Program · independent market research

The Market Brief.

An independent read of your market and where you genuinely fit in it, written for the economic buyer, not the category. The credible third-party map you cannot write yourself, plus a designed asset from every section you can lift straight into your own marketing.

$35,000 · Founding Client terms apply
The problem

Your own market map is marketing.

When you describe your market and your place in it, the buyer discounts it, because you are the vendor and every vendor says it is the leader. The map that moves an economic buyer is the one drawn by someone with no reason to flatter you.

You cannot produce that yourself. What you need is an independent read of the category, in the buyer's terms, that places you honestly and that you can stand behind in front of a CIO.

What's included

What you get.

  • The independent read. Your market mapped in the buyer's language: the forces moving it, the real approaches, and the honest bar that separates leaders.
  • Where you fit, honestly. The buyer you are right for, where you win, and the one honest caveat. Credible because it is not all praise.
  • An asset from every section. A designed infographic or pull-quote per section, built to stand alone as a social card or a slide. A brief, plus a set of reusable assets.
  • Published and amplified. Delivered as PDF and markdown, posted on phronia.co and your channels at your option, and carried to Phronia's network of 5,000+ enterprise leaders.
How it works

Map. Place. Equip.

Map
The market, in the buyer's terms

The category, the one force moving it, the real approaches, and the criteria that actually decide value.

Place
Where you fit

Your genuine position, read by the same standard as the field, framed as fit rather than a score.

Equip
The reusable assets

Every section ships a designed graphic or quote you can lift into social, slides, and sales.

What it's worth

One artifact, many uses.

A credible market map is worth more than a campaign, because the buyer trusts it. And the asset set means it keeps working long after the launch.

Third-party credibility

An independent read a buyer believes, because it is not your marketing.

An asset factory

Roughly nine designed, reusable assets, not just a document.

A sales leave-behind

The buyer's-questions and fit cards arm your reps and your champions.

Awareness, carried

Published under an independent name and amplified to a senior network.

Why Phronia

The map the buyer trusts.

Phronia maps the market with the judgment of someone who has been the CIO, the CTO, and the CISO, more than once, across many industries. The read is independent and candid, which is exactly what makes your place in it worth having.

Sponsored, never controlled: a vendor funds the work and is positioned honestly, including where it does not fit. That honesty is the product.

Get started

$35,000, scoped to your market.

The Market Brief is a fixed-scope flagship research engagement at $35,000, scoped to your market and how prominently you want to be featured.

Founding Client: start your first engagement by July 31 and take 40% off, as one of a small charter group, in exchange for becoming a reference.