Proposal August 2026
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A proposal for Oom Drinks winning a Waitrose listing.

Prepared for Ellie & Will · Oom Drinks
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The world's first predictive retail intelligence system.

Predict how likely a product, brand or trend is to succeed in any retail environment.

Really Good Culture builds Breakthrough, the predictive retail intelligence system the UK's major retail operators use to decide what goes on shelf. The same intelligence is available to the brands trying to get there.

Behavioural science principles28
Products modelled4M+
Attributes56,000+
Trusted byTescodunnhumbyOcadoIceland
Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Our predictive retail intelligence system, built upon seven interconnected dimensions of intelligence. It models the Shopper Missions, Archetypes, Mindshare, Trends and Whitespace behind every range decision.

For Oom Drinks · The category story and the buyer language
Watch Humans

Watch Humans

Our video review platform: a profiled community of around 10,000 shoppers recording long-form video reviews of products, and store walks of the fixtures they shop. The behavioural signal behind Breakthrough.

For Oom Drinks · Real Waitrose shoppers, on camera
Seven dimensions of intelligence
Product
Brand
Culture
Market
Behavioural
Biometric
Synthetic
Why this is different

EPOS shows one historical scenario. Breakthrough models the futures it cannot reach.

EPOS data shows a singular historical scenario, the one version of events that already happened. Breakthrough models the futures it cannot reach: the launches not yet made, the ranges not yet set, the trends still forming.

Most brands walk into a buyer meeting with the same historical sales story, and the buyer has seen that data already. It is not until they see something different that they lean in.

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The aim: get listed at Waitrose.

That is the immediate focus, and this proposal is built around it.

Target retailer
Buyer meeting
Date TBC
Three things to demonstrate to Waitrose

The shelf, predicted

What Oom Drinks brings to the Waitrose shelf, and why: the functional mushroom whitespace against GLP-1 and Gen M shopper missions, modelled and sized in predictive data, an argument no other brand in the category is carrying.

The category, understood

A deep command of Functional Mushroom Drinks: what is moving, what is coming, and why, including the GLP-1 and Gen M (perimenopause and menopause) missions Waitrose shoppers are chasing and no listed brand yet fully answers.

The shoppers, on record

Waitrose's own shoppers trying Oom Drinks on camera and walking the fixture: proof the buyer can watch and hear for themselves.

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The Plan.

Four stages between kick-off and the buyer meeting.

Kick-off date TBC

Kick-off

60 minutes together: the Waitrose angle, the mission territory, and what the pitch needs to prove.

Stage 1

Pitch framework

We provide a pitch deck framework and structure, specific to Oom Drinks, Functional Mushroom Drinks and Waitrose: a buyer-ready structure with placeholders, ready for your story and the data to come.

You getA pitch deck framework and structure, ready to build on
Stage 2

Category data

We build the Culture & Trend Signals Report for Functional Mushroom Drinks, shaped around the Waitrose brief: cultural, health, micro, macro and digital signals, run through our scoring models to show what is genuinely moving the category and why. Alongside it, we map and score every Shopper Mission against the current Waitrose range, including GLP-1 support and Gen M, and read where the Mindshare is still open.

You getThe Culture & Trend Signals Report and the Shopper Missions read
Stage 3

Working session with Sean

A full day working with Sean, our Commercial Director and an ex-Tesco Category Director. We take the data, the framework and the pitch material you already have, and thread it into one coherent narrative for the pitch.

You getOne coherent pitch narrative
Stage 4

Final run-through

A 60-minute session in the days before the meeting to clarify every data point, check every claim holds, and make the final tweaks while there’s still time.

You getA final pitch, checked and ready for the room
Week 0Kick-off
Week 1Framework + data land
Week 2Working session
Week 3Final run-through
Date TBCThe buyer meeting
Option 1

The Plan on its own:

Pitch & Category PackThe category report, the pitch framework, the working session with Sean, the final run-through £2,500
Shopper Missions moduleMissions and Mindshare for the Waitrose Functional Mushroom Drinks fixture £1,000
Option 1 · The Plan £3,500
Ex-VAT
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Bolt on: Watch Humans.

Real Waitrose shoppers, on the record. Collection takes two weeks from kick-off.

Watch Humans

Video reviews

The standard programme runs at £599 a month for 10 reviews, over three months. For this project we run all three months at once: 30 video reviews of Oom Drinks from profiled Waitrose shoppers, with full transcripts and would-buy-before and would-buy-after markers on every review.

The argument it builds is simple: we put Oom Drinks in front of Waitrose shoppers, and this is what they said. Every video is also usable as content.

30 reviews · one month£1,797

Store walk · Waitrose

30 reviewers walk the Waitrose functional drinks fixture, commentating as they go: audio and full transcripts, with fixture analysis. How shoppers read the aisle, what they reach for, and what they notice is missing.

The walks are run separately from the product reviews, so the read is impartial and free of bias. Where the reviews give you evidence, the walk gives you a read on the fixture and where the opportunities sit.

One retailer · 30 reviewers£2,000
Bundle price

Taken together, the reviews and the store walk come to £3,500. That is £300 off the two priced separately.

£3,797 £3,500
Option 2

The Plan + Watch Humans

The complete case for the buyer meeting: the data, the pitch and the shopper proof in the same room. This is the one we would run.

Ex-VAT
£7,000
Pitch deck framework and structure
Culture & Trend Signals Report + Shopper Missions read
Working session with Sean
Final run-through before the meeting
30 video reviews from Waitrose shoppers
Store walk of the Waitrose fixture
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The products.

The full set behind this proposal, so the choices are easy to see.

Reports & pitch
Pitch FrameworkA buyer-ready pitch deck structure, specific to Oom Drinks, Functional Mushroom Drinks and Waitrose. Structure with placeholders; no data at this level. £499
Pitch & Category PackThe Culture & Trend Signals Report, the pitch framework, the working session with Sean and the final run-through. £2,500
Shopper Missions moduleMissions and Mindshare for the Waitrose Functional Mushroom Drinks fixture, mapped and scored. £1,000
Waitrose Category Intelligence ReportThe full report: a retailer-grade category intelligence report on functional mushroom drinks at Waitrose. Every SKU and brand on the fixture, the complete Mission and Mindshare map, Whitespace sized and ranked, and recommendations. from £10,000
Watch Humans
Watch Humans Package10 video reviews a month, three-month contract. £599 / month
Ambassador ProgrammeAdded to the Watch Humans Package: invite an unlimited number of your own customers and community to submit video reviews. +£250 / month
Additional reviewsA top-up on the Watch Humans Package. £150 / 5 reviews
Store walks30 reviewers per retailer, in-store: audio, transcripts, fixture analysis. £2,000 · £2,500 · £2,750
1 · 2 · 3 retailers
All prices ex-VAT
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Next steps.

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Confirm

Option 1 (The Plan) or Option 2 (The Plan + Watch Humans).

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Kick off (date TBC)

60 minutes to set the brief. The build and the collection start the same day.

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The buyer meeting

The framework and data land in the first week, the working session the week after, and the final run-through in the days before the meeting. Everything is in place before you walk in.