<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>NeroView Research</title><description>Research notes, methodology essays, and sample reports from the NeroView team. Practitioner-grade thinking on evidence-backed research.</description><link>https://neroview.com</link><item><title>Sample Report: The refrigeration channel — conservative on the product, wide open on the brand</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/refrigeration-channel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/refrigeration-channel</guid><description>144 US commercial-refrigeration distributors. Reliability is the non-negotiable entry ticket, yet 88% will take on a new brand within a year. Five findings, five personas, and why the distributor rep — not the spec sheet — decides.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>b2b</category><category>channel</category><category>foodservice</category></item><item><title>Stop trusting AI summaries. Start trusting the evidence trail.</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/post</guid><description>AI synthesis is fast, but unsupported. Here is the discipline we use to keep every cluster traceable to clips, quotes, and segments.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Evidence Index</category><category>methodology</category><category>ai-research</category><category>ethics</category></item><item><title>Synthetic vs human research: when each one wins</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/synthetic-vs-human</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/synthetic-vs-human</guid><description>Synthetic focus groups are not a replacement for participants. Here is the decision matrix we use across 200+ studies.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Evidence Index</category><category>synthetic</category><category>methodology</category></item><item><title>Hesitation peaks 8 seconds after the pricing page loads</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/hesitation-8s</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/hesitation-8s</guid><description>Across 14 SaaS pricing studies, the same micro-pattern: cursor stalls between tiers, then drifts to support.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field Notes</category><category>pricing</category><category>ux</category></item><item><title>An onboarding rewrite, traced to the clips that justified it</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/verra-onboarding</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/verra-onboarding</guid><description>A B2B SaaS team rebuilt onboarding off research evidence — every change tied back to a specific participant clip, transcript, and behavioral signal, so stakeholders could audit the recommendation instead of trusting it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Case Study</category><category>case</category><category>saas</category><category>onboarding</category></item><item><title>What counts as evidence? A framework for AI research outputs</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/what-counts-evidence</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/what-counts-evidence</guid><description>Source clip, transcript moment, behavioral signal, segment pattern, confidence — five layers that make a recommendation defensible.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Evidence Index</category><category>methodology</category><category>ai-research</category></item><item><title>Five flavors of UX friction agents catch before users do</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/five-flavors-friction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/five-flavors-friction</guid><description>Navigational dead-ends, cognitive load spikes, signposting gaps, trust failures, and mismatched expectations — each with a sample diagnostic.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Evidence Index</category><category>ux</category><category>agentic</category></item><item><title>The &apos;where do I click&apos; moment is more diagnostic than NPS</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/where-do-i-click</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/where-do-i-click</guid><description>Across 22 product studies, the latency between intent and action predicted churn better than any survey instrument.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field Notes</category><category>onboarding</category><category>field-notes</category></item><item><title>Onboarding clarity: where new users stall, and the gap between activation metrics and felt experience</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/onboarding-clarity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/onboarding-clarity</guid><description>Activation dashboards say onboarding is done. Research shows where users actually stall, recover, or quietly disengage — and how to close the gap between the metric and the felt experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field Notes</category><category>onboarding</category><category>saas</category></item><item><title>What mid-market buyers tell us about &apos;enterprise tier&apos; anxiety</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/200-mid-market</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/200-mid-market</guid><description>The phrase &apos;enterprise plan&apos; triggers a specific hesitation in mid-market buyers — opaque pricing, forced sales calls, the fear of being upsold. The recurring language, and what reduces it.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Field Notes</category><category>pricing</category><category>b2b</category></item><item><title>Sample Report: The challenger&apos;s playbook — beating the Giants in sportswear</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/sample-report</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/sample-report</guid><description>259 buyers, 5 findings, 5 personas. Comfort beats the logo for 92%, and 73% trust peers over big-brand ads — the data, the verbatims, the strategy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>consumer</category><category>sportswear</category><category>brand</category></item><item><title>Sample Report: When the survey favorite loses — a licensed-toy concept test (n=220)</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/snack-packaging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/snack-packaging</guid><description>Parents named the gentler of two screen properties as their favorite. The attention and durability signals — the things that actually drove willingness to pay — overturned the stated ranking.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>concept</category><category>video</category><category>cpg</category></item><item><title>How a DTC brand killed three messaging directions before spending a dollar on the wrong one</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/marlow-messaging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/marlow-messaging</guid><description>A consumer brand ran several value-prop and messaging directions through research before launch. Most died on contact with real reactions; one survived and tested strongly.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Case Study</category><category>brand</category><category>synthetic</category><category>messaging</category></item><item><title>Sample Report: A consumer-product reaction study, frame by frame</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/consumer-product-reaction</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/consumer-product-reaction</guid><description>n=112. 89 of 112 rated interest 8-plus, but faces stayed mild — and the top blocker was price ambiguity. Where attention held, where it dropped, and the said-versus-felt gap.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>concept</category><category>video</category><category>cpg</category></item><item><title>Sample Report: What retail investors actually trust (and what they only say they do)</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/retail-investor-attitudes</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/retail-investor-attitudes</guid><description>n=133 active retail investors. 93% say management quality is critical; about half actually check it. The say-do gaps that move confidence — and the language that closes them.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>brand</category><category>ethics</category></item><item><title>Sample Report: Two ad creatives, 244 faces — what emotion data said before launch</title><link>https://neroview.com/blog/food-ad-emotion-test</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://neroview.com/blog/food-ad-emotion-test</guid><description>A national food brand A/B-tested two pre-roll cuts with video emotion capture (n=244). The predominant expression was flat — the real signal was a Surprise spike in one cut, invisible in the aggregate.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Sample Report</category><category>concept</category><category>video</category><category>cpg</category></item></channel></rss>