The wardrobe that isn’t being bought yet
British GLP-1 users are stuck in a bridging phase, not a spending one — belts, layering and Vinted while the body keeps changing shape.
Read the article →DCA transforms millions of authentic online conversations into structured market intelligence — faster, deeper, and more cost-effective than conventional research.
“Not what people say when asked — what they say to each other.”
DCA is a proprietary research methodology that uses AI to analyse large-scale datasets of authentic consumer conversations — scraped from social media, forums, and review platforms.
Unlike conventional social listening, which merely monitors brand mentions, DCA sifts, orders, and interrogates the data using qualitative research frameworks. The result is structured insight that reveals not just what people are saying, but how their experiences and attitudes are evolving.
Crucially, all promotional and influencer content is filtered out — leaving only the organic consumer voice. This is empirical research based exclusively on real customers, not synthetic personas or prompted responses.
From scattered posts to structured insight.
DCA bridges the gap between raw social data and actionable research. The output — personas, sentiment analysis, verbatim quote cards, and brand tracking — is indistinguishable from a conventional report. Except it costs less and delivers faster.
Every DCA project follows the same rigorous methodology, adapted to the platform, category, and research objectives.
Identify the social media platforms and communities where authentic consumers of your category are most active and candid. The right source determines the quality of everything that follows.
Posts and conversations are scraped at scale using automated tools — capturing tens of thousands of records across multiple platforms for a wide, representative sample.
All promotional, influencer, and spam content is removed. AI then analyses the clean dataset — sentiment analysis, thematic coding, persona development, verbatim extraction.
Findings are compiled into structured, client-ready reports including brand sentiment tables, consumer personas, verbatim quote cards, and concept testing results.
Managed insight from real online discussion, powered by Digital Conversation Analysis.
You already know the questions you need answered. I know where the honest answers are: in the millions of unprompted conversations people have every day on Reddit and MoneySavingExpert. Send me your survey, and I run it against synthetic datasets built from those conversations — then hand you the findings, fully analysed.
Based on what people do, not what they say they do. A survey tells you how someone answers a question. This tells you what they say when no one’s asking — the real language, concerns and decisions people share with each other rather than with a researcher. It’s the difference between claimed behaviour and actual behaviour, and it’s where the honest signal lives.
Most synthetic data is built from survey panels — modelled on the answers of people who are paid to fill in questionnaires. That means it inherits every weakness of panel research: a small, self-selecting group of professional respondents, telling you what they think you want to hear, in the artificial setting of a survey. You end up with a synthetic version of claimed behaviour.
Mine is built from something better. Instead of modelling survey-takers, I model real conversation — millions of ordinary people discussing their money, their insurance and their health with each other, unprompted and unpaid. No incentive to perform, no panel to skew the picture, and language that’s real rather than rehearsed. It’s the difference between a synthetic survey and a synthetic population. And because it’s drawn from live conversation, it moves when your market moves — so you catch new concerns and emerging trends as they surface, not months later.
This isn’t a fixed questionnaire. Because there’s no fieldwork to commission and no panel to recruit, you can ask whatever you need, however you need to — closed questions, open-ended ones, or a full discussion guide. Test one concept or twenty. See a result you didn’t expect, and probe deeper the same day. Change direction halfway through without starting again. There’s no cost-per-respondent meter running, so the only limit is your curiosity.
The same data will tell you not just what people think, but how they’re likely to react to what you’re about to say. Try your messaging, straplines, product descriptions and ad copy against the conversation and see what lands, what falls flat, and which objections come up — in your audience’s own words.
You can test creative too. Share an ad image or concept and get a grounded read on how it’s likely to be received, before a penny goes on media. It’s a fast, low-risk way to pressure-test communications while they’re still cheap to change.
The data never leaves me, and neither does the method. You get the interpretation, the quality control and the context that turn a dataset into a decision — with the privacy risk engineered out, because synthetic data carries no tie to identifiable individuals.
GLP-1 weight-loss medications and electric vehicles — two fast-moving markets, read from real, unprompted conversation and refreshed on a regular cadence.
A rolling read of how weight-loss medication is reshaping everyday spending — clothes, the weekly food shop, and eating out — drawn from UK Reddit and MoneySavingExpert communities.
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British GLP-1 users are stuck in a bridging phase, not a spending one — belts, layering and Vinted while the body keeps changing shape.
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Does the grocery basket shrink when appetite is suppressed, or just rotate? Protein wins, sugar holds out, and alcohol bends back.
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People still come — they just order small plates, skip the second drink, and quietly do the maths on the bill.
Read the article →The reports
How EV owners and prospective buyers really talk about running costs, charging, insurance and the switch — the full DCA report plus an illustrated review of the wider evidence.
Two short introductions to Digital Conversation Analysis — what it is, and how a project turns raw online conversation into decision-ready insight.
Four real-world examples of DCA applied to different categories — each one following the complete process from raw social data to consumer personas, ad concepts, and real-world testing.
Example 1 of 4
Building the dataset — scraping and filtering authentic consumer conversations about weight loss drugs from Reddit and TikTok.
Example 2 of 4
Six empirically-grounded consumer personas built entirely from real social conversations — the Long-Hauler, the Food Noise Sufferer, the Transformation Celebrant and more.
Example 3 of 4
How the six personas are translated into six distinct ad concepts, each grounded in the language and framing of real consumer conversations.
Example 4 of 4
The final phase — testing six ad concepts against the consumer dataset to assess resonance, authenticity, and real-world performance.
DCA is the proprietary methodology of Momentum Research, a London-based consultancy with deep roots in qualitative and quantitative market research — including non-verbal emotional coding, focus groups, and concept testing.
DCA was developed to bring the rigour of conventional research methods to the scale and speed that AI now makes possible. It is not a replacement for traditional research — it is a powerful, cost-effective complement to it.
Uniquely, DCA isolates the organic consumer voice — filtering out all promotional and influencer content before analysis begins. The result is insight grounded entirely in real, unprompted customer behaviour.
Whether you’re a brand, agency, or research team — tell us what you want to understand, and we’ll explain how DCA can help.
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