Listen. Ask. Reveal.

Listen before you ask.

Most research starts by asking, with a survey. We start by listening to the conversations and content your customers are already sharing, away from you. Then we ask customers to understand more, and reveal it all in Living Insights.

Built by a researcher with 25+ years of Consumer & Market Insights experience.

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01 / The problem

Most research starts with the Ask.

A question comes up, and the first move is a survey. But your customers have already said a great deal about it, away from you. Most research never hears it.

02 / Our approach

Listen. Ask. Reveal.

Three steps, always in that order. We listen to what customers already say, ask customers to understand more, and reveal everything in Living Insights. We do every step together with you.

The Lemon cycle A ring around your business question. Listen leads to Ask, Ask leads to Reveal, and Reveal ends in a recommendation that leads back to Listen for the next question. At the centre Your business question Listen Ask Reveal Recommendation

Listen.

What your customers are already saying, away from you.

Ask.

Conversations with customers, to understand the why and find what's new.

Reveal.

Everything connected in Living Insights, with a clear recommendation.

Every answer raises the next question, so the cycle starts again.

03 / Listen

First, we listen to what customers already say.

Before we ask a single question, we listen to the conversations, content and customer intelligence that already exist out there. It's what your customers say when nobody is asking them, and there's a lot of it.

Forums Communities Blogs News and trade press Complaint sites Competitor websites Your past research
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04 / Ask

Then we ask, to understand more.

Listening tells us what to ask. Then we talk to customers to understand the why behind what we heard, and to find out what we don't know yet. Qualitative, quantitative or both, depending on the project.

We talk to customers in 3 ways:

Our researchers Conversations we run ourselves.
AI moderators Customised for each project, in any language.
Surveys When you need the numbers.

Or a mix of all 3, depending on what the research needs.

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05 / Reveal

Turn research into something you keep using.

Everything we heard and everything we asked comes together in Living Insights. Research shouldn't be a static report. Your team should be able to come back to it with new questions, next month and next year.

Living Insights
02 · Studio

Studio

Build the report, deck or one-page summary you need, when you need it, for whoever you're presenting to.

03 · Conversation

Conversation

Ask your customers' evidence anything, and every answer comes with its quotes and data.

04 · Sandbox

Sandbox

Test a theory before you commit to it, using the research you've got so far. You get the likely outcomes, how strong the evidence is, and what's still unknown.

01 · The foundation

Source

Every transcript, response and data point, anonymised and in context, with each finding linked back to its evidence.

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06 / The AI question

"But there are lots of AI research tools now."

Most AI tools make asking faster. We change what happens before you ask, and after.

The tools will keep changing. Listening first, and keeping what you learn alive, won't.

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07 / Why Lemon

Research technology built by a researcher.

People who run research rarely build the technology. People who build the technology have rarely run the research. Lemon does both.

08 / Founder

Curiosity is the job.

I've worked both sides of the table: the world's leading research and brand consultancies on one side, client-side insight at Reckitt and Abbott Labs on the other. The camera came everywhere with me. These frames are mine.

After 25 years inside some of the world's biggest insight teams, I knew how much of what we learned was trapped in reports and slow processes. So I built the research technology I wished I'd had.

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Borneo
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Tokyo
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Istanbul
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Cambodia
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Portugal
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At sea
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Dunes
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Singapore
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In bloom
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Singapore
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Up close
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Love, observed
09 / Thinking

Thinking out loud.

The latest from Lemon on LinkedIn: customers, research, and what happens after the report.

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10 / Contact

Let's start a conversation.

Tell us what you already know about your customers, and what you still need to find out.

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