Viagate Launches Concept Fit Map For AI Product Concept Testing
The pitch reframes concept evaluation away from ranking plans by average usage-intent score and toward mapping which specific consumer group or usage scenario a plan is strong in, which is how products aimed at narrow but committed audiences get judged before development.
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Viagate Inc. has started offering Concept Fit Map, a product concept evaluation method on its insight research platform Emomil. It presents a concept to consumers, then uses AI interviews to probe usage intent, the reasons behind it, specific scenarios, felt value, and competing or substitute products and behaviors. Results arrive as a PPTX analysis report, a web dashboard, and Excel raw data. The company says major food and daily necessities manufacturers already use it in product planning.
The method is aimed at plans that never win an average-score ranking but still point at a market. Viagate draws the contrast directly: a concept that a broad range of respondents rate as "I guess I'd try it" against one that a small number rate as "I need this." Concept Fit Map analyzes the second case by attributes, usage scenarios, needs, values, reasons for choice, and the products or behaviors already satisfying the same need. From there, a plan ranked second or third overall can be read as strong in a particular market instead of dropped.
Templates are selected by development stage, from ideas with no product image or packaging to plans already worked into visuals, and distribution begins the survey. The analysis incorporates STP, the marketing framework for segmenting a market by need, choosing a target, and defining the reason to choose, without the person in charge designing it.
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