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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.
The 25 largest competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 2,779 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In a world drowning in data, we deliver clarity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 702 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 651 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 464 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Savanta is a fast-growing data, market research and advisory company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RFI Global is the only global data and insights company focusing exclusively on financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The world’s most experienced B2B market research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 159 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STRAT7 Incite is a strategic research and planning consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 125 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Risk Advisory Group is a global business intelligence and investigations firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 79 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Not just insight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 69 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 64 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're Solici, the strategic competitive intelligence division of Cambridge Healthcare Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In uncertain times, professional services firms can’t rely on instinct alone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 54 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dragonfly is a geopolitical and security intelligence service for the world’s leading organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 50 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 48 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 47 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 45 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, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your brand isn’t generic and neither is our research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In a world of research conformity, we choose to be different.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: competitive intelligence firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names competitive intelligence firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of competitive intelligence firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name competitive intelligence firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Competitive intelligence firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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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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.
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