AI-powered customer research

Know why your customers choose what they choose.

Acumeni conducts one-to-one AI interviews with your real customers, asks intelligent follow-up questions and turns hundreds or thousands of conversations into decision-ready insight.

Built for banks, mobile operators, insurers, consumer brands, hospitality groups and public institutions.

AI follow-upsProbe vague or incomplete answers
15+ languagesInterview customers in their language
Live analysisThemes, sentiment and findings as responses arrive
Your customersResearch first-party customer populations
The problem

Traditional research usually makes you choose between depth, scale and speed.

Acumeni is designed to remove that trade-off by bringing interviewing, recruitment, analysis and reporting into one workflow.

Focus groups

Deep understanding, but usually from a small number of people and with significant coordination and moderator time.

Traditional surveys

Excellent for counting responses, but rigid forms often stop at what happened rather than asking why.

Paid panels

Fast access to respondents, but they may not be the customers who actually use your product or service.

What changes

A skilled interviewer in every conversation.

When a respondent says “the fees are too high”, Acumeni can ask which fees, compared with what, and what “fair” would look like. Open answers are then structured into themes, sentiment and comparable findings.

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Ask

Natural, conversational questions.

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Probe

Intelligent follow-up where needed.

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Understand

Themes, evidence and actions.

How it works

From one business question to a clear management answer.

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Define

Tell Acumeni what you need to learn, who you need to hear from and what decision the research must support.

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Invite

Reach selected customer segments through WhatsApp, SMS or other supported channels using controlled invitations.

3

Interview

AI conducts one-to-one conversations and asks follow-up questions where an answer needs more depth.

4

Understand

Acumeni organises responses into statistics, recurring themes, sentiment and decision-ready recommendations.

Built around real decisions

Different industries. The same question: why?

Acumeni Research is particularly suited to organisations that already have a direct relationship with large numbers of customers, subscribers, policyholders, guests or citizens.

Understand financial behaviour, not just satisfaction.

Interview verified customers about how they save, borrow, switch and decide. Segment by product holding or lifecycle stage and hear the reasoning behind every choice.

Product & concept testing
Pricing & fee sensitivity
Churn & switching drivers
Branch vs app preference
Digital adoption barriers
Customer segmentation

Understand why subscribers recharge, stay and switch.

Reach prepaid and postpaid segments, interview them in a conversational format and track changing perceptions over time.

Plan & bundle preference
Prepaid top-up behaviour
Network experience perception
Switching & leaving intent
Mobile money usage
Regular brand tracking

Understand why customers buy, renew or leave.

Explore policy choices, claims experiences, premium sensitivity and what genuinely influences renewal.

New product & cover testing
Premium sensitivity
Claims experience research
Renewal & cancellation drivers
Broker vs direct preference
Trust & brand perception

Hear from shoppers without the retailer in between.

Use QR codes, receipts, promotions or first-party consumer lists to invite shoppers into a research conversation about what they bought and why.

New product concept testing
Pack & price testing
Shopper behaviour studies
Usage & attitude research
Promotion response
Brand tracking

Give every citizen a voice, not just the loudest.

Consult residents through the phones they already use, support multilingual outreach and turn large volumes of citizen feedback into evidence-led findings.

Citizen satisfaction
Service delivery feedback
Policy consultation
Community needs assessment
Programme evaluation
Multilingual outreach
Start with one live question

Acumeni Customer Research Sprint

A paid, fixed-scope research engagement designed to answer one important customer question and demonstrate the value of conversational AI research before a wider roll-out.

✓Research objective and questionnaire design workshop
✓Defined customer segment and controlled invitations
✓AI interviews with intelligent follow-up questions
✓Themes, sentiment, statistics and evidence
✓Executive findings and recommended actions
✓Board-ready report and management readout
A different research model

From research project to continuous capability.

DimensionTraditional agency studyAcumeni ResearchWhy it matters
Time to insightOften measured in weeksInsights can update as responses arriveDecisions can be made while the question still matters
DepthDeep for a small qualitative sampleA conversational interview with each respondentUnderstand the reasons behind the numbers
Who respondsMay use recruited respondents or panelsYour selected customers, subscribers or citizensResearch the people who actually know your service
AnalysisManual coding and report productionAI-assisted themes, sentiment and summariesReduce time between response and interpretation
Repeat studiesTypically commissioned as a new projectCan be repeated on a scheduleMove from snapshots to continuous learning
DataDelivered at the end of the projectExportable data with integration optionsUse the research in your own reporting environment
Enterprise-ready approach

Your customer relationships remain under your control.

For banks, insurers, mobile operators and public institutions, research capability must be matched by appropriate governance. Acumeni is positioned to work within the customer's approved research, privacy and information-security framework.

Designed for controlled customer research

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Controlled participation

Use invitation controls to target the people the study is intended to hear from.

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Client-approved research design

The organisation remains in control of the research objective, questionnaire and audience.

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Role-based working

Structure access to support appropriate governance across research and operational teams.

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Data portability

Export research data for approved downstream analysis and reporting.

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Country-specific review

Deployment should reflect the applicable privacy, consent and communications requirements in each market.

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Cyber Essentials certified

ESJ Software Ltd is certified under the UK Government-backed Cyber Essentials scheme.

Frequently asked

Questions enterprise teams usually ask.

No. The core research proposition is conversational. Acumeni can ask follow-up questions, explore incomplete answers and turn open conversations into structured research findings.

No. Acumeni can complement existing platforms and agencies, particularly when you need deeper conversations at larger scale or want to repeat research frequently.

Yes. Research can be designed around defined customer segments, product holdings, lifecycle groups, locations or other approved targeting criteria available to the organisation.

Acumeni supports multilingual research. Important enterprise deployments should validate the required language combinations and terminology for the specific market and study before launch.

Start with one important unresolved customer question. A Research Sprint can scope the audience, run the interviews, analyse the findings and present the answer before you consider a broader annual programme.

Start with the question, not the software

What would you ask if you could interview 1,000 of your customers individually?

Bring Acumeni one live research question: a product decision, a churn concern, a pricing debate, a customer-experience problem or a new market opportunity.