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MaxDiff — prioritize with proof: five design cards with the best pick marked with a checkmark and the worst with a crossMethods
Methods

What Is MaxDiff Analysis? A 2026 Guide to Best-Worst Scaling (and How to Run It in a Day)

MaxDiff forces respondents to pick best and worst instead of rating everything a 5 — producing a ranked priority list you can bet a budget on.

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Consumer Brain — halftone brain illustration with an orange accent on a warm gradient backgroundStrategy
Strategy

Continuous Consumer Research: The Customer Brain Replacing Quarterly Studies in Food and Retail

Network sphere of connected data points with two persona chat bubbles, representing a synthetic audience built from real consumer signalGuides
Guides

What Are Synthetic Audiences? A 2026 Guide to AI Personas in Consumer Research

Hundreds of AI-moderated interview sessions running in parallelMethods
Methods

Qual at Scale: The New Research Category Replacing Surveys and Focus Groups

Two research paths — synthetic and real — converging into a single insight loopStrategy
Strategy

Synthetic vs. Real Consumer Research: Why the Smartest Teams Run Both