Fuel Cycle Appoints Former NVIDIA and Google AI Leader Daryush Laqab as Chief Product & AI Officer to Accelerate AI-Native Growth Strategy
Enterprise AI veteran brings two decades of product leadership from Google, NVIDIA, and JPMorgan Chase to Fuel Cycle LOS ANGELES, June 4, 2026 – Today, Fuel Cycle, the AI-powered consumer intelligence platform trusted by Fortune 500 brands, announced the appointment of Daryush Laqab as Chief Product & AI Officer, effective June 1, 2026. Daryush joins Fuel Cycle with more than 20 years of experience building […]
State of AI Moderated Research 2026
This guide works through those questions, covering what AI moderation actually is and how approaches differ, its strengths and limits, how to evaluate vendors, and finally, where the category is heading.
DIY or Full Serivce? An Interactive Checklist
Answer 7 quick questions — we’ll tell you which Fuel Cycle model is right for your team, and how we’d support you along the way.
From Patient Voices to Strategic Decisions: Mass General Brigham & Fuel Cycle
Learn how a lean team built an always-on patient research community that drives real organizational decisions across a large and complex system.
What If Your Reliance on Surveys Is a Logistics Problem, Not a Research Decision?
Most insights teams don’t choose surveys because they’re the best tool for the question. They choose them because surveys are the only method that scales. That distinction matters — and AI is starting to close the gap that made it true. Qual didn’t lose to surveys on merit — it lost on scale Qualitative research has always produced richer insight than […]
AI in Market Research: What 102 Job Postings Reveal
We reviewed every market research and consumer insights role posted on MRX Jobs in March 2026. Here’s what the data actually says about AI.
What Is a Methodology-First Survey Builder? How Fuel Cycle Automates Survey Design
Fuel Cycle’s Survey Builder is an AI-powered tool that starts with your research objective, not a blank form. It selects the appropriate methodology, designs the full survey, and builds in display and termination logic automatically. The result is a deploy-ready survey for Alchemer, Qualtrics, or SurveyJS, without manual programming. Most survey tools treat design as a formatting problem. They hand you […]
The Full Qual Research Loop: 2 New Features
The qual research loop has two logistics problems that take more time than they should – but not anymore. The first is getting everyone into the right session. Coordinating moderators, participants, and observers across time zones means a chain of calendar invites, confirmation emails, and follow-up reminders — before a single question is asked. The […]
Quirk’s Dallas 2026 – How Sharpie at Newell Brands is Future-Proofing Insights with Community
Sample quality is shaky. Budgets are shrinking. Teams are leaner than ever. And AI feels like it’s circling. In this candid and energetic session, Amanda Parker from Sharpie shares how she turned industry pressure into opportunity by building and activating a consumer community through Fuel Cycle that drives speed, efficiency and real impact. Because we’re […]
5 High-Impact Use Cases for AI-Powered Customer Communities
AI-powered customer communities enable more than ongoing engagement. With AI-native architecture embedded into research workflows, communities become operational systems for continuous insight generation . Here are five high-impact use cases where we see enterprise teams applying AI-powered communities today! 1. Validating New Concepts Before Market Entry Use Case: A product or innovation team needs to assess demand for a new feature, service line, […]