Market Research

Know what your market thinks before you spend your budget on guessing

Are your customers loyal or just not complaining yet? Is your brand growing in the markets that matter? Does your new product actually have a market? UXArmy answers the marketing questions that keep CMOs and founders up at night with NPS and CSAT tracking, brand health surveys, usage and attitude studies, and concept testing across Asia Pacific. Delivered by a team with six decades of combined market research experience. At a price that makes sense for a growing business.

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Most growing brands are flying blind on the questions that matter most.

You know your revenue. You know your website traffic. You know your conversion rate. What most growing brands in APAC don’t know is what their market actually thinks of them and that gap is where expensive mistakes happen.

You run a brand campaign and hope it’s building awareness. You launch a product and hope it’s what customers want. You enter a new market and hope your positioning will translate. You track your NPS score once a year and hope it’s moving in the right direction. Hope is not a marketing strategy.

The brands that grow consistently are the ones that measure what their market thinks not once, but regularly, across the markets they operate in, before they commit their budgets. That kind of market intelligence used to be the exclusive domain of large companies with large research budgets. UXArmy was built to change that.

Six decades of market research experience. At a price that makes sense for your business.
UXArmy’s market research team brings together researchers who have spent careers building brand trackers for FMCG companies, running NPS programmes for telecoms, designing concept tests for startups, and mapping categories for businesses entering new APAC markets. That experience β€” and the technology platform that sits behind it β€” is what lets UXArmy deliver the same quality of market research that enterprise brands commission from Kantar and Ipsos, at a price that a growing business can actually justify.

What we answer

Four marketing questions. Four services to answer them.

Every brand has questions it can’t answer from its own data. These are the four we’re asked most often and how we answer them.

Question 1 — Are my customers loyal, or are they just not leaving yet?

The problem
Are my customers loyal, or are they just not leaving yet?

Satisfied customers and loyal customers are not the same thing. A customer who doesn't complain isn't necessarily happy. They might just not have found a better alternative yet. When they do, they'll leave without warning. And you won't know why, because you never asked.

Most growing businesses have a rough sense of whether customers are happy. Almost none of them have a systematic, regular measurement of customer loyalty that would tell them if that happiness is building, eroding, or about to collapse.

The answer — NPS, CSAT and eNPS Tracking
Customer Loyalty and Satisfaction Tracking

UXArmy runs recurring NPS (Net Promoter Score), CSAT (Customer Satisfaction), and eNPS (Employee NPS) programmes, monthly or quarterly, across your markets in APAC and beyond. Each round includes open-ended feedback so you know not just what the score is, but why it moved.

The result: a continuous read on customer loyalty that tells you when satisfaction is building, when it's dipping, and what's driving it, before it becomes a churn problem.

What you get: A loyalty score you can track over time. Verbatim customer feedback that explains the score. Market-by-market breakdowns for multi-country businesses. Trend analysis between measurement rounds. A clear view of which part of the experience is driving loyalty up or down.

Question 2 — Is my brand actually growing, or am I just assuming it is?

The problem
Is my brand actually growing, or am I just assuming it is?

You're investing in marketing. You're running campaigns. Your product is in the market. But how many people in your target audience have actually heard of you? Of those who have, how many would consider buying? And how do you compare to the two or three competitors your customers are also looking at?

Without a brand health tracker, these questions have only one honest answer: you don't know. You're allocating marketing budget based on hope, not measurement.

The answer — Brand Health Tracker
Brand Health Tracking

A brand health tracker is a regular survey of your target audience, measuring brand awareness (do they know you exist?), consideration (would they choose you?), preference (do they choose you over competitors?), and brand perception (what do they associate with your brand?).

UXArmy runs brand health trackers quarterly or bi-annually across your target markets in APAC, with competitive benchmarking against the brands your customers are comparing you to. Each wave tells you whether your brand is growing, holding steady, or losing ground, and what's driving the movement.

What you get: A brand health scorecard per market. Awareness, consideration, and preference scores vs your chosen competitors. Brand association tracking, the words and feelings customers link to your brand. Wave-on-wave trend reporting. A clear read on whether your marketing investment is building brand equity or not.

Question 3 — Do I actually understand the market I'm competing in?

The problem
Do I actually understand the market I'm competing in?

You know your product. You know your brand. But how well do you know your category, who's in it, what drives purchase, what gaps exist, and how customers in Indonesia or Malaysia think about this category differently from customers in Singapore or Australia?

Most growing brands make positioning, campaign, and investment decisions based on internal assumptions about who their customer is and why they buy. A usage and attitude study replaces those assumptions with data, before they turn into expensive mistakes.

The answer — Usage and Attitude Study
Usage and Attitude Study (U&A)

A usage and attitude study, sometimes called a needs and habits study, is a large-scale consumer survey that maps who uses your category, how often, in what context, what drives their purchase decisions, and what needs are currently unmet. It's the market map your brand strategy should be built on.

