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### Futurum: AI Decision Intelligence

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Summary: Research, benchmarks and live market signal for the people who have to choose.

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The static report
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Futurum is the AI-native research firm. Live market signals, 850+ verified technology buyers, and analysts who know the companies you compete with, in one platform that answers before the quarter closes.

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200+Fortune 500 clients

50K+Market signals ingested daily

11Practice areas, 5-year forecasts

Futurum Signal Live

AI platforms

Selected vendor, composite score

82of 100

Forecast 88 in 6 months

Market momentum

86

Product velocity

79

Buyer intent

91

Financial strength

74

Ecosystem reach

80

Signals in the last hourAnalyst-verified

2mEarnings call transcript ingested, guidance tone reweightedFilings

14mBuyer intent spike: 3 new evaluations openedG2

31mProduct launch detected: agent orchestration tierWeb

52mPractice lead confirmed dimension weightingAnalyst

Signals ingested today 41,208
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The companies that shape technology work with Futurum

AmazonAMDDellMicrosoftNVIDIAQualcommSalesforceSamsungServiceNow

Why we rebuilt the analyst firm

Legacy research was built for a market that moved once a quarter. A quadrant is a photograph of a room everyone has already left.

Markets, buyers, and competitors now change weekly. The intelligence you use to make decisions has to change with them, and it has to show its work.

So we built Futurum on a different spine. Live data instead of static reports. A platform instead of a PDF. Analysts who train the models and verify every score rather than write around them. We call it AI Decision Intelligence, and it is the category that replaces legacy research.

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Daniel NewmanCEO, The Futurum Group

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What changes when intelligence is live

The difference is not a better report. It is a different operating model for how a company knows what it knows.

Legacy research Futurum

Refresh cadence
Annual or quarterly publishing cycles. Intelligence goes stale between them.
Refreshed with every earnings call, product launch, and buyer signal. Context compounds instead of resetting.

Source of truth
Analyst opinion assembled from disconnected sources. Hard to audit why you believe it.
35+ proprietary datasets, 6M+ verified reviews, and 850+ buyer surveys, each score traceable to its signals.

Access
Reports gated per seat. Briefings by appointment.
Self-serve for the whole enterprise. Analyst access built in at no extra cost.

Direction
Describes what already happened.
Forecasts vendor position 6 to 12 months out so you can act before the market does.

Speed to answer
Weeks, and the decision is usually already in motion.
Seconds. Ask a question, get a cited, analyst-grade answer.

One platform. Four engines.

Data, prediction, synthesis, and human expertise, working on the same live picture of the market.

Futurum Intelligence

Market sizing, segmentation, and decision-maker data you can filter, export, and trust.

11 practice areas, 5-year forecasts

Verified buyer data by size, vertical, role

Custom views and data export

Explore the data

Futurum Signal

The first real-time, predictive vendor evaluator. Scores from 1 to 100 across five dimensions.

Forecasts 6 to 12 months ahead

Refreshed with every earnings call and launch

Competitive landscape alerts

Download the latest Signal report

Futurum AI

Ask a question in plain language. Get cited insights, summaries, and decision-ready outputs in seconds.

Grounded in Futurum data, not the open web

Analyst-verified outputs

Real-time report generation

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Futurum Research

Deep-dive research, benchmarking, and advisory from practice leads who have covered the category for years.

Competitive and market coverage

Business value and ROI research

Custom programs, fast-turn to multi-year

Meet the practices

Beyond the platform, the Futurum portfolio takes your message the rest of the way: independent testing that proves claims, and media that gets them seen by people and by the models they ask.

Signal65Hands-on testing, benchmarking, and lab-backed validation

Six Five MediaAnalyst-hosted video, the Six Five Summit, and the podcast

TechstrongLive streams and community across DevOps, security, and AI

Tech Field DayDeep technical presentations to independent practitioners

Built on data no one else has

Four proprietary layers, from exclusive partnerships and primary research to 35+ curated datasets. It is the reason a general-purpose model cannot replicate a Futurum answer.

See it on a company you care about

50K+signals a day

Market intelligence

Live market sizing, vendor tracking, and competitive landscapes across 11 practice areas, drawn from 35+ proprietary web datasets covering 500K+ technology companies.

850+verified buyers

Decision-maker surveys

Primary research from technology decision-makers representing $2T+ in annual IT spend, segmented by company size, vertical, role, and geography.

6M+verified reviews

G2 buyer reviews and intent

An exclusive partnership with the world's largest software marketplace. Peer reviews plus real-time intent showing which vendors are being evaluated right now.

1,000+vendors scored

Futurum Signal

Analyst-defined scoring applied continuously, so every vendor has a current position and a forecast, not a position as of last quarter.

Futurum Intelligence Platform
Every layer feeds one platform. Every output is verified by the analysts who train the models.

Every score has a name behind it

Models surface the signal. Practice leads decide what it means, validate the data, and put their reputation on the result.

DN

Daniel NewmanCEO
Forbes and CNBC contributor. 200+ Fortune 500 relationships.

TB

Tiffani BovaChief Strategy and Research Officer
Former Gartner Research Fellow and Salesforce SVP.

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Nick PatienceVP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms
Covers frontier models, agent platforms, and enterprise AI adoption.

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Brad ShimminVP and Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, and Infrastructure
Covers the data platforms that make enterprise AI work.

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This week from Futurum

Analysis published as the news breaks, on the companies and categories our clients are deciding about right now.

Sep 4, 2026OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra: benchmarks, cyber risks, and market impactNick Patience

Sep 4, 2026Adobe's CEO succession bets on agentic AI and CX dominanceKeith Kirkpatrick

Sep 4, 2026Salesforce bundles AI, Slack, and Tableau into three new edition tiersKeith Kirkpatrick

Sep 4, 2026HPE Q3 FY 2026: AI infrastructure demand strengthens outlookFuturum Research

Sep 4, 2026NetApp Q1 FY 2027: AI-ready storage drives enterprise momentumFuturum Research

All insightsEarnings coverageFuturum in the news

Bring us a company or a market you care about.

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