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Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the way organizations work, helping teams operate more efficiently, make faster decisions and uncover new opportunities for growth. From generative AI and machine learning platforms to automation tools, predictive analytics and intelligent assistants, businesses across industries are adopting AI to improve workflows, enhance customer experiences and gain a competitive edge. 

These companies provide a wide range of AI tools and services to help organizations put these technologies into practice. These providers offer solutions to help organizations automate repetitive processes, generate content, analyze complex data, optimize operations, and build AI-powered applications. Discover leading AI companies helping shape the next generation of business and technology. 


aytm

Founded 2009 | 150 employees

Lev Mazin, CEO and Co-founder

aytm is an end-to-end market research platform that empowers teams to design, field and analyze surveys in one place. At its core is Skipper, the platform’s flagship AI research assistant. Skipper Draft generates research-grade surveys from plain-language prompts, while Skipper Smart Review runs a pre-launch quality audit against about ~25 methodology rules – a capability no competitor currently offers. After fielding, Skipper Reports auto-generates narrative findings, charts and infographics at survey close. Skipper Explore surfaces statistically significant insights in plain language and Skipper Chat with Open Ends lets users interrogate open-ended responses conversationally. A persistent Skipper Chat layer handles platform help and support across every page.

Email: marketing@aytm.com

aytm.com


BARE International

Founded 1987 | 650,000+ field force

Mike Bare, CEO

Jason Bare, President

BARE International is a global market research firm helping organizations transform customer and operational data into actionable business intelligence through AI-augmented analytics, advanced reporting dashboards and customized research programs. A leader in AI-enabled customer experience (CX) intelligence, BARE combines innovative technology with nearly 40 years of customer experience expertise, proving that the most powerful insights come from the partnership of artificial intelligence and human intelligence. Specializing in customer experience, employee experience and loyalty measurement, BARE enables brands to uncover trends, identify operational gaps and make faster, data-driven decisions that improve retention, service performance and engagement. Founded in 1987, BARE is a family-owned business headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area with operations around the world. Originally established to support mystery customer research at a national and global level, BARE has evolved into one of the largest independent providers of customer experience research, analytics and actionable insights, supporting clients in more than 165 countries.

Phone: 1-800-296-6699

www.bareinternational.com


Bellomy

Founded 1976 | 80+ employees

John Sessions, CEO

Bellomy’s proprietary AI tools are built by researchers for researchers, ensuring every innovation is grounded in methodological rigor. We bridge the gap between traditional and tech-forward approaches with offerings such as synthetic respondents, AI-moderated interviews, AI-powered text analytics and our focus group/IDI report generator. We never train our AI on client data and we’re constantly enhancing and validating our tools to improve accuracy and minimize risk. Want to leverage the benefits of AI without sacrificing quality? Contact Bellomy for a demo to see how our best-in-class tools augment human expertise, increase speed to insights and transform research processes.

Email: justin.bailey@bellomy.com

Phone: 1-336-721-1140

bellomy.com


Bilendi

Founded 1999 | 650+ employees

Marc Bidou, CEO and Founder

Bilendi Discuss is an AI-driven platform for asynchronous online qual research. Participants can engage seamlessly through WhatsApp or Messenger, ensuring smooth in-the-moment and day-in-the-life contributions or through a web portal for more collaborative studies. The qual AI assistant, BARI, supports every stage of the research process – from designing and scripting studies in multiple languages to moderating tasks with adjustable automation levels, delivering clear task summaries and generating bespoke MR-grade PowerPoint reports. With built-in multi-market support including translation and AI language moderation tools, global proprietary panels and the ability to add qualitative phases directly at the end of surveys, the platform offers flexibility, reach and effortless workflows. By off-loading such time-consuming, non-creative tasks to AI, Bilendi Discuss gives researchers more space to think, reflect and deliver deeper, more impactful insights.

Email: rfq.us@bilendi.com

www.bilendi-discuss.co.uk


Blix

Founded 2024

Gal Orian Harel, CEO and Co-founder

Idan Haviv, CTO and Co-founderBlix is an AI-powered open-ended coding platform built for market research and insights teams. It helps researchers turn open-ended survey responses, online reviews, NPS comments and other textual feedback into structured, quantified data in minutes. Blix works with 100+ brands and research agencies globally to code and analyze open-ended feedback quickly and accurately. Unlike traditional text analytics platforms, Blix delivers high-quality text analysis that is as accurate as a human coder, through a simple, easy-to-use workflow that actually works in real research projects. This saves hours of manual work, shortens delivery times and makes it easier to include more open-ended questions in research. Blix can automatically create codebooks, code responses, translate multilingual feedback and export clean outputs for analysis while keeping researchers in full control. It also supports brand awareness coding and a text analysis API to integrate with survey platforms, live dashboards and trackers.

