Case Study  |
Sport & Wellness

How Astride Health Moved from a Broad Audience to a Clear Growth Target

Identifying the consumers most ready to invest in long-term health using NextGen Intelligence
THE CLIENT

Astride Health is a preventive health and longevity company that helps individuals optimize their health through personalized diagnostics, wellness strategies, and expert guidance

The challenge

How Do You Find the Right Customer in a Broad Market?

Astride Health had built a loyal customer base by helping adults take a proactive approach to health, performance, and healthy aging through personalized preventive care. As the company looked to accelerate growth, leadership faced a critical challenge: identifying the consumers most likely to embrace a demanding, long-term approach to health optimization.

They needed to understand:

  • Which consumer segments were the strongest fit for its model
  • When people are most receptive to investing in long-term health
  • How those insights should shape marketing, partnerships, messaging, and the customer experience
The Approach

A NextGen Approach to Understanding Health Consumers

SIVO designed and executed a highly localized NextGen Intelligence segmentation study focused on Astride's core market.

The research identified distinct consumer segments based on attitudes toward health, aging, and proactive wellness, while also mapping where those segments were concentrated geographically. The analysis uncovered the motivations, barriers, triggers, and communication preferences that differentiate each audience.

As insights emerged, SIVO worked closely with Astride's leadership team to refine and strengthen the framework. Together, the team identified an opportunity to go beyond traditional segmentation by adding a life-stage activation lens.

This additional layer revealed the moments when consumers are most likely to take action, whether approaching retirement, becoming empty nesters, or beginning to experience early health concerns.

To bring the findings to life, SIVO facilitated a cross-functional activation workshop with leaders from marketing, operations, and clinical teams. The session allowed the entire leadership team to engage in the insights, and make a clear strategic choice of who to focus on.  The rich data enabled them to make a clear action plan for recruitment and retention.

"The output and the presentation of that output was intuitive and useful for a management team of non-specialists... and, most importantly, led to clear decisions about where we need to go."
Peter Everett, Chief Growth Officer  |  Astride Health
Former VP International at General Mills
The Impact

The Result: Focus, Alignment, and Growth

The project delivered immediate strategic clarity, helping the organization focus its growth strategy around the right consumers, the right moments, and the right message.

Sharper Targeting

Astride's leadership aligned around a single priority audience: proactive individuals who value trusted expertise and are motivated to invest in their long-term health. The work shifted the organization away from trying to serve everyone over 50 and toward designing for its highest-value customer.

Clearer Growth Opportunities

The research identified a powerful activation window among adults ages 50–65, when life transitions such as retirement planning, children leaving home, and emerging health concerns create greater openness to preventative health solutions. These insights inspired new partnership opportunities and positioning strategies designed to reach consumers when they are most receptive.



Stronger Messaging

The segmentation revealed that some existing performance-oriented messaging was not resonating with the priority audience. Using the findings, the team refined its communication strategy, developed audience-specific messaging guidance, and created a more compelling customer narrative.

Organizational Alignment

Beyond informing strategic decisions, the study energized the organization with new ideas for partnerships, positioning, customer engagement, and brand development. The work created a shared understanding of who to prioritize and how to accelerate growth.

For Astride Health, SIVO's NextGen segmentation delivered both insight and a practical growth roadmap. The work clarified who to target, when they are most ready to engage, and how to connect with them in ways that drive meaningful business growth.

Leadership aligned around a single high-value consumer segment, creating greater focus across growth initiatives
Identified key moments and life-stage transitions that create greater openness to preventative health solutions
Developed more compelling, audience-specific messaging and positioning
Generated new opportunities for partnerships, positioning, and customer engagement