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Todd led the Bose vision team for close to a decade. The team's work on the future of audio produced the Ultra Open Earbuds, and open-ear listening became a category worth billions a year.
Fig. 01. The question, on a concept sketch
Fig. 02. Audio glasses, 2017
Fig. 03. Ultra Open, on the earThree
phases.
Map the future
Where the market, the technology and the customer are going, and which futures are worth a bet.
Architect the opportunity
Map the whole solution space, strengthen the field, test a portfolio of concepts at once.
Prove the market
Price, position, competition, first customer. Evidence sized for an investor deck.
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A thousand interviews in an afternoon. AI-moderated research with real people, at a scale no agency can match, read by a human who has shipped in your category.
Intake. Blueprint by end of day.
Portal and protocol built.
Review, iterate, launch.
The study runs overnight.
Readout. Decision by 3pm.
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Featured research
Smart
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Index.One hundred conversations about what people expect to be wearing in three years, and what they'd rather nobody wore near them.
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Fig. 04. Todd Reily, Boston
Fig. 05. Jibo, social robot, 2015Todd
Reily.
Two startups building new categories: industrial smart glasses in 2012, social robots in 2015. Then a decade leading the vision team at Bose.
He thrives where there are no rules yet, and has learned as much from the concepts that failed as from the ones that shipped.