Research Tools Radar for Dec 10th
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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.
What do Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode and the Beach Boys have to do with AI for research and insights?
Find out in to tomorrow’s Trends and Predictions webinar. We’re live at 4pm UK time. Or you can watch the replay afterwards at your leisure.
And BoltChatAI is our Lightning Demo of the week.
Enjoy
Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
InsightFlow is an AI-powered workflow tool for qualitative research that analyses interview recordings and extracts insights.
SparkToro is an audience research platform that reveals online behaviours, affinities, and demographics for marketing strategy and campaign planning.
Synthetic Society is an AI-driven platform that identifies UX friction and uses synthetic user simulations to validate product flows.
Prevue is an AI platform that transforms customer insights into interactive personas for testing messaging or product ideas.
Anomaly AI transforms large datasets into interactive, shareable dashboards with actionable insights.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
AI-powered qual tool BoltChatAI closes £7m investment round.
Restech platform Cursory Tech achieves ISO 27001 certification.
Market research company Touchstone launches tech-enabled mock jury and legal research support product.
AI synthetic research startup Aaru raises over $50m in Series A funding.
Synthetic data firm Acutus AI unveils Zcoded digital twin solution.
Accenture announces a strategic investment in AI-powered customer research platform WEVO.
Digital analytics software Amplitude introduces AI feedback to decode unstructured customer data.
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👾 Demo of the Week
BoltChatAI Lightning Demo: AI-Moderated Qual at Scale
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Fascinating. OpenAI’s State of Enterprise AI 2025 report proves that enterprises are rapidly accelerating AI use, achieving measurable productivity gains and driving business impact globally. Who would have thought?
And some people are not happy about GenAI in qual research, so they wrote an open letter with their objections. Some other people are not happy with the open letter. Read about both here.