We help startups use insights to grow at warp speed

Our philosophy: the way companies apply new insight to their actions is the ultimate driver of growth.

We help marketing and growth leaders systematically obtain and integrate right-sized customer insights so they can reach goals, overcome challenges, and mitigate unknowns.

When I began working at Zenefits, we wanted to grow our brand awareness through content marketing and PR campaigns centering around small businesses. Ana defined and led a series of projects that transformed data into useful insights to support our campaign goals. She also helped us refine and translate the insights into final content we could share with the world. Ana’s strategic approach to meeting our insights needs was critical to our campaign success.
— Jessica Hoffman, Former VP of Communications, Zenefits

Our Clients


 

Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists launching, evaluating, or refining early-stage products that need to strengthen market positioning or understand the right direction to pivot.

Public Relations Agencies + In-House PR Teams looking to augment campaigns with data-driven infographics or otherwise statistically supported content.

Market Research for Agencies

Marketing Leaders who need strategic clarity around their acquisition funnel - who your best customers are, how to reach them, and how to retain them.

Product Leaders looking for a strategic and structured way to know who your users are, what they really want, and how to build products that satisfy.

 

 Our Superpowers

Polls, Data Interpretation, Quantitative Infographic Data

Custom surveys, focus groups, user research, and quantitative infographic design.

Strategic Thinking

Strategic thinking, active listening, operational excellence, and speed.

Analysis

Outputs that enable action — recco’s backed by a clear data-driven story, so everyone’s aligned.

Survey Design

Superior pattern recognition, efficient project design, and endless support on your startup journey.

Ground Control Research

Process

  • First, we deeply assess your strategic goals and objectives

  • Next, creatively design a custom insights plan that will directly address business needs and enable you to apply the insights to the business

  • Then, conduct research - quickly

  • Finally, deliver insight-driven recommendations that enable rapid decision-making

Ground Control Market Research

Why We’re Different

  • Most market research firms rely on the client stakeholder- typically a non-expert in consumer insights - to define their projects and they merely execute upon the scoped work.

  • Conversely, our approach is based on establishing the business outcome your team needs to achieve and partnering strategically to design the most efficient insights approach (both your team and ours) that will result in confident action.

  • When it makes sense, we also offer unique, right-sized DIY support and services to our clients so that they can get to a measurable improvement — your best interest is our best interest.

  • Essentially - we invite you to ask yourself: how successful will your mission be without ground control? We’re here to help.