ALWAYS-ON QUAL PROGRAM

A continuous read on your consumers, chapter after chapter.

Conveo StoryLines makes it easy to continuously run AI-moderated video conversations on your brand's core questions.

Your consumer understanding compounds, you spot market shifts early & your research never lands late, so you can confidently lead what's next.

trusted by 400+ enterprise teams

What does it get me?

The market is full of plot-twists you wouldn't want to miss.

Markets shift all the time. You needed a good portion of luck & courage to spot & act on them with only ad hoc studies. StoryLines' continuous read lets you catch the plot twist & act on them.

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Oatly

Caught the "dairy guilt" conversation before competitors did.

$200M+

SCALED FROM A NICHE SWEDISH BRAND

Bowl of rolled oats beside a jug of oat milk

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Stanley

Noticed women adopting a tumbler it had stopped restocking, and rebuilt around them.

$70M → $750M

REVENUE, RIDING A TREND THEY SAW FIRST

Steel vacuum flask beside a picnic basket

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Liquid Death

Spotted that water needed a brand for young consumers.

$1.4B

VALUATION, WATER THAT NEEDED A BRAND

Glass of sparkling water on a dark table

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Crocs

Leaned into the customization community to revive a "dead brand".

$3.9B

REVENUE, FROM DEAD BRAND TO ICON

Pair of flower-painted rubber clogs

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CeraVe

Rode the dermatologist-skincare wave on TikTok.

+60% YoY

GROWTH, RIDING THE DERM WAVE ON TIKTOK

Minimal white skincare jars with cotton pads

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Abbott's Libre

Spotted that healthy consumers wanted to track blood sugar, not just diabetics.

$5B+

REVENUE, BEYOND THE DIABETIC MARKET

Glucose meter surrounded by sugar cubes

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Hoka

Spotted the "maximalist comfort" shift while Nike doubled down on lifestyle.

$1.8B

REVENUE, FROM NICHE RUNNING SHOE

Cushioned running shoes seen from above

Missed it

Bed Bath & Beyond

Missed the shift to curated, Instagram-driven home decor.

−70%

REVENUE LOST IN FIVE YEARS

Folded towels stacked on a white stool

SHIFTING

Consumer attitudes are changing…

THE NEXT PLOT-TWIST IS FORMING

Market examples from the public record, not Conveo studies.

How does it work?

Continuous qual at quant scale was impossible. Until now.

Imagine running daily focus groups. The cost and effort would be massive, yet that is exactly what Conveo StoryLines enables: the depth of a focus group at the scale and statistical rigor of a survey.

See the stories at the root of early trends on video. Every open answer is coded and counted, quantifying the why behind each shift and surfacing answers to questions you didn't know to ask.

What would you ask if you could talk to consumers every day? Conveo StoryLines becomes the baseline read from which you make informed calls on what to go research next.

CUSTOM CADENCE

Set the rhythm once.

Choose weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Conveo recruits, interviews, and cleans the data each chapter. Brief once and understanding compounds chapter after chapter.

TREND CHARTS

The score and the story, together.

Every tracked metric rolls up into a live chart. See which consumers moved, what they said in their own words, with the video evidence attached.

CHAPTERS REPORTS

Automated reports with every chapter.

When a chapter closes, AI synthesizes what moved into a digest with next steps and supporting video.

WORKED EXAMPLE • Brand StoryLines

A shared, compounding plot is a plot you can build on.

Understanding consumers starts with understanding their stories. From these stories, StoryLines emerge: one compounding narrative every team can read and build on. Pick a StoryLine below to see how a single program answers a different question for every team.

The StoryLine

Brand

  • Brand perception
  • Equity & positioning
  • Reputation & trust

Marketing

Awareness and consideration, every chapter.

“Is the brand gaining or losing ground?”

Innovation

White space in perception, spotted early.

“Where is white space opening up?”

Market teams

Local reads that compare, one shared method.

“How does my market compare?”

Brand team

Equity and positioning, tracked as they move.

“Is our positioning gaining ground?”

CX and product

Perception drivers tied back to experience.

“Which experiences hurt the brand?”

Leadership

One evidence base, chapter after chapter.

“What is the ROI on brand investment?”

See what StoryLines would surface in your market.

