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Top 24 Research consulting firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 520 research consulting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 3,503 professional contacts across them, including 1,485 with verified work emails and 348 with mobile numbers. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers research consulting firms headquartered in Australia, 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 5, 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 24 largest research consulting firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 354 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The KPI Institute is a research institute specialized in business performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fiftyfive5 We are hiring!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Frontier Advisors has been offering institutional investors independent and unbiased advice, research and service for over thirty years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a primary focus on financial services, CoreData Group provides clients with both bespoke and syndicated research services through a variety of data collection strategies and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “unlimited research solutions McNair yellowSquares is one of the only full-service market and social research companies in Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ACIL Allen is a leading independent economics, policy and strategy advisory firm, dedicated to helping clients solve complex issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We use economics, data and strategy to provide analysis, insights and advice to governments, businesses and organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Taverner Research is a full service customised market and social research provider specialising in both commercial and government work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why ‘GYDE’?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Strategic Project Partners (SPP) is a high impact management consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Whereto is Australia’s most effective research-based consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Noetic challenges clients to think differently and adopt new approaches to find solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At 35 South, we put our client in the centre of everything we design, develop and deliver.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Servicing the Market Research Industry since 1971, Ekas is Australia's most experienced healthcare and consumer fieldwork agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SIBAS is a team of passionate industry experts, change-makers and innovators committed to your business growth and success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edified is a specialised consulting firm focused exclusively on the education industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are your partner in the boardroom, staffroom, newsroom and courtroom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FIND OUT WHAT THEY'RE THINKING.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1976, McGregor Tan is one of Australia’s most experienced full service social and market research agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Enterprise is a team of consultants specialising in urban planning, property economics, tourism planning, economic development and research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Focus People is a Market Research Recruitment agency who assist companies with the recruitment of quality respondents, Australia-Wide, for their research projects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lonergan Research is an independent strategic research consultancy that combines a wide range of disciplines and approaches to solve complex business challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1993, Market Solutions has grown into a prominent and well respected market and social research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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 consulting 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 consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of research consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name research consulting 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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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 consulting 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 Australia whose own description of what they do matches “research consulting 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 consulting 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 consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia 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, 1,485 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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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 consulting 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 consulting firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 520 research consulting firms headquartered in Australia 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?
The KPI Institute, headquartered in Melbourne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most research consulting firms?
Sydney leads with 123 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (98) and Brisbane (42).
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 1,485 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 520 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 5, 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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