Methodology · Glimpse

Listening is your new advantage.

Glimpse is our proprietary AI-powered Voice-of-Customer and sentiment intelligence platform. It turns thousands of real customer conversations across reviews, forums and social into structured, decision-ready market intelligence. Built and operated by Align Digital. Live at getglimpse.nz.

Detected sentiment · Anxiety
How Glimpse reads a conversation
Source: Reddit · r/careeradvice
“I’ve been learning programming for almost a year now, but I still don’t feel ready to apply for jobs. Everyone seems to know so much more than me, and I’m worried that I’ll fail technical interviews or be exposed as a fraud once I start working.”
Anxiety Imposter syndrome Uncertainty
01 · Why it exists

Conversion is downstream of market understanding.

Most CRO tools treat the website as the unit of analysis. Glimpse treats the market as the unit of analysis — what people feel, fear, compare and expect before they ever land on a page.

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Open-web intelligence

Reads thousands of public conversations across Reddit, forums, social, reviews and Q&A platforms. Not just the reviews you already own.

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Aspect-level analysis

Every opinion is structured as Entity, Aspect, Sentiment, Holder and Time. Cross-competitor and period-over-period comparison without losing nuance.

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Human-centred overlays

Beyond positive/negative scoring, Glimpse preserves emotion, anxiety, severity, tone and trend. The language that drives decisions, not just the score.

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Decision-ready outputs

Interactive web reports built for executives and agencies. Not raw exports for analysts. Headline insights, deltas, risks and opportunities, all traceable.

02 · The method

ABSA, with a human-centred layer on top.

Glimpse uses Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis as its structural backbone. On top of that, our proprietary EASHT framework keeps the human signal that generic sentiment tools strip out.

E
Emotion

Affective valence beyond a positive or negative label.

A
Anxiety

Uncertainty, perceived risk, hesitation, trust erosion.

S
Severity

Low-frequency but high-impact issues that matter strategically.

H
Human Tone

Sarcasm, irony, colloquial phrasing, frustration. Real language.

T
Trend

Directional movement period over period so early shifts surface.

Each opinion is modelled as a quintuple: Entity, Aspect, Sentiment, Holder, Time. That structure makes cross-competitor comparison, period analysis, and traceability to source possible without collapsing nuance into a single number.

03 · What you get

An interactive report, not a static deck.

Every Glimpse engagement delivers a structured web-based report. Designed to be scanned by executives and agencies, with traceability all the way back to the verbatim source.

Module

Executive summary

Headline insights, period-over-period deltas, risks, opportunities, and the strategic takeaways.

Module

Brand performance

Share of voice, polarity patterns, entity-level movement, channel-specific visibility.

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Aspect-level heatmap

Entity × Aspect sentiment heatmap with narrative interpretation. Shows where your brand wins, loses, or is silent.

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Competitive landscape

Comparative strengths and weaknesses, positioning clusters, channel-by-channel visibility.

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Voice-of-Customer cards

Verbatim evidence with metadata. Every insight traces back to a real customer statement, source and date.

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Trend over time

Sentiment distribution movement period over period. Early signals before they show up in revenue or churn.

04 · Cadence

Three modes. One method.

Glimpse runs at the cadence that matches the decision. The same analytical logic applies across all three.

One-offSnapshot
A defined-decision-point analysis for a brand, category, client brief, or a strategic question.
Pre-launch positioning, market entry, board paper, agency pitch, post-mortem on a campaign.
RecurringContinuous
Quarterly or monthly updates that preserve the same analytical logic and add temporal comparison so you can see what shifted.
Ongoing brand health, competitor watch, agency-of-record retainers, executive dashboards.
Always-onEchoScope
Our long-term architectural vision: continuous observation of market perception across open digital ecosystems.
Multi-market enterprises, regulators, public-policy adjacent decisions, time-sensitive PR contexts.
05 · Where it works best

Categories where the open web already has the conversation.

Glimpse needs signal. It is at its strongest where customers already talk publicly about their experience.

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eCommerce & DTC

Pre-purchase anxieties, comparison frames, side-effect language, value-vs-price perception.

02

Education & tertiary

Course choice, post-graduation outcomes, return-on-fees concerns, programme reputation.

03

Tourism & attractions

Booking decisions, experience expectations, weather and seasonality language, comparison vs alternatives.

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Food & consumer brands

Ingredient anxieties, dietary trade-offs, reorder language, retail vs DTC perception.

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Health & wellness

Practitioner vs consumer language, symptom framing, trust signals, regulatory hesitation.

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Agencies (white-label)

Use Glimpse as your own VoC engine for client retainers, with your branding on the report.

Glimpse turns open, unstructured public opinion into structured, decision-ready market intelligence through aspect-based analysis, human-centred interpretation, and interactive web reports.

Glimpse canonical positioning

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