ResearchAndMarkets.com
Dublin firm that resells 900,000+ third-party market research reports from 650 publishers.
On the record
Checkpoint: Q3 2026 deadline for shipping an AI-native research product or locking exclusive publisher licensing
The call
A report reseller with shrinking headcount and traffic, no AI product shipped yet, selling PDFs into a market that increasingly wants an agent instead.
ResearchAndMarkets.com buys market research reports from other companies, packages them, and sells them to customers as PDFs. AI research tools like Parallel.ai can now do the same work instantly by finding and summarizing information on their own, making the old business model harder to defend. The company has shrunk its staff by a quarter in one year and its web traffic is falling, which suggests customers are already switching. The only thing that could turn this around is if ResearchAndMarkets builds its own AI research tool powered by exclusive contracts with report publishers, but it has not done this yet despite knowing about the threat for years.
Why
01
AI pressure: Agentic AI research tools and deep-research APIs (Parallel.ai and similar). AI agents now generate custom research on demand, undercutting the need to buy a static PDF report at all. Could AI do the core job? Yes, likely.
02
Bigger players: None apparent. No single big-tech company has targeted this niche directly, the pressure comes from AI tools generally, not one giant. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. Relationships with 650 publishers and 450+ Fortune 500 buyers who still procure through it out of habit.
What would change this call
RAM ships an AI-native research agent using its 900k-report dataset as RAG substrate by Q3 2026. Would show RAM is pivoting from resale to a defensible AI product.
Headcount falls below 45 or stabilizes near 49 by Q3 2026. Continued fall signals managed decline; stabilization suggests a rescue or pivot underway.
Any of the 650 publisher partners launches its own direct AI research portal. Would show suppliers bypassing RAM's distribution moat entirely.
Headcount falls below 45 or stabilizes near 49 by Q3 2026. Continued fall signals managed decline; stabilization suggests a rescue or pivot underway.
Any of the 650 publisher partners launches its own direct AI research portal. Would show suppliers bypassing RAM's distribution moat entirely.
Key numbers
- Headcount down 24.6% to 49 employees
- Web traffic down 14.4% QoQ to ~336K visits
- Headcount fell from 84 to 49 since Oct 2022
Named risks
- Core resold-PDF business model directly overlaps with agentic AI deep-research automation.
- Sustained headcount contraction, down 24.6% YoY to 49 employees by June 2026.
- Domain flagged Suspicious (55/100) with historical non-delivery and report quality complaints.
- Revenue figures across third-party sources conflict wildly ($6.4M to $47.3M), no verified disclosure.
- No shipped AI-native product despite 2+ years of public AI-disruption awareness since Oct 2023 webinar.
Rivals, as read in July 2026
| Rival | Direction | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| MarketsandMarkets | losing to | 2,126 employees vs RAM's 49 as of Dec 2025/Jun 2026, despite MarketsandMarkets own 12.6% decline |
| Grand View Research | contesting | Near-identical aggregator model, founded 2014, San Francisco based, listed as direct peer as of Jul 2026 |
| Gartner and IDC | losing to | Higher-tier analyst-driven subscription intelligence seen as more robust alternative, per May 2026 analysis |
| Agentic AI research tools (Parallel.ai, