Research Tools Radar for Nov 11th, 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.
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And our Lightning Demo of the week is Glaut, the agentic operating system for the research workflow.
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Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
predictedby.me offers 12 AI-powered research methods for product, ad and brand testing, video interviews and predictive idea scoring.
Reynard AI tests ideas, pricing and ads on a simulated census-based panel, providing acceptance scores and feedback, with a free daily check.
Mirubiki uses AI-powered synthetic respondents to help businesses validate ideas, test concepts and make smarter decisions.
Panalora provides AI-powered social media monitoring and competitor analysis to track brand conversations, sentiment and performance.
Aigora is an AI research infrastructure platform for sensory and consumer insights, with foresight and decision tools for market research.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Social listening platform YouScan unveils Synthetic Audiences, creating AI consumer personas grounded in real social media conversations.
Survey platform QuestionPro acquires Contlo to combine customer feedback and research data with automated marketing communication channels.
Analytics and reporting platform Displayr launches custom, reusable data visualisations generated from a researcher’s description.
Industry certification body Synthetic Data Standard launches to provide independent audits and quality benchmarks for synthetic research data.
Behavioural intelligence platform QualSights raises $5m in funding.
Research platform Redge launches a free self-serve tier to run combined qual and quant studies with AI probing.
AI-powered research platform Crowdmines rolls out Research Helper MCP to run cross-tabs via natural language inside AI tools.
Kantar introduces LaunchSignals, powered by Quilt.AI, to provide early intelligence for product launches.
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👾 Demo of the Week
Video: Glaut Demo: Glaut Intelligence: Compress Analysis from Weeks to Hours, in One Platform
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
YouGov publishes validation of its own digital twins and calls for greater consistency in industry standards for synthetic data assessment
Oh, so DeepMind thinks AI will only transform the economy when we let agents team up. Great.
AI doomers are guilty of zero-sum thinking – ‘Cognitive Mercantilism’ – that sees a fixed stock of intelligence. Rather like pre-capitalist views of wealth.