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Top 25 Research consultancy firms based in Canada
RevenueBase identified 462 research consultancy firms headquartered in Canada as of September 2026 and tracks 3,400 professional contacts across them, including 1,362 with verified work emails. Toronto is the largest hub.
This list covers research consultancy firms headquartered in Canada, 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.
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The 25 largest research consultancy firms based in Canada
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Research leads to better and more attuned understanding of your audience (consumers, constituents, populations).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 130 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Being right isn't enough.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 109 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ipsos Public Affairs conducts strategic research in partnership with clients from government, public, corporate, and not-for-profit sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IMI International is an independent marketing consultancy focused on insight driving profit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1984, Ad Hoc Research offers high-quality consulting services in market and UX research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1989 and independently owned by our principals, Earnscliffe operates from offices in Ottawa-Gatineau, Toronto and Vancouver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InterVISTAS Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with extensive expertise in aviation, transportation and tourism.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hotspex and our team of brand building professionals are on a mission to help brands reach their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Montreal-based full service research agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a strategy advisory firm that collaborates with our clients to solve complex and sensitive business challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its inception in 1987, Nanos Research (formerly SES Research) has grown to become one of North America's premier market and public opinion research organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CRC Research is a CRIC Accredited Agency Seal marketing research company, offering full service healthcare research and comprehensive consumer and medical field services…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Watson is one of Canada’s leading economic consulting firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “InterGroup is a leading consulting firm based in the vibrant city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, with over 50 years of experience that allowed us to redefine the landscape of consultancy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “40+ years of providing excellence!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategy, Policy, and Economic Analysis Nordicity is an international consulting firm providing private and public sector clients with solutions for Strategy and Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cascadia Partners is a leading boutique management consulting firm that works on tough analytical + technical, as well as people + process challenges to deliver operational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “As a national opinion research consultancy, we ensure key decisions are informed decisions by connecting you to your audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Market Recon’s goal is to strengthen your position in the marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering the world to make better decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a full service market intelligence and market research company, Narrative Research is in the business of information.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With offices in Winnipeg and Ottawa, PRA Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Western Management Consultants (WMC) is a premier Canadian management consulting firm with a rich legacy dating back to 1975.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Numera Analytics is a global provider of macroeconomic and sectoral research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thriving in a world that is always on the edge of massive disruption is becoming increasingly challenging for brands across the world and brands rely on spellbinding data and…” 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 consultancy 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 consultancy firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of research consultancy firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name research consultancy 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 consultancy firms based in Canada at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Canada, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Canada, over 462 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 consultancy 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 Canada whose own description of what they do matches “research consultancy 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 consultancy 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 consultancy firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Canada 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, 1,362 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.
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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 consultancy 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 consultancy firms are there based in Canada?
RevenueBase identified 462 research consultancy firms headquartered in Canada 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?
Advanis, headquartered in Edmonton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most research consultancy firms?
Toronto leads with 114 headquartered companies, followed by Montreal (45) and Vancouver (44).
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 1,362 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 462 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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