Where AI Moderation Fits in Your Stack
The conversation around AI moderation tends to fall into one of two traps. Either it’s framed as the future of all qual, replacing IDIs, eliminating the need for moderators, and letting insights teams do ten times the work with half the headcount. Or it’s dismissed as a toy in that it’s fast, shallow, and no substitute for the real thing. But we think neither framing is […]
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.
Are You Building Your AI Moderation Program Around the Wrong Question?
Most insights teams approaching AI moderation are trying to answer the same question: is it as good as a human moderator? It’s the wrong question – and the fact that it still dominates the conversation is costing teams time they don’t have. The teams that are furthest ahead have already moved on. They’re not asking whether AI moderation matches human quality. They’re asking something more useful: which layer of […]
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 […]