Resource Type: Pitch Perfect Recording

  • RECORDING: AI-Moderated Voice Interviews: Friend, Foe or Future of Qual?

    RECORDING: AI-Moderated Voice Interviews: Friend, Foe or Future of Qual?

    Come and hear more about Glaut, an AI-powered customer research software for large-scale customer research projects. We support quant researchers uncover qualitative insights traditional surveys miss through voice-based, AI-moderated interviews (“AIMI”), which combine the efficiency of a survey with the depth of a 1-to-1 interview. Glaut is able to interview thousands of respondents simultaneously (customers, employees, patients), in +50 languages.

    Glaut thrives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, marketing, and human psychology, blending these fields to deliver deeper, more meaningful insights.

    Matteo Cera – Glaut Founder

    I am a builder and Glaut is the third company I created in the past 15 years. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteocera/

    Some questions on the day that weren’t answered:

    1) Does the participant know this is AI moderated rather than human? My guess is we tell them at recruitment but are there any regulations around this as far as you know? Yes, we have a welcome message at the beginning of the interview that specifies that. Researchers can tailor it as needed. Also, we invite researchers to specify it in the distribution message

    (2) Can we choose which LLM is being used? Again I guess you have a third party speech to text tool which is baked into your platform but for the “thinking” element can clients choose which large language model to use? It would be good if you could share a couple of lines covering your technology set-up, what third party products are used in this area. We use primarily OpenAI and Gemini/Claude as a fall back. At the moment, we don’t give the customer the option to switch, but we could consider it if it’s a blocker.

    3) Did I hear that you’ll be sending through some examples? Yes, here they are;

    – Popular use cases on Glaut for brainstorming – you can test the interview and read the report

    – Whitelabel deck (ppt) that explains Glaut’s benefits and use cases – could be helpful when you have to build proposals for your customers

    Also, considering some questions about methodology, here’s a paper Glaut is  about to publish which compares AIMI voice performance vs. text answers.

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    Presentation slides here

  • RECORDING: Thriving in the Strategy Swamp (as an Independent)

    RECORDING: Thriving in the Strategy Swamp (as an Independent)

    This Lunch&Learn is presented by Quallie.Ai (we welcome them back again – their first Lunch&Learn recording can be found here 

     

     

    Ed Mehmed (former MD at What If, Butterfly, and Accenture) shares what it takes to thrive in today’s independent consulting world.

    Drawing on his journey from boutique to big consultancy to independent consultant, he’ll share real world stories and tips for finding the work that matters to you.

    He’ll be joined by Marco Rovagnati, Co-Founder of Quallie.Ai.

    They’ll also explore how tools like Quallie.Ai help independents stay fast, sharp, and close to the craft, making the right kind of work easier to land.

     

    Presentation slides

     

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  • RECORDING: Effortless Rewards: Smarter Gifting for Happier Participants

    RECORDING: Effortless Rewards: Smarter Gifting for Happier Participants

    Welcoming Totally Gifts for this half-hour session

    What You’ll Learn

    In this half-hour session, you’ll discover how our platform simplifies participant rewards while delivering a seamless, engaging experience for recipients. Whether it’s prepaid cards, a wide selection of market leading gift vouchers, or even BACS payments—we handle it all through a single, easy-to-use code and delivery portal.

    At Totally Gifts, we go beyond being just a provider; we strive to be a trusted partner in your projects. Our solution helps you streamline reward management while ensuring a frictionless experience for participants.

    About Totally Gifts 

    Totally Gifts is built on deep industry expertise and years of hands-on experience. Purpose-built for the B2B market, our platform is designed to support organisations of all sizes in delivering a wide range of rewards, effortlessly.

    From selection to delivery, our curated, full-service approach takes the complexity out of rewards, so you can focus on what you do best, while we handle the rest.

    Meet the Speaker: Peter Bennett
    Sales Director, Totally Gifts

    peter@totallygiftcards.com)

    Peter brings over 10 years of experience in the rewards, recognition, and loyalty space. Having worked both client-side and agency-side, he’s led high-impact projects for global blue-chip clients.

    Since joining Totally Gifts over two years ago, Peter has spearheaded the Client Solutions strategy, successfully delivering multimillion-pound, multi-continent reward programs. His expertise, coupled with our agile in-house tech and client-first approach, enables us to deliver exactly what our clients need, when they need it.

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    peter@totallygiftcards.com

  • RECORDING: Next-Gen Qual Research: How VisionsLive Delivers Deeper Insights with Less Effort

    RECORDING: Next-Gen Qual Research: How VisionsLive Delivers Deeper Insights with Less Effort

    Join us for a dynamic Lunch & Learn session where we’ll introduce VisionsLive, a leading online platform purpose-built for qualitative research.

