Turn Shallow Avatars Into Real,
Behavior-Backed Profiles

Pinpoint who your best buyers really are, what they care about most, how they decide, and what pushes them to take action.

Pinpoint who your best buyers really are, what they care about most, how they decide, and what pushes them to take action.

The CIM is trusted by brands and agencies managing 7-figure monthly ad spend:

The CIM is trusted by brands and agencies managing 7-figure monthly ad spend:

The CIM is trusted by brands and agencies managing 7-figure monthly ad spend:

Built for Brands Who Know

Your Best Customers Aren't Who You Think They Are…

The CIM replaces personas, intuition-led creative, and 50-page research decks with a single behavioral map your team can actually use.

Powered by real customer insight

Built to help your creative scale, not drown you in tasks

After running a CIM, your team knows who to build for, what emotional story to tell, and which ideas to kill immediately.

1. Choose What You Want to Understand

Tell us the customer truths you want uncovered. The CIM then aligns the survey to your goals so the insights reflect what actually matters to your brand.

2. We Build Your Custom CIM Survey

We turn your goals into a psychology-backed survey designed to surface the emotional, identity, and behavioral patterns you can’t get from basic research.

3. We Test It With Real Cold Audiences

Your survey goes to fresh, bot-stripped respondents so the data reflects real human behavior—not recycled personas, warm fans, or the typical standard research

4. You Get the Full Picture and Clear Direction

You receive a full breakdown of developed avatars, emotional drivers, behavior patterns, and messaging maps—plus a strategy your team can act on immediately.

How We Work

CIM is not market research, it’s a diagnostic tool built to tell you who to go after next…and how

CIM is not market research, it’s a diagnostic tool built to tell you who to go after next…and how

Market research tells you what customers say

The CIM shows you who they are and how to reach them.

The CIM uses metaphorical and pictorial surveys to uncover emotional drivers, behavioral logic, and identity patterns of your current market and ones you haven't tapped into yet so your team can stop building creative for people who will never convert.

How the CIM Makes Decisions

How the CIM Makes Decisions

1. Knowing what to do beats completing the puzzle

The CIM is designed to make decisions obvious, not to capture every possible insight. If an insight doesn’t change creative direction, it doesn’t belong in the system.

2. Behavior matters more than opinion

What customers say is often rationalized after the fact. The CIM focuses on patterns in behavior, emotion, and identity because those predict action.

3. Insights must survive contact with creative

If an insight can’t be used by a copywriter, designer, or media buyer, it’s not a valuable insight. The CIM outputs are built to plug directly into ads.

4. The goal is fewer tests, not better guesses

The CIM exists to eliminate bad tests before they happen so teams spend time scaling what works instead of learning the same lesson repeatedly.

The teams who win aren’t the ones who move fastest.
They’re the ones who stop guessing first.

1. Knowing what to do beats completing the puzzle

The CIM is designed to make decisions obvious, not to capture every possible insight. If an insight doesn’t change creative direction, it doesn’t belong in the system.

2. Behavior matters more than opinion

What customers say is often rationalized after the fact. The CIM focuses on patterns in behavior, emotion, and identity because those predict action.

3. Insights must survive contact with creative

If an insight can’t be used by a copywriter, designer, or media buyer, it’s not a valuable insight. The CIM outputs are built to plug directly into ads.

4. The goal is fewer tests, not better guesses

The CIM exists to eliminate bad tests before they happen so teams spend time scaling what works instead of learning the same lesson repeatedly.

The teams who win aren’t the ones who move fastest…they’re the ones who stop guessing first.

Founder, Tether Insights

Real insights. Real avatars. Results that multiply.

Real insights. Real avatars. Results that multiply.

↑ 35% AOV Increase

↑ 35% AOV Increase

↑ 35% AOV Increase

↓ 25% CPA Decrease

↓ 25% CPA Decrease

↓ 25% CPA Decrease

↑ 5× Research Velocity

↑ 5× Research Velocity

↑ 5× Research Velocity

  • At Original Grain, we sell men’s watches, but over 50% of our customers are women—buying gifts for the men in their lives. With Tether's help, we’ve crafted messaging that speaks to both the gift buyer and the recipient, addressing their emotional needs. Don’t forget to focus on the buyer, not just the recipient!"

    Nate Lagos

    VP Marketing, Original Grain

  • "It has been incredibly interesting doing strategy last week with valence/intensity in mind, it opens up so much more ideas and when we do learnings on our ads, it makes sense why they’re working/not working. We’re extremely grateful for opening our eyes to new perspective!"

    Karlo Jurina

    Founder, CMO

  • "Just wanted to say that the amount of value I’ve gained from Tether — there hasn’t been another one that even comes close in terms of how much value it’s provided. This community is unbeaten! Thank you so much for the value that you're providing and really looking forward for what's coming!"

    Somair Ahmad Nasir

    Founder, Media Buyer

  • "Last year we averaged a ctr of 0.4–0.5% and I kinda came to terms with that being “my normal.” After learning with Tether, my new meme ads are pulling 2.5–2.8% ctr...And I’m really really emotional about it."

    Ahmad Almarri

    Founder & CEO

Most brands spend $25K-$100K testing creative without knowing who they're building for

The CIM is a behavioral diagnostic tool designed to replace months of failed testing and internal debate, not add another experiment. Most teams recoup the cost of CIM by avoiding just 1–2 failed test campaigns.

CIM is for you if:

✅ You’re already spending money testing ads or creative

✅ You want fewer tests, not more data

✅ You’re willing to change messaging based on what customers reveal

CIM is not for you if:

❌ You want personas or demographic profiles

❌ You’re looking for “inspiration” instead of decisions

❌ You aren’t ready to act on uncomfortable insights

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