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Top 25 User research companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,292 user research companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 23,481 professional contacts across them, including 8,579 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers user research companies headquartered in the 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 22, 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 user research companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,633 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Numerator is a data and tech company bringing speed and scale to market research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Escalent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 948 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help companies unlock the power of their products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 795 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Today’s markets demand new research methods.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 600 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Azure Knowledge Corporation, headquartered at Piscataway, NJ, is a globally trusted provider of market research and digital experience solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 581 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Unimrkt Research is a Market Research Outsourcing firm that helps global Market Research organizations with their primary and secondary research and support needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 444 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M3 Global Research provides the most comprehensive and highest quality market research recruitment and support services available to the global healthcare industry with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stop and Shop is a market research company based out of Osceola Ossipee Rd, Browns Summit, North Carolina, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zintro was founded in 2007 to disrupt the existing market research model by offering the same high-quality participants but with more flexibility and for a lower price.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A division of Kantar, Kantar Profiles is a market-leading data company and home to the world’s largest audience network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fieldwork is a qualitative research partner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Schlesinger Group is a technology-led data company that delivers a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research solutions to connect human answers to business questions as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 263 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dscout is a research technology company that helps the world's best-known brands understand how people actually think and behave, in context, at scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Blackstone Group is a full-service custom marketing research and consulting firm providing clients with actionable insights for over 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InnovateMR is a full-service sampling and ResTech company that delivers faster, quality insights from business and consumer audiences utilizing cutting-edge technologies to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At L&E we make connections to create conversations that help our clients make better decisions, allowing us to give back to our communities and grow our connections.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “C&C Market Research is an industry leading market research field service firm based in Fort Smith, AR, which owns and operates over 36 research facilities in major markets all…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “User Interviews, now part of UserTesting, gives you fast access to quality participants for 🧑 user research, market research, and 🤖 AI training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Luth Research is the industry-leading path-to-purchase market research firm powered by a revolutionary behavioral data collection technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 170 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Evidence-Based User Experience (UX) Research, Training, and Consulting: Nielsen Norman Group is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with members in 17 additional locations throughout…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “aytm is a consumer insights and market research platform built for modern consumer intelligence-fast enough for business timelines, rigorous enough for high-stakes decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Respondent is a cost effective, high-quality participant recruiting platform for all research methodologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At C+R Research, a full-service marketing insights agency, we’ve been helping brands grow for over 65 years, delivering great research, deep perspective, and committed client…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IntelliSurvey provides software and services to help professional researchers make business decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: user research companies. 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 user research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of user research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name user research companies. 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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User research companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,292 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 user research companies, 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “user research companies”. 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 user research companies), 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 user research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 8,579 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 22, 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 user research companies, 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 user research companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,292 user research companies headquartered in the 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?
Numerator, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most user research companies?
New York leads with 77 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (52) and San Francisco (51).
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 8,579 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,292 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 22, 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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