Book a demo and we'll show you exactly how Conveo StoryLines works for your category, audience and markets.

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What it unlocks for the business

An embedded competitive advantage radar.

The businesses that win understand their consumers better than anyone. Consumer understanding isn't a project, it's infrastructure: build it continuously and you move faster, make better decisions, and compound your growth chapter after chapter.

In conversation about StoryLines

Kees Kruythoff

Kees Kruythoff

27 years at Unilever

President North America · President Global Home Care

Niels Schillewaert

Niels Schillewaert

29 years in consumer research

Head of Research & Methodologies, Conveo

Professor of Marketing, Vlerick Business School

A negative reaction to one ingredient surfaced in a single market, small enough to miss. By the time it reached the numbers, the team was already chasing it. A veteran insights leader retells the miss that made the case for an always-on read.

With StoryLines

StoryLines is that always-on read. Because the conversation with consumers never stops, a signal like this surfaces while it's still one market wide, and the team responds in week one instead of chasing it a quarter too late.

The shift

From ad hoc research to consumer understanding infrastructure.

At Conveo we believe that truly, deeply understanding consumers is the first step to building great products, campaigns and therefore companies. To us, the future is clear: every company will soon run on Consumer Understanding Infrastructure. Our flagship StoryLines program is the first big leap in that direction. We're excited to have you be a part of that future with us!

From: a project

Brief

Study

Findings

End

  • One stakeholder, one budget
  • One business question
  • One point-in-time answer
to: a program

Read

Chapter 1

StoryLine

Chapter 2

Compounds

  • Multiple teams and senior stakeholders
  • A recurring consumer understanding need
  • A living intelligence layer that compounds

METHODOLOGY

Research rigor in every detail.

Hybrid AI-enabled methodologies only work when the rigor is built in. We poured more than 200 years of combined research experience at global brands into every detail of StoryLines, and today it runs at scale with a Magnificent Seven company.

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Charles Allison

Charles Allison · Your guide through the demo

Insights Lead, Conveoex-Instacart, ex-Starbucks

001 • DEFINE THE QUESTION

Your own methodology, always running.

StoryLines works alongside the programs your team already runs: brand equity, ad and creative testing, innovation, ethnographies, shopper research. You don't change your methodology. Every chapter builds on the last, compounding understanding your team owns.

002 • Run continuous conversations & observations

Real conversations. Depth of qual. Scale of quant.

Not surveys. Not synthetic data. AI-moderated video interviews that adapt and probe in real time, following each person's actual thinking, plus in-context observation: people show their routines, shelves and screens as life happens. Depth at a scale that quantifies the why: not “consumers feel this way,” but how many feel it and exactly what they mean.

003 • Detect patterns across chapters

AI does the grunt work. Researchers own the insight.

AI handles the moderation, analysis and synthesis. Researchers validate, interpret and sign off. What's left is the work that actually matters: shaping the study, finding the insight, bringing it to life.

004 • Act on living understanding

The market read that puts your team in every strategy conversation.

Instead of answering briefs, your team sets the agenda with what consumers are actually telling you. That’s the work insights professionals are trained for, and StoryLines finally gives them the scale to do it.

Questions, answered.

Conveo StoryLines is a guided, continuous research program. AI-moderated video conversations run continuously on your brand's core questions, so understanding compounds week after week instead of resetting with every study.

Trackers repeat the same closed questions chapter after chapter. StoryLines runs open conversations every chapter, so you get the score and the story together, and new behaviors surface even though no one wrote a question for them.

Every open-ended answer is coded and counted across hundreds of interviews, turning qualitative reasoning into metrics you can size, compare, and track over time.

Each new chapter is compared against everything that came before, so emerging themes, shifts in language, and fading drivers are flagged automatically as they form.

No. It works alongside the programs you already run, and includes brand equity, ad and creative testing, innovation, ethnographies, and shopper research.

No. The program handles the continuous legwork of sourcing the stories, while researchers shape the storylines, interpret, and sign off.

Yes. One of the world's largest technology companies runs the program with Conveo at around 2,000 interviews a month across seven markets, feeding marketing, product, and sales teams a monthly pulse on how people behave online.

Book a demo and we'll design the program with you. Most teams are live with their market within a couple of weeks.