For businesses entering APAC markets or launching into a new category, a U&A study is typically the most valuable research investment they can make. It tells you where the opportunity is before you commit to a positioning. UXArmy runs U&A studies across single and multi-country markets, with local-language surveying and qualitative depth interviews where needed.

What you get: A full consumer map of your category: who buys, how often, why, and through which channels. Audience segmentation by behaviour and motivation. A clear picture of what drives brand switching. Unmet needs your product or marketing could address. The strategic foundation for a brand, campaign, or market entry.

Question 4 — Will this actually work, before I spend the budget to find out?

The problem
Will this actually work, before I spend the budget to find out?

A new product. A new campaign. A new brand name. A new market entry. Every one of these involves a moment where you have to bet your budget on something you think will work. Most of the time, that bet is informed by internal opinions, founder intuition, and a few conversations with customers you already know.

Nearly 95% of new product launches fail. The ones that succeed are disproportionately the ones that tested their concept with real consumers before committing the build budget.

The answer — Concept Testing
Concept Testing

Concept testing puts your idea in front of real consumers in your target market, before you launch it. They tell you how appealing it is, whether they'd buy it, how it compares to alternatives, and what would make it better. You get ranked scores across 2 to 5 concepts plus the qualitative reasoning behind the numbers.

UXArmy runs concept tests for product ideas, campaign territories, brand names, packaging options, and pricing structures, across APAC markets simultaneously. You find out which concept to back, which to refine, and which to drop, before you've committed a significant budget to any of them.

What you get: Ranked scores across your concepts: appeal, relevance, purchase intent, and uniqueness. The reasoning behind the scores, what consumers like, what they don't, and what they wish it was. Market-by-market breakdown for concepts being considered across multiple APAC markets. A clear recommendation: which concept to progress, and why.

Why choose us

The research quality you’d expect from a large agency. Without the large agency price tag.

Traditional market research agencies charge what they charge because they’ve built their business model for enterprise clients who buy $500,000 annual contracts. Their pricing, timelines, and project structures were not designed for a 200-person company trying to validate a product concept before Series B, or a regional brand trying to understand if their awareness campaign is working in Indonesia.
UXArmy was. And the difference is not just in the price.

In-market research across APAC

UXArmy’s research is conducted by teams who are actually in your markets not coordinated through a Western headquarters and subcontracted to local vendors. Surveys and interviews run in Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hindi, and more because your customers in those markets think and respond in their own language, not in English.

Faster turnaround than traditional agencies

Traditional agencies measure timelines in months. UXArmy uses its own platform to deploy surveys, recruit participants, and run analysis compressing project timelines significantly without reducing the quality of what you receive. You get findings while the decision they’re informing is still open.

Senior researchers, not junior analysts

Six decades of combined market research experience means the person designing your brand health tracker or writing your concept test has done this before many times, across many categories and markets. You get the benefit of that experience in your study design, not just in your report.

Research and platform in the same place.
For studies that run on the UXArmy platform NPS surveys, brand trackers, concept scoring you get faster turnaround and lower cost because participant recruitment, survey deployment, and analysis run in the same system. For studies requiring in-depth interviews, focus groups, or in-person fieldwork, the same research team delivers end-to-end. Either way, one team, one brief, one clear output.

Experience you can trust

Six decades of experience. And a platform built for faster, more affordable research.

UXArmy combines experienced market researchers with a proprietary platform that runs surveys, unmoderated tests, and participant panels natively which means faster deployment, built-in panel access, and lower cost. For studies requiring external panels or multi-language qualitative fieldwork, UXArmy operates independently of the platform. Either way, you get the same research team behind the work.

Across the team, UXArmy’s market researchers have spent careers running brand health trackers for FMCG companies, NPS programmes for financial services brands, usage and attitude studies for telecoms operators, and concept tests for technology startups across Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Asia Pacific region. That depth of category and market experience is what separates a research partner from a research tool.

Brand and category work

Brand health trackers and usage & attitude studies across FMCG, financial services, technology, and telecoms categories. Across single-country and multi-market programmes.

Loyalty and satisfaction programmes

NPS and CSAT tracking programmes designed and managed across APAC markets from single-country trackers to multi-market programmes covering six or more countries simultaneously.

Innovation and concept work

Concept testing across product, service, campaign, and packaging categories. With a track record of identifying which concepts have real commercial potential before clients commit to development.

The most valuable thing UXArmy does is make research operationally invisible. Our team briefs a study, and participants show up, screened, confirmed, paid, and consented.
Jane Doe
VP Product, Southeast Asia eCommerce platform
Commonly Asked Questions

Things marketers ask before they commission research for the first time.