    From online focus groups to in-depth interviews and bulletin boards, VisionsLive offers a seamless, intuitive experience for moderators and participants alike. Discover how our advanced video technology, AI-powered reporting features, and 24/7 support help you run smoother sessions and uncover richer insights. With optional full-service support, including recruitment and moderation, VisionsLive empowers researchers to deliver high-quality outcomes efficiently and with confidence.

    Whether you’re an independent consultant or part of a larger agency team, this session will show you how to streamline your workflow and enhance your qualitative research.

    Nikki Baines

    Nikki Baines is a Business Development Manager at VisionsLive and has spent the past four and a half years supporting researchers in delivering exceptional qualitative studies online. In that time, she has helped clients successfully run hundreds of projects, ranging from small exploratory groups to large-scale international studies, across a wide variety of sectors. Known for her hands-on, proactive approach, Nikki goes above and beyond to ensure every project runs smoothly, no matter the size or complexity. With her in-depth knowledge of the VisionsLive platform and a genuine passion for helping clients succeed, Nikki is a trusted partner to agencies and brands around the world.

    nikki.baines@visionslive.com

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    ICG Member Offer! 15% discount your first project with Visions Live

     

     

  • RECORDING: Turn Raw Survey Data into Visual Story Dashboards—Narrated by Researchers

    RECORDING: Turn Raw Survey Data into Visual Story Dashboards—Narrated by Researchers

    A Lunch&Learn session with ICG member Ange Taylor, AddMaple

    Most insights land in tables clients can’t explore – the endless scroll. PowerPoint slides are polished, but can’t be explored. Follow-up requests keep coming: “Can we see this by region? Gender? Just new customers?” Meanwhile, researchers rarely get credit for the insights that drive awards and impact .

    Imagine this instead:
    Researchers leap from raw survey data to a story dashboard – charts, qual themes, key drivers, stats, and tables, empowered with automated key driver analysis as they explore and craft the data story. You save remarkable charts while you explore and ask our AI agent what is unexpected or interesting and have it help you add charts and text to the story dashboard you can edit. You dear researcher record short videos, for specific pages, to add richness. Once story dashboards are delivered, they enable clients to learn from your framing but can also ask their own questions, and make their own cuts. A dashboard that’s explorable, beautiful, and puts your voice at the centre – even after handover.

    What you’ll learn:
    Ange will demo this using raw ICG Census data—showing how to build dashboards that let researchers guide the narrative, add meaning with images or short video, and highlight what matters most. With thanks to Ramona, Nadia, Arthur, and the Census team.

    AI – isn’t this a threat and a hallucination risk?
    AddMaple uses AI to accelerate what can be sped up – coding open ends and surfacing the remarkable patterns that AddMaple’s proprietary stats engine found through programmatic sequential testing. A tag team between a powerful stats engine and AI – this keeps our AI features in check.

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  • RECORDING: Why AI Can Be Your Saviour, Not Your Successor

    RECORDING: Why AI Can Be Your Saviour, Not Your Successor

    About the session

    Our industry sometimes feels overwhelmed with the amount of AI tools bursting onto the market promising to do what we have spent our lifetime perfecting for a fraction of the speed and price. We can be suspicious, cynical and a little bit terrified, or accepting, positive and excited.  Or often both at the same time. This session seeks to look at how we worked within both those mindets and shows how we think AI Powered Qual will never replace us, but how it can completely enhance what we do, making us more competitive, able to take on bigger projects and liberate our time to focus on the strategic thinking our clients really pay us for.

    Welcome to QualifyAI

    Spun out of Firefish, we’re not ResTech mercenaries seeking to obsolete you (and us!) but taking a qual heritage built over 25 years and redeploying it in an AI world. We’ll show how using our platform is opening up new revenue opportunities for Qualitative research, reopening people’s eyes to the power of qualitative research, leading to incremental revenues and an appreciation for Qual by clients who simply don’t have the time or budgets to include Qual in its everyday decision making.

    We’ll give you a tour of the platform and its use cases, and leave you with a sense of how you can take advantage of it to power your qualitative future, just as it is helping to transform Firefish, allowing our people to focus on our clients, to do bigger, more complex projects and opening up budget for more deeply human activities.

