The Innovation-to-Customer Gap

At least 40% of new products and services fail because teams skip deep customer discovery or rush past validation, draining budgets and eroding trust.

Gotara’s Customer Impact Framework

Do Your Customer Homework First

For all processes, products, and services, combine interviews, surveys, focus groups, and ethnography to uncover unmet and unspoken needs before any ideation session.

Build Instead of Buy Skills

Create a repeatable internal process and upskill your teams so they own a sustainable front-end innovation engine.

Use Rapid Prototyping Cycles

Engage customers at every stage (paper, wireframe, non-functional, working model) to keep projects on track and raise hit rates.

Build Internal Engines for Customer Success

Instead of outsourcing your future, we help you build it. Through consulting and upskilling, your team learns to discover unmet needs, prioritize what matters, and execute with precision.

Case Study — Elena’s Ten Week Turnaround

Role: Chief Product Officer, 17 Years’ Experience

Challenge

Two recent releases under-performed, showing that team assumptions were out of step with customer needs. Success-story cycle time sat at 2.5 weeks and feature priorities shifted mid-sprint, eroding confidence in a new idea that leadership wanted built fast.

Action

Elena partnered with Gotara for strategic consulting, and simultaneously enrolling her full product and engineering team in Gotaras upskilling programs. Using Gotara’s Customer-Impact Framework plus SIPOC and KPI scorecards, the team mapped every initiative to jobs-to-be-done, tightened discovery, trimmed waste, and tracked open actions and days aging in a single view.

Results

“Our prototypes are more successful, and the team is more engaged. It’s a win-win.”

A working prototype deployed on schedule in 10 weeks, customer-test scores hit record highs, and the final product is slated to launch 6 weeks early. 

Our Customers

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See Results from the Customer’s Perspective

Faster launches. Higher hit rates. Happier customers. With Gotara’s customer impact consulting, leaders unlock sustainable success—without burning out their teams.

Example of Results at a Glance

  • Data-backed wins secured quicker green-lights and unlocked faster innovation for future ideas.
  • White-glove service, paired with fast feedback loops, transformed pain points into lasting customer loyalty.
  • Prototype tests confirmed clear product-market fit and customer satisfaction scores surged during testing.
  • Cut innovation cycle time by 30%. Cycle times decreased from months to weeks, speeding validation and release.

Our Business Coaches

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

D Sangeeta

Founder and CEO of Gotara

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

Dana Ginn

Co-Founder and COO of Gotara

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

John Downey

Amazon and Motorola Alum

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

Karen Leeker

Former VP of Operations of Concordance Health

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

Yumiko Damashek

Retired CXO of CMC materials

D Sangeeta, PhD Founder and CEO of Gotara As a C-suite STEM+ leader, Sangeeta managed global teams of 5,000+, so she knows firsthand what happens when these women leave. Sangeeta left her role at Amazon as VP of Connections in 2020 to launch Gotara. Yes, it was in the middle of the pandemic, but Sangeeta has been an innovator and pioneer all her life. Putting her dream on hold wasn’t an option.

Cliff Spiro

Former CTO of Cabot Microelectronics

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Real Impact.

Real Results.

Real Growth.

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