Your customers, prospects, and lapsed buyers may already know what your business needs to fix. The eMarketing Foundation helps you hear it, interpret it, and turn it into a decision-ready growth plan.
Research Sprints powered by ReadingMinds.ai voice interviews. SEO and GEO research powered by Visible1 and additional tools. All research is conducted by supervised MBA and master’s-level research teams. Reviewed by senior executives and experienced professionals.
Most businesses do not make expensive mistakes because they are careless. They make them because the market, the customer journey, and the competitive landscape are giving signals they have not captured yet.
I used to think research was a nice-to-have. I was wrong.
After launching more than 10 businesses myself, and helping clients launch more than 100 businesses, products, and campaigns through Didit, I saw the real pattern. The expensive mistakes usually came from hidden assumptions: why customers buy, why prospects hesitate, why lapsed customers leave, which competitors matter, and how the business appears in search, AI, and the buying journey.
Research is not what slows growth down. Guessing does.
That is why the eMarketing Foundation created this program. Supervised MBA and master’s-level teams, guided by senior executives, use ReadingMinds.ai and structured research to uncover decision-ready insights for your business.
We accept up to twelve new projects per month, and accepted projects are backed by our Decision-Ready Value Guarantee. What might it be costing you to keep guessing? Apply for a research slot and let’s see whether your project is a fit.
Businesses often guess what customers care about, why prospects do not convert, which competitors matter, why lapsed customers leave, and how the business appears in Google, AI, and the broader market.
This program is designed to replace those assumptions with customer voice, market intelligence, visibility analysis, and practical recommendations.
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Traditional research can be slow and expensive. DIY surveys can be shallow and misleading. Our model gives you a third option: ReadingMinds-powered voice interviews, supervised research teams, and senior executive interpretation.
ReadingMinds helps capture customer, prospect, or lapsed-buyer input at scale. The eMarketing Foundation team turns that input into themes, implications, recommendations, and a decision-ready action plan.
“The platform helps us listen faster. The supervised process turns what we hear into strategy.”
The research is conducted through applied teams of MBA and master’s-level students under the supervision of senior executives and experienced professionals.
The students bring analytical capacity, curiosity, and structured research support. Senior leaders help guide the scope, challenge assumptions, interpret the findings, and shape the final recommendations.
This allows your business to receive meaningful research while supporting the eMarketing Foundation’s educational and workforce-development mission.
We clarify the business decision, audience, assumptions, and research scope.
We use ReadingMinds-powered customer voice research, plus market and competitor analysis where included.
The team identifies buying triggers, objections, positioning gaps, visibility gaps, and missed opportunities.
You receive a decision-ready report with findings, implications, and prioritized recommendations.
Each project is reviewed before acceptance. Final scope depends on business question, audience access, interview volume, recruiting needs, complexity, and current team capacity.

Best for: businesses that want to understand why customers buy, hesitate, leave, or choose someone else.

Best for: businesses that want customer voice plus broader market, competitor, positioning, and growth-opportunity intelligence.

Best for: businesses that want to understand both what customers say and what Google, AI, and the broader market see.

Best for: businesses that want the full picture — customer truth, market intelligence, SEO/GEO visibility, and the real buying experience.
The Visibility Intelligence layer looks at how your business appears in Google, AI answers, content ecosystems, and competitor visibility.
The goal is not just to identify rankings. The goal is to understand how the market, search engines, and AI-driven discovery systems interpret your business — and what you should do next.
Apply for Visibility Intelligence →Customer voice tells you what people say. Secret shopper research shows what prospects actually experience when they call, click, inquire, book, or buy.
The Full Blind Spot Intelligence Sprint can include customer journey testing, response-time tracking, screenshots, timestamps, friction analysis, and lost-conversion opportunities.
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If your completed report does not provide meaningful, decision-ready insight based on the agreed research scope, notify us in writing within 7 days of delivery and identify the specific areas where the work fell short.
We will revise the work at no additional professional-fee cost. If we still cannot make it valuable, we will refund the professional-fee portion of your program fee.
To qualify, clients must complete onboarding, provide requested business context, approve the research scope, supply or approve access to the agreed audience or recruitment method, and participate in the final review process.
Platform fees, respondent incentives, panel costs, list acquisition, required purchases, travel, third-party data, and other out-of-pocket expenses are not refundable once incurred.
We do not guarantee specific revenue growth, rankings, conversion lift, customer behavior, AI visibility, or market outcomes. We guarantee the usefulness and decision-readiness of the research deliverable within the agreed scope.
This is not a template report or automated audit. Each engagement requires research design, ReadingMinds setup, audience planning, senior supervision, applied research-team support, analysis, and recommendations.
To protect quality, we currently accept up to twelve new research projects per month.
We review each project before acceptance because the guarantee only works when there is a real business question, a reachable audience or approved research path, and enough context for our team to produce useful recommendations.
Apply for a Research Slot →No. This is a program fee for a research engagement. Your participation supports the eMarketing Foundation’s educational mission, but you should not treat the fee as a charitable contribution unless confirmed by your tax advisor.
The work is conducted through supervised applied research teams that may include MBA and master’s-level students. Senior executives and experienced professionals supervise the process, review the findings, and help ensure the final report is practical and decision-ready.
ReadingMinds-powered voice interviews help capture more nuance than a simple survey. The platform helps collect customer input efficiently, while the Foundation team interprets the findings and turns them into recommendations.
No. We do not guarantee revenue, rankings, conversion lift, customer behavior, or market outcomes. We guarantee that the completed research deliverable will provide meaningful, decision-ready insight based on the agreed scope.
Each project requires senior supervision, research team capacity, research design, and audience access. We review projects before accepting them to protect quality and ensure the engagement is likely to create value.
Would it be unreasonable to spend a few minutes seeing whether your business is a fit for one of this month’s research slots?
Apply for a Research Slot →