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Your customers are telling you everything…
But you’re only hearing what’s on the surface.

Ophea conducts deep qualitative research that uncovers what your customers actually mean, not just what they say. The insights that drive retention, win deals, and change strategy don’t live in surveys. They live in conversations. We go get them.

You’re making million-dollar decisions on gut feel and five-star ratings.

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Most businesses have no idea why they’re actually winning or losing deals. They think it’s price. It’s almost never just price. They run a satisfaction survey and see a 4.2 out of 5. They have no idea what that number is hiding.

Traditional research firms could tell you, but it will cost tens of thousands of dollars and it will take months. So you skip it. You guess. And your competitors who aren’t guessing? They’re eating your lunch.

WALES™ Scoring Framework — the five dimensions of sentiment analysis

Sentiment has layers. Our WALES™ Scoring Framework measures all of them.

The Ophea WALES™ Scoring Framework doesn’t just tell you whether someone is happy or unhappy. It tells you HOW happy, how consistently, and (most importantly!) what they’re not saying out loud.

WORD VALENCE: Are they using positive or negative language?

AMPLITUDE: How strongly do they feel about it?

LATENT SENTIMENT: What do they mean underneath what they say? This is where the real insight lives.

EMOTIONAL CONSISTENCY: Did their sentiment shift during the conversation, and what triggered it?

STAKEHOLDER INTENT: Are they going to buy, renew, recommend, or leave?

A satisfaction score tells you the temperature. WALES gives you a weather forecast.

From kickoff to playbook in weeks, not months.

We design the research.

We design the research.

A short consultation to define the question, the audience, and the protocol. What do you need to know, and who do we need to ask?

We go deep.

We go deep.

Ophea’s interview platform conducts structured conversations that adapt in real time — probing deeper when something interesting surfaces, following the thread where a survey would move on.

You get a playbook.

You get a playbook.

Not a data dump. A branded research report with WALES-scored analysis, key themes, direct quotes, and tiered recommendations your team can act on immediately.