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This assessment will help you measure and understand three things:

How Gen Z currently experiences your brand.

What Gen Z genuinely values as customers.

Where your brand can start practical changes tomorrow.

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Get an honest, research-backed brand score from Genlink's work with Gen Z across industries. Plus a clear action plan to start implementing.

Brand Authenticity

1 / 4

How real, transparent, and values-driven does your brand feel to Gen Z?

Our brand has a clearly stated purpose beyond making money.

Brand Authenticity

We take public stances on social issues relevant to our audience.

Brand Authenticity

Our marketing feels conversational, not corporate.

Brand Authenticity

We show the people behind the brand (founders, team, real employees).

Brand Authenticity

Customers regularly describe us as "authentic" or "real".

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Digital & Social Presence

2 / 4

Is your brand showing up where Gen Z actually spends their time, in the format they expect?

We post natively on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Digital & Social Presence

Our social content is made for the platform, not repurposed ads.

Digital & Social Presence

We have a recognisable visual or tonal identity across platforms.

Digital & Social Presence

We create marketing campaigns and content around trends and cultural moments.

Digital & Social Presence

We work with creators or have an active UGC strategy.

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Product & Experience

3 / 4

Does your product, pricing, and customer journey actually meet Gen Z expectations?

Our checkout / sign-up flow works smoothly on mobile.

Product & Experience

We offer flexible, low-friction ways to pay (e.g. PayShap, BNPL, mobile wallets).

Product & Experience

A Gen Z customer could easily explain our brand's value propositions

Product & Experience

Our customer support is digital, fast, and efficient.

Product & Experience

Gen Z customers regularly review or talk about us online.

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Culture Fluency

4 / 4

How well does your team actually understand the Gen Z consumer or employee?

Someone on our team actively tracks Gen Z culture and trends.

Culture Fluency

We test campaigns with Gen Z before going to market.

Culture Fluency

We have Gen Z employees with real input into strategy.

Culture Fluency

Our leadership team understands what Gen Z values at work.

Culture Fluency

We measure Gen Z engagement separately from broader audiences.

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Your Gen Z Score is
Brand Authenticity
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Digital & Social Presence
70
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Product & Experience
32
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Culture Fluency
70
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Your next steps
Strength
Brand Authenticity

Authenticity is a real asset. Document it, train your team on it, and protect it as you scale.

Opportunity
Brand Authenticity

Push further on authenticity. Take a public stance on one issue your audience cares about. Show more of your team and your "why".

Urgent
Brand Authenticity

Audit your brand voice across every channel. Cut corporate-speak. Show real people, real stories, and a clear purpose beyond profit.

Strength
Digital & Social Presence

Your digital presence is working. Double down with a creator network and start measuring share of voice in Gen Z conversations.

Opportunity
Digital & Social Presence

Sharpen your social. Build a recognisable visual and tonal identity, and commit to platform-native content over polished ads.

Urgent
Digital & Social Presence

Get native on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts immediately. Stop repurposing ads. Hire or partner with creators who understand the platforms.

Strength
Product & Experience

Your experience is strong. Now focus on turning happy customers into vocal advocates with referrals and creator collabs.

Opportunity
Product & Experience

Tighten the experience. Look at mobile flow, pricing transparency, and how easy it is to talk to a real human when something goes wrong.

Urgent
Product & Experience

Your product and journey are losing Gen Z customers. Fix mobile first, simplify checkout, add flexible payments, and audit support response times.

Strength
Culture Fluency

Your team gets it. Protect this advantage by formalising your Gen Z insights function and feeding it directly into strategy.

Opportunity
Culture Fluency

Build a tighter feedback loop. Run a Gen Z advisory or insights panel and measure Gen Z engagement as a separate metric.

Urgent
Culture Fluency

You're flying blind. Get someone on your team (Gen Z or partner) actively tracking culture, testing campaigns with real Gen Zs, and feeding insight to leadership.

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Marko Stavrou, known as the Gen Z Guy, is the founder of Genlink, an investor-backed consulting and insights firm helping South African organisations unlock the potential of their next-gen talent and customers. At 17, he became the youngest person accepted globally into Henley Business School. Today, at 22, he and the Genlink team have worked with and built brands for the likes of Standard Bank, Nedbank, Bioderma, Universal Music, and Walter Sisulu University.

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