Ghosts

For product leaders

Understand what people are really looking for when they choose a product.

There's a difference between what customers tell you they want and what buyers actually look for when they compare their options.

Ghosts shows the experiences and decisions behind real purchases: what sparks the search, what buyers expect, what they compare, what makes them hesitate and what makes one product the better choice. Go beyond feedback from the customers you already have.

The whole decision, start to finish

Where product teams look first.

  1. 1.The trigger

    What made them start looking.

  2. 2.Research

    Where they looked and what they wanted to know.

  3. 3.The shortlist

    Who they found, and who made the cut.

  4. 4.Comparison

    What they weighed, and what gave them doubts.

  5. 5.The decision

    Who they chose, or whether they bought at all.

What you’ll discover

  • Unmet needs

    The problems, frustrations and hopes that send people looking for a solution.

  • What buyers expect

    What people expect from the products and services they're weighing up.

  • Where competitors are ahead

    Which features and experiences make competing products more attractive.

  • Purchase barriers

    What creates doubt, adds friction or makes a buyer walk away from a decision.

  • Evidence for priorities

    Real buying decisions to point at when you choose what to improve and where to stand apart.

What every story on Ghosts has in common

  • Purchases can be verified

    Buyers can check a purchase with a receipt. Every debrief shows whether it's verified, so a checked purchase never reads the same as an unchecked one.

  • Anonymous to you

    Buyers tell it without their name reaching the businesses they talk about. That's why they tell it straight.

  • Told by the buyer

    The decision in the words of the person who made it, not a guess written into a CRM afterwards.

  • The whole shortlist

    Every business they considered, and how far each one got. Including the ones that never made it.

Build products around what people actually need, value and choose.