Here are answers to common questions you might have.

Market research measures what a broad target audience thinks, feels, or does typically through large-scale surveys. It answers questions about brand perception, campaign effectiveness, customer loyalty, category behaviour, and whether a new concept will have commercial appeal. It’s about the market.

UX research focuses on how specific users interact with a product or digital experience through usability testing, interviews, and observation. It answers questions about whether a product is easy to use and why certain features confuse people. It’s about the product.

UXArmy offers both. The four services on this page are market research. If you’re looking for usability testing or user interviews, see UXArmy’s Outsourced Research service.

A SurveyMonkey survey asks questions. Market research answers questions reliably, comparably, and with the analytical depth to understand what the data means for your business.


The difference is in who you survey (a properly sampled representation of your target market, not just your existing customer list), how the questions are designed (to measure what you actually want to know, not what’s easy to ask), and what happens to the data after collection (analysis by experienced researchers who understand your category and market, not a spreadsheet you have to interpret yourself).


For basic feedback, a survey tool is fine. For a marketing decision with significant budget or strategic consequences, it isn’t.

It depends on the service and the number of markets. NPS and CSAT programmes can be set up within a few weeks and then run on a recurring monthly or quarterly cycle. Concept testing typically takes three to four weeks from brief to delivery. Brand health trackers and usage & attitude studies involve larger-scale surveys and more analytical depth typically six to eight weeks per wave.

UXArmy will give you a specific timeline when you share your brief.

UXArmy’s market research pricing is deliberately positioned below traditional agency rates. The fastest way to get an accurate cost estimate for your specific situation is to share your brief our team will come back within one business day with a proposed approach and indicative cost.

A brand health tracker is a regular survey typically run quarterly or twice a year that measures how your target audience perceives your brand. It tracks awareness (have they heard of you?), consideration (would they buy from you?), preference (do they choose you over competitors?), and brand associations (what do they link to your brand?).

You need a brand health tracker if you’re investing in brand marketing and want to know if it’s working. Without one, you have no way to know whether your brand is growing, holding steady, or losing ground in your target market. It’s the measurement system your brand budget should be running against.

Net Promoter Score (NPS) measures customer loyalty by asking a single question: how likely are you to recommend this company to a friend or colleague? Respondents score 0–10. Scores of 9–10 are Promoters. 7–8 are Passives. 0–6 are Detractors. Your NPS = Promoters % minus Detractors %.

Tracking it regularly monthly or quarterly matters because a single score is a snapshot. A trend is a story. If your NPS drops from +42 to +28 over two quarters, you want to know that before it shows up in your churn numbers. And you want the open-ended feedback that explains why it moved not just the number.

A usage and attitude study also called a U&A or needs and habits study is a large-scale consumer survey that maps who uses a product category, how often, in what context, what drives their choices between brands, and what needs are unmet. It’s the foundational market intelligence study for any brand operating in or entering a category.

Do one when: you’re entering a new market or category and don’t have a clear picture of the consumer landscape; you’re redesigning your brand positioning or marketing strategy; or you’ve been making decisions based on internal assumptions about your consumer for too long. U&A studies are typically done once every three to five years because consumer categories evolve slowly.

Yes. All four services can be run across multiple markets simultaneously with consistent survey design and market-by-market breakdowns in the results. Multi-market research is a core strength of UXArmy’s operations: in-market teams across Southeast Asia, India, and Australia handle local-language surveying and analysis in each market. You receive a unified cross-market study not a set of separate country reports that don’t speak to each other.

Have more questions?

If you have any other questions that are not covered here, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to provide the information you need and ensure your experience with us is smooth and enjoyable.

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Tell us the marketing question you’re trying to answer.

You don’t need a research brief. Just tell us what you’re trying to find out which market, which decision, and roughly when you need it. Our team will recommend the right study and come back within one business day.

Other ways UXArmy can help

Market Research is one of several ways UXArmy helps growing businesses understand their customers.

Outsourced Research

End-to-end qualitative and mixed-method research user interviews, ethnography, usability testing, and more. Anchored to business and revenue outcomes.

Start here if: you need to understand why customers behave the way they do, not just measure how many do.

Research Infrastructure

UXArmy builds your internal research capability the tools, processes, and team training to run research at scale independently.

Start here if: you want to build an in-house research function rather than outsourcing to an agency.

Managed ResearchOps

UXArmy runs the operational side of your research function participant recruitment, scheduling, incentives, and admin so your researchers can focus on research.

Start here if: you have an in-house research team that’s buried in logistics.

The brands that know their market beat the ones that assume it.

In a competitive market, what your customers think of you is your most valuable business intelligence. UXArmy makes that intelligence accessible to the businesses that need it most with six decades of experience, APAC-native research, and pricing built for growth-stage companies, not enterprise contracts.

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