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INSIGHTLAB Inc. — New Platform Launch Story

We connect B2B researchers × B2C monitors on one platform.

RealVoice Panel is a marketing-research execution platform that runs a consumer monitor panel, online surveys, venue tests, and points rewards end-to-end. An integrated platform for the market-research industry, supporting over 50,000 registered monitors and 1,000+ surveys a year.

To eliminate “fragmented research tools, manual points rewards, and untargeted blanket distribution,”InsightLab Inc., the story of launching a new platform built in-house from scratch in 8 months.

Distribution start
Days → same day
Points rewards
Manual → automated
Response channels
Online + venue
Segmented distribution
Blanket → industry × region
RealVoice Panel
3,250pt
Available surveys 12
Food 5 min
Breakfast Habits Survey
+50pt
Venue 45 min · Shibuya
New Product Tasting · Tablet Survey
+800pt
Kids 20 min · guardian present
Toy Pre-Test (Guardian Present)
+300pt
01
CLIENT
About the client

a leading domestic market-research firm, “InsightLab Inc.」。

Serving a wide range of industries — consumer goods, services, food, toys and more — it delivers marketing research spanning qualitative/quantitative and online/offline. A leader in the research-agency industry, delivering the primary data that informs management decisions.

Previously, external survey tools, dedicated panel companies, and venue arrangements were each contracted and run separately, creating turnaround, quality, and data-integration challenges on every project. An in-house platform with its own monitor panel and unified operations was the key to growth.

50,000+
Monitor registration panel
1,000+
Annual surveys conducted
All 47
prefectures covered
BUSINESS FLOW
STEP 01
Panel recruitment
Monitors register via the marketing site; attribute input auto-segments them
STEP 02
Survey distribution
Segment extraction by industry × region, same-day distribution
STEP 03
Response collection
Online responses / on-site tablets / guardian-present kids surveys
STEP 04
Rewards & retention
Automatic points crediting and gift exchange improve panel retention
02
CHALLENGE
Design challenges to solve

Four design challenges that drive business growth.

We treated this not as a tool-selection problem but as a business issue tied directly to the research business's turnaround, quality, profitability, and market competitiveness — and designed it from scratch.

If it takes days from survey request to distribution, opportunity loss grows
With manual handoffs across external tools → monitor extraction → distribution setup,3-5 business days to start distribution. Trend surveys lose their freshness, and repeat orders are lost.
If venue tests sit outside the platform, operations get duplicated
If on-site tablet distribution and guardian-present kids surveys can't run on the online platform,Operational flows are duplicated and data tallying is managed separately
If points rewards are manual, response and retention rates can't be sustained
Handling per-response rewards in Excel meansHundreds of operational hours a month. Crediting delays raise panel churn.
Without industry × region segmented distribution, response quality drops
Blanket distribution lets low-quality responses from off-target monitors slip in,Cleaning costs and research accuracy weighs on margins.
03
ARCHITECTURE
The architecture we built together

Built in-house from scratch, unifying four domains into one platform.

Rather than a fragmented stack of cobbled-together external tools, we built an in-house architecture that runs the company's own monitor panel, survey engine, venue integration, and points rewards on a single platform. Researchers get a highly flexible survey builder, monitors get a frictionless participation experience, and operations get automated workflows.

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EXECUTION
8
months
40
person-months
Domain ①
Distribution speed
Challenge
Manual external-tool integration: 3-5 days to distribution
Solution
Enter segment criteria, distribute the same day
Extract monitors directly from the survey builder
Domain ②
Venue integration
Challenge
Venue tests and kids surveys sit in separate tools / tallying is scattered
Solution
Integrates tablet distribution and guardian-present flows
One response schema spanning offline / online
Domain ③
Points rewards
Challenge
Manual crediting: hundreds of operational hours a month
Solution
Auto-credit on completion; gift exchange automated too
Cut operational hours to under 1/10
Domain ④
Segmented distribution
Challenge
Blanket distribution lets low-quality responses in
Solution
Multi-axis segmented distribution by attribute × industry × region
Balancing response quality and response rate
TECH STACK
Frontend
jQuery / Bootstrap Vue (admin panel) SASS
Backend
Laravel PHP LimeSurvey survey engine WordPress marketing site
Infra & analytics
MySQL SendGrid email CAPI measurement
04
IMPACT
The value the platform creates

InsightLab Inc.'s business moves to the next stage.

From one-off research projects → to a continuous panel-operation business. The in-house platform supports business-model expansion and a better profit structure.

Establishing a “same-day distribution” model
Room to win trend and rapid-turnaround surveys expands, and research delivery speed beats the industry average.
Differentiation through online × offline integration
Completing venue tests and kids surveys on the in-house platform secures a competitive edge.
Improved panel retention
Instant points rewards and diverse participation channels cut monitor churn and build up long-term panel assets.
Improved operating margin
Automating manual tallying and points crediting sharply cuts operational hours, raising gross margin per research project.
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STAKEHOLDER
Monitor
B2C · panel members
Typically
Crediting delays lower willingness to participate
At InsightLab,
Instant reward on completion; diverse channel choices
Business impact
Improved panel retention
Long-term panel assets build up
🏢
STAKEHOLDER
Researcher
B2C · client companies
Typically
Days of waiting to start distribution, losing freshness
At InsightLab,
Enter segment criteria, complete distribution the same day
Business impact
Establishing a “same-day distribution” model
More room to win rapid-turnaround surveys
📍
STAKEHOLDER
Venue operations
Offline fieldwork
Typically
Venue and online data scattered and managed separately
At InsightLab,
Tablet distribution on the same platform; responses tallied instantly
Business impact
Differentiation via unified operations
Spanning online × offline
⚙️
STAKEHOLDER
Operations team
Within InsightLab
Typically
Manual points crediting: hundreds of hours a month
At InsightLab,
Auto-crediting and auto-exchange cut operational hours to 1/10
Business impact
Improved operating margin
Higher gross margin per project
05
DEMO
Three scenarios

Experience the result with a working demo.