Our Stories

Some companies launch an initial product to address a very specific issue within their overall vision. For Sandboxx, their goal was to ease pain points across the career journey of military personnel. Their main product offering centers around easing communication between recruits in training on military bases with their loved ones. In looking strategically beyond their main product offering, Sandboxx wanted to figure out which pain point to focus on next - that’s where we came in!

Startups often have to assess their market performance and decide whether their current course is correct. Hyde Closet’s model was based on a business-to-customer online clothing rental service for men, similar to Rent the Runway. However, the question that loomed over the company was whether or not a different market approach would be more effective in driving business. Specifically, is there an appetite in the private sector to include Hyde’s services as an employee benefit offering? We conducted market research, qualitative notes based on a series of exploratory interviews, and drafted a R&D market testing survey for targeted corporate clients.

Especially since the SEC’s new sustainability reporting requirements, companies are more committed to understanding and improving their impacts across all emissions scopes. Voya Financial wanted to get an understanding of their overall greenhouse gas emissions from their offices in all possible policy scenarios - 100% in person, hybrid, or remote. Using built-in assumptions, we can build models that can help companies assess impact and ultimately drive decisions around key sustainability metrics.

All sorts of companies are meeting challenges around where to start when it comes to developing a sustainability strategy. Siemens India has broad, ambitious goals, but needed a framework to help them understand how they compared to market peers and how far they needed to go in order to become market leaders in sustainability. We put together guidance across all practices areas - environment, social, and governance - and allowed their team to understand how they compared across the India manufacturing industry in key metrics.

Developing talent is a key internal issue for most organizations and businesses and the service industry is no exception. With this project, Nando’s Peri-Peri wanted to understand how to cultivate employees through their benefits structure. In addition to survey work, they wanted to get an idea of employee attitudes and perceptions of the company, as well as a deep understanding of areas in life where employees need the most support. For this, dozens of qualitative interviews were had, followed by an analysis to help guide Nando’s benefits strategy.