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Find Out Why a Branch Loses People, in Days.

One late delivery, one long wait, one branch that keeps losing regulars. The interview can start the moment it happens, so you hear what went wrong while the customer still remembers it, and whether the same thing is happening everywhere else.

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Where 8x Research helps service & delivery businesses

  • 01

    Service failures

    Interview a customer within minutes of a delivery going wrong, while they still remember exactly what happened.

  • 02

    Branch & regional gaps

    See whether one branch, depot or region is failing people differently from the rest.

  • 03

    Why customers stop coming back

    Find out what the people who quietly stopped coming back were waiting for.

What a study looks like for service & delivery businesses

01

What could we learn?

What a complaints inbox never tells you.

  • Service failures: what actually happened, from the person it happened to, not from the ticket that was raised about it.
  • Branch & regional gaps: whether a location is losing customers for its own reasons or for the company's.
  • Why customers stop coming back: the ones who never complained, who are most of them.
  • New service lines: whether people would use the thing you are about to spend a year building.
02

Who would we speak to?

Customers, at the moment it matters.

  • Someone whose delivery was late or whose job was cancelled, interviewed the same day.
  • Customers of one branch, compared against the same questions asked everywhere else.
  • People who used you once and never returned.
  • Your own customers in every language you serve, without a separate study per market.
03

What would we get back?

Something you can act on this week.

  • Themes ranked by how often they came up, so one furious customer does not become the strategy.
  • The quotes behind every finding, usable in a review with the team responsible.
  • A count per location or service line, so you know whether it is a branch problem or a company one.

An example study

“Why do customers leave after one bad delivery?”

THE RESEARCH
An interview goes out automatically when a delivery misses its window, asking what they were told, what they expected, and what they did next.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
The reasons ranked, with the quotes behind them, and the finding that the delivery itself was rarely the problem: not being told was.

How 8x works with you

We shape the study with you, speak to the right people, and bring back findings and recommendations you can act on.

  1. 01 / HOOK

    Pick the moment.

    A missed window, a cancelled job, a customer who has not been back in ninety days. Connect your own systems, or send a link after the event.

  2. 02 / FRAME

    Say what you need to know.

    Describe the question in plain words. The study builder drafts the objectives, the screener and the interview, and checks it before it goes live.

  3. 03 / ASK

    Interviews that start themselves.

    The interview reaches the customer while it is still fresh, by voice or text, in their own language. Nobody has to schedule anything.

  4. 04 / FIND

    Counted, not just collected.

    Themes come back ranked by how often and how strongly they appeared, each linked to what was said, and split by location when you need that.

  5. 05 / TEST

    Check the fix held.

    Keep the study running after the change and watch whether the same reason keeps coming up, in the same places.

Less second-guessing.
More understanding.

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