For skincare & beauty brands

TryMe Insights

Practical guides on testing products, reading consumer data, and making claims you can stand behind.

Methodology

Why consumer-perception scores get gamed, and how to fix it

Star ratings are easy to inflate. We use a Bayesian Truth Serum approach: testers rate a product and predict how others will rate it, which surfaces the honest signal. Here is how it works and why it matters for your claims.

Planning

How many testers do you actually need?

The honest answer depends on your confidence level and margin of error, not a magic number. Try our sample size calculator and read the rules of thumb for read-and-react product tests.

Claims

Consumer-tested vs clinically-tested: what you can legally say

The two are not the same, and the FTC treats them differently. What consumer perception testing can and cannot substantiate, and how to word claims so they hold up.

R&D

Test the concept before you manufacture

The cheapest test is the one you run before tooling a single unit. How survey-only concept testing with a matched panel de-risks a launch, and what to ask.

Pricing

Stop asking "what would you pay?"

Stated willingness-to-pay is unreliable. Randomized real-price offers reveal an actual demand curve. Estimate the impact with our ROI calculator.

Data

Category benchmarks: is your score actually good?

A 4.2 means nothing without context. As our matched-panel corpus grows, we benchmark every result against the category so you know where a product truly stands.

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