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Get rich consumer insights that drive strategy.

Reading minds is impossible. We offer the next best thing.

Want to get closer to your consumers?

Great customer experiences, effective marketing and cutting-edge innovation begin with understanding your audience. But consumers won’t always tell you what they need, and even when they try, it isn’t always accurate.

Anecdotes and surveys don't usually dig deep enough or show the full picture. Get the clarity you need through qualitative methods like Jobs-to-be-Done research. This approach is effective at understanding individual consumers or if you’re building B2B buyer personas.

We have million-dollar conversations.

Invaluable market and consumer insights come from expertly-run interviews. Interviewers must ask the right questions, probe at the right times and above all, earn a participant’s trust.

These principles define our approach to customer experience research. We use the Jobs-to-be-Done framework to uncover your consumers’ core needs and decision-making drivers.

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Cast & Hue came and listened with empathy. They were curious.
They talked to many different stakeholders. They took a 3-dimensional view of the challenges, and debunked a lot of our ideas and biases.
Chad Brough
Chief Experience Officer
Nebraska Medicine
Consumer Insight visual mapping session.Journey mapping during an in-person creative session.

What Jobs-to-be-Done research uncovers.

Jobs-to-be-Done helps you identify the goal that people are looking to achieve by purchasing your products or services. Understand the specific progress — or “job” — consumers want to get done and other factors that impact the experience. For B2B clients, it also provides the foundation for creating detailed buyer personas to guide a go-to-market strategy.

Finding answers to pressing questions.

Surveys provide surface-level information. Quantitative data can spotlight problems, but not the root causes. Our customer experience research uncovers the depth of insight you need to inform strategy.

What do our customers truly want?
What causes people to choose us?
What causes them to choose competitors?
Where are we missing the mark?

Learn how to deliver what consumers want.

Get clear, actionable consumer insights that you can use to fuel business strategy.

Create better
experiences

Resolve friction points and create more moments that leave a positive impact.

Strengthen your
messaging

Hone your marketing and communication to resonate deeply with audience needs.

Discover ways to
innovate

Unmet needs and market gaps can reveal hidden areas of opportunity.

Consumer Insights Case Study

Our insights informed P.F. Chang’s new marketing strategy.

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Brand Growth

The Challenge

With food delivery apps shifting the market, P.F. Chang’s needed to understand this new landscape to stay competitive.
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Our Approach

Through Jobs-to-be-Done research, we identified their customers’ needs and motivations. This included 44 consumer interviews and a national survey.

The Results

Cast & Hue delivered 7 needs-based personas and a journey map. P.F. Chang’s used these to build a targeted marketing strategy that resonated with customers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What methods do you use to gather insights?

We have found that qualitative research methods like in-depth interviews and journey mapping are the most effective ways to generate insights. Our interviews are guided by empathy, curiosity, and expertise in consumer behavior. We ask the right questions at the right times, building trust with participants to uncover genuine, actionable insights that surveys or focus groups might miss.

How do you ensure that insights and recommendations are actionable?

Our projects start with a stakeholder workshop where our consumer insights consultants use a range of exercises to ensure the research approach is aligned to solve organizational objectives. These objectives are the framework we center our final deliverables around and following our final presentation we usually host workshops to kickstart implementation.

How long does a typical consumer research project take?

The timeline varies based on the project scope, but most engagements, including recruitment, interviews, data analysis, and deliverables, are completed within 6–12 weeks. We work closely with you to establish a realistic timeline upfront.