Human insight. Real-world marketing.

People first.
Smarter
marketing.

Understand what makes your customers notice, trust and choose. Turn that insight into a clearer brand, a website that turns interest into action or a product people want to try.

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Before someone pays attention

“Is this for me?”

See your marketing from the other side.

Psychology Sociology Marketing

Start with your challenge

A clearer way forward

What’s getting in your way?

Start with what you’re seeing. We’ll help you understand why — and what to do next.

01 “We put our message out. People scroll past.”

Find out whether the message reaches the right people, connects with their situation and gives them a reason to engage. Then put that understanding into your brand, words and creative.

Brand strategy · Messaging · Content

Let’s look at your message See an example
02 “We’re building a product. Who will use it?”

Identify who has a reason to try your product, what they use today and what might make switching worthwhile. Develop the proposition, find a route to first users and learn from their experience.

Audience research · Positioning · Launch strategy

Let’s find your first users See an example
03 “People visit our website. Then they leave.”

Look at what visitors came to do and where the experience lets them down. Improve the information, design and next steps around the decisions that matter to them.

Website design · UX · Customer research

Let’s look at your website See an example
04 “People use the free plan. Few upgrade.”

Understand whether users experience the value, where the paid plan fits their work and who makes the buying decision. Then shape the experience around what they need to assess.

Product research · Onboarding · Value communication

Let’s look at the upgrade decision See an example
05 “We have data. We need direction.”

Connect the numbers to a decision. We bring analytics, customer research and marketing strategy together to identify what to investigate, what to change and how to check it.

Research · Analytics · Marketing strategy

Let’s find your next move See an example
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A choice happensin a life.

A wider view of the person

More than
a click.
A whole world.

A person brings habits, expectations and other people’s opinions to your message. We look at the situation around the decision, as well as what happens on the screen.

What matters to themWhat feels familiarWho they trust

The change, explained

One problem.
Three practical changes.

“People see our posts. Few open the article.”

The change we’d test

Show what they’ll learn before they click.

  1. 01
    Show the recognisable symptom

    A close-up of the yellow leaf helps readers recognise their own plant problem.

  2. 02
    Promise diagnosis and prevention

    Say what the article will help them check, change and prevent.

  3. 03
    Make image and words agree

    The cover communicates one useful promise, even during a quick scroll.

Before
Before: A post titled “Why are my plant’s leaves turning yellow?”. After: A post with a close-up of a yellow leaf: “Yellow leaves? Find out why.”.
After

Fictional demonstrations with AI photos. Proposals to test; reaction counts and report data are illustrative, not measured results.

Dr Katarzyna Sobczak-Rosochacka, founder of Cognitigence
Dr Katarzyna
Sobczak-Rosochacka
Founder of Cognitigence

The person behind Cognitigence

Curious about people.
Practical about
what comes next.

I’m Katarzyna, founder of Cognitigence. I hold a PhD in sociological sciences.

I bring psychology, sociology and marketing together to help you understand your audience — and turn that understanding into something useful.

More about Cognitigence

Evidence-based marketing in practice

How we put science
to work for you.

We connect scientific knowledge, evidence from your business and our experience to decide what to do — and how to check it.

  1. 01Understand

    Get to the real question.

    We look at your goal, your customers and what is happening now. Together, we decide what needs explaining or improving.

    Your situation

    • PeopleCustomers, users and your team
    • Business dataAnalytics, sales and past tests
    • Market contextSearch, competitors and alternatives
    • Your prioritiesGoals, resources and constraints
  2. 02Explain

    Bring science to the problem.

    We use research and our knowledge of human behaviour to explain what may be happening. We assess which findings fit your situation.

    What we bring

    • PsychologyAttention, memory and decisions
    • SociologySocial influence, culture and context
    • Marketing scienceBrands, buying and effectiveness
    • Our expertiseWe weigh the evidence and work out how to apply it
  3. 03Apply

    Make the insight useful.

    We turn that understanding into a practical change: a clearer message, a stronger proposition or a better step in the customer experience.

    A clear recommendation

    What
    The change we recommend
    Why
    The evidence and reasoning behind it
    How
    What it takes to put it in place
    Check
    What would tell us it helps
  4. 04Learn

    Check. Learn. Improve.

    We agree what success looks like, choose the right test and use the results to decide what comes next.

    The next decision

    • KeepBuild on a useful result.
    • AdjustRefine what needs more work.
    • RethinkRevisit the explanation.

Keep your curiosity going

A different way to see it.

Explore all ideas
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Consumer psychology

15 principles behind customer choice

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Seven principles of persuasion

What makes expertise believable?

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Marketing research

Make evidence part of your marketing

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A good next step starts here

Something on
your mind?

A new product. A message that isn’t connecting.
A website that attracts interest but little action.

Let’s talk about it team@cognitigence.com Tell us a little about your challenge.