Market research and customer insight for teams that need decision-ready clarity. We help teams get to the truth quickly, rigorously, and in a way the wider business can trust.
London-based team. UK & international coverage. Clear, decision-ready recommendations
22 years’ experience • 30+ countries • 200+ projects delivered
TRUST & GOVERNANCE
Research you can trust
We work to recognised standards and hold ourselves accountable for responsible, ethical research.
CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION
Understand what drives choice
We uncover the motivations, needs and barriers behind customer decisions, so you can target the right audiences with more confidence.
Best for: targeting, growth strategy, positioning
CUSTOMER JOURNEY MAPPING
See where value is being lost
We map the full journey to show where friction builds, intent fades and revenue leaks, so you know where improvement will have the biggest impact.
Best for: drop-off, conversion, retention
MARKET OPPORTUNITY & SCOPING
Focus investment where it will pay back
We assess which markets, audiences and opportunities are most worth pursuing, so you can prioritise growth with stronger evidence and less guesswork.
Best for: market entry, expansion, opportunity sizing
PROPOSITION & BRAND DEVELOPMENT
Build something people genuinely choose
We test and refine your proposition, messaging and positioning to make sure it feels relevant, differentiated and commercially strong.
Best for: repositioning, brand development, proposition refinement
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Hear from our clients
We had our most profitable year ever, growing margins by 50% and delivering 4x the plan.
Richard Durant
BP Marine Fuel
Clusters have been a significant positive aspect in the establishment of the FWD brand during our early years.
Tim Oliver
Group Commercial Officer, FWD Group
Clusters developed a robust set of questions to classify key segments, customised solely for us.
Takafumi Asano
Manager of CEO Projects, European Tyre Limited
The brand and advertising tracker from Clusters provides the voice, opinion and perception of customers.
James White
Head of Brand Promise, Vision Express
We still use the segmentation provided by Clusters today to inform channel launches… and media choice in marketing communication.
Sylwester Molenda
Research, Innovation & Insights Director at Discovery Poland
Built around the realities of your sector
Every market behaves differently. We’ve spent more than two decades building deep expertise across the sectors we serve so that the research design, the questions we ask and the recommendations we put on the table are shaped by the commercial realities of your industry, not adapted from a generic template.
TV & MEDIA
Win the audience battle in a market where attention is hard won.
We help broadcasters and media brands understand how audiences watch, choose and stay loyal, supporting decisions around segmentation, channel positioning, scheduling, portfolio strategy and marketing. Our work includes MBC Group, Discovery Poland, Chello Multicanal and Turner, with results including a 25% audience share increase for MBC and 10% portfolio share growth for Chello.
RETAIL & SHOPPER
Decode the buying moments that shape growth and loyalty.
Retail research has to move quickly from insight to action. We help brands understand shopper behaviour, proposition strength, customer segments, product opportunities and brand performance across channels. Our work includes a 15-year brand and advertising tracker for Vision Express, alongside market intelligence for Quayside Clothing that helped sharpen positioning and contributed to a reported 60–80% increase in revenues.
TRAVEL & LEISURE
Understand how people choose, book and experience travel.
We help travel and leisure brands understand traveller segments, booking journeys, product expectations and growth opportunities. Our work includes segmentation for a leading international cruise brand across the UK and Germany, as well as research into holiday activity booking behaviour that supported an app later used by over 1 million people.
FINANCIAL SERVICES & INSURANCE
Build trust, relevance and standout in high-consideration markets.
Financial services and insurance brands often need to overcome low engagement, low trust and strong incumbent competition. We supported FWD from its early growth across Asia, using multi-market segmentation to identify receptive audiences, shape a distinctive proposition and guide market entry. FWD became a top-five most considered brand in Hong Kong within its first year and entered eight markets in its first four years.
B2B, INDUSTRIAL & COMPLEX MARKETS
Make sense of long buying journeys and high-value decisions.
B2B and industrial markets are often shaped by technical requirements, commercial risk and multi-stakeholder decision-making. We help organisations understand buyer needs, segment value, strengthen propositions and focus growth activity. BP Marine Fuel is a strong example here, with its segmentation work linked to its most profitable year, 50% margin growth and delivery at four times the original plan.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Strengthen offers in markets built on reputation, value and belonging.
Education and professional bodies need to understand what makes people engage, join, renew and perceive value over time. We support organisations with audience segmentation, brand tracking, proposition testing and pricing research. For the Institute of Directors, our work helped test membership propositions and price points, contributing to the launch of IoD Advance and giving the team clearer evidence around member value.
AUTOMOTIVE
Navigate considered decisions in a changing automotive market.
Automotive research needs to reflect long decision cycles, practical needs, trust and service expectations. We help clients understand customer segments, garage networks, aftercare behaviour, product opportunities and European market potential. Our work includes European Tyre Limited, where customised segment questions became part of ongoing market surveys, and a segment-driven growth strategy for a leading automotive parts and accessories retailer.
WEBSITE, APPS & DIGITAL PRODUCTS
Find the friction that stops users engaging, buying or coming back.
Digital experiences need to work for real users, not just internal stakeholders. We combine usability testing with audience insight to uncover friction, validate features and prioritise improvements by commercial value. Our work includes testing four health and wellbeing app concepts before launch, helping identify which propositions had the strongest potential to reach and engage the right audiences.
OUR METHODOLOGY
The thinking behind the work.
Better insight starts with understanding what really drives people. At Clusters, we look beyond surface-level demographics to uncover the motivations, behaviours, barriers and decision triggers that shape customer choice.
