Research Tools Radar for Apr 30th 2025
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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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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
Brisk Qual from Cursory Tech is an all-in-one platform for recruiting qualitative research participants.
The Jenny Project creates AI-driven personas and synthetic data to simulate real-world consumer behaviour.
TrueDot.ai is an AI-powered survey platform and custom research team that provides rapid insights via mobile-optimised surveys.
Profound is an analytics platform that helps enterprise brands track and improve their visibility and discovery in AI search tools.
Canvas by Watermelon is a CX platform designed for CX professionals, offering survey creation, data visualisation, and AI-powered insight.
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🎉 Product Updates
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Survey analysis and reporting platform Displayr adds a custom AI prompting feature for text analysis.
DIY research tool Cursory Technologies launches Brisk Qual recruitment solution with access to over three million panellists.
AI-powered moderator Yasna.AI releases built-in respondent recruitment.
Consumer insights agency L&E Research partners with tech platform Adrich to provide real-time, in-the-moment product consumption data.
Consumer insights platform Zappi introduces AI Concept Creation Agents to turn early ideas into consumer-ready product concepts.
Insight platform Fuel Cycle opens access to its Autonomous Insights platform with embedded, agentic AI.
UX and customer feedback platform UserTesting introduces new integration with LinkedIn to enhance participant authenticity.
AI-powered research platform Listen Labs secures $27M in funding.
Data and panel provider Norstat launches its AI-based Express Survey Author for rapid survey creation.
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📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Who knew? GenAI personas enhance creative diversity in storytelling.
Last year, HBR published a piece on how people are using AI. Much has happened over the past 12 months, so here’s how people are really using GenAI in 2025.
Last week we covered a story on how being polite to AI wastes lots of computing power. Ethan Mollick rigorously tested whether being polite to AI matters.