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Top 25 Research agencies based in Washington, United States

Name: Research agencies based in Washington, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 79 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 79 research agencies headquartered in Washington, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,052 professional contacts across them, including 602 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers research agencies headquartered in Washington, United States, 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 21, 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 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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2,052Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest research agencies based in Washington, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 79 research agencies based in Washington, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research agencies: 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	American Directions Research Group	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	344 contacts →
	Strong evidence “American Directions Research Group is one of the largest and most experienced market research survey providers in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	PSB Insights	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	208 contacts →
	Strong evidence “PSB Insights is a global research consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Quadrant Strategies	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	179 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Quadrant Strategies helps the world’s most prominent companies navigate their most important brand, reputation, and product challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	DCG	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	119 contacts →
	Strong evidence “DCG is an award-winning, full-service engagement, digital, research, and data company with over 15 years of experience supporting the military, Veterans, and the American public.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Req, An Agital Company	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	82 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “REQ is deliberate and agile, skillfully delivering the digital needs of corporations, government, and nonprofits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	Harrisx	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	69 contacts →
	Strong evidence “HarrisX is a technology, analytics, and research company, that leverages data and creativity to drive strategic answers to our client’s burning questions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Lake Research Partners	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Lake Research Partners is a national public opinion and political strategy research firm founded by Celinda Lake in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	KRC Research	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	47 contacts →
	Strong evidence “KRC Research is a global strategic research firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Hart Research	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Hart Research Associates is one of the leading public opinion research firms in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	GQR	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	44 contacts →
	Strong evidence “GQR is one of the world's premier opinion research and strategic consulting firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Mercury Analytics	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	39 contacts →
	Strong evidence “At Mercury’s core, we are research experts who pride ourselves on creating advanced and innovative technologies for executing online research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Storyline Strategies	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We turn ambiguity into clarity and insight into action.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	L&m Policy Research, LLC	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Established in 2004, L&M is a small, minority- and women-owned health policy research firm specializing in health services, outcomes, policy, and consumer research related to how…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	Vantage Market Research	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	28 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Vantage is a leading source of market research for enterprise organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	HIT Strategies	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	25 contacts →
	Strong evidence “HIT Strategies is a public opinion research company that specializes in researching Millennials, People of Color, LGBTQ+, and other underserved communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	GBAO	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Our firm offers broad expertise in survey research and strategic consulting in corporate communications, branding strategy, international relations, and political campaigns at all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	Buying Time LLC	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	23 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Buying Time, LLC is a seasoned media-placement and buying firm with almost 30 years of experience delivering strategic paid-media solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	The Mellman Group	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Mellman Group has provided sophisticated opinion research and strategic advice to political leaders, government agencies, corporations, and the nation’s leading public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	Ragnar Research Partners	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Our survey research team is the best in the business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	The Burns Brothers	Indirect evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a unique, wholly black owned, woman owned and veteran owned multi-disciplinary agency offering 360-degree solutions for meeting client and stakeholder needs in the diverse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	Upswing Research & Strategy	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We use innovative research methods - rigorously tested - to create strategies that win.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Social Lens Research	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Social Lens Research builds foundational consumer knowledge through our innovative Lens Library platform.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	Intermedia Survey Institute	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “InterMedia is is a global research consultancy that partners with mission-driven organizations seeking to make an impact in people’s lives around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	NDP Analytics	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Strong evidence “ndp \| analytics is a strategic economic and communication research firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Taylor Research Group	Strong evidence	Washington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Taylor Research Group is a litigation and environmental research company with extensive experience in providing historical, investigative, and analytical research services and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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: research agencies. 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 research agencies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of research agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name research agencies. 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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Research agencies based in Washington, United States at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

29.3%Verified-email coverage

26.0Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

445.6%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Washington, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Washington, over 79 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 research agencies, 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 Washington, United States whose own description of what they do matches “research agencies”. 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 research agencies), 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 research agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Washington 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, 602 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 21, 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.

Research agencies by metro in the United States

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 research agencies, 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 research agencies are there based in Washington, United States?

RevenueBase identified 79 research agencies headquartered in Washington, United States 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?

American Directions Research Group, headquartered in Washington, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research agencies?

New York leads with 352 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (109) and Chicago (106).

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 602 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 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 21, 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.