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Week 2Individual
Bramble Studio

Find the Signal

Win back the under-25s for a regional water brand

A family-run mineral water brand from the Alps sells well to families in northern Italian supermarkets, but buyers under 25 barely know it. The marketing team has a small budget and no data on this group. They need someone who can listen to young people, read the market and propose a campaign that fits the brand instead of copying trends.

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Week 2

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Northwind Analytics

Find the signal in support tickets

Team Lighthouse

6 days left

Step 1 of 3 · Review Brief

The situation

Northwind Analytics answers thousands of support tickets every month. The same questions come back every day, and the tickets that really matter get lost in the noise.

  • The case: a support team of eight that answers by email and chat.
  • Who it’s for: the product team, who choose what to fix next quarter.
  • The numbers: 1,200 tickets from July to September, each with its channel and date.
  • What is supplied: support-tickets-q3CSV and tagging-guidePDF.

The choice is yours

Read three months of anonymised tickets in support-tickets-q3CSV, group them into themes and decide which problem the team should fix first.

Make your case

One recommendation the product team could ship this quarter, with the evidence behind it.

Written with MARA AI and reviewed and approved by Northwind Analytics. Your work is evaluated by people, never by MARA AI.

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Giulia Conti

Giulia Conti

Management Engineering

About

I like turning a pile of tickets, interviews or delivery logs into one recommendation a team can act on this quarter.

Education

Università di Castelmare

Master's · Year 2

Worked with

Northwind AnalyticsAlder HealthFenwick & Co.Bramble Studio
The Last Mile

Northwind Analytics

Shortlisted

Submitted work

Prototype

Project abstract

We mapped 1,200 failed deliveries from the last quarter: two in three happen on the same twelve rural routes, between 2pm and 5pm, when nobody is home.

We propose evening slots on those routes, chosen by the customer at checkout, with a six-week pilot in one region to measure the effect on returns.

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Find the signal in support ticketsNorthwind Analytics
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