Email: info@blix.ai

blix.ai


 

Civicom Marketing Research Services

Founded 2000 | 700+ worldwide employees

Annie McDannald, Global Vice President, Marketing Research Services

Quillit® is a purpose-built AI research assistant that expedites qualitative data analysis. Quillit® operates in a walled-garden environment that uses only your data to protect your privacy and eliminate hallucinations. Quillit® helps researchers organize findings through automated summaries; an Excel-style analysis grid; segmentation tools for comparing respondent groups; and an AI chat for exploring themes, questions and research segments. To support transparency and reduce unsupported AI outputs, Quillit® features verbatim quote extraction validated by clickable citations, helping researchers trace insights back to original sources. Beyond analysis, Quillit® bridges the gap to reporting by generating storyboards and highlight reels that export directly into presentation-ready PowerPoint decks. Built on a privacy-first architecture, Quillit® is ISO 27001-certified and GDPR/HIPAA-compliant. Whether integrated with Civicom CyberFacility or used as a platform-agnostic tool, Quillit® provides a secure, smarter way to uncover human insights.

Email: inquire@CivicomMRS.com

Phone: 1-203-413-2423

www.CivicomMRS.com


codeit

Founded 2016 | 10 employees

Tim Brandwood, CEO

codeit is a verbatim coding platform designed for market researchers who need both speed and quality, without compromise. codeit puts people at the center of the process with AI providing assistance at every stage of a three-step methodology: extract, refine, apply. Guided by the user, the codeit AI extracts themes, generates a code frame and auto-codes your verbatims. Its features make it easy to review, refine and finesse the coding to meet your research objectives. As you work, codeit learns. The built-in machine learning continuously improves based on your actions which can then be applied to new verbatims for highly accurate auto-coding. With flexible features including sentiment analysis, data integration, brand coding and multilingual auto-translation, codeit handles verbatim data of any size and shape. Used by market research agencies, coding providers and in-house researchers the world over. 

Email: info@codeitsoftware.com

Phone: 1-513-307-4925

www.codeitsoftware.com


EyeSee

Founded 2012 | 167 employees

Joris De Bruyne, CEO

Packaging teams rarely struggle with a shortage of ideas. The challenge is identifying which designs deserve further investment before time and budget are committed to full-scale research. PackSee.AI helps brands screen more options earlier and move forward with greater confidence. Built on 12+ years of behavioral expertise and trained on 15M+ human data points, EyeSee’s AI-powered pack screening solution delivers predictive insights in around 48 hours. Results are organized around three roles every pack needs to fulfil: attract, engage and inform. The platform evaluates predicted visibility and attention, identifies the design elements consumers are most likely to respond to positively, analyzes how closely it aligns with the brand’s positioning and measures how effectively each pack communicates relevant claims and benefits. The result is a clear PackSee.AI score, supported by intuitive diagnostics that help teams compare alternatives, understand trade-offs and prioritize the strongest routes. PackSee.AI gives brands a faster, smarter way to reduce early-stage uncertainty without replacing the value of human expertise or traditional validation.

Email: info@eyesee-research.com

packsee.ai


Feng-GUI

Founded 2007 | 8 employees

Rafael Mizrahi, CEO

Feng-GUI is the world’s first visual insights platform, specializing in predictive eye-tracking and AI-driven attention analysis. Powered by artificial intelligence and validated by decades of neuroscience research, the platform enables users to instantly test websites, advertisements, videos, print materials, shelf layouts, signage and packaging – whether live or in concept. Feng-GUI transforms visual data into actionable insights by predicting attention, analyzing emotional responses and measuring memorability. Since 2007, it has analyzed over 5 million visuals for more than 30,000 professionals worldwide. Its unique capability lies in delivering fast, scalable insights and recommendations without human testing, helping digital agencies optimize performance, reduce costs and create more effective visual experiences.

Email: sales@feng-gui.com

feng-gui.com


Harmon Research 

Founded 2009 | 125 employees

Stephanie Vincent, Executive Vice President

Harmon Research specializes in delivering high-quality qualitative and quantitative insights across 43 countries. Today’s research threats don’t wait until the end of fieldwork and neither does our new DataDefense AI Suite. This integrated protection system safeguards your data at every stage of data collection. NoBot, our fraud protection software deployed before surveys begin, blocks automated traffic and duplicate entries at the source. LiveShield, our real-time monitoring technology, continuously analyzes respondent behavior during surveys and flags suspicious activity before compromised data can skew your results. Together, these AI-powered tools ensure that every insight you receive is trustworthy, accurate and actionable, whether you’re conducting quantitative studies or in-depth qualitative research across global markets.

