Carlos Hernandez · Lemon
01 / About

The person behind the thinking.

I'm Carlos Hernandez, founder of Lemon. I've been a brand and consumer researcher for over 25 years, across categories, geographies and cultures.

My career has been spent working out what customers actually think, feel and want, which is rarely what they say in a survey. Half of that career was inside some of the world's leading research and brand consultancies, across FMCG and retail. The other half was client side, with Reckitt and Abbott Labs, so I know what it's like to sit on your side of the table.

After 25 years inside some of the world's biggest insight teams, I knew how much of what we learned was trapped in reports and slow processes. So I built the research technology I wished I'd had.

That's why Lemon listens first. Before we ask customers anything, we hear what they're already saying. Then we ask to understand more, and reveal it all in Living Insights, where your team can keep using it.

Brand Strategy Qualitative Research Quantitative Research Consumer Psychology Innovation FMCG Healthcare Global Experience
Lemon Dare to Imagine
02 / The habit of looking

Curiosity is the job.

The camera comes everywhere I go. These frames are mine.

Macaque in the Borneo jungle
Borneo
Izakaya alley at night, Tokyo
Tokyo
Mosaic lanterns, Istanbul
Istanbul
Bayon temple, Cambodia
Cambodia
Dancer mid-movement
Studio
Milky Way over Portugal
Portugal
Sunset over the sea
At sea
Dunes meeting the Atlantic
Dunes
Observation wheel against a grey sky
Singapore
Lotus flower on a pond
In bloom
Marina Bay at night
Singapore
Dragonfly on a twig
Up close
LOVE sculpture in black and white
Love, observed