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A short conversation, not a pitch

We want to understand how you actually evaluate cultural momentum today.

Index is an independent cross platform intelligence system designed to measure cultural influence and momentum in real time. Before we build any further, we are speaking with a small number of operators across sponsorship, rights, media, talent and analytics.

Your answers shape what Index becomes. Five questions. Roughly fifteen minutes. No sales follow up unless you ask for one.

Start the five questions → What we are building

What we are looking for

We are not asking whether you like Index. We are asking which category of product Index is naturally becoming. These are different businesses, with different buyers and different risks.

01

Where workflows still break

The point at which data becomes fragmented, instinct takes over, or a spreadsheet gets stitched together by hand.

02

Which decisions are hardest

The renewals, the talent calls, the partnership choices that still feel data poor when the cheque is large.

03

What you would never trust

Methodology opacity, vendor bias, sample size, conflicts of interest. The deal breakers.

Why a neutral layer

Engagement data is no longer a trusted signal. Synthetic activity makes it increasingly hard to know what is real. Index sits above the platforms and interprets what is actually happening.

Use cases under exploration

Sponsorship valuation. Talent and creator evaluation. Media planning. Partnership selection. Audience intelligence. The conversations should tell us which one has the strongest natural pull.

What this conversation is not

Not a pitch. Not a demo. Not a request for budget. We are not sharing methodology, launch timelines or commercial terms at this stage. We are listening.

Five questions

Work through these in order. Two answered properly is better than five answered superficially. The last question is the most important.

Research form About you
Step 1 of 6
Who you are

A few quick details, then we move into the substance.

We use this to weight patterns across segments. Nothing is shared outside the YW research team.

Sponsorship
Rights
Media
Talent
Creators
Analytics
Agency
Brand
Question 1 of 5 · Workflow

How do you currently evaluate sponsorship value, cultural momentum or cross platform performance?

Walk us through what actually happens. The tools, the people, the cycles, the manual stitching. Specifics beat abstractions.

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Question 2 of 5 · Instinct vs evidence

Which decisions in this space still feel uncomfortable or data poor?

Where do you end up going on instinct rather than evidence? Think about the last renewal, the last talent call, the last partnership decision.

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Question 3 of 5 · Tools and gaps

Which tools or providers do you currently use, and what do you wish they did that they do not?

What you pay for. What you replaced. What you would happily switch from if something better existed.

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Question 4 of 5 · The wedge

If you had reliable daily momentum data across all platforms simultaneously, where would it change decisions first?

The first use case you reach for is the wedge. We are looking for specificity, not breadth.

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Question 5 of 5 · The deal breakers

What would make you distrust a cross platform intelligence platform immediately?

This is the most important question. Methodology opacity, vendor bias, sample size, conflicts of interest, procurement red flags. Be blunt.

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Methodology opacity
Vendor bias
Sample size
Conflicts of interest
Procurement friction
Synthetic engagement
Data lineage
Cross platform comparability

Thank you. That is useful.

We will synthesise the patterns across operators and come back to you with what we are hearing, before anyone else sees it. No follow up unless you have asked for one.

Your response is held confidentially within the Valantai research environment on behalf of YW.

Confidential research · YW Index · 2026