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Cohort rotations delivered since 2019
9.1 / 10
Mentor clarity (internal feedback, n=214)
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Partner desks referencing our rubrics
140+
Live facilitation hours per flagship track
7-day
Median turnaround on brief desk questions
Overhead workshop table with annotated audience maps
Dust & grain studio

Castly Wavehub Institute

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Cohorts anchored in motivation evidence, not stock personas

We teach demographic and psychographic targeting as operational craft for performance marketers, CRM specialists, and media buyers working across Korea. Programs pair qualitative depth with integrity checks so leadership sees provenance, not theater.

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Featured programs

Three desks opening this season

Visual for Psychographic Profiling Studio
Psychographic profiling 5 weeks · hybrid

Psychographic Profiling Studio

Build motivation maps, tension pairs, and narrative hooks that survive real media tests.

Visual for Demographic Analysis Lab
Demographic analysis 4 weeks · live online

Demographic Analysis Lab

Turn census-adjacent inputs, platform reach estimates, and mobility hints into decision-grade segments.

Visual for Persona Research Intensive
Persona research 6 weeks · hybrid

Persona Research Intensive

Move from slide-friendly personas to evidence-linked profiles your product and media teams will actually open.

Inclusions

What a Castly desk actually ships

Evidence packets

Provenance tables, diary coding ladders, and exec-ready memos that admit uncertainty instead of hiding it.

Cross-team rituals

Facilitation scripts so CRM, media, and product share vocabulary before campaigns launch.

KR / EN facilitation

Bilingual cohort notes, glossary tabs, and async mentor drops timed for regional hours.

Integrity tooling

Overlap audits, stability prompts, and segment retirement logs borrowed from Segmentation Integrity Bootcamp.

01 — Field rhythm

How a cohort moves from brief chaos to defensible segments

  1. Step A

    Brief triage

    Name the decisions the segment must support, then list evidence already on-hand versus missing.

  2. Step B

    Signal design

    Pick diary prompts, ticket tags, or lightweight surveys that match the decision window—no vanity metrics.

  3. Step C

    Synthesis lab

    Code in pairs, document disagreements, and promote tensions to creative instead of averaging them away.

  4. Step D

    Message fit

    Translate motivations into matrices your lifecycle teams can prosecute without dilution.

  5. Step E

    Governance handoff

    Publish refresh dates, owners, and retirement triggers before the deck leaves the room.

From our cohorts

Voices referencing specific Castly modules

“Audience Evidence Studio’s provenance table stopped our CFO from treating personas as fiction.”
Elias R., regional marketplace desk

“Psychographic Profiling Studio forced us to chart avoidance goals—something our old persona deck never named.”

Minseo · CRM lead

Clear facilitation, though Motivation Mapping Sprint expects ruthless calendar blocking.

Leo · performance squad

Desk notes

Quick clarifications

Do you run checkout here?

No. Tuition is informational on this site; enrollment teams issue invoices separately.

Limitation

We do not procure third-party panels or legalize cross-vendor data flows—only coach the paperwork you already own.

Who attends?

Performance marketers, media buyers, CRM operators, founders, and in-house managers across Korea.

Field notes dispatch

Occasional letters on audience evidence

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Monthly note on new exercises, office-hour blocks, and guest reviewers—no funnels, no countdown gimmicks.

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