Research Tools Radar for Feb 18th, 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.
Have you booked your slot for next week’s Demo Days yet? It’s the best brain food a researcher can get.
And our Lightning Demo of the week is AddMaple: analytics, visualisation & reporting for quant & qual data.
Enjoy
Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
HOOQZ turns qualitative insights into data, helping teams understand behaviour and improve marketing, product, and campaign decisions.
Ideanote is enterprise idea management software that helps teams collect, develop, and implement ideas with structure, collaboration, and AI.
Jetson turns support conversations from Help Scout, Zendesk, or Intercom into actionable bug reports, feature requests, and product insights.
SeeMe Index is a platform that uses AI to assess brand interactions, helping businesses identify and engage with underserved audiences.
InsightLab conducts dynamic interviews and analyses qualitative data at scale from conversational surveys using thematic analysis.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Consumer intelligence platform quantilope’s AI Research Partner, quinn, gets update to cover the entire research process.
Insight and strategic consultancy Dig Insights unified Upsiide and OneCliq into Dig One.
AI-powered research platform Listen Labs introduces Research Agent.
AI research platform Knit launches AI-moderated video questions.
Healthcare consulting firm KJT merges AI suite of solutions Sparq Intelligence into the main brand.
Synthetic audience modelling AI startup Electric Twin raises £10m.
Human behaviour simulation platform Simile raises $100m.
Real-time audience intelligence integration Original Voices launches MCP Server and Skills Library.
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👾 Demo of the Week
AddMaple Lightning Demo: From Raw Data to Insight Dashboards, Text to Themes, Powered by AI and a Statistics Engine
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Are your AI summaries suffering from semantic ablation? Median-seeking LLMs might be vanilla-fying your spiky metaphors and creative expressions. Watch out.
System 1: did I really just wash my hair? System 2: I’m reading this recipe for the 10th time. System 3: AI just made my brain massively bigger. This new paper posits a third type of thinking that expands human reasoning. But are we risking “cognitive surrender”?
A bloodbath is coming to ad agencies. AI seems to be the culprit. Maybe the canary in the coal mine for related businesses in the knowledge economy?