Research Tools Radar for Apr 29th, 2026
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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 Field Notes, the qualitative platform for video research.
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
Pogo is an AI video research platform that interviews purchase-verified consumers to deliver insights from real shopping behaviour at scale.
Uncrowd is a retail analytics platform that collects in-store observational data to analyse customer experience and behaviour.
Twinloop provides customer digital twins to enhance brand decision-making through data-driven insights and AI.
TwelveLabs is an AI video intelligence platform that enables natural language search, analysis, and insights across video content.
Elium is an AI knowledge management platform that centralises company knowledge for search and collaboration.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
AI-powered research platform Fairgen opens beta for Fairgen Twins.
Video diary platform Field Notes partners with Quallie.ai to enhance video capabilities.
Restech platform Cint shares surge after CEO-backed consortium bids for firm.
Market Logic Software adds synthetic panels and AI moderators to its DeepSights Personas suite.
Human understanding company Okay Human joins recently founded DigitalMYnd.
Ipsos launches a new qualitative research framework called Ipsos UU.
SurveyMonkey adds expert-curated programs to help continuous listening initiatives.
UX and customer feedback platform UserTesting launches Figma plugin.
Forrester launches an AI agent for research and insights that lives within Microsoft 365 Copilot.
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👾 Demo of the Week
Field Notes Lightning Demo
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
The SaaSpocalypse has found its biggest research tech victim (so far). Thoma Bravo is poised to write down the value of its stake in CX platform Medallia by $5.1b, erasing nearly 80% of its equity value. Ouch. Also, lots of rumoured pain and lay-offs at Qualtrics.
The latest in Glaut‘s Research-on-Research for AI Moderated Interviews suggests that respondents recruited from survey panels provide good data for use cases like concept testing.
In-depth analysis of recent Stanford and Columbia papers on digital twins. TL;DR: they work for plenty of use cases, but there are big red flags for pricing research, testing novel ideas, and exploring very niche audiences.