19 May 2026 — London, Tuesday 19 May 2026. Bolt Insight, the pioneers of AI-moderated consumer research, today launches Bolt Intelligence: an always-on research platform unifying qualitative, quantitative, UX research, and social listening in one end-to-end connected workflow for the first time.
Uniting a fragmented industry
The launch comes at a moment of acute fragmentation in the industry. Greenbook's 2025 GRIT Report confirms that budgets are under sustained pressure; management support for research budget increases has fallen from 65% to just 34% in a single year, while stakeholder expectations have never been higher. Meanwhile, the same report finds that data quality concerns have surged 40% year-over-year; driven largely by a flood of AI tools producing synthetic responses that research professionals cannot trust or defend in a debrief. Bolt Intelligence is built for exactly this moment: one platform, one budget, multiple research methods, all with insights that connect and compound.
The platform gives insight teams a single system to run AI-moderated IDIs, online ethnography, MaxDiff, Brand Health Trackers, UX concept testing, large-scale quantitative studies, and more. Proprietary AI agents run continuously in the background: Signal Scanner monitors social platforms and forums in real time for emerging trends and brand signals; Pattern Detective surfaces where qual, quant, and social listening align or diverge across a client's full research history; and Foresight Engine generates trend predictions based on pattern trajectories, cross-study convergences, and market intelligence.
Hakan Yurdakul, CEO & Co-Founder, Bolt Insight
“This is the platform I wish I had when I was on brand side. The industry chose speed. We chose substance. While others built AI to replace the researcher, we built Bolt to elevate and amplify them - because every feature has been designed by people who have sat in the debrief, written the discussion guide, and had to make the findings stick in a room full of stakeholders.”
Bolt Intelligence is powered by Bolt IQ, a proprietary model trained on the thinking of senior researchers who've spent their careers turning consumer conversations into strategic decisions.
Born on the Brand Side. Proven at Scale.
Bolt Insight was founded in 2019 by a team of brand-side practitioners who had spent careers commissioning and acting on research at the highest level. Trusted by 11 of the top 15 CPG brands globally the company has built its reputation on insight that drives decisions, not just informs them.
Alongside the platform, Bolt Insight is launching a refreshed brand identity; a visual and verbal evolution that reflects its confidence as an established global operator and its ambition as a category creator. Built for the insight professional, not the generic enterprise software buyer.
Bolt Intelligence is available to new and existing clients from today. Research teams can request a demo at www.boltinsight.com.
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About Bolt Insight
Bolt Insight is an AI-native research and insights company built around Bolt Intelligence, our always-on consumer intelligence platform that connects qualitative research, quantitative research, UX research, and social listening in one system. Powered by Bolt IQ, our proprietary AI research brain trained on the thinking of senior researchers who've spent careers turning consumer conversations into strategic decisions, Bolt Intelligence continuously analyzes market and competitive data, proactively detects patterns, and creates your next research brief, so you can find your next innovation idea, get the consumer validation, and be market ready. You bring the business question; we help you choose the right method to answer it. Run research independently or co-design studies with our expert team. Either way, you get boardroom-ready insights that are fast, deep, and effective, without ever having to choose between quality and efficiency.
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