Phone: 1-714-881-2590

www.harmonresearch.com


Ironwood Insights Group LLC

Founded 2017 | 300 employees

Brad Larson, CEO and Founder

Ironwood Insights Group developed the Ironwood Online™ panel and sampling platform that combines expert sample design, advanced sample sourcing and industry-leading quality control. The centerpiece of Ironwood Online™ is RealRespondent™, an adaptive, AI-driven fraud prevention ecosystem that continuously evolves to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated bots, fraudsters and bad actors. Powered by Ironwood’s proprietary technologies and trusted partners including Verisoul, CAPTCHA and IBM Watson, RealRespondent™ integrates layered detection and prevention tools such as digital fingerprinting, geolocation verification, fake email and duplicate IP detection, behavioral bot identification and advanced respondent quality screening. In keeping with Ironwood’s Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) philosophy, our seasoned project management team continuously monitors, refines and optimizes fraud controls to generate cleaner online samples and more accurate and reliable insights. Contact us today to learn how Ironwood’s AI tools deliver real insights based on real respondents.

Email: info@ironwoodinsights.com

Phone: 1-602-661-0878, x2110

www.ironwoodinsights.com


Mindstate Group

Founded 2014 | 10 employees 

Will Leach, CEO

Most market research tells you what consumers did. Mindstate Group uncovers the psychological drivers behind why they do it – and how to influence what they do next. Using behavioral science and AI-powered customer personas trained on your consumers, brand and category, we help teams test ideas, sharpen strategy and make more emotionally intelligent decisions faster. Simply put: We help brands understand and change consumer behavior.

Email: will.leach@mindstategroup.com

mindstategroup.com

MX8 Labs

Founded 2022 | 10-25 employees

Megan Daniels, CEO

MX8 Labs is an AI-native market research platform built by researchers, for researchers. Founded in 2022, MX8 Labs automates every step of the survey workflow, from questionnaire programming, link testing and respondent sourcing to quota management, weighting, open-end coding, statistical testing and report assembly. Each step stays fully editable, so research teams keep the design control of a custom study while removing the slow, manual work that traditionally consumes most of a project’s time. The result is enterprise-grade quality with roughly 80% faster turnaround and 70% lower cost, letting teams run about three times the studies on the same annual budget. MX8 Labs’ large language models handle the mechanical work so researchers can focus on framing questions, interrogating data and guiding business decisions.

Email: megan@mx8labs.com

Phone: 1-774-230-0200

mx8labs.com


 

My-Take

Founded 2010 | 40+ employees

Todd Hoskins, Co-founder

Rich Armstrong, Co-founder

My-Take is a continuous research insights technology company that helps brands make faster, better decisions through the Insight Community+™ platform and a dedicated professional services team. The proprietary platform serves as a research hub for organizations running market research online insight communities (MROCs), supporting qualitative, quantitative, CX, and UX research across 13+ activity types with DIY, hybrid and full service models. My-Take is a 6x GRIT Top Innovative Supplier. MyAI is collaborative AI built for researchers, embedded across the platform’s administration and reporting workflows. MyAI draws on community data, study objectives, past research, member activity and web intelligence to work alongside teams as an intelligent thought partner. Additional platform AI includes SmartDeck™ automated reporting with AI-enhanced analysis and client-branded PowerPoint exports, and Conversations, a tool enabling the creation of AI-infused mobile-first surveys. All AI outputs support human-in-the-loop review. AI features are available and optional at every service level.

Email: sales@my-take.com

Phone: 1-508-202-0596

www.my-take.com 


Nuance

Founded 2013 | 10+ employees 

Lisa Hazen, President

Nuance helps organizations transform open-ended feedback into clear, actionable insight through expert coding and analysis, language analytics and human-led AI workflows. Built on decades of experience supporting global brands, agencies and consultants, Nuance combines the knowledge, judgment and flexibility of experienced researchers with the speed and scalability of advanced AI. For organizations that manage survey verbatim coding and analysis internally, Colibri® is Nuance’s feature-rich SaaS platform designed specifically for open-end data workflows. Developed from real-world coding and research experience and operations, Colibri® combines AI-assisted coding and theme analysis, real-time collaboration, conversational data exploration, project management and translation in one centralized platform built for accuracy, efficiency and quality control. Together, Nuance and Colibri® support both outsourced and in-house approaches to unlocking deeper insight from customer feedback.

