We combine 25 years of market intelligence with a proprietary AI platform, IQVentis, to push the boundaries of time-to-market and expand strategic exploration capacity. We accelerate and secure marketing and innovation decisions.
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An ecosystem of six complementary areas of expertise in insight management, innovation, segmentation and brand strategy, deployable separately or combined to broaden analysis and secure marketing decisions.
AI augments team intelligence — it doesn't replace it. Human creativity and informed decision-making remain the engine of all sustainable innovation. AI multiplies possibilities.
Artificial intelligence does not replace methodology. Every analysis is framed by precise marketing research protocols, from insight gathering to strategic recommendation.
Our AI platform is not trained on your data. Your strategic information remains protected, secured and strictly siloed.
Measurable impact: every engagement delivers concrete, strategic deliverables, defensible at Board level.
Identifying real opportunity territories
Since its founding, Insightquest has placed consumer insight at the heart of its strategic approach, with rigor.
A vague insight produces vague decisions. Conversely, a rigorously formulated insight aligns marketing, innovation and R&D teams around a shared, actionable consumer challenge.
At Insightquest, consumer insight management is a strategic lever. It determines the relevance of concepts, the strength of brand platforms and the performance of innovations in the market.
At Insightquest, we define an operational insight as the structured combination of three inseparable dimensions, a precise context, a deep motivation and a tension factor.
This triptych, Context, Motivation, Tension, forms the foundation of our insight marketing methodology. Unlike a simple observation or a descriptive truth, an operational insight problematizes an issue. It doesn't just describe a behavior, it creates tension in a situation and opens a strategic opportunity territory.
Qualitative studies (physical ethnography, in-person/online groups, social listening) and quantitative research to identify consumer tensions, motivations and frustrations. Dedicated senior team, international partner network.
Quantitative evaluation of each insight's power. Prioritization by business potential, profiling of the most receptive targets, identification of the most promising opportunity territories.
Cross-referencing insights × market trends × brand capabilities. White space identification. Deliverable: prioritized and actionable innovation roadmap.
Our AI modules formulate structured insights from your documentary sources, studies and transcripts. Beyond summarization: real insights formulated according to our methodology.
From insight to concept in minutes, and testing in days
Co-building offerings with consumers is inherently a human endeavor. And the use of IQVentis modules during our engagements now plays a decisive role in amplifying and accelerating creativity.
Our augmented sprints and workshops combine proven creative techniques (sensory analogies, projective approaches, creative disruption and structured brainstorming) with dedicated IQVentis modules. AI generates, enriches and challenges concepts in real-time, condensing months of work into weeks and multiplying avenues in very limited time. Every step is structured to maximize creative quality and reduce time-to-market.
Rewarding the successful integration of generative AI into our co-creation processes, with measurable time-to-market results.
Creative techniques coupled with our AI modules. Idea generation as illustrated concepts, human × machine cross-enrichment. In-person or hybrid. Using our IQVentis modules frees up considerable time, multiplying angles while preserving team energy, allowing them to focus on trade-offs and strategic decisions.
From brief to proven concept in 2 to 3 weeks. Rapid iterations with integrated consumer/professional feedback. Concept + product + packaging in a single process.
AI evaluates each concept (strengths, weaknesses, differentiation), confronts it with your personas, then refines the wording, benefits and RTBs, in successive iterations.
Evaluation of your value propositions: resonance, strengths/weaknesses, commercial potential. Actionable optimization recommendations.
Steering the most valuable intangible asset
Brand is a company's most powerful intangible asset and the hardest to steer rigorously. We work across its entire lifecycle: construction, positioning, tracking, stress-testing.
Our approach combines the rigor of fundamental studies (semiotics, perceptual analysis, brand fundamentals) with the power of artificial intelligence.
We help you design, challenge and deploy your brand platforms internationally, from positioning to platform activation.
IQVentis enables us during our working sessions to build your brand platform in an assisted manner, then automatically challenge it, identifying weaknesses, inconsistencies, and suggesting reinforcement directions that even the best strategists might miss. Vision, mission, values, personality, expression territory: every component is tested and validated. And of course this approach is carried out in comparison with your competitors.
Complete construction: vision, mission, values, personality, expression territory, brand key. Participative methods combined with AI to test each component before validation.
AI analyzes your existing platform, identifies inconsistencies and vulnerability zones, proposes reinforcement and differentiation directions vs competition.
Longitudinal tracking: awareness, consideration, image, preference. Dynamic dashboards and alerts on significant changes.
Decoding your brand's signs. Neuro-marketing analysis of your visual and textual assets: measuring perceptual impact, coherence and distinctiveness.
Understand your targets to activate them better
A segmentation is only valuable if it's activatable. Beyond simply describing a market, our segmentations are designed for action. We analyze your targets 360°: profile, lifestyle, purchase drivers, customer journey and touchpoints. On the qualitative side, our ethnographic approach and analysis of consumer semantic fields enrich this vision. This level of precision guarantees successful activation.
A conviction is defended: a segment is only truly appropriate if embodied by a persona. However, to prevent a simple inert document from being shelved, these personas are made directly operational. They are integrated into two interactive tools:
• A persona creation module: from qualitative transcriptions or segmentation XLS tables, we formulate personas quickly.
• A Persona Bot: a tool through which the target's exact reactions are faithfully reproduced and simulated.
• A concept challenge module: a space where each idea is evaluated against all personas.
Personas are designed on the fly:
• From interview or qualitative group transcriptions: a factorial analysis then a segmentation taking into account the concerns and lexical field used by each segment
• From an XLS file of your own segmentation
Personas are elevated to true interlocutors.
• Authentic responses: we don't offer the long artificial responses of poorly designed synthetic personas.
• Precise mimicry: the interests, concerns and lexical field of targets are rigorously adopted.
• Field application: optimal anticipation of exchanges is made possible, particularly for sales teams.
A general idea is directly broken down into a granular proposition:
• Flash analysis: the most receptive profiles are identified in under a minute.
• Targeted optimization: the improvement levers needed to convince other segments are highlighted.
• Personalization: concepts are automatically rewritten to match each persona.
Ad-hoc U&A studies, behavioral and attitudinal segmentation. Each segment is profiled for direct activation: media targeting, retail, CRM.
Translating segments into media targeting, clienteling strategies and personalized retail recommendations. The bridge between research and action.
Training your teams in insight mastery and AI
One of the major barriers to marketing agility is team misalignment. When R&D, marketing, research and communications share a common language, everything accelerates.
Insightacademy© is our dedicated training organization, active since 2012. Over 9,500 professionals trained in 17 countries, in French and English, in-person, e-learning and hybrid formats. Our programs cover the entire chain, from insight identification to value proposition writing and now integrate generative AI mastery with IQVentis tools. Each program is adapted to the organization's level and sector. We do not design generic training, like our other services, our approaches are first and foremost the result of your ecosystem, because no two companies are alike.
In 17 countries, for R&D, marketing, research and communications teams, from major international groups to innovative SMEs.
Fundamental program: insight identification, formulation, evaluation. Theory, sector examples, hands-on exercises on your real cases, field immersion.
Mastering the insight → benefit → RTB → concept chain. Writing robust marketing concepts, agency briefs, committee project defense.
We strongly encourage our clients to participate in our training using current practical cases, preferably on ongoing projects to be as close as possible to real application conditions. A useful way to progress while advancing these projects.
Understanding the challenges of Generative AI in a CMI, Marketing, Communication and R&D context is now also part of the contributions we offer.
In-person (1 to 4 days depending on format), virtual classroom, e-learning modules, hybrid formats. Programs in French and English. Level and sector adaptation.
Strategic emergence for teams and leaders
What if the techniques used to steer major international brands could also serve to steer your own positioning and that of your team?
Kozapark was born from this intuition, carried by Sandra Bretagne-Chéritat, certified coach from ICN Business School and MBTI© certified, 20 years of marketing experience (L'Oréal, Opinionway, Kantar). Her research thesis on hybridizing strategic brand management and coaching gave birth to an original strategic emergence methodology.
The concept builds on brand anthropomorphism applied to individuals: the same tools that build a brand's positioning, differentiation and vision are deployed to help leaders and teams clarify their posture, impact and alignment. Today, this approach is augmented by AI to accelerate awareness and activate transformation.
Meaning: Define direction, purpose or vocation.
Emotion: Identify emotional drivers and relational dynamics.
Diagnosis: Assess strengths, weaknesses and current situation.
Benchmark: Position yourself relative to your environment (colleagues, market, competitors).
Gap: Measure the distance between current situation and desired objective or positioning.
Signature: Define your unique positioning, your personal or team trademark.
Actions: Implement a concrete action plan to embody and deploy this new strategy.
Coaching managers and leaders at key moments (onboarding, reorganization, new ambitions). Posture clarification, differentiation, identity alignment.
Coaching marketing, research, communications teams toward shared strategic alignment. Shared vision, ambition definition, cohesion, collective dynamics.
Mapping profiles and relational dynamics. Identifying collaboration levers, complementarities and friction zones.
Hybridizing coaching modules with artificial intelligence: reinforcing effectiveness, accelerating collective awareness, activating transformation.
IQVentis is not a ChatGPT wrapper. Each module is structured through our mastery and expertise in each of the territories we cover.
Insights and foresight to frame your strategy.
Structured insight generation from your sources.
Scenarios and trends to anticipate your market.
Activatable personas and conversational agents.
Creation of enriched and activatable personas.
Your personas become interactive AI agents.
Positioning, vision, expression territory.
AI-assisted brand platform construction.
AI challenges and strengthens your positioning.
From raw concept to tested and polished concept.
Real-time illustrated concept generation.
AI evaluation: strengths, weaknesses, differentiation.
Test each concept against your AI personas.
Refining wording, benefits and RTBs.
Packaging, activation and semiotic analysis.
Packaging concepts aligned with your concept.
AI packaging analysis: coherence, impact.
Semiotic and neuro-marketing analysis of your assets.
Communication prototypes calibrated to your targets.
FAQ, chatbot and videos to go deeper.
FAQ and Chatbot to help you.
Video masterclasses to go deeper.

Marc, founder of Insightquest, supports major companies in innovation and customer experience. A former director of international institutes and econometrics graduate, he leads quantitative approaches, facilitates value proposition workshops and develops advanced data analysis models for numerous clients. Marc works in French and English.

Sandra, managing partner, is an expert in brand strategy, communication and digital challenges. A graduate of Sciences Po and INSEAD, this former Kantar manager supports her clients through qualitative approaches. She is also a certified executive branding coach and MBTI practitioner. Sandra works in French and English.

Julia, senior client director, has been supporting international brands in innovation and marketing strategy since 2017. A management and INSEAD graduate, she has extensive cross-sector experience gained at Kantar and Brain Value. She excels in qualitative research, design thinking and training.

Rocio has been coordinating Insightquest's qualitative and quantitative studies since 2023 and contributing to their analysis. With ten years of experience at Nielsen in Argentina, then Kantar and Ipsos in France, this Buenos Aires political science graduate ensures quality and timely delivery. She works in Spanish.

Louise, marketing consultant since 2023, conducts qualitative and quantitative studies while facilitating various workshops. A dual graduate of Sciences Po Paris and Paris Dauphine, she draws on her strong advertiser background in product development at Yves Rocher and L'Oréal.
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