Research Tools Radar for Oct 29th 2025
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Hi there,
Welcome to your weekly dose of research tech updates from Insight Platforms: new companies and tools; product and feature launches; and interesting reads to inspire you.
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And our demo of the week is Inspirient: Gen AI analytics for survey data.
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
BTInsights is an AI Copilot that automates survey and interview analysis, streamlining cross-tab creation, transcription, coding and reporting.
REDCap is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases across non-profit and government organisations.
Dialogue AI is an AI-native research platform that conducts interviews, analyses insights, and helps teams understand customers at scale.
Northsea is an AI-powered quantitative research platform with a global panel for data collection, analysis, and insight generation.
Snap offers instant user testing with AI personas, simulating interactions on designs and websites and generating usability insights.
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🎉 Product Updates
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
AI-powered design testing and analytics platform Loops rolls out a bunch of new features.
Qualitative AI analysis and reporting platform Quillit announces a new High-Performance Capacity feature that supports up to 300 files in a single report query.
Insights company FlexMR expands ActivateMR capabilities with launch of ‘Actions’ feature.
Social listening platform YouScan launches upgraded AI assistant Insights Copilot 3.0.
Qual-at-Scale platform Remesh introduces AI Agent Remy purpose-built for research.
Insights tech and data provider Toluna announces AI-powered ad testing solution ACT Instant AI.
Food marketing and research agency 6 Seeds unveils synthetic research platform for food and agriculture brands.
Social and consumer intelligence platform Meltwater introduces new AI tools as part of year-end product release.
Global expert network Guidepoint launches AI Moderation.
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👾 Demo of the Week
Inspirient’s AI-based Survey Analytics platform generates tables, applies statistics and creates reports using natural language generation.
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
400 qual researchers signed an open letter against the use of generative AI for reflexive qualitative research. Here’s a robust response to their objections.
But haters gonna keep hating. This paper finds significant shortcomings in Gen AI for qualitative analysis: there are unacceptable epistemic risks if the technology is adopted uncritically by management researchers. Oh yes.
So you’re not keen on synthetic data? Why is that? Many objections are founded in unscientific criticisms. Ray Poynter lists some of the most common ones here.