Rare Disease Awareness · Paediatric Endocrinology · KSA

Building demand in a category nobody searches for.

A Growth Hormone Deficiency awareness initiative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for a global pharmaceutical client — a rare disease most families have never heard named. Over a full year, across social, an owned platform and offline, Kepler built the audience architecture, the content system and the conversion path — from a parent’s first scroll to a completed self-assessment.

3 audiences
Segmented content architecture
8 pillars
Content pillar system
7 stages
Funnel, first scroll to assessment
Arabic-first
Built for Saudi families

You cannot buy demand that doesn’t exist yet.

Growth Hormone Deficiency is a rare disease with almost no organic demand signal. Parents don’t search the condition — most have never heard of it. They search symptoms, or they say nothing at all and wait another year to see whether their child catches up. Meanwhile the category’s only visible metric is height, which delays diagnosis and hides everything else the condition affects.

The audience
Parents, children and the clinicians around them — three audiences, one growth journey
The marketing problem

No search intent, no category awareness, and a diagnosis window that closes with age.

01Nothing to bid on — the audience doesn’t know the term to type
02Symptoms read as normal variation, so worry never converts to action
03Stigma keeps the conversation out of the community entirely
Demand had to be created, not captured.

Three audiences. Three entirely different jobs.

The initiative was split before a single asset was made. Each segment enters the category from a different place, needs a different proof, and converts on a different action — so each got its own content track rather than a shared message with the volume turned up.

Primary

Parents & caregivers

Carrying an unnamed worry and no vocabulary for it. They need permission to take the worry seriously before they will accept any clinical information at all.

Converts on: completing a self-assessment and booking a consultation
Professional

Healthcare providers

Positioned to catch the condition earlier, but only if awareness, identification and referral pathways are reinforced at the point where a worried parent actually arrives.

Converts on: earlier identification and comprehensive care
Ambient

The wider community

The source of the stigma that keeps families quiet. Not a conversion audience — a permission audience. Change here makes every other conversation cheaper.

Converts on: open conversation, reduced stigma

Eight pillars, built from what parents actually ask.

Rather than one message repeated across placements, the initiative runs on a pillar system — each pillar owning one real question, each one able to carry an always-on stream of assets without repeating itself.

01
Early recognition

Signs translated into what a parent would notice at home, with a route to consultation.

02
Beyond physical growth

Psychological, emotional, social and character development weighted equally with height.

03
Empowering caregivers

Knowledge, emotional guidance and practical support for navigating the journey.

04
A shared journey

Child, parent and healthcare ecosystem positioned as one team around one goal.

05
Patient & family support

Reaching the newly diagnosed and the undiagnosed, and connecting them to resources.

06
Provider engagement

Supporting awareness, early identification and comprehensive care among clinicians.

07
Reducing stigma

Building community understanding and making the condition speakable.

08
Holistic quality of life

Management framed around confidence and wellbeing, not only centimetres.

Pillar 02 — beyond physical growth
The measure the category defaults to, beside everything it leaves out

A worry, walked all the way to a next step.

The owned portal was architected as a funnel, not a brochure. Every section has one job and one exit, and the sequence is deliberate: earn the worry before naming the condition, answer the objection before offering the test, and ask for nothing at the end but sixty seconds.

Stage 01
Hook
Open on the question, not the condition

The entry point is the worry a parent already has — asked back to them in their own words, before a single clinical term appears.

Stage 02
Educate
Name what the child is experiencing

The condition explained plainly, with a clear call into the deeper education layer for anyone who wants it.

Stage 03
Objection
Break the misconception first

A myth-busting layer with linked article cards, built to intercept the assumption that sends families down the wrong path.

Stage 04
Reassure
Handle the hesitation

A short reassurance module for the parent who is interested but not yet ready — the drop-off point most awareness sites ignore.

Stage 05
Solution
Show that there is something to do

Treatment options set out clearly, carrying the early-diagnosis message through to the decision.

Stage 06
Retain
Support beyond the diagnosis

Living-with content grouped into browsable categories, keeping the destination useful after the first visit.

Stage 07
Convert
A one-minute self-assessment

The lowest-friction commitment available — mobile-first, because the worry happens on a phone at night, not on a desktop.

The outcome the funnel is built for

A parent who arrived with a vague worry leaves with a named condition, a next step, and a reason to come back.

The right format for the job the stage is doing.

Formats were assigned to funnel positions, not distributed evenly. Reach formats carry the pillars, narrative formats carry the emotional reframe, and the owned destination carries everything that has to convert.

Format
Funnel role
Why this format
Single-post executions
Top — reach & frequency
Carry the pillar system at volume across parental guidance, nutrition, treatment support and disease education. Cheap to iterate, easy to read which pillar earns attention.
Story carousel
Mid — emotional reframe
A multi-slide two-character narrative does what a static post can’t: it earns the “difference is strength” reframe over several beats, and reaches the child as well as the parent holding the phone.
Owned portal
Bottom — convert & capture
The only surface where the full seven-stage sequence can run uninterrupted, and the only one where the argument can be made in full rather than in fragments.
Self-assessment
Conversion instrument
Converts passive reading into a personal result. A one-minute mobile flow asks far less than “book an appointment” while moving the parent decisively closer to one. It collects nothing — no sign-up, no personal details, no cookies.

Three decisions that made the difference.

Sequenced, not scattered

The portal is an argument in a fixed order — worry, name, objection, reassurance, solution, action. Awareness sites usually present those as parallel menu items and lose the reader at the first clinical word. Ordering them is what turns a content library into a funnel.

A pillar system, not a single message

Eight pillars give the initiative somewhere to go every week without repeating itself, and make performance legible — you learn which parental question actually drives action, then push budget behind it.

A conversion instrument, not a CTA

“Speak to your doctor” asks for a decision the parent isn’t ready to make. A one-minute assessment asks for sixty seconds, returns something personal, and asks for no personal details to do it.

Produced by Kepler for a global pharmaceutical client. Client, brand and identifying details are withheld under confidentiality; this case study describes Kepler’s strategic and digital approach only.

In a category with no search demand, the funnel is the whole idea.

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