Up to 80% less than an agencyUp to 80% less than a traditional agency
Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) Agency
We watch real users get stuck, then tell you what to fix first.
CRO research plan builder
Scope, timeline and a price — before you talk to anyone.Scope, sample size, timeline and a price — before you talk to anyone.
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What do you need to decide?
Stop guessing which fix will work
A ranked list of what's costing you conversions
Previous clients
Solutions
Conversion rate optimisation (CRO) research, end to end
Three studies a CRO consultancy is most often asked for, on ecommerce, SaaS and lead-generation sites. Find where the funnel leaks, decide what to change, then test whether it worked. Senior researchers and conversion specialists, working the full cycle.
Alongside the enterprise work: founders we’ve researched, designed and built with, from the first user interviews to launch.
CRO research studies
Research for every decision
Every study we run for website conversion and landing page optimisation. Open one to see what it is, when you need it and what you get.
Why Obodo
How we compare with a traditional CRO agency
Same screened participants and senior moderation as a traditional agency. Unlike testing tools on their own, you hear why people drop off, not just where.
What a complete study costs, from brief to findings. Obodo's figure is indicative until a researcher confirms the scope. Up to 80% less than an agency
Yes
How long from kick-off to findings you can act on. 63% faster with AI-assisted workflowsSource: Maze survey (N=500)
Yes
Who you hear from: whether they match your audience and were screened for it. Screened and representative
Yes
Who runs the sessions, and how good they are at drawing out what people really do. Senior moderator
Yes
Whether the method can surface things you didn't know to ask about. Yes
Yes
What happens to your money if the study doesn't deliver. Full refund if the completed study isn't right.
Yes
Whether the evidence would stand up to a compliance, board or regulator review. Yes
Yes
Traditional agency
What a complete study costs, from brief to findings. Obodo's figure is indicative until a researcher confirms the scope. £10k to £14k a study
No
How long from kick-off to findings you can act on. 2 to 8 weeks
No
Who you hear from: whether they match your audience and were screened for it. Screened and representative
Yes
Who runs the sessions, and how good they are at drawing out what people really do. Senior moderator
Yes
Whether the method can surface things you didn't know to ask about. Yes
Yes
What happens to your money if the study doesn't deliver. Scope and price agreed before work starts
Yes
Whether the evidence would stand up to a compliance, board or regulator review. Yes
Yes
DIY / in-house
What a complete study costs, from brief to findings. Obodo's figure is indicative until a researcher confirms the scope. Free, but your team's time
No
How long from kick-off to findings you can act on. Variable, squeezed around the day job
No
Who you hear from: whether they match your audience and were screened for it. Convenience sample, often biased
No
Who runs the sessions, and how good they are at drawing out what people really do. Depends on interviewer skill
No
Whether the method can surface things you didn't know to ask about. Sometimes
No
What happens to your money if the study doesn't deliver. None, but no rigour either
No
Whether the evidence would stand up to a compliance, board or regulator review. Rarely
No
AI personas
What a complete study costs, from brief to findings. Obodo's figure is indicative until a researcher confirms the scope. Cheap, and you get what you pay for
No
How long from kick-off to findings you can act on. Instant, but unreliable
No
Who you hear from: whether they match your audience and were screened for it. Synthetic, no real behaviour
No
Who runs the sessions, and how good they are at drawing out what people really do. None, it answers within the frame you give it
No
Whether the method can surface things you didn't know to ask about. No
No
What happens to your money if the study doesn't deliver. None, but no evidence either
No
Whether the evidence would stand up to a compliance, board or regulator review. No
No
Pricing
What CRO research costs with Obodo
Indicative prices for our conversion rate optimisation services at their default scope, up to 80% below the published agency rates we benchmark against. A senior researcher fixes the price on a 15-minute scoping call before anything is charged.
Churn and Exit Research
Find out why customers leave, and what would have kept them.
Price
Up to 80% less
Agency benchmark
~£14,000
Timeline
2–3 weeks
Default scope
10–15 exit or win/loss interviews, lost customers introduced by you, drivers coded and ranked
What you'll get
The real reasons behind leaving, in customers' own words, and the changes most likely to keep the next ones.
Expert UX Audit
A senior researcher reviews your key journeys and ranks what's likely costing you conversions. No participants needed.
Price
Quoted on a 15-minute call
Timeline
About 1 week
Default scope
the journeys you name, desktop and mobile
What you'll get
A ranked list of the issues in each journey, with severity, a screenshot and the fix we would make first — and the questions only research with real users can settle.
Message Testing
See what your messaging does before you spend on it.
Price
Up to 80% less
Agency benchmark
~£10,000
Timeline
1–2 weeks
Default scope
4–6 variants, quant comparative test (n≈200–400)
What you'll get
The messages that land, the ones that do not, and why.
Benchmarks are built from published agency price pages and cost guides; the sources are shown with every estimate. Prices exclude participant incentives, quoted separately as a pass-through.
A conversion rate optimisation (CRO) agency, also spelled conversion rate optimization, works out why visitors who should convert don't, and what to change so more of them do. We start with research. A senior researcher reviews your funnel data, then watches real users try to sign up, check out or book a demo. You get a ranked list of friction points, each tied to the evidence behind it. If you need it, we can then design the changes and A/B split test them.
How much does CRO research cost?
Obodo's indicative prices for CRO research are up to 80% less than a traditional agency's for the same scope. Answer the questions above and you will see a price for your scope in about 15 seconds, with no login. A senior researcher confirms it on a 15-minute call before anything is charged.
Do you run the A/B tests as well?
Yes. We design the test from the research, define what success looks like and read the result, including whether it reached significance. Building the variants and running the test on your site can be scoped separately. A/B testing needs enough traffic to reach a reliable result, often thousands of visitors per variant, so on a low-traffic site moderated research with real users is the faster route to an answer.
How is research-led CRO different from tools like Hotjar or Optimizely?
Tools like Hotjar show you what people do on a page. Tools like Optimizely tell you whether a variant beat the original. They show what happened, not why it happened. We watch real users work through your funnel and ask them what stopped them, so you hear the reasons behind the drop-off. Many teams use both: research to decide what to test, tools to measure it.
How much traffic do I need?
For research, very little. We recruit participants who match your customers, so a study works on a new product or a low-traffic page. A/B testing is different. Each variant needs enough conversions to reach a reliable result, often thousands of visitors per variant. When traffic is modest, research is usually the faster first step.
How long before we see results?
Findings land in 2–3 weeks for a standard CRO study, and we are up and running within days of your approval. How soon your conversion rate moves depends on how quickly the changes go live, and how long any A/B split tests need to reach a reliable result. The timeline is written into your research plan, so you know it before you commit.
Senior researchers
The people who run your study
Your CRO consultants are senior researchers. The one you meet on the scoping call designs, moderates and presents the work.
Brad MacDonaldUser Researcher
Qualitative Research
Operational Research
Workshops
Senior UX researcher specialised in qualitative research and operational research.
An indicative price in about 15 seconds, with no login and no sales call. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a 15-minute call with a senior researcher.