MAP.
TRIGGER.
GROW.

Three steps that turn what your buyers instinctively feel into tactics your team can execute this quarter.

We are called Triggers because triggers are what we build for you: the specific cues that make your brand the easy choice.
MAP
Done
TRIGGER
Done
GROW
HAPPENING NOW
MAP
Reveal what is shaping choice today.
We map the Brand Connectome® for your core customers, your growth target, and your competitive context: the network of associations and cues that decides which brand gets reached for. Built through memory elicitation research with your target buyers. The output is your Growth Diagnosis: why people choose the brand, why they do not, and what has to change.
  • The associations your brand already owns
  • The ones holding it back
  • Where competitors sit in the same space
TRIGGER
Design the triggers and build the Growth Blueprint.
Not every association is worth investing in. We isolate the triggers with the most growth potential and the barriers costing you the most, then design the system of visual and verbal triggers that carries them. That becomes your Growth Blueprint: what to keep, what to stop, and what to add.
  • Priority triggers ranked by potential
  • The barriers, and what they cost
  • New associations worth building
GROW
Put the system to work across your teams.
Triggers does not run your marketing. We integrate the Growth Blueprint across your marketing, insights and cross functional teams, and with your agency partners, so positioning, packaging, briefs and campaigns are developed and judged through the same lens. Your team runs the plays, and nearly every client comes back with a second question.
  • A toolkit your team can brief from
  • Every touchpoint, not just advertising
  • Sequenced for months, not years
A high-level COMPARISON

THIS IS NOT BRAND TRACKING.

BRAND TRACKING

A brand tracker measures what people are willing and able to say, reporting after the quarter has closed. It tells you the score moved but leaves your team to infer the cause. The output is a dashboard showing what happened.

BRAND CONNECTOME

The Brand Connectome® surfaces the associations people cannot articulate and identifies what will shape their next choice. It names the specific cues driving change and ranks what to do about them. The output is a Growth Blueprint showing your team where to act.

WORDS

The language that creates the association

COLOR

What the palette signals before it is read

IMAGERY

The scenes that trigger recognition

PACKAGING

The last cue before the hand moves

DIGITAL

Site, search, and the paths in

ADS

What the creative has to plant

SALES

How the story survives a conversation

EVENTS

The association made physical

INNOVATION

Where the next product should sit

Where the toolkit lands
TRIGGERS FOR EVERY
WAY MEMORIES ARE
CREATED

Triggers do not live in advertising alone. The same association that makes a brand feel trustworthy in a headline has to survive the pack, the shelf, the site, and the sales conversation. So the Growth Blueprint covers each surface your team and your agencies control, with guidance specific enough to brief from.

our engagements

MONTHS, NOT YEARS

A full mapping runs about twelve weeks from kickoff to Growth Blueprint.
Your team is involved at three points, and nowhere else.

WEEKS ONE AND TWO
FRAME THE QUESTION

We agree the growth problem worth answering and the buyers who matter to it. One working session with your team.

What we need from you:
A half-day, and access to what you already know

WEEKS THREE TO EIGHT
MAP AND FIND

First-party research with your target buyers, then the Brand Connectome build and competitive read. We work; you get a checkpoint at the midpoint.

What we need from you:
One hour at the checkpoint

WEEKS NINE TO TWELVE
DELIVER THE STRATEGY
AND GROWTH BLUEPRINT

Keep / Stop / Add by surface, walked through with your team and your agency partners together, so everyone briefs from the same page.

What we need from you:
the room, and the people who will run it

ONWARD
PUT THE BLUEPRINT TO WORK

Your team and agency partners take the lead, with a clear plan for what to keep, stop, and add across your brand. From positioning and packaging to briefs and campaigns, everyone works from the same Growth Blueprint.

WHY IT WORKS
THE SAME APPROACH
WORKS EVERYWHERE
Real research with the people who buy your brand and your competitors.

Not a generic panel.
People buy on instinct whether the product is soda or a pension.

That’s why one approach covers 70+ categories.
You get a plan, not a report.

Your team can start on it right away.
Success Stories
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
ABOUT THE WORK
“Triggers® work is the application playbook for ‘How Brands Grow.’ It enabled our marketing people to accelerate growth across the portfolio.”
Emily Theis
SENIOR DIRECTOR
“Triggers’ approach and experience and team are highly differentiated versus anything I’ve seen.”
Risa Cretella
President, Meals & Beverage

HOW THE TRIGGERS STRATEGY AND GROWTH BLUEPRINT IS ORGANIZED

KEEP

What’s already working.
Protect it.

STOP

What’s working against you,
and the money it’s wasting.

ADD

What’s worth building next,
in order.