Research Tools Radar for Sep 10th 2025

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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.

Now, you surely know that Demo Days is back next week.

But we also need your help with something else. It turns out that research professionals don’t like taking surveys. Who knew?

Please take this one. It really is just five mins. It’s to work out which research companies are famous – and for what.

Enjoy

Mike 

⚒️ Latest Tools

A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.

Compeers AI is an all-in-one platform for qual, quant, and mixed-method research, with automated analysis, AI insights and reporting.

i-Genie’s AI platform turns billions of data points into insights to help brands track trends, monitor health, benchmark and innovate faster.

BUFFL is a research platform that combines a SaaS tool, a community of respondents, and an iterative validation methodology.

Propane automatically conducts AI-moderated interviews with customers based on triggers from tools like Hubspot, Zendesk and Intercom.

EnligneSurvey is a research platform that helps publishers, agencies, and brands generate revenue from in-app surveys.

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🎉 Product Updates

A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.

Qualitative data analysis platform DoReveal adds ‘Chat with Your Study’ feature for analysing large qualitative datasets through conversational queries.

AI data analysis tool ResearchWise launches Pulse for Excel add-in with sentiment, theme generation and similarity matrix functions.

Social media listening company YouScan adds ‘Spaces’ to organise topics and dashboards at the account level.

Synthetic data firm Acutus AI launches Euclid, a Synthetic Data as a Service (SDaaS) platform.

Product intelligence platform Vypr unveils Vypr Predict, a self-serve product intelligence platform for rapid consumer insight.

Behaviorally unveils dedicated pack design intelligence platform myBehaviorally.

Claude can now create and edit spreadsheets, slides and PDFs.

Similarweb adds Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server so AI platforms can natively access its data.

NIQ announces an enhancement of its GfKnewron® consumer platform with AI-Powered Shopper Voices.

Comscore announces the launch of its AI-powered Data Partner Network.

Video gaming group Aonic acquires sample provider Prime Insights for over $250m.

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📖 Interesting Reads

Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.

Q1 2000: the dot com bubble bursts. H2 2025: the AI bubble bursts? Great analysis here on the potential implications of AI’s ‘capability-reliability gap’.

In fairness, there is real evidence that enterprise use of AI may be starting to tail off.

And maybe Language Models don’t need to be so Large (AKA costly and energy-hungry) after all.

Superintelligence. AGI. Terminator or Deep Utopia. The hyperbole suggests AI is unlike anything humanity has invented previously. But what if it really were just a normal technology? If you can’t get through the Economist paywall, here’s the original paper that informed the article.

A great resource here for builders of digital twins. A dataset of 2000 respondents with answers to more 500 questions.

And something else to rile the synthetic data sceptics. LLM-based ‘social agents’ grounded in behavioural theory are actually pretty good at predicting human choices.