Research Tools Radar for Mar 18th, 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 YouScan: an AI-powered social listening platform.
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
AskPhi is an AI-powered audience intelligence platform built on behavioural science that helps companies understand what drives customer decisions.
WholeSum is a platform that analyses unstructured text data using machine learning, large language models and statistical methods.
Echo Research provides global brand and reputation research, stakeholder insight, and media and social analysis.
Simulask is an AI-powered market research platform that replaces slow human panels with instant, validated synthetic personas.
Skimle analyses interviews and other qualitative data, combining academic rigour with the speed of AI. Get deeper insight faster.
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🎉 Product & Company News
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Restech platform Civicom rolls out set of updates to Quillit, its AI-powered research assistant.
Consumer intelligence platform quantilope introduces “Category Twins”, synthetic personas built on custom data.
Agile research platform Peekator rolls out AI-powered Questionnaire Editor.
Bilendi adds stand-alone text coding capabilities to its BARI AI research platform.
MR firm Research Results launches RADAR™ framework to strengthen respondent validation and protect data quality.
AI-driven behavioral data company Behavix partners with Fair Response.
AI-powered voice analytics platform Phebi adds new conversational AI capabilities for quant and qual research.
NIQ launches AI-powered beta analytical capabilities within Ask Arthur on the NIQ Discover platform.
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👾 Demo of the Week
YouScan Lightning Demo: What happens when you let AI write your social listening query?
📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
User research without… users? This startup is disrupting the industry with synthetic users. Seems like synthetic research predicts human behaviour better than humans?
Read Yogesh Chavda’s take on the AI data trust crisis.
And Mark Ritson’s article on how 65% of marketing jobs may not survive AI.