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Top 25 Competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 593 competitive intelligence firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 11,658 professional contacts across them, including 4,098 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.

This list covers competitive intelligence firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 19, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
593Companies
11,658Contacts tracked
4,098Verified emails
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The 25 largest competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 593 competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to competitive intelligence firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,779 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In a world drowning in data, we deliver clarity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0001,475 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000702 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We provide high performing intelligence that answers critical business questions for leading companies around the world.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000651 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Infiniti Research is a leading provider of market intelligence and customer intelligence solutions with 20+ years’ experience spanning across 20+ industries.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026501-1,000464 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Savanta is a fast-growing data, market research and advisory company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200211 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“RFI Global is the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200178 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200159 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“MTM is the trusted insight and strategy partner tackling the biggest challenges for the world's biggest brands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200150 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-200125 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Verdantix is an independent research and advisory firm that serves a global client base consisting of the world’s most innovative corporations, technology and services vendors…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20094 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Risk Advisory Group is a global business intelligence and investigations firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50079 contacts →

Partial evidence

“With 26+ years of experience and more than 500+ professionals, Cognition empowers growth for B2B organizations by delivering reliable data, intelligence, and actionable insights…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
13Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20076 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Not just insight.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
14Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026201-50069 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“MASMI is a full-service international market research company with broad industry expertise specialising in delivering research insights and decision support, based on state of…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
15Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20064 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We provide intelligence, advisory and investigative services to investors, companies and NGOs grappling with the world's most important issues.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
16Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20061 contacts →

Strong evidence

“We're Solici, the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
17Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In uncertain times, professional services firms can’t rely on instinct alone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
18Partial evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20054 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Explain is a market research agency that is committed to creating insightful and dynamic partnerships that deliver powerful and intelligent results.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
19Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 2026n/a50 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Dragonfly is a geopolitical and security intelligence service for the world’s leading organisations.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
20Partial evidenceManchester, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20050 contacts →

Partial evidence

“provides retailers, distributors and brands of all sizes with price and product intelligence, enabling them to optimize margins and increase market share through data-driven…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
21Indirect evidencePetts Wood, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5048 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Business Advantage is a B2B research, business development and marketing consulting practice operating in the global IT, Digital and Telecommunications sectors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
22Indirect evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20047 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Eradigm works with select biopharmaceutical companies to develop a deeper and more nuanced understanding of their markets.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
23Partial evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5045 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PMSI is a management consulting firm specialising in commercial due diligence, market intelligence and strategy consulting.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
24Indirect evidenceNewbury, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5044 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Your brand isn’t generic and neither is our research.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
25Indirect evidenceNewcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5042 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“In a world of research conformity, we choose to be different.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
35.2%Verified-email coverage
19.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
51.3%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
401
11-50
111
51-200
45
201-500
12
501-1,000
5
1,001-5,000
13
5,001-10,000
3

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 593 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among competitive intelligence firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “competitive intelligence firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names competitive intelligence firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among competitive intelligence firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,098 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Competitive intelligence firms by metro

  • Competitive intelligence firms in London304

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names competitive intelligence firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many competitive intelligence firms are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 593 competitive intelligence firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Globaldata PLC, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most competitive intelligence firms?

London leads with 304 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (13) and Glasgow (10).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,098 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 593 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.