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Top 25 Research and advisory firms based in Houston, United States
RevenueBase identified 95 research and advisory firms headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 541 professional contacts across them, including 207 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers research and advisory firms headquartered in Houston, 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.
The 25 largest research and advisory firms based in Houston, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Opus CMC is an award-winning, industry-leading TPR trusted by all major rating agencies, providing capital market participants with comprehensive mortgage solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a business advisory and consulting company focused on delivering iMPACTful solutions and innovation to public and private sector clients that empower them to achieve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Knowledge, Experience, Partnership Resolute Consulting Group is uniquely positioned to help your business achieve its goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Straife provides corporate strategy, risk advisory, and compliance services to public and private sector organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ADI Analytics is a consulting, research, and advisory firm specializing in oil and gas, power, energy, chemicals, industrials, and mining.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hughes & Associates is an executive recruiting firm based in the heart of Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Advisory Services” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Toby Richey & Associates is one of the largest national recruiting firms whose sole focus is placing top producing financial advisors with major Wall Street firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trans4mative Advisors is a firm built to provide valued consulting to our clients and meaningful service to a larger world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Securities offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research, Inc, a broker-dealer member FINRA/SIPC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TruView Business Advisors is a business brokerage and advisory firm specializing in confidential sales of privately held business between $500k and $10m across all industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PaintMire is an advisory firm with problem solving expertise to work with clients on value added decisions related to strategic options, change management, process and efficiency…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fieldstone Partners is a merchant banking firm focused on specialized financial advisory services for corporate clients and private equity investments across a broad range of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than twenty years The FEL Group has conducted successful searches for our clients to manage and fill their specific and specialized needs in economics practices…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BKLM Consulting is a U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Morgan Garris, a professional services and consulting firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, works diligently for our clients, solving customer problems and creating value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AFC Power Strategy Group is a management consulting firm that serves as a trusted advisor to companies in the private, public, and social sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MIG has the ability to yield results through our business knowledge, industry expertise, and passion for excellence by consulting for our clients with direct market intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Goldrush Business Services is incorporated by a group of experienced professionals is a trusted advisor to many large to medium business entities in USA, India and Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imagine moving faster than your competitors and unlocking unrealized business value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a boutique consultancy with specialized experience working with early-phase and established small to medium-sized businesses providing services in market research…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a boutique financial consulting firm serving: • companies planning an M&A transaction in the near future, • companies planning to access the Private equity/public markets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Understanding your company's problems to help you build your solution” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TEN 4 Enterprises is a Houston-based strategic business consulting firm, founded by Herman Harris, a Strategic Business Architect, focused on designing growth systems, operating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: research and advisory 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 research and advisory firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of research and advisory firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name research and advisory 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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Research and advisory firms based in Houston, United States at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 95 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 and advisory 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 Houston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “research and advisory 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 research and advisory 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 research and advisory firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Houston 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, 207 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 and advisory firms by metro in the United States
- Research and advisory firms in New York865
- Research and advisory firms in Washington376
- Research and advisory firms in Chicago196
- Research and advisory firms in Los Angeles171
- Research and advisory firms in Boston159
- Research and advisory firms in Atlanta148
- Research and advisory firms in San Francisco130
- Research and advisory firms in Miami115
- Research and advisory firms in Austin112
- Research and advisory firms in Dallas101
- Research and advisory firms in Houston95
- Research and advisory firms in Seattle77
- Research and advisory firms in Arlington76
- Research and advisory firms in San Diego68
- Research and advisory firms in Denver67
- Research and advisory firms in New York City61
- Research and advisory firms in Minneapolis60
- Research and advisory firms in Charlotte59
- Research and advisory firms in Philadelphia47
- Research and advisory firms in Alexandria46
- Research and advisory firms in Phoenix44
- Research and advisory firms in Las Vegas42
- Research and advisory firms in Orlando41
- Research and advisory firms in Portland41
- Research and advisory firms in Tampa37
- Research and advisory firms in Irvine35
- Research and advisory firms in Wilmington35
- Research and advisory firms in San Jose33
- Research and advisory firms in Pittsburgh32
- Research and advisory firms in Columbus31
- Research and advisory firms in Raleigh30
- Research and advisory firms in Cincinnati29
- Research and advisory firms in Mclean29
- Research and advisory firms in Nashville29
- Research and advisory firms in Boca Raton28
- Research and advisory firms in San Antonio28
- Research and advisory firms in Bethesda27
- Research and advisory firms in Cambridge26
- Research and advisory firms in Reston26
- Research and advisory firms in Princeton25
- Research and advisory firms in Richmond25
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 and advisory 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 research and advisory firms are there based in Houston, United States?
RevenueBase identified 95 research and advisory firms headquartered in Houston, 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?
Opus Capital Markets Consultants, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most research and advisory firms?
New York leads with 865 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (376) and Chicago (196).
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 207 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 95 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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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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