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Top 20 Customer experience research companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 42 customer experience research companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 452 professional contacts across them, including 196 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers customer experience research companies headquartered in South Africa, 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.
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The 20 largest customer experience research companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InsideData enables companies to measure and improve the efficacy of their business communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KLA, we get it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Smoke Customer Intelligence is making the world more customer centric by providing the best multi-channel customer feedback solution around.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IQbusiness Insights (formerly Genex Insights) is a leading Market Research and Customer Experience Management company with a firm focus on leveraging their leading research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “High-stakes customer decisions shouldn't come down to a hunch.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “nlightencx are multiple award-winning customer and client experience specialists that have been helping businesses deliver exceptional customer experiences for almost two decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MRM Support provides clients with accurate and timeous measurements through which to monitor their impact on customers' perceptions, loyalty and retention when providing a service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 27 years, the CIA has been listening to, & connecting with people in their real-life environments, where your brands live (or die), delivering a 360° view of the consumer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A B2B research and insights company, Livingfacts uses appropriate research methodologies to answer questions about your clients, markets, products, strategy and company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1994, REACT Insights has been providing cost effective and strategic Customer Experience Research for top performing brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SaluteCX provides a unique service of understanding whilst engaging with your brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Apex MR is a traditional market research firm specializing in customer and employee relationship management, market research and strategic consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Humanising Customer Experience We are a boutique Customer Experience Management consultancy with a singular purpose: to make a REAL and significant difference in customers’…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DataNoble is a Strategic CX Innovation boutique research and consulting firm that strictly focuses on the strategic innovation of B2B customer experiences to increase brand equity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Greenfields Research offers quantitative and qualitative market research intelligence that will enable you to achieve your competitive edge within your selected markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a dedicated user experience research (UXR) company based in South Africa, that works all over the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a Market Research Consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Providing great customer experience relies on understanding your customer, and how they interact with your staff, technology platforms, and physical locations We use a variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lodestar Marketing Research provides intelligent quantitative and qualitative research solutions, with in-depth analysis of research data and its implications for client’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Untamed, we're more than market research.” 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: customer experience research companies. 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 customer experience research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of customer experience research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name customer experience research companies. 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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Customer experience research companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 42 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 customer experience research companies, 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “customer experience research companies”. 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 customer experience research companies), 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 customer experience research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 196 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.
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 customer experience research companies, 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 customer experience research companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 42 customer experience research companies headquartered in South Africa 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?
Insidedata Group, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most customer experience research companies?
Johannesburg leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (8) and Sandton (5).
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 196 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 42 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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