Understand Your Market.
Understand Your Work.
AI is changing your market and your work. We help you Act With Clarity®
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AI is changing your business from both directions.
Outside your company
Your buyers, competitors, markets, and opportunities are changing.
Inside your company
Your people, workflows, skills, and ways of working are changing.
We start with research to understand what’s actually happening. What comes next depends on what we find.
Understand Your Market
See what is changing outside your company.
We talk directly with buyers, customers, prospects, partners, and other market participants to understand how they make decisions, what competitors are doing, where opportunities are emerging, and what would cause the market to move.
AI has made our research faster and broader. The judgment has not changed hands. An analyst still decides which findings matter and which recommendations will hold up in front of a skeptical exec team.
Here are a few areas we can help you explore:
Understand Your Work
“AI rarely fails because the tools are weak. It fails in the room, when the work around it never changes.” – Sean Campbell – Cascade Insights® CEO
See how work is changing inside your company.
Some of your people are already getting better results with AI. The harder question is how those individual gains become better organizational performance.
We use interviews, workflow research, assessment, and leadership working sessions to find where AI is creating real value, identify where that value is getting trapped, and redesign the surrounding work.
The goal is not to put AI on top of today’s workflows. The goal is to build better ones that leverage the best of what’s possible with AI.
Three ways we help you change the work:
AI Work Redesign Sprint
Find where AI is already working, decide what to scale, and redesign the work around it.
AI Work Labs
Bring us the work your people are doing now. We work on it together, building AI capability inside the work rather than through generic training.
Executive AI Cohort
Keep leaders close to the AI changes that matter, and help them decide what those changes mean for your people, workflows, and business.
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Cascade Insights® helps B2B companies that
offer solutions in sectors such as:
Technology
FinServ
Marketing
Life Sciences
GreenTech
Education
Legal Tech
Government
Manufacturing
Retail
Master the Art of AI Collaboration
As AI gets more capable, the quality of the result depends less on knowing the right prompt and more on knowing how to direct the work.
The Art of Asking is our framework for doing that well. It helps people give AI the context, constraints, examples, and judgment it needs to produce useful work, while making clear where human oversight still matters.
We use it throughout our AI work because better direction leads to better output, better decisions, and better workflows. It is one of the core skills people need as more of the work shifts from doing everything themselves to directing increasingly capable systems..
Here are just a few things you can learn from the Art of Asking:
How to Effectively Delegate to AI: Use the 5-element framework to manage AI like you would a capable colleague.
Workflows and Agentic Use Cases: Learn how to meaningfully manage AI driven workflows and Agents.
Techniques to Create AI Champions: Learn how to build internal champions who help AI adoption stick across teams.
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A Few of our Clients
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We had a very good engagement with Cascade! Their team has been a pleasure to work with, and the insights we’ve gotten out of it have been impressive.
I’ve compiled them not only into battlecards but a Gemini NotebookLM instance. It’s pretty cool — you can query it with anything you think of, and it pulls from ALL the sources: the transcripts, original .mp4 recordings, and various other documents. This wouldn’t have been possible with run-of-the-mill data gleaned from what’s publicly available. In fact, most competitor insights are carefully hidden away. Cascade uncovered all those details for us and allowed us to go a lot deeper.
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Working with Cascade Insights® for our persona research was a game-changer for our business. Their expertise and meticulous approach in understanding our target audience helped us gain invaluable insights into our customers’ needs, preferences, and behaviors. Armed with this knowledge, we were able to tailor our marketing strategies, resulting in increased engagement and higher conversion rates.
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When you’re in a fast-paced and highly competitive market space, you have to be nimble and smart and sure in all your marketing decisions – and your vendors have to match that. Sean Campbell and his team at Cascade Insights® are all that and more.
Before they even started on one of my recent projects, they conducted a thorough interview and brought in different perspectives that helped crystallize the actual questions we were trying to answer. The project ran flawlessly and professionally, and the analysis was exceptional. Cascade is on my “Go To” list when I need a partner to help me analyze tough market intelligence questions.
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Most of my team is relatively new to the CI field, so I enlisted the help of Cascade Insights® to provide training in CI fundamentals, frameworks, and methodologies.
While the training was only 2 days in length, Sean thoroughly covered all the topics with time built in for team activities that further reinforced what we learned. After the training, the team raved about all the new tools they wanted to use and ideas to incorporate into their existing projects. In fact, they have already begun introducing concepts learned in this training into their day-to-day activities.
I highly recommend Cascade Insights® for any CI manager looking to quickly train new CI professionals or for any team looking to refresh their existing CI knowledge. Sean is very professional and knowledgeable in this field and can really help any CI team (regardless of experience) move to the next level.
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We worked with Cascade Insights® to start up a substantial competitive intelligence and product insights initiative. Their whip-smart staff and expertise in B2B tech was a major asset, starting from our first conversations about doing a project together, making sense of research findings, and delivering results to senior leaders.
When we hit challenges along the road—practically inevitable in standing up a new initiative in an enterprise context—they were flexible, creative, and always positive in finding ways to move forward. In short, in the world of market research, Cascade is at the top of the heap.
What We Believe In: Fluid Intelligence®
AI gets more capable. Human judgment gets more important.
Fluid Intelligence® is our name for the ability to direct AI well.
It means knowing what work to give AI, how much context it needs, when to challenge its output, when to intervene, and where human judgment should remain in control.
It is what we teach your teams and what we design into the workflows we help you build.
Not people working around AI.
People directing it.
