Research Tools Radar for Aug 27th 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.
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.
Aether is an AI platform that transforms existing data and knowledge into presentations and reports for marketing and insights teams.
Corvane is a research platform for instant consumer feedback on pricing, creative, and product ideas using CRM data and live shopper panels.
Chatifo is an advanced interview analysis platform that uses AI to extract insights, analyze sentiment, and generate reports.
KAPsurvey is an all-in-one survey data collection, analysis and reporting platform used by government, non-profit, and commercial customers.
NativeForms is a platform that allows users to build and share forms, surveys, and polls across various platforms.
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🎉 Product Updates
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Discuss introduces AI Agents for moderation and vibe coding analysis, allowing researchers to mix and match between AI and human interviewers.
SightX adds asynchronous video interviews to its end-to-end consumer insights platform for combined qual/quant feedback.
Glaut introduces a DIY option for self-service access to its AI moderated interviews platform.
RealEye, the online webcam eye tracking platform, launches Re:Connect – a solution for text dictation using only eye movement.
AlphaSense, the B2B insights platform, launches an AI interviewer for conducting deep research on its expert calls transcript library.
Massive PE firm buys massive CX business for $2bn. Thoma Bravo acquires Verint, adding to its previous purchases of Medallia, UserTesting and UserZoom.
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📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
This is a great synthesis of three recent reports about the business impact of AI from MIT NANDA, McKinsey and Miro.
New paper adds to anxieties about AI’s impact on entry level workers in the US: employment in the most exposed occupations for younger workers is already down 13%.
An academic built an AI version of himself. An uplifting conclusion that suggests AI clones will reinforce human interaction rather than replace it.