Notes

Working notes on research practice

Longer pieces on synthetic respondents, research methodology, and how marketing organisations come to know what they think they know. Published first to The Knowledge Stack, roughly monthly.

Latest · 8 min read

What brings a new customer into a category?

First findings from First Occasions, a study of how people come to try something new.

October 2026
July 2026 · 14 min

Which Model Should Answer Your Survey?

July 2026 · 10 min

Roleplay or Reasoning?

June 2026 · 15 min

Experimentalist Innovation in Distributed Retail

May 2026 · 14 min

White Claw and the Story the Industry Told Itself

May 2026 · 10 min

Synthetic Data's Greater Potential

May 2026 · 15 min

The Homunculus Fallacy