Email: lhazen@nuancecoding.com

Phone: 1-817-640-6170

www.nuancecoding.com/colibri 


Outset

Founded 2022 | 80 employees

Aaron Cannon, CEO and Co-founder

Michael Hess, CTO and Co-founder

Outset is the first and only AI-moderated research platform that listens, sees and understands. Through its instant guide creation, dynamic probing, vision-aware moderation, automated reporting and broad multilingual capabilities, Outset helps customers scale their qualitative research and conduct studies that would be otherwise impossible, all without sacrificing depth or rigor. Often used for concept tests, in-home testing, diary studies, shop-alongs, brand research, creative testing and more, Outset has powered some of the most business-critical decisions at companies like Nestle, Microsoft, Uber, Hubspot and Google. Built by researchers, for researchers. You’re in good hands with Outset. Connect with us at sales@outset.ai to learn more.

Email: sales@outset.ai

outset.ai


ReadingMinds.ai 

Founded 2025 | 12 employees

Stu Sjouwerman, CEO

ReadingMinds.AI replaces survey guesswork with a voice-native research platform that captures how customers actually express themselves, not just what they type into a form. Our AI-moderated interviews adapt in real time, probe deeper and reveal why customers buy, stall or leave. Each response is scored with the ReadingMinds Expression Fingerprint, tagging cues such as sadness, anger, confrontation, neutrality, cheerfulness and enthusiasm as the conversation unfolds. Revenue teams get decision-ready insights tied to real customer quotes, so every finding is traceable to the source. No black box. No static forms. No keyword-only analysis. In hours, not weeks, ReadingMinds helps teams sharpen targeting, messaging, positioning and sales conversations, while improving satisfaction, retention and churn risk visibility. Turn voice-rich evidence into confident GTM decisions. Start your Live Test Drive and hear the signal for yourself.

Email: support@readingminds.ai

www.readingminds.ai


SIS AI Solutions New York

Founded 2025 | 10 employees

Ruth Stanat, CEO 

SIS AI Solutions was launched in 2025 as an intelligence monitoring and tracking system to accelerate recruitment, report writing and the delivery of research-backed articles in minutes. The SIS AI Solutions Global Research Database offers 135-country coverage with local expertise. It also provides participant recruitment from 80 million panel records across 135 countries, as well as 250,000 opt-in records. The SIS AI Solutions Knowledge Center delivers deep research drawn from our 500,000 reports, along with external information. It provides trend scanning, PESTEL and economic and sentiment analysis. Proprietary insights are highlighted with citations and are available as exportable branded PDF and Word reports. The SIS AI Solutions Content Engine generates research-backed articles and thought leadership within minutes. It also integrates external information and delivers content as a PDF, Word, WordPress or HTML file. The SIS Solutions Consulting Practice delivers competitive intelligence, market entry, M&A, pricing and predictive analytics. Every engagement is backed by SIS primary research. These new product offerings are available on a subscription basis or an as-needed basis.  

Email: Restanat@sisaisolutions.com  

Phone: 1-917-536-0640

www.sisaisolutions.com


TestSet

Founded 2024 | 270 employees

Michael Sanfelippo, President

TestSet was created to reshape the future of consumer insights data. Founded by industry veterans who have consistently anticipated and adapted to evolving trends, TestSet is at the forefront of transforming how businesses access first-party data. Now, we’re taking that vision further. Meet Tess, TestSet’s AI intelligent agent, directly integrated into a brand-new website, is live and available 24/7 to connect visitors with our team, answer questions and get projects started simply by having a conversation. Tess comes equipped with a diverse and ever-evolving set of skills including recruitment, conducting surveys and more. She connects with Slack, Claude and other leading apps to keep projects moving with full-service backend functionality from end to end. At TestSet, we don’t just embrace what’s next. We build it. Visit www.testset.com today.

Phone: 1-833-777-TEST

www.testset.com


Zoho Survey

Founded 1996 | 15,000+ employees

Karthikeyan M, Product Marketing Manager

Zoho Survey is an AI-powered survey platform to create smarter surveys at scale and uncover actionable insights across customer experience, employee engagement and market research. It enables teams to generate ready-to-send surveys in seconds using simple prompts – from measuring customer satisfaction to gauging employee sentiment and studying market trends. Its built-in AI capabilities including sentiment analysis; word cloud and open-ended response summarization help researchers uncover patterns quickly without manual coding. Zoho Survey connects seamlessly with CRM, help-desk and other research tools to turn feedback into decisions. Backed by 15+ years of experience and trusted by brands including Samsung and Marriott, Zoho Survey ensures enterprise-grade privacy and never uses customer data to train external AI models. Zoho Survey: Listen better. Decide smarter.

Email: sales@zohosurvey.com

www.zoho.com/survey