    And we’d like to have a bit of a debate about AI, qual and the future too while we are at it.

    www.qualifyai.co

    Special Opportunities For ICG Members

    It was lovely to spend time with you all and we really enjoyed the Q&A and the follow up chats we have been having. If you are interested in learning more about QualifyAI, we’ve a few things we’d like to offer to ease you in and give you a chance to explore the platform further and think about how you can write it into your projects:
    1. If you are interested in seeing how it works from the POV of a participant, or to have a look around the dashboard, we have set up a demo project, so just get in touch and we can share links with you.
    2. Anyone who gets in touch to chat further about QualifyAI by the end of August will be entered into a draw for a free trial project
    3. Every ICG member can purchase the first project  (for 50 conversations with your target audience) for £2500 instead of the standard £3500 (a third off!) which includes recruitment, incentivisation and project support to make sure everything goes smoothly…….)
    We’d love to keep the conversation going and find as many ways as we can to support you in your projects and give you the chance to experience the power of AI in your Qual projects.
    Cheers, Richard and Jem

     

    The Speakers

    Jem Fawcus

    Jem has spent the last twenty five years building a world class qualitative research agency that has excelled in understanding humans to deliver insight that has helped clients create compelling communications to drive brand growth.

    Richard Owen


    Richard’s career has been rooted in innovation from the early days on the transition to online research, to building and selling mobile applications, to consultancy on transformation and now to the application of AI in research.

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  • RECORDING: Discover an Integrated Qual Platform That Streamlines Projects for Everyone

    RECORDING: Discover an Integrated Qual Platform That Streamlines Projects for Everyone

    Most qualitative research platforms have a learning curve, require you to operate in a sandbox, and are often expensive. You like Zoom, your respondents like Zoom. But what about situations when clients need to observe? Do you have to jump through hoops to prevent contamination between client and participants or pay a small fortune to provide virtual backroom to clients?

    What we will cover during this lunch and learn session is a ‘how-to’ – how to use your existing tech stack with platforms that enhance capabilities, not just replace them.

    Our thinking is simple. Zoom is a world leader in enterprise class online meeting SaaS. Why not have a qual research specific layer added on top of Zoom to turn it into an online qual research hub?

    Flowres is not just about a ‘Virtual Backroom’. Flowres has analysis layer that is well appreciated by researchers worldwide.

    Why should you attend:

    Discover how independent insight consultants can leverage tools like flowres.io to utilize the video capabilities of your Zoom or Teams subscription and streamline your online qual research  without paying ‘bloated’ platform costs.

    About flowres.io:

    Flowres is the all-in-one qual research platform built by researchers, for researchers.

    It seamlessly integrates with Zoom, Teams & Meet — no new logins needed for participants or clients. Includes a dedicated observer backroom, automated transcriptions, AI-assisted analysis, and real-time moment capture. flowres helps independents work smarter, deliver faster, and scale insight with confidence.

    About the presenters:

    Jiten Madia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jitenmadia/) (Founder & CEO)

    Qualitative researcher at heart, Jiten has been a practitioner of qualitative research for 6 years early in his career. Jiten has spent time on both client and agency side working with consumer insights in different capacities.

    Maniish Karve (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maniishkarve)

    Maniish has extensive experience in running market research operations at scale for some of the largest agencies in the world. He has also been a data analytics practitioner on the latter part of his career.

    Privacy you can trust

    Flowres is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and aligned with MRS and ESOMAR standards. Your data stays within a secure, walled garden—never used for model training. We’ve signed data processor agreements with leading LLMs to ensure maximum confidentiality.

    Pricing https://flowres.io/pricing

    Exclusive for ICG members

    Get preferred access, hands-on support, and a 20% discount on monthly subscription. OFFER UNTIL 30 JUNE 2025

    Start your free pilot: Register here – https://flowres.io/signup

    Connect with us: hello@flowres.io

    Further reading/viewing

    Case Studies:

    1. Speedy response to fast turn-around report using flowres, by Elizabeth Kasumi

    https://youtu.be/-j1tNt8DuiM?si=KnJtVANW-BSb-O81

    2. Driving cost efficiency in Online Qual fieldwork

    https://flowres.io/blog/driving-72-percent-cost-efficiency-in-online-qualitative-fieldwork

    Testimonial:

    NRGMR: why Shannon adopted flowres, and the impact of flowres on NRGMR’s online qualitative workflow – https://youtu.be/ESVGkTb_Dno?si=ZJZDa3Gh45bvPw_u

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  • RECORDING: AI Powered Qual Analysis: Getting to the Insight Without Losing Human Touch

    RECORDING: AI Powered Qual Analysis: Getting to the Insight Without Losing Human Touch

    Join Marco Rovagnati from Quallie Ai where he’ll cover the latest advancements in AI enabled insights, best practices for using AI in your work, challenges that many researchers face, and a short demo of Quallie.Ai.

