Research Tools Radar for Aug 26th, 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.
Are you worried about distinguishing AI and human respondents? This live webinar today with Rep Data will provide some answers.
And our Lightning Demo of the week is Scalafai, an AI-native insights platform.
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Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
FishDog is a provider of calibrated synthetic populations for market research, enabling audience testing and product screening.
Persona is an AI-moderated interview platform for qualitative research, predictive answer modelling, and consumer insights.
Reptor monitors reputation, with sentiment and relevance scoring, across Google, AI search engines, reviews, news and social media.
SurveyKar is a customer feedback, automation and engagement platform with modules for surveys and forms, WhatsApp, AI chatbots and more.
Inteldo is an AI agent platform for research and business insights that integrates with audience and e-commerce / payments data sources.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Consumer insights platform Zappi launches Synthetic Idea Pre-Screener.
AI-powered voice analytics platform Phebi.AI announces Phebi Real Time Response Capture allowing CATI surveys on any platform.
Creative effectiveness platform System1 launches Test Your Ad Screen, an AI tool that screens long-form advertising creative.
Consumer behaviour data provider MFour adds video interview capabilities to its DANI™ platform.
Brand intelligence platform BrandRank.AI introduces intelligence tool Brand Risk Monitor to trace AI answers’ sources.
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👾 Demo of the Week
Scalafai Lightning Demo: End to End Research in One, Modular Platform
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Qualtrics slashes jobs in several locations following its $6.75b purchase of PG Forsta.
Demand for research and insights seems insatiable – but job prospects for UX researchers are dire. There are 73% fewer vacancies now compared with 2022.
More reasons to watch what you write: if your firm goes bankrupt, your Slack messages and emails could end up training AI models.