Qualitate

What Qualitate does

Qualitate, Inc. is a New York-based AI startup that operates an AI-native primary intelligence platform for investment firms and corporate strategy teams. The platform is anchored by a proprietary AI Moderator that conducts structured expert interviews end-to-end (replacing manual scheduling and coordination) and an AI Analyst that orchestrates autonomous research workflows, including generating executive briefings and launching custom surveys. Underlying both agents is a proprietary data engine trained on more than 350,000 minutes of vetted expert conversations, with coverage spanning over 10,000 companies across 500+ technology markets; every new interview enriches this library. Output is delivered through executive-ready dashboards that convert qualitative discussions into sentiment scores, key themes, and longitudinal time-series signals, with all sessions screened for MNPI/PII before reaching customer teams. The company monetizes through enterprise subscriptions (recurring annual billing in USD via ACH/Wire) combined with usage-based custom research studies, priced at roughly one-third the cost of traditional expert networks and delivered in 3-7 business days. Customers include six of the top 15 PE firms by AUM as well as multi-hundred-billion-dollar hedge funds, credit investors, VCs, and $100B+ market-cap enterprises; the company reports 100% customer renewals and net revenue retention above 200%. In April 2026, Qualitate closed a $7 million seed round co-led by IA Ventures and Crew Capital to scale the platform, build additional AI agents, and expand sector coverage.

Name

Qualitate

Legal name

Qualitate, Inc.

Website

https://qualitate.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Qualitate is a New York-based AI startup that operates an AI-native primary intelligence platform, using autonomous AI Moderator and Analyst agents to run and synthesize expert interviews at scale for investment firms and corporate strategy teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Primary Research / Expert Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Conversational AI Platforms (chat/voice bots, orchestration) (HDAAAFAC)

Keywords

• AI primary research
• Expert intelligence platform
• Investment due diligence software
• Automated expert interviews
• Competitive intelligence platform

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Platform Access: Recurring subscription revenue from enterprise customers (investment firms and corporations) for access to the Qualitate platform, with payments accepted via ACH/Wire in USD and billed through an online account. Terms indicate recurring charges with cancellation effective at the end of the current paid term.
2. Usage-Based / Land-and-Expand Studies: Custom research studies and on-demand diligence commissioned by customers, priced at approximately one-third the cost of traditional expert networks. Net revenue retention above 200% indicates significant expansion within existing accounts.
3. Expert Compensation Outflow (Supply-Side): Compensates expert contributors in USD within 7-10 business days of discussion completion, representing the supply-side cost against which subscription/usage revenue is monetized.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Qualitate sells an AI-native primary intelligence platform that autonomously conducts, moderates, and synthesizes structured expert interviews at scale, converting qualitative expert conversations into queryable intelligence, sentiment scores, and time-series signals. It serves investment firms (public equity, private equity, credit, venture capital) and corporate strategy teams with custom diligence, continuous market intelligence, win/loss analysis, and channel checks delivered in 3-7 business days at roughly one-third the cost of traditional expert networks.