At the heart of our segmentation work is HuPa, our proprietary modelling approach developed to create more reliable, behaviour-led audience insight. It helps us identify how different audiences think, what influences their decisions, what holds them back and what kind of messaging they are most likely to respond to.
The result is research that does more than describe your market. It gives you clearer segments, sharper targeting and practical recommendations your team can use across marketing, brand, product and customer experience.
HuPa
The methodology behind our segmentation work
Built to uncover motivations, barriers and decision drivers with greater accuracy than demographic-only approaches
Share what you are trying to understand, prove or prioritise. We will give you a practical view on whether research can help, what the right approach might look like, and whether Clusters is the right fit.
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What this call will cover
We will take time to understand you, your role, and your organisation.
We will introduce our team, share our experience, and outline how we typically work.
We will talk through the different routes available to you and the advantages of each.
After the call
We will prepare a tailored pricing proposal based on your specific requirements.
Build a live view of where people drop off in the journey, the recoverable revenue at stake, and how the picture changes if one stage improves.
Journey Drop-Off Finder
Build a live view of where people drop off in the journey, the recoverable revenue at stake, and how the picture changes if one stage improves.
Start with your journey
Add a few simple inputs to sense-check where customers may be dropping off.
Use a realistic working figure for the same time frame you selected above.
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Choose a journey type and value basis first so this matches the route you are assessing.
Journey type
Choose a journey type
Period
Choose a period
Value used
Choose a value type
Value
Enter a value
Live journey view
Current vs improved view
Estimated lost revenue
We count everyone who dropped off at any stage and multiply by your value figure. That gives the total deal value that left your funnel this period — regardless of whether they would have bought. The range is a confidence band around that figure.
For later customer stages, the estimate assumes the value entered represents future customer value at risk through renewal, repeat purchase or expansion, not only the value of the first sale.
Waiting for stage volumes
Add the remaining stage figures to see the live estimate for the chosen period.
Annualised view
This projects the current pattern across twelve months. It assumes the same volumes and conversion pattern continue, with no seasonal shifts, improvements or decline.
Off
Projected over 12 months, using the same pattern.
Journey diagnosis
Not enough evidence yet
Complete the setup and remaining stage volumes to see the journey diagnosis.
Which later stages do you want to include?
You can still get a useful indicative result without every later stage.
Tell us what might be behind the drop off
These signals do not change the stage maths. They help us interpret what kind of friction may be behind the drop off and which research approach fits best.
Use the eligible renewal or continuation cohort for the same period, not the number of new joins.
Complete these context questions to unlock the full result, including friction hotspots and the recommended next step.
Review the full result
Journey view
Current vs improved view
Recommended next step
Complete the context questions below
Answer the context questions to see which Clusters service fits your situation — and why.
What this result suggests
Complete the context questions to see the interpretation.
What Clusters would do
Complete the context questions to see the recommended approach.
What you would get
Complete the context questions to see the expected outputs.
Likely friction hotspots
Complete the journey context to reveal the most likely causes of this drop-off.
Complete the journey context to reveal the likely causes.
Use these as working hypotheses. A fuller journey map would show which friction points are actually present, where they occur, and which customer segments are most affected.
What would you like to do next?
You can either test a directional improvement scenario using your existing figures, or move this into a fuller Clusters diagnosis.
Enter the scenario you want to test for this stage.
Use these to test a cautious, plausible or stretch improvement at this stage. They are indicative planning scenarios, not guaranteed outcomes from journey mapping.
Current vs improved picture
Current vs improved view
See what changes in the journey, what that is worth commercially, and why the full value may still sit elsewhere. Your current figures remain the comparison point.
What changes in the journey
See the local stage movement first, then the likely downstream progression if the same pattern held.
Improving this part of the journey
Waiting for a selection
Current progressing
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After improvement
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Additional throughflow now
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Expected additional outcomes
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Based on your current downstream pattern.
Commercial effect
Read the stage-level estimate, the anchor-value projection after carry-through, the remaining downstream risk and the net in-period view side by side.
Stage-level value at selected transition
Waiting for improvement
Stage-level selected-transition value before downstream carry-through.
Anchor-value projection after carry-through
Waiting for improvement
Projected through the current downstream pattern to the anchor or later commercial milestone.
Further recoverable revenue downstream
Waiting for improvement
Projected value that still meets weaker later stages if the current pattern holds.
Net indicative upside in-period
Waiting for improvement
Indicative in-period upside after allowing for later-stage weakness.
Current indicative drop off remains the comparison point. The wider-journey opportunity after improvement appears here as context only.
Expected-value planning view. Based on your current downstream pattern rather than a guaranteed outcome.
Why the full value may or may not be realised yet
Choose a stage and an improvement to see how the wider journey responds.
This explanation uses the selected stage, the current downstream pattern and the friction signals already entered.
The next study recommendation updates automatically once the current journey is complete.
Choose the part of the journey you want to improve to see the before-and-after effect.
Find your next best research move in just 3 minutes
Use our custom tool to discover where growth is being lost, opportunities are being missed and what to do next. We’ll show you the most valuable next move to unlock growth.
Find your next best research move in just 3 minutes
Find your next best research move in just 3 minutes
1Commercial context
2Targeting maturity
3Commercial symptoms
4Data and activation readiness
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Results
Commercial context
Frame the growth challenge, audience spread, and where performance starts to vary.
Targeting maturity
Assess how clearly the business defines, aligns, and activates audience priorities today.
Commercial symptoms
Surface where weak targeting may already be creating drag, cost, or missed growth.
Data and activation readiness
Gauge how ready the business is to act on clearer audience insight once it exists.
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SegmentFit Score
Your SegmentFit diagnosis
Primary recommendation
Recommended next step
A short Clusters conversation will help identify the right next move.