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Test account fees, product propositions and customer communications with your audience, before you go live

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What would make it worth paying?

£5/month

£5 a month

What is Electric Twin?

Electric Twin builds synthetic audiences from your customer data. Ask a question in plain english and see how your customers respond

Electric Twin builds synthetic audiences from your customer data. Ask a question in plain english and see how your customers respond

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Packaged account, £5 monthly fee

Savings rate-change message

New current-account proposition

We’re considering a £5 monthly fee for a packaged current account. Ask @Current_Account_Customers which benefits would make it worth paying for, what puts them off and how this differs by segment

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Illustrative workflow

Example questions, not customer research results. Start with the account proposition, compare responses by customer segment, then follow up on the objections

Example questions, not customer research results. Start with the account proposition, compare responses by customer segment, then follow up on the objections

01

Which benefits would make the monthly fee worthwhile?

02

What do customers think the fee covers?

03

What would stop them choosing the account?

Follow the first answer with a more specific question. Test the fee, the benefits and the wording separately

Ask your customers anything…

How we build your audience

Built from data you already have

We work with you to understand what customer data you have on hand, from surveys to behavioural data, to build your synthetic audience. Once we bring your audience to life, we run evaluations to measure its accuracy, so that you can check that their answers match what your real customers say

Built from your customer data

Evaluated via hold-out tests and other evaluation methodologies

Dr Ben Warner
Dr Ben Warner
Co-founder, former chief adviser on digital and data to the PM

@Current_Account_Customers

Example audience

Audience

Your current-account customers

Built from

Quantitative customer survey data

Validation

Checked against held-out research answers

Ready for follow-up questions

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What you can test

3 ways synthetic audiences can broaden your customer understanding

3 ways synthetic audiences can broaden your customer understanding

Which features would justify a £5 monthly account fee?

Pricing propositions

Compare fees and benefit packages to understand customer demand. Explore what different customer segments value, what they would question and why

Which savings account offerings would your customers choose?

New products and features

Put new concepts to the test with your synthetic audience. Test the proposition, then follow up on what customers find valuable or interesting

How will this rate-change message land?

Customer communications

Test how customers react to new announcements and messaging before you send them. Compare copy versions and explore customer reactions

A 2-minute walkthrough

How our customers are using Electric Twin

How our customers are using Electric Twin

Read how The Times lifted subscription retention, and expanded their research capacity by 10x

Chris Courtney-Smith
Chris Courtney-Smith
The Times

10x

more research, with the same headcount and budget

3 teams

3 teams

running research independently

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Go from question to answer in four steps

Step 1

Build your audience

Bring us your customer data and we’ll work with you to define the audience you want to understand

Step 2

Ask your question

Test a proposition, a fee or a piece of customer communication in plain English

Step 3

Analyse results

Look at the distribution of responses across the different customer segments

Step 4

Dig deeper into the why

Explore the reasons behind what your customers say

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your customer would say?

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your customer would say?

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your customer would say?