Product overview

Qualitate offers a single, unified, vertically-integrated AI-native primary intelligence platform — anchored by its proprietary AI Moderator and AI Analyst agents — that replaces fragmented expert-network research workflows. The core platform is delivered through segment-specific solution modules (Qualitate for Public Equity, Corporate Strategy/Enterprises, Credit, Private Equity, and Venture Capital) that package the same underlying capabilities for different buyer personas, plus a contributor-facing Qualitate for Experts portal that recruits and vets domain experts who participate in AI-moderated interviews. The AI Moderator handles autonomous interview conduct, the AI Analyst orchestrates end-to-end research workflows and generates briefings, and Continuous Market Intelligence and AI Diligence At Scale are the platform's headline capability modules that consume the underlying 350,000+ minute proprietary expert-conversation library.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Qualitate AI-Powered Expert Intelligence Platform End-to-end AI-native primary research platform used by investment firms and enterprises to commission, moderate, and synthesize structured expert interviews at scale. Combines an AI Moderator, an AI Analyst, and a proprietary data engine covering 10,000+ companies across 500+ technology markets, drawing on 350,000+ minutes of expert conversations, with built-in MNPI/PII compliance screening.
• Qualitate for Public Equity Tailored solution packaging of the core platform for active public-equity investors (hedge funds, asset managers, mutual funds). Supports channel checks, demand-signal monitoring, thesis development and validation, sector monitoring, and event-driven research, with cited use by a $65B+ AUM hedge fund to run more pre-earnings checks in days rather than weeks.
• Qualitate for Private Equity Tailored solution packaging of the core platform for private-equity deal teams and portfolio operators. Supports thesis development, primary diligence at deal speed, continuous portfolio monitoring, catalyst/event analysis, thematic and macro trends, and win/loss. Cited use by a $180B+ AUM PE firm to run ~20 expert calls per company for thesis conviction.
• Qualitate for Credit Tailored solution packaging of the core platform for credit and private-credit investors. Supports bottom-up due diligence, customer stickiness assessment, turnaround momentum tracking, competitive win/loss, and portfolio monitoring. Cited use by a $45B+ AUM private credit firm to quantitatively measure gain and loss share across products at scale.
• Qualitate for Venture Capital Tailored solution packaging of the core platform for venture capital investors, including secondary teams. Supports high-velocity company diligence, traction validation, portfolio monitoring between board updates, catalyst analysis, and demand-signal monitoring. Cited use by a $90B+ AUM VC secondary team to evaluate ~4× more opportunities with higher conviction.
• Qualitate for Enterprises (Corporate Strategy) Tailored solution packaging of the core platform for enterprise corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, and product teams. Supports win/loss analysis at scale, market and competitive landscape mapping, strategic hypothesis testing, product portfolio monitoring, new product intelligence, internal stakeholder intelligence, and M&A diligence. Cited use as the foundation for all competitive intelligence at a $20B+ market-cap information security company.
• Qualitate for Experts (Expert Contributor Program) Supply-side program and portal where vetted domain experts sign up to be paid participants in AI-moderated research discussions across hundreds of technology markets. Compensates contributors in USD within 7-10 business days of discussion completion, with audio anonymized and never shared. Powers the proprietary expert panel that trains the AI moderator and data engine.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces expert research timelines from months to 3-7 business days
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Tegus: Primary research platform for investment professionals, offering expert call transcripts and qualitative research at scale; closest direct peer in combining structured expert content with software workflows for buy-side users.
• Guidepoint: Direct competitor in the expert-network space serving investment and consulting clients with vetted expert consultations; an incumbent whose response to AI-native entrants like Qualitate is a key market dynamic.
• GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group): Largest traditional expert network serving investment and corporate strategy teams, including many of the same PE, hedge fund, and enterprise accounts as Qualitate; rapidly building AI tooling around its proprietary expert panel.
• AlphaSense: AI-driven market intelligence and search platform for enterprises and investment firms, combining a large document corpus with expert research; overlaps with Qualitate on AI-delivered primary and secondary research for buy-side.
• Maven Research: Tech-enabled expert network serving investment and corporate clients, positioning as a more modern alternative to legacy expert networks; competes with Qualitate for similar primary research use cases.
• AlphaSights: Global expert-network firm connecting investment and corporate clients with industry experts for primary research; competes head-to-head with Qualitate in the same buy-side and corporate use cases, though without an AI-moderator-led model.

Regional players

• StreetEYE: Long-running network for buy-side investors to source expert calls and primary research; comparable in use case to Qualitate though without a vertically integrated AI platform, primarily serving North American financial buyers.

Emerging players

• Hebbia: AI-native knowledge worker platform used by financial institutions to analyze large document sets and extract primary intelligence; an emerging AI-native peer that could extend from document analysis into expert-style research.
• CB Insights: Market intelligence platform serving corporate strategy and investment teams with company, market, and technology data; an adjacent player that increasingly competes for corporate strategy budgets and embeds AI-driven research workflows.
• Listen Labs: AI-moderated qualitative research platform conducting automated customer and expert interviews at scale; the closest AI-native peer to Qualitate's AI Moderator product, focused on enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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