Delivering brand performance through human understanding
Industry-leading human insights
Our Human Understanding Lab helps brands to build strategies around human beings that deliver better business outcomes. And we do it better than any other agency we’re aware of.
Our experts in neuro, behavioural and data science combine with cutting-edge technology and tools to deliver human-centric insight and analytics, with greater emotional depth and faster speed of delivery.
We work with marketing, communications and digital teams to solve challenges, define strategy and drive performance across increasingly complex customer journeys – in short, we help brands to succeed in a fragmented, low-attention digital landscape by optimising the human experience.
The Human Understanding Lab team is integrated across our connected capabilities, inputting value, insights, and science into client briefs to drive effectiveness and conversion right across the marketing mix.
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AI-POWERED
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Meet LUCA, the ‘bringer of light’, our AI-powered platform which mines digital data (so that we don’t have to), putting a spotlight on current human insights for our clients – and enabling all of our agency teams to help brands deliver more accurate analysis, conversion and ROI.
To ensure content and comms strategies are effective, LUCA helps to identify the right people, the most influential individuals and organisations relevant to the brand for audience targeting, as well as delivering current insights on the emotional hooks, topics, themes and content the audience is actively discussing to find what genuinely moves and resonates with them.
As part of Human Understanding Lab, our LUCA platform helps brands to tap into emotional context, quickly delivering insights to support speedy decision-making and responsiveness to market opportunity. The AI-powered platform reduces the need for teams to manually research, gather, combine and analyse digital inputs, delivering insights efficiently back to brands to give them a competitive edge.
With a number of exciting developments in the works, the LUCA ecosystem is delivering the following capabilities for clients.
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Packaged potential
Applying our Human Understanding Lab takes B2C and B2B brands to a new level of performance. We offer the suite of packages below to support specific projects or campaigns, help prove the business return on investing in human understanding or pilot the introduction of new insights techniques across neuroscience, behavioural science or data science into your business.
MEET THE EXPERTS
Dr. Cristina de Balanzo
Brand Consultant & Neuroscientist
Cristina, PhD, strategic planner, scientist, researcher, consultant, speaker, lecturer and passionate about brands and brains. Always curious about human beings, but still trying to understand English humour and cricket, Cristina brings her expertise in neuroscience research techniques and academic knowledge to help our clients to better understand human behaviour and get to the heart of how people make decisions.
Dr. Andy Myers
Neuroscientist
With a background in cognitive neuroscience brain imaging (fMRI) and market research, Andy bring the worlds of neuroscience and market research together to better understand brands, brains and everything in between. With no-nonsense science, without the techno jargon, Andy seeks to better understand human behaviour to deliver ground breaking insights and enable effective change for brands.
Dr. Simon Collister
Director, Human Understanding Lab
Simon is an accomplished research and strategy consultant solving complex challenges through insight and creativity for some of the world's biggest brands, including multi-national corporations, international NGOs and governments. As Director of the Human Understanding Lab, Simon leads a 120-strong community of neuro, behavioural and data scientists, technologists and strategic planners, helping our clients to apply human understanding to drive conversion across the customer journey.
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