you believe about the market, and what decisions are riding on the answer. What data you already have. What assumptions you are operating on. Which ones carry the most risk. This conversation makes sure we investigate what matters, not what is convenient.

02

Assumption Audit

Before looking for demand, we catalogue every assumption your strategy depends on. Market size estimates, buyer willingness, competitive positioning, pricing thresholds. Each assumption tagged as validated, partially validated, or unvalidated. The audit determines where to focus research: the assumptions that carry the most capital risk if wrong.

03

Find Revealed Demand

Revealed demand shows up in behaviour, not surveys. Where are people already spending? What friction are they tolerating? What workarounds have they built? We analyse transaction data, search behaviour, competitive movements, and substitute purchases. The demand map shows where money is actually moving, not where people say it might.

04

Map the Friction

Demand exists. The question is whether you can capture it. We map every friction point between demand and your offer: awareness, consideration, purchase, usage. Each one is a leak. Some you created. Some your market created. Not all friction is bad. Some filters for quality. You need to know which is which.

05

Design the Capture Strategy

With demand mapped and friction identified, we design the capture strategy. What to build. What to remove. Where to position. How to price. Every recommendation traces back to observed behaviour. Not hope. Not expressed intent. Revealed demand. Prioritised opportunities ranked by capturability, so you know where to move first.

Validate Against Evidence

Cross-check the capture strategy against the assumption audit. Do the original assumptions hold? Has the research surfaced demand patterns that contradict the starting thesis? Strategies built on invalidated assumptions get reworked before handoff. The loop continues until every recommendation is grounded in evidence, not the beliefs we started with.

06

Present, Handoff, and Validation Framework

We walk your team through every finding, every recommendation, and the logic behind each one. Questions answered live. Then full handoff: the demand map, the friction analysis, the capture strategy, and the ongoing validation framework. Everything you need to act. Nothing you need us for.

Pricing

Demand Discovery

£8,000

3 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 26 March

Start here if you need to see demand as it actually is, not as research presents it.

  • 3 weeks
  • Directional
  • Clear picture of where real demand lives and what’s blocking capture.
Discover the demand

Demand Strategy

£14,000

4 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 2 April

Choose this if you need the map and what to do with it.

  • 4 weeks
  • Actionable
  • Demand map plus specific recommendations for product, positioning, and pricing.
  • Includes Capture strategy, friction reduction plan, prioritised opportunities
Design the capture

Demand Validation

£22,000+

6 weeks

Start this week, deliverables by 16 April

This one’s for betting the quarter on the answer.

  • 6 weeks
  • Bankable
  • Board-ready demand case with validated assumptions and pilot framework.
  • Includes Customer interviews, validation experiments, pilot framework, 60-day review
Validate the case

Right Question. Wrong Data?

Your market isn't standard. Neither is the analysis. A 30-minute conversation tells us which demand signals to chase, which assumptions carry the most risk, and where your current research has blind spots.

Same price. Same timeline. Every hour pointed at the demand questions your next decision actually depends on.

Scope it together

No obligation. No pitch. Just specifics.

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