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How Sprintr analyses market intelligence

Explains how Sprintr’s Market Intelligence uses Google Trends timing patterns and product relevance to classify demand (ER/S/E/V) and provide light-touch guidance on when to lean in, stay cautious, or reset—without forecasting sales.

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Sprintr’s Market Intelligence analysis is designed to answer one core question:

“Given how people look for this type of product over time, when should you lean in, when should you be cautious, and when is it smarter to ease back or reset?”

This is not about forecasting sales or chasing trends.

It’s about timing awareness — understanding when mistakes are more likely, and when conditions are quietly working in your favour.


What Sprintr looks at (at a high level)

Sprintr combines two sources of information to build a clear picture of market timing.

1) How buyer search behaviour changes over time

Sprintr analyses long-range Google Trends data for the product’s core search term.

It looks for:

  • Periods where people are consistently looking to buy

  • Recurring lifts that happen around certain times of year

  • Quieter stretches where activity reliably drops back

  • Patterns that repeat versus movement that looks noisy or unclear

This data is treated as relative timing, not volume.

Sprintr is not asking “how big is this market?” but “when does timing matter most?


2) How important this product is to your business

Sprintr then layers in your real product performance to understand commercial relevance.

This helps ensure the insight is grounded in reality:

  • Timing matters more for products that meaningfully contribute to revenue

  • It matters less for products that are occasional or peripheral

Revenue is used for context only — not to predict outcomes or make promises.


How Sprintr classifies the market pattern

Based on the trend shape over time, Sprintr classifies the product into one of four timing patterns.

You’ll see the classification shown as a simple label, but the value is in the explanation and advice that follows.

  • Evergreen with retail lift (ER)
    Products that sell year-round, but see predictable lifts around gifting or retail moments.

  • Truly seasonal (S)
    Products where activity concentrates into a clear part of the year, with extended quieter periods outside it.

  • Evergreen flat (E)
    Products with broadly steady activity across the year, where timing plays a minor role.

  • Volatile or unclear (V)
    Products where patterns are noisy, inconsistent, or the data isn’t strong enough to be confident.

Sprintr is deliberately conservative here.

If the pattern isn’t clear, it won’t force a label.


How Sprintr forms the insight you see

Sprintr turns the pattern into one clear market-timing insight, not a chart or report.

That insight:

  • Describes when the market tends to be more active and when it’s quieter

  • Explains why that timing matters for this product

  • Highlights where caution is sensible, especially around pricing and expectations

If the most recent data point is incomplete, Sprintr flags that calmly and treats recent movement as directional only.


What Sprintr will and won’t do in this analysis

Sprintr will

  • Focus on timing, seasonality, and recurring patterns

  • Use plain, everyday commercial language

  • Help you avoid common timing-related mistakes

  • Keep the advice easy to act on as one person

Sprintr won’t

  • Forecast sales or revenue

  • Claim exact outcomes or predict winners

  • Infer competitor behaviour

  • Assume advertising tactics, staffing, or operational setups

  • Turn the insight into a process, checklist, or playbook

This is judgement-led advice, not execution planning.


How to use the recommendations

The three recommendations that follow the insight are intentionally light-touch.

They’re designed to:

  • Help you get ready at the right time

  • Encourage margin awareness when timing tightens

  • Remind you when it’s sensible to step back and reset

They’re not instructions to implement systems or controls — just experienced guidance to keep in mind as conditions change.


What you should take away

When you see a Market Intelligence insight from Sprintr, you can be confident that:

  • It’s about when, not how much

  • It reflects real, recurring patterns — not short-term noise

  • It’s cautious where data is unclear

  • It’s designed to help you avoid timing-related mistakes, not create extra work

Sprintr’s aim here is simple:

Help you move in step with the market — and avoid pushing too hard when timing isn’t on your side.

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