Highlight

Product research that powers product success

The Highlight Insights suite gives consumer product and retail teams the agility to drive product success, growth, and resilience across the entire product lifecycle. Test ideas and products faster, understand your shoppers more deeply, and make confident, evidence-backed decisions.

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Highlight Explore

No more waiting for results — watch them unfold in real time

See your results the moment responses roll in. Highlight Explore is a live data playground — visualize answers, slice across products and segments, and tap Highlight AI to surface the insights, themes, and sentiment that matter most. Tell the story behind your data without waiting for the field to close.

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Top-2 box appeal
▲ 18 pts vs control
78%of testers rate it 4–5 after trying at home
612 / 800 in
Open-ends, auto-themedjust now
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CoffeeRitual_07

Loved the smoother finish

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MorningBrew22

Less bitter than my usual

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ColdCupFan

Would buy the low-caffeine one

Crosstab — Control vs. Concept D95% CI
MetricControlConcept D
Overall liking7.88.4
Aroma7.17.0
Aftertaste6.27.6
Value, priced6.97.5
Purchase intent54%62%
Significantly higher at 95% confidence
Built-in analytics

Get to answers and decisions faster with powerful analytics

Whether you’re new to research or a seasoned expert, the Insights suite equips your team with everything they need to turn data into action. Build custom scorecards, layer in significance testing, and slice flexible crosstabs across multi-choice and scale questions.

Penalty Analysis

Identifies which product attributes drag down overall liking the most — so you know what to fix first.

Alienation Analysis

Pinpoints exactly where a control product loses fans to a new test product.

ScorecardsCrosstabsSignificance testingPenalty AnalysisAlienation Analysis
Connected data

View your connected data with multi-project dashboards

Paint the full picture of your product performance. Compare results across research projects on the same metrics — to spot winning patterns, see how variants and concepts stack up, and make stronger, data-driven decisions.

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Multi-project dashboard3 projects
Connected results, compared
AppealPurchase
Spring reformulation
74%53%
Summer line
81%62%
Limited edition
79%58%
Summer line leads on both — same blueprint, compared like-for-like.

Embed data and customer-centricity into your entire product portfolio

Designed by experts

Access 260+ expert-designed Survey Blueprints and a searchable 250+ Question Library, so you ask the right questions to get the answers you need — tailored for category, audience, and a diverse set of business questions.

Easy to use

An intuitive interface doesn’t just make launching quality tests easier than ever — it lets you re-use past surveys and audience parameters to run iterative testing and measure change as your product matures.

Unified view

With all of your tests, results, and insights in one place, Highlight makes it easy to analyze, compare, and build on data collected across multiple research projects — for a complete picture of product success.

Explorer Cold Brew Co. brand messaging testCase study

From product test to positioning in 10 days

Explorer Cold Brew Co. used Highlight to test four SKUs with 324 better-for-you coffee drinkers nationwide — watching message resonance, purchase drivers, and open-end themes roll in on a live dashboard as responses came back.

  • Mapped which messages and benefits resonated with target coffee drinkers
  • Surfaced website and purchase-journey friction from real in-home feedback
  • Reached positioning clarity in under 10 days from ship to readout
10 days
from ship to actionable insights
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Turn data into action, instantly

See how Highlight AI powers superior product innovation.

Highlight AI powersWhich speeds up research by
Response quality checks

Real-time AI analysis that validates survey quality — giving you valid results faster than manual review.

Open-end analysis

Automatically summarizes verbatims, groups responses by relevant topics and themes in real time, scores sentiment, and lets you filter by keyword.

Instant Report generation

Builds fully visualized, customizable presentation decks in moments, complete with AI-generated qualitative summaries and key findings.

LOLA product packaging
The AI summaries are incredibly valuable. Open-end responses are always the arduous part — is someone really going to read through thousands of responses? Highlight saves you that time, straight from insight to action.
KM
Kelly Murphy
Managing Director, LOLA

Highlight’s in-app Insights include

Crosstabs

Slice every metric by any segment — products, demographics, behaviors — with significance shading built in.

Oat milk
Vanilla
Caramel
[5] Love it40%20%27%
[4]44%51%39%
[3] Neutral9%14%20%
Top-2 box84%71%66%

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Gain the speed, quality, and confidence you need to launch and renovate successful products.