Research Tools Radar for Aug 5th, 2026
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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.
Later today, this live webinar will explore the agentic shift in research, focusing on AI moderated interviews.
And our Lightning Demo of the week is Panoplai: an end-to-end panoramic research platform.
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Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
Ether is an emotion intelligence platform for experiential marketing that measures how live experiences influence behaviour and proves ROI.
Survey Flip uses AI-powered surveys and templates to transform feedback into real-time, actionable insights.
StatNexa automates marketing reporting with dashboards, KPI tracking, and integrations for Google Ads, GA4, Meta Ads, Shopify, and more.
ThemeDrill is an AI-augmented qualitative research and text analytics platform for traceable themes, insights, dashboards and reports.
Numr CXM is a customer experience platform that connects behavioural and feedback data to analyse churn and customer journeys.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Brand tracking and ad effectiveness provider Delineate is acquired by software and technology firm Vertus Group.
Text and analytics company Caplena introduces the Caplena MCP.
Survey and research suite QuestionPro launches AI-moderated interview feature ListenAI.
AI-powered research platform Listen Labs may get $125m in funding led by an Anthropic investor.
Human behaviour simulation platform Simile raises $200m in Series B.
Product experience platform Sprig adds new survey capabilities and AI agents.
VST (Virtual Store Trials) rebrands to Vazen.
Conversational insights firm Reach3 introduces AI Listening solution.
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👾 Demo of the Week
Panoplai Lightning Demo: The Future of Research: Inside Panoplai’s PanoVerse, Multi-Study Chat and Agentic AI Capabilities
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Grab a cup of tea and take the quiz: which of these AI archetypes are you?
The EU’s AI Act came into force this week … But its biggest AI lab, Mistral, is at the bottom of the AI Safety Index.