System-0

The eyes are the window to the soul.

For the first time, the clinically validated science of oculometrics comes to market research. Bring the package, ad or creative your team is about to sign off. We will tell you what your respondents cannot.

“I see a strange confession in thine eye.”
William Shakespeare · Henry IV, Part 2

For 116 years, marketers have been asking people what they think.

A

Qualitative research

One-to-one interviews and focus groups. People explain choices they never consciously made.

High effort. Considered answers.
B

Quantitative

Surveys, and actions such as shares, comments and likes. Counted after the decision, not during it.

High effort. After the fact.
C

Lab neuro

EEG and fMRI. Real signal, but only inside a lab, on costly equipment, with a small sample.

Expensive. Few people.

All ways of testing consumers depend on effort from the person being tested. Effort changes the answer. Real decisions are made without it. That is why what people say in research and what they do at the shelf keep coming apart.

A new effortless and objective signal for the decisions that are hardest to test.

01

Pack and product testing

An expensive package redesign, before the print run.

02

Concept and name testing

The name of a new product, before it goes on anything.

03

Ad testing

Compare cuts and creative routes on response, not recall.

04

Image testing

The one photo a whole campaign will run on.

Eight questions your survey cannot answer.

Attention and engagement

Does the creative attract attention?

Does it hold attention?

Is it visually sticky?

Emotional response

Does it elicit trust or arousal?

Does it elicit fear or a nervous response?

Is the emotional response positive or negative?

Clarity and comprehension

Is the consumer confused by any element of the creative?

Market impact

Does the creative stand out against competitors?

A tablet.A camera.10 minutes.

That's it. Recent AI and algorithms capture oculometric responses accurately in real environments, without labs, expensive equipment or cumbersome protocols.

EEGlab · costly · small sample
Lab eye trackinglab · costly · small sample
fMRIlab · costly · small sample
System-0tablet · camera · 10 min

The data and insights plug into the testing and measurement workflows your team already runs, and can be combined with IAT-style tests (implicit association tests).

Clinically validated in pharma research. Now in market research, for the first time.

A proven pharma research tool, created by the pioneers who built modern neurology.

A grid of brain MRI scan slices
Foundation

Hundreds of studies

Oculometrics are an accurate and effective way of measuring how brain circuits respond.

Breakthrough

Out of the lab

Recent AI makes it possible to capture those responses accurately in real environments.

Business value

Fits your workflow

Results fit into existing marketing and measurement workflows.

Tom SüdhofNobel laureate · Scientific co-founder
Alvin RothNobel laureate · Stanford University
Olivier Rascol, MD, PhDHead of scientific advisory board
Prof. Pablo Mir, MDLead neurologist · Parkinson's disease
Prof. Chris Goetz, MDLead neurologist · Parkinson's disease
Prof. Vivian Drory, MDLead neurologist · ALS
Prof. Fred Lublin, MDLead neurologist · Multiple sclerosis
Prof. Cristina Sampaio, MDLead neurologist · Huntington's disease
Oculometrics × market research

For the first time, the clinically validated science of oculometrics comes to market research.

Oculometrics measure how the eye moves, how the pupil changes and how we blink. Neurology has used them to read the brain. System-0 uses them to read what a respondent will never put in a survey.

Macro photograph of a grey-blue human iris and pupil
SaidI like it a lot.
  • Pupil stays small Weak response
  • A hard blink Negative
  • The gaze leaves early Did not hold

Illustration, not study data.

06 Below thought

Two systems think. One comes before thinking.

Psychology describes two ways the mind handles a decision. Both are already processing. System-0 measures what happens first.

Surface

System 2Slow and deliberate

Conscious, analytical reasoning that takes effort and reflection. This is what a survey records.

Beneath awareness

System 1Fast and intuitive

Automatic, subconscious emotional reactions and quick mental shortcuts.

The signal

System 0Direct brain signal

A direct channel to the brain circuitry involved in perception, emotion and decision making. Unmediated by conscious or unconscious thought.

A human brain rendered in white against a black background