    Quallie AI

    Quallie.Ai is a tool to analyse in-depth interviews and focus groups using AI, it’s designed to automate the tedious tasks enabling you to focus on the craft of insights generation.

    Marco Rovagnati

    Marco is a qualitative researcher specialising in strategic insights for innovation who worked for global brands like Diageo, Nike and HP. After years as an insights practitioner he built Quallie.Ai to solve for his most telling pain points while keeping the craft of the strategist intact.

     

     

    https://quallie.ai/
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcorovagnati/
    https://www.linkedin.com/company/quallie-ai

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    DON’T FORGET TO REDEEM YOUR FREE TRIAL OF QUALLIE AI TODAY: Contact Marco for info.

  • RECORDING: B2B Market Research, Simplified

    RECORDING: B2B Market Research, Simplified

    You know how expert network interviews and B2B surveys are a pain to coordinate?

    Instead of endless email threads and opaque “credit” pricing, we’ve combined the power of 20+ expert networks and survey firms in one platform.

    This lets you access all experts faster, pay-per-use, and without the donkey work.

    We call it Inex One.

    About the platform:

    Inex One is a digital platform where market research professionals, investors, and strategy consultants engage the best expert networks and survey providers worldwide. Trusted by more than 7,500 clients globally, Inex One makes it easy and affordable to get B2B insights.

    Max Friberg

    Max Friberg is the CEO and co-founder of Inex One, the marketplace for expert networks and B2B survey providers.

    In his previous career at McKinsey & Company, Max did extensive B2B market research, including commercial due diligence, competitive landscape mapping and voice-of-the-customer studies.

    Max is a CEMS MIM graduate from the Stockholm School of Economics and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC).

    You are welcome to reach him on max@inex.one

    www.inex.one

    Max Friberg | LinkedIn

    Watch the recording here 

    Meeting summary transcript (AI Generated) here

    Max introduced Inex One, a B2B market research platform that aggregates expert networks and survey providers, and discussed its pricing and capabilities. The platform focuses on high-end B2B respondents and C-suite executives, offers access to vetted experts through various partner networks worldwide, and operates on a pay-per-use model. The group also discussed the pricing and capabilities of Max’s recruitment marketplace platform, which can handle various recruitment needs including online communities and typically takes only hours to get initial profiles.

  • RECORDING: Social Media Listening for Independent Consultants:  Turning Online Conversations into Actionable Insights

    RECORDING: Social Media Listening for Independent Consultants: Turning Online Conversations into Actionable Insights

    YouScan is an easy-to-use social media listening platform. It employs AI to help researchers, analysts, and insights professionals uncover consumer opinions and gain quick market insights from millions of online conversations. YouScan helps analyze consumer sentiment, track brand mentions, and identify emerging market opportunities in real-time. With its intuitive dashboards and customizable reports, YouScan simplifies complex data, allowing consultants to deliver actionable insights to their clients faster.

    A bit more about the YouScan:

    YouScan is an award-winning, AI-powered social media listening platform trusted by leading brands and agencies worldwide.

    YouScan provides researchers and analysts with real-time insights from millions of online conversations, delivering a comprehensive understanding of consumer opinions, industry trends, the competitive landscape, and emerging market opportunities.

    With YouScan, insight professionals gain a deeper understanding of consumers:

    • What consumers say – YouScan’s powerful text analysis, featuring the GPT-powered Insights Copilot, simplifies understanding consumer opinions about brands, competitors, and events.
    • What they do – Advanced visual analysis capabilities identify how people interact with brands and products in real life, detecting brand logos, scenes, objects, and activities in social media images.
    • Who they are – Audience Insights reveal the demographics, interests, and occupations of people discussing brands and topics on social media.

    YouScan equips researchers and analysts with the tools to uncover valuable consumer insights, explore untapped market opportunities, and make informed, data-driven decisions that drive measurable results for clients.

    Alex Orap:

    Alex Orap is the Founder and Chief Growth Officer of YouScan. He is a tech entrepreneur with a successful track record in Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer internet applications, business intelligence, and the telecommunications sector. In 2024, Alex was named among Top 5 Tech Innovators in social intelligence in The Social Intelligence Lab’s  Insider 50 nomination.

    Anna Yanko

    Anna Yanko is the Global Brand Marketing Manager at YouScan, where she drives initiatives to enhance the company’s brand recognition and awareness in both Global and Ukrainian markets.

    “Our pricing is tailored to business needs, goals, and data volume, with several tiers available. The most affordable plan starts at £299/month (billed annually). You can find all the details on our pricing page: https://youscan.io/pricing “

     

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