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Top 25 Research consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia

Name: Research consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026 87 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 87 research consulting firms headquartered in Sydney, Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 653 professional contacts across them, including 328 with verified work emails. Across Australia, Sydney is the largest hub for this category.

This list covers research consulting firms headquartered in Sydney, 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 14, 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 14, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

87Companies

653Contacts tracked

328Verified emails

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The 25 largest research consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 87 research consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 14, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research consulting firms: 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	Fiftyfive5, Part Of Accenture Song	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	169 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Fiftyfive5 We are hiring!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
2	Coredata Group	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	51-200	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 14, 2026
3	Gyde Consulting	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	53 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Why ‘GYDE’?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
4	EKAS	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	201-500	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 14, 2026
5	Lonergan Research	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	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 14, 2026
6	Freshwater Strategy	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Freshwater Strategy operates at the nexus of capital, business, and government, transforming uncertainty into opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
7	Instinct And Reason	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Instinct and Reason was established in 2002 as a market research and strategic consultancy with offices in Australia (Sydney, Canberra, Darwin), U.K (London), and Canada (Kelowna).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
8	Equity Economics & Development Partners	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Equity Economics is an Australian based economic consultancy committed to providing quality economic analysis and policy advice to the not for profit, corporate and government…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
9	Keylan Consulting	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “KEYLAN Consulting provides personalised, expert urban planning and policy advisory services to a diverse range of industry and government clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
10	Parallel Data Research	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Parallel Data Research provides full-service solutions or à-la-carte online market research services including programming, data processing, coding, tabulation, advanced analysis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
11	SEC Newgate Research	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Partial evidence “SEC Newgate Research is one of the most sought-after market and social research firms in Australia and the UK for issues, opinion and reputation research amongst senior…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
12	Food Industry Foresight	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Food Industry Foresight is one of Australia’s most recognised market research firms in the Food Industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
13	Faster Horses Consulting	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Faster Horses is a new breed of insights consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
14	Incept Labs	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Incept Labs helps SMEs, large corporates and Government deal with uncertainty in current and future environments by providing targeted research and supporting innovation, change…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
15	MH Consulting Group	Strong evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Strong evidence “MH Consulting Group (MHC) is a niche practice that specialises in research strategy, evaluation and review, governance strategy and programs implementation and evaluation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
16	Research Profile	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Get in contact with us today to unlock your research potential - info@research-profile.com Powering Research & Insights - Research Profile delivers Australia’s most responsive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
17	IDC Australia And NEW Zealand	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	4 contacts →
	Partial evidence “IDC is the leading provider of data-driven research and analysis in the region.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
18	Stancombe Research Planning	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	11-50	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Stancombe Research + Planning is a thought-leading, nimble and strategically focussed marketing research consultancy For over two decades of Stancombe has been innovating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
19	Thrive Insights	Strong evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Insights driven research and consulting agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
20	Leapfrog Research	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	3 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Leapfrog Research provides strategic yet practical market research solutions, developed collaboratively, to add true business value.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
21	Hallgren & Associates PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hallgren & Associates Pty Ltd is a boutique full service consultancy firm driving innovation and industry/research collaboration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
22	Tomorrow Strategy CO	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Tomorrow Strategy Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
23	The Clever Stuff	Partial evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Clever Stuff is a market research agency specialised in marketing research and analytics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
24	QI Insights	Strong evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Qi Insights is a research & data driven consulting company, based in Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026
25	Cogence	Indirect evidence	Sydney, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 14, 2026	1-10	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Cogence is a boutique consultancy based in Sydney, Australia, helping clients with a diverse range of strategic analysis, planning, project direction and implementation objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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 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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Research consulting firms based in Sydney, Australia at a glance

As of Sep 14, 2026

50.2%Verified-email coverage

7.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 14, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Australia list rather than for Sydney, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Sydney, over 87 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 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 Sydney, 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 Sydney 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, 328 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 14, 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 consulting firms by metro in Australia

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 Sydney, Australia?

RevenueBase identified 87 research consulting firms headquartered in Sydney, 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?

Fiftyfive5, Part Of Accenture Song, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in Australia has the most research consulting firms?

Sydney leads Australia with 87 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (60) and Brisbane (29).

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 328 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 87 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 14, 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.