Customer iQ is the insight consultancy for insight-hungry business leaders
We're focused on smarter insight, designed and built for the...
clarity seeking insight hungry ambitious growth minded fast moving lean thinking strategy led audience aware commercially driven biased for action creative thinking outcome focused customer obsessed curious
marketing expert strategist business owner account director product lead creative decision maker tech builder board member innovator do-er founder team player brand builder commercial lead customer champion senior leader future leader
We deploy qualitative and quantitative research techniques to solve your customer and audience challenges.
Customer
discovery
Understanding context and identifying demand, needs, fears, jobs to be done etc.
Brand / creative
development
Unearthing audience insight to develop brand thinking, strategy and optimise execution.
Customer
feedback
Uncovering new insights and opportunities that can transform your products and services.
Ready to raise the level of your Customer iQ®?
Step 1: assess
You're wondering how customer insight could help your organisation to improve and grow?
First, you need to assess - via the Customer iQ test.
Discover your level of market orientation / customer-centricity in just 2 minutes with instant results.
I really like the principle. Even just asking myself these questions forced me to confront some things
Director, Design & Innovation
It's so common that we don't spot the gaps without being asked
Marketing professional
Once you complete the test:
Understand your current strengths and find new opportunities to be customer-centric for growth
Discover your persona type within the 'Insight x Action' matrix
Allow us to create your bespoke insight plan to build / develop your internal insight function
How are we different?

1. Understanding you first
We take the effort to really understand your organisation and its challenges.
This ensures we fully understand the challenge you are facing before designing an approach to research.

2. Smarter process
Adopting a lean, tech-enabled research process allows us to drive speed and efficiency.
This is how we rapidly deliver high quality, human driven insight at a much faster rate than our competitors.

3. Senior service levels
Our clients enjoy director level, highly experienced researchers from start to finish.
We don't run away when the research is done. We help you implement it (often where the real challenge starts).

4. Easier to work with
Perhaps above all else, we make it super easy for you to work with us.
Feedback from clients often reflects that we genuinely feel like we're part of their team.
Check out our case studies
Read more by visiting our case studies page.
How crafted insight helped reveal an independent brewer’s path to scaling the business
How fresh customer discovery helped this healthcare scale-up to major wins
How multi-territory insight gave this cat food brand the confidence to go bold
Developing frozen meal delivery service
How an innovative kids’ tech brand really discovered their customer
Developing online car buying proposition
Understanding gamers’ purchase journey
Marcoms development – proposition and creative testing
What our clients say
How likely would you be to recommend Customer iQ to a colleague, friend or associate?
"Very likely" to recommend (tracking since Nov 22)
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"Gideon was a delight to work with.
He went above and beyond and held our hand through the whole process"
He went above and beyond and held our hand through the whole process"
AnonymousClient Feedback Survey
"We had a very positive experience with Customer IQ. They really took time to understand the brief and audience and then delivered a methodology that met our objectives and budget. We were also impressed with the level of dedication to deliver a a reporting that brought actionable insights for our business"
AnonymousClient Feedback Survey
"Genuinely brilliant insight.
No flannel!
Highly recommend"
No flannel!
Highly recommend"
FounderCreative Agency
"Fantastic service. Gideon was flexible, highly responsive and incredibly knowledgeable. The data that we've gathered thanks to Customer IQ will inform our product roadmap and marketing efforts. Time and money well spent. Thank you!
FounderTech
"Customer IQ provided a very thorough, detailed and enlightening customer research which has ultimately been invaluable to our business. It was an absolute pleasure to work with the team and highly recommend them.
A massive thanks"
A massive thanks"
Business ownerLogistics
"I called Gideon late one evening with an urgent brief that needed a response within a very tight timeline. He was brilliant – not only suggesting what we needed but being flexible and responsive during the days that followed; delivering it on time and very effectively. I really appreciated his rigour, his can-do attitude and the result!"
CEOMedia
From the first minute Gideon was more of a partner than a supplier. He took time to understand the nuances of the brief and after that the work was completed rapidly and to a high standard. His enthusiasm was always there throughout the process. I'd highly recommend Gideon to anyone.
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Meet the founder
Gideon Barker
An Insight Director with 25 years of experience in the research industry
FOUNDER
Based in Bath, we are proud to represent the South West region of the UK