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Talk
by Original Minds

Real customer conversations. Read for your brand.

Talk™ by Original Minds holds in-depth conversations with your customers, by voice or text, many at once. We then interpret what we hear for your brand and your business.

Hear this conversation

You said you want to see what you’re paying for. What does that give you?

Listening · 0:06
Her words, spoken0:53

That I’m not being taken for a fool. I like to know I chose well.

What we heard24 conversations
Decided at the shelf, not at home
17 of 24 people
Asked the pharmacist before choosing
14 of 24 people
Want to feel like careful, informed buyers
19 of 24 people
Shopper · voice · no name kept0:43

“I couldn’t see what I was paying extra for.”

And the pharmacist. How much did her word count?

Our read · for MarlowSpecimen

The promise doesn’t reach the shelf. The pharmacist decides it there.

To consider · Give the pharmacist a reason to name Marlow.
The idea02

Every brand is chosen in a moment. Most brands never hear what happened in it.

Your customers know why they choose you, or someone else. Talk™ asks them properly, in real conversations, many at once, and Original Minds turns what they say into what it means for your brand.

Online, at home
After a workout
In the aisle
At the shelf
Why Talk™03

Depth at scale.

Real, moderated conversations, not surveys. Multiple interviews running side-by-side.

Weeks, not months.

From your question to our read, without a traditional research project.

For smarter decisions.

Everything we hear is read against your brand to help you make smarter decisions.

Each study builds on what we already know about your customers, so you never start from zero.

The difference04

Most research tools give you findings. We tell you what they mean for your brand.

AI holds the conversations. Expert analysts and strategists at Original Minds read them and stand behind the conclusion.

The promise doesn’t reach the shelfSpecimen

Marlow is chosen at home and lost at the shelf, where nothing on the pack shows what the higher price buys.

Evidence · “I couldn’t see what I was paying extra for.” · 0:43

To consider

Put one thing she can check on the front of the pack.

Specimen read · fictional brand · Original Minds
Hear one05

Hear a demo conversation.

An everyday supplements shopper, on her last pharmacy purchase

Voice · English · 1 min 30 · AI interviewer

Specimen conversation · fictional brand
0:00 / 1:30
Transcript
  1. AI interviewer · 0:00Thanks for taking part. I'm an AI interviewer. When and where do you usually buy your supplements?
  2. Shopper · 0:06At the pharmacy near work, on my lunch break. Mostly vitamin D, in the winter.
  3. AI interviewer · 0:12What are you hoping it does for you?
  4. Shopper · 0:15Gets me through the dark months without feeling run down. I've got two kids. I can't be off sick.
  5. AI interviewer · 0:22You said the pharmacy at lunch. What should be easy then, and what do you want to avoid?
  6. Shopper · 0:28It should be quick. I don't want to stand there comparing tiny labels. Last time I went in for the Marlow one, the one I've seen advertised, and came out with the pharmacy's own.
  7. AI interviewer · 0:40Why the pharmacy's own, in the end?
  8. Shopper · 0:43Same dose, half the price. I couldn't see what I was paying extra for.
  9. AI interviewer · 0:48You said you can't be off sick. What does staying well give you?
  10. Shopper · 0:52Calm, I suppose. Knowing it's covered, so the week doesn't fall apart.
  11. AI interviewer · 0:58And why does that matter to you?
  12. Shopper · 1:00Because I'm the one everyone counts on at home.
  13. AI interviewer · 1:04How would you like the people around you to see the way you handle this?
  14. Shopper · 1:09As someone who checks things properly. Not someone who buys whatever's on the poster.
  15. AI interviewer · 1:15Here's what I've understood. You want to stay well through winter without fuss at the shelf, because your family counts on you, and you want to be seen as someone who checks. What did I miss?
  16. Shopper · 1:26That's it. If Marlow showed me why it's better, I'd pay for it.

You get a short report and a readout with experts from Original Minds.

How it listens06

A conversation, not a form.

Talk™ interviews the way a good researcher does. It keeps your question in mind, listens to each answer, and asks the next thing that matters: what happened, why it mattered, what it gave them. It never leads, never names a brand, and never sells.

Every conversation follows the same path, through what people want, how they want it to go, why it matters to them and who they want to be. So 40 conversations add up to one clear picture, not 40 different chats.

What it replaces07

What Talk™ replaces.

Instead ofWith Talk™
Instead ofIn-depth interviews, booked one by one over weeks
With Talk™Dozens of one-to-one conversations at once, when it suits each person
Instead ofFocus groups
With Talk™One person at a time, so nobody follows the loudest voice in the room
Instead ofOpen questions at the end of a survey
With Talk™Conversations that ask why, and follow the answer
Instead ofA research report that stops at the findings
With Talk™Our read of what it means for your brand and the decision ahead

And what it doesn’t

Surveys that count.

Talk™ explains why people choose, not how many do. When you need to size a market or track a share, keep the survey.

Watching people in their homes or stores.

Talk™ hears how people describe what they do. It doesn’t observe them doing it.

What you can learn08

What you can learn.

Understand your customers

What you learn

What they’re trying to achieve, how they want it to go, why it matters to them, and who they want to be, for the segment you want to win.

What you get

A customer picture in their words: the outcomes that matter most, what to make easy, the reasons underneath, and what that means for your brand.

20–40 conversations

Understand a choice

What you learn

Why people chose you, someone else, or nothing: what set it off, what they compared, what almost stopped them.

What you get

The moments you win and lose, and what to change at each.

15–30 conversations

Explore a question

What you learn

The thing you can’t explain yet: a drop, a claim that isn’t landing, a new idea.

What you get

What’s really going on, with the evidence, and what to do next.

By arrangement

Keep listening

What you learn

How it changes over time.

What you get

Each study builds on the last, and changes show up as they happen.

Included in membership

What you get at 20, 40, 100 conversations

20
conversations

A clear picture of one group or segment of customers: what matters, why, in their words.

40
conversations

Where groups differ: what one kind of customer wants that another doesn’t.

100
conversations

Markets or segments side by side, or repeat later and see what moved.

Every study ends with a short report and a readout with experts from Original Minds.

Start with one question09

Start with one question.

  1. 01Why did customers choose us, or someone else?
  2. 02What matters most when they choose?
  3. 03Where does the experience let them down?
  4. 04How do they react to this idea or claim?
  5. 05What does our brand mean to them?
  6. 06What’s behind a signal we can’t explain?

On its own, inside a Relevance Diagnosis, or included in membership.

Who built it10

Built by people who needed it.

Talk™ was built by strategists who spent twenty years helping brands decide, and too much of that time waiting: weeks for research, piles of charts, and still no answer to why customers choose. Good qualitative research had the answers, but it was slow and costly. We built the tool we always wanted. The conversations are only the start. What matters is reading them well and turning them into clearer brand and business decisions, which is why Talk™ is part of a larger system at Original Minds, where every conversation adds to a living understanding of your customers.

Bring us the question you can’t answer yet.

Founding pilots open now.

Do people know they’re talking to AI?

Yes. Always, before they start.

What about privacy?

People choose text or voice. We don’t ask for names, quotes never carry anything that identifies anyone, and voice recordings are deleted after 30 days.

Can it tell us how big our market is?

No. Conversations explain why people choose. They don’t count how many.

Talk™ by Original Minds — conversations with your customers, read for your brand.