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Get your product research right for product-market fit and growth

CASO Studio is a global design strategy and product research consultancy firm for product, experience, and service development with an emphasis on human-centric and ethical AI practices.

CASO Studio helps clients get their product fit right with industry-leading human-centered research and analysis.

Our Services

CASO Studio services focus on customer problem identification & market fit, product iteration & strategy, and AI readiness.

Problem identification & market fit

Research to understand customer needs, product opportunities and market fit. Evaluation of concepts, prototypes and early products.

Product iteration & strategy

Identification of new market opportunities and evolving product strategy.

Al readiness check

Al-readiness assessment focused on explainability, bias mitigation, trust, user interaction, and ’graceful failure’.

From exploratory research to usability evaluations, CASO Studio’s research-powered insights and strategies create value for different clients worldwide.

B2B

Understanding needs & opportunities in multi-layered B2B ecosystems including decision makers, admins, end customers & other stakeholders.

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Consumer products

Discovering & explaining consumer needs and expectations for digital & physical products, as well as services that span both.

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AI enabled experiences

Leveraging experience in human-centric AI to guide research & design of personalized algorithms, explainability, and responsible AI.

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NGOs & Government

Impact evaluations and policy/program innovation for social and government initiatives.

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Our Toolkit

CASO Studio‘s mixed-methods toolkit blends deep quantitative & qualitative proficiency with consulting experience to deliver expert & relevant solutions.

Qualitative research

  • Interviews
  • Focus groups
  • Usability tests
  • Ethnographies
  • Journey maps
  • Card sorts

Quantitative research

  • Market Research
  • Surveys
  • A/B testing
  • Behavioral data analysis

Workshops

Collaborative innovation workshops grounded in human—centered research

Why us? A woman-led business, CASO Studio combines global expertise, rigorous & responsive practices, multi-cultural perspective and a sense of curiosity to deliver powerful results.

Rigorous and responsive

We adapt industry—leading practices to your startup setting to get rigorous research results.

Al-immersed

We have expertise providing insights for teams launching Al—powered consumer and business products.

Culturally relevant

We are a multicultural and multilingual team with research fluency across languages, geographies and cultural contexts.

We’re Caroline and Sofia, the researchers behind CASO Studio. Our paths first crossed in Silicon Valley, where we spent years at innovative companies and research institutions including Grammarly, Uber, IDEO, and Stanford University.

Most recently, we worked together on research projects to inform human—centered algorithms and AI innovation.

We have joined forces to bring our expertise to a global market, in—person and remotely.

Caroline Stanculescu

Caroline is an empathic, collaborative researcher and with 15+ years of experience in qualitative user research and innovation projects.

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Sofia Mac Gregor

Sofia is a mixed methods researcher who loves to combine quantitative and qualitative research, finding the most rigorous ways to elicit answers for complex product, policy, and design questions.

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We’d love to hear from you! Whether you have a project or just want to know more, reach out and let’s connect.