We help brands uncover the stories, meanings and motivations that shape consumer choice and turn that understanding into commercial growth.
We’ve helped struggling new products increase revenue by 200%. We’ve helped global snack companies and national retail chains communicate value to the customer’s unconscious mind. And we literally wrote the book on pricing psychology.
Our work helps teams see what people really value, where brands have permission to grow, and what story will make products, propositions and communications more likely to land.






I’ve had loads of great feedback and it was great to see everyone so engaged and asking lots of questions. The debrief went really well and I appreciated that you incorporated our feedback and built on it. I felt you told a really clear story, busted some myths and uncovered new insights.
We can now finally put a dollar value on elements of the customer journey and calculate ROI with some significant differences globally. The research gave us focused insight with robust evidence to gain support of the business and helped us create “key moments” for our target guest that both drive value and, more importantly, will lead to increased Average Daily Rate.
Irrational Agency has a truly unique and inspired approach to research which is refreshing in the current cluttered market. During my time as head of insight I commissioned quite a complex project with them and throughout the research they showed the characteristics of how true partnership and collaboration works. I would consider Irrational Agency as true thought leaders in their field.
Irrational Agency have been a joy to work with. They completely understood our aims and objectives from the outset and provided innovative solutions for how to address these. The methodology is a new one for us but Irrational Agency have been terrific in explaining the results and the methodology to the wider team and everyone is so pleased with the results and desperate to use the data!

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From product development to the big strategic questions. How Irrational Agency built a successful relationship with a global beverage and snack business.

How do you research a concept difficult to articulate? We applied behavioural science in understanding what desire means for a new generation, so a global fragrance brand could relaunch an iconic 90s scent for a new audience.

Phizz needed fast insight to sharpen its positioning in a competitive hydration category. Irrational Agency used narrative qual to map consumer perceptions, uncover barriers, and shape actionable messaging for its House of Hydration strategy.

How can you predict consumer behaviours in a category where they have no experience of you? Discover how we used narrative research to understand opportunities in new categories for Mondelez.
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