Customer Research Labs
Jodi Anne Roberts, founder of Customer Research Labs, seated in a wood-paneled room

Customer Research Labs

Accelerate your company's growth with deep customer research.

You know your business better than anyone. But do you know which customers offer your best path to growth, what would make them buy faster, and how much opportunity you're leaving on the table?

We find the answers in your own customers and business data, then turn them into a prioritized growth plan and a living Marketing Brain your team can keep using to guide marketing, sales, and growth decisions. 

Jodi Anne Roberts
Founder

The problem

Your marketing isn't working the way it should, and it's hard to say why.

You're putting real money into marketing, and it isn't delivering. Is it the message? The channels? The team? Something's off, and it's hard to point to, so you keep spending, and hoping the next thing lands.

The real issue

The gap isn't having data. It's having data that drives decisions.

Data that sits there

What you know sits scattered, not analyzed or sorted by segment, and the parts that matter most, you haven't found yet.

A survey that measured satisfaction, not what drives a sale
One blended average that hides your best customers
Guesses about what they actually want
Insight scattered across tools that never talk
Decisions that come down to whoever’s loudest
Data that drives decisions

Analyzed, organized by segment, and shared across your whole team.

Research aimed at who’s most profitable, and why
Named segments, sized and prioritized
What they told you, in their own words
One living tool your whole team can use
Debates your data can put to rest

Plenty of companies have data. Far fewer have data that understands their segments and settles decisions. That's the gap, and it's where good marketing quietly goes wrong.

The cost

And that gap gets expensive fast.

You spend on the wrong message, aimed at the wrong people, in the wrong places.

You go in circles on decisions nobody has the data to actually settle.

You send everyone the same message, because you’ve never mapped who’s who.

You chase the wrong buyers and let the right ones slip away, because you don’t really know your ideal customer yet.

You pour in time and money while everything you already know sits scattered across tools that never talk to each other.

Underneath, it's all the same problem: you're guessing instead of knowing.

What we do

We turn what you think you know into what you can prove.

We talk to your customers, survey them, and dig into your own data to find your best-fit, most profitable segments, the people worth building everything around. We map how they actually buy, and hand your team clear answers.

Not a folder of raw data. Not a deck of opinions. The real picture, and what to do with it. It's the shift from marketing on instinct to marketing on purpose.

01

Who to target

The best-fit, most profitable segments worth building everything around, named and sized.

02

What to say

The language your buyers actually use, mapped to the moments they decide.

03

Where you’re guessing

The assumptions in your current marketing that the data simply doesn’t back up.

Marketing Brain Builder

You don't get a report. You get a brain.

Most research ends up as a PDF someone reads once and forgets. Yours becomes a living Marketing Brain: a practical, AI-ready source of truth your team can ask questions of, create from, and keep using to guide marketing, sales, and growth decisions.

Grounded in your own data. Cited answers, not generic AI slop.

Marketing Brain Your customers
Which customers are actually our most profitable, and why?
Marketing Brain

Your Scale segment: the 10-plus-year operators closing 4 to 25 deals a year. They're 18% of accounts but 61% of revenue, and they buy on responsiveness, not price.

Sources segments/overview.md persona-scale.md
Ask anything about your customers…
Ask it anything
Get plain-language answers grounded in your customer research and business data, with the sources shown.
Put it to work
Draft emails, social posts, sales messaging, and campaign strategy using your customers’ actual language.
Keep customers in the room
Bring your ICP, segments, needs, objections, and buying behavior into every marketing and leadership decision.
Gets smarter over time
Add new interviews, surveys, and performance data so the answers become more current and precise.
What lives in your brain

Not just answers. The customer intelligence and marketing foundation your team needs, built from your research and kept current in one place.

Segments & ICP
Your best-fit customer segments, defined, sized, prioritized, and backed by evidence.
Buyer journeys
How each segment actually moves from first touch to yes.
Brand voice
Your customers’ language and your tone, captured so everything sounds like you.
Brand guidelines
Your voice, visual direction, positioning, and brand rules, all in one place.
Channel playbooks
Best practices on how to reach each segment across email, social, paid, SEO, and content.
Messaging & campaigns
What to say to each segment, and the campaigns most likely to move them.

Beyond marketing

The insights go further than your marketing.

When you truly understand your customers, it pays off across the whole business. The same research guides what you build next, shows which partners and channels are worth your time, and helps you tell a growth story that holds up to a future buyer.

Who it's for

Built for marketing teams, founders, and CEOs.

Whether you lead marketing, run the company, or both, you've got real questions about your customers and you want real answers. Something you can stand behind in a leadership meeting, and research you'll still be using months from now.

Why us

A decade of research, and a process that's locked in.

This isn't our first study. Over more than ten years we've built a repeatable way to find the answers that matter and turn them into decisions. We use your customers' words, not our jargon, and we'll always tell you what the research doesn't say as clearly as what it does.

Let's make your marketing intentional.