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Buyer Research

Who buys a thing, what they are solving for, how they decide, and what they pay.

4 credits·in-depth·about 2–4 min·10 domains

What it answers

The question Buyer Research is built for

Name the product or category. It segments the buyers, reads the jobs and needs behind the purchase, the decision process, willingness to pay, switching and loyalty, the customer journey, the voice of the buyer as recorded, and the unmet needs, with what the record cannot establish stated plainly.

Who reaches for it

Product managers, marketers, founders and anyone writing a positioning document who wants the buyer described from evidence.

What comes back

12 sections, on every run

These are the headings the result renders, read from the same promise the form makes before you spend a credit. A section that depends on what the record holds is rendered when it can be and never promised here.

01

The Buyers

02

Buyer Segments

03

Jobs & Needs

04

The Decision Process

05

Willingness to Pay

06

Switching & Loyalty

07

The Customer Journey

08

Voice of the Buyer

09

Unmet Needs

10

What the Record Can't Establish

11

Watch Signals

12

Open Questions

What you give it

2 boxes, 1 required

The market or offering whose buyers to read
required · up to 300 characters
Focus / angle
optional · up to 600 characters
Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know. Each one opens the form filled, in the General domain.
Buyers of Maxar and Planet satellite imageryCorporate threat-intel buyers of Recorded FutureGovernment buyers of NSO Group's Pegasus
What it will not do

The lines it holds

It does not invent a persona. A buyer need is on the page because reviews, surveys or filings document it, and willingness to pay is quoted from the record, not estimated.

Every claim carries its grade

A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up. How the grades work →

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question
Where it runs

Available in 10 domains

A domain may name it in its own words and price it on its own terms; each row is what that domain shows.

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Roles that lean on it

8 role guides suggest it

Consumer & market insights managerlead scanSenior product managerlead scanTravel tech / OTA product managerlead scanMarket research directorWin/loss & deal intelligence analystInsight agency founderPE diligence associateSolo market research practitioner
Try it

Run Buyer Research on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. The scan names its credit cost before it runs.

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