Consumer research to generate and explore ideas | Highlight
Discover your next big product opportunity
Find unmet consumer needs, spot emerging trends, and concept test ideas — before you invest in development.
Identifying a winning idea is hard
- Your gut can only take you so far
- Your stakeholders are too close to be unbiased
- Patchwork consumer feedback doesn’t add up to rigorous research
- High-potential opportunities get missed
The result
Wasted R&D — and missed growth.
Idea screen4 concepts · 300 consumers
Ranked by top-box appeal
- Concept C — protein bites 86 → Pursue
- Concept A — savory granola 71
- Concept D — fruit chews 58
- Concept B — seed crackers 41
Highlight AI: Portability, not flavor, is the top appeal driver for Concept C.
Explore smarter with Highlight
- Testing early ideas with real consumers
- Comparing multiple opportunity areas side by side
- Using AI to surface unmet needs and trends
- Identifying and sizing your biggest upside
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Explore your opportunities
- White space opportunity identification
Map your category’s unmet needs to find the gaps no competitor has claimed. - Audience profiling
Understand exactly who your consumer is — habits, attitudes, and what drives their choices. - Digital discovery
Survey-only research that screens ideas, claims, and audiences before anything ships. - Co-creation
Develop alongside consumers, iterating concepts and formulas with the people who’ll buy them. - Concept testing
Put early ideas in front of real consumers to learn which deserve development dollars. - Product innovation solutions
Pressure-test innovation from first spark to shelf-ready, with consumer feedback at every step.
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