Segment Reports

We track how the conversation moves.

How loudly a topic runs in each corner of the executive conversation, how the mood is shifting, and what changed this month, for every role, industry, and scale we track.

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Future Outlook

12-mo avg 79.3 · points from average

-30+3SepDecMarJunAug

Economy

12-mo avg 45.4 · points from average

-30+3SepDecMarJunAug

Industry Forecast

12-mo avg 64.4 · points from average

-30+3SepDecMarJunAug

AI

12-mo avg 61.2 · points from average

-30+3SepDecMarJunAug

Innovation

12-mo avg 77.6 · points from average

-30+3SepDecMarJunAug

Each topic against its own 12-month average (the zero line). Above means the conversation is running hotter than normal for that topic; below, cooler. All five share one scale, so a bigger swing is genuinely bigger.

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Every role × industry × scale we track.

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Segment reports by role, industry, or company scale.

By Role

Engineering & Product

IT & Security

Customer Success & Support

Academic & Research

Advisory & Consulting

Media & Content

Other

By Industry

Other

By Company Scale

Startup

Small

Midsize

Growth

Enterprise

Nonprofit

Advisory

Other

What is in a segment report?

Every report is a media-analysis read on one slice of the executive conversation: what it talks about, how it feels, and which way it is moving.

Topic Sentiment Indexes

Five tracked topics — Future Outlook, Economy, Industry Forecast, AI, and Innovation — scored monthly for the segment on a 0–100 index anchored at a neutral 50.

Reach & Momentum

How much of the segment’s conversation each topic claims, and which way the mood is moving — month over month, with 3-month momentum.

Share of Conversation

Term-level reach across the corpus — which words are rising, which are fading — via the Conversation Index.

Segment Slicing

Every index cuts by role and industry, with thin cells rolling up to their parent group so small segments stay honest instead of noisy.

Grounded in Real Audio

Built from transcripts of real executive-interview podcasts — thousands of episodes a year, classified and scored episode by episode.

Evidence You Can Audit

Every episode-level score carries a written rationale, so any index value can be traced back to what speakers actually said.

How we build segment reports

Most market research is built on surveys, firmographic databases, or intent signals. Ours is built on what people actually say when they're not being marketed to.

We analyze thousands of long-form conversations — unscripted, in-depth discussions where executives talk openly about their priorities, frustrations, and how they actually evaluate solutions. No survey bias. No self-reported data. Read the full methodology.

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Behavioral & linguistic extraction

Scores behavioral factors and extracts linguistic patterns — the words, phrases, and framing the segment naturally reaches for.

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Buyer journey mapping

Maps buyer journey signals — how they describe buying, evaluating, and deciding.

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Statistical analysis & blending

Identifies behavioral clusters, detects trend shifts, and flags what’s distinctive about a specific intersection versus the broader population.

48 job functions54 industry segments16 scale levels

Tracking something specific?

We run custom tracking for brands, agencies, and investors. Your category, your competitors, your terms. Reported monthly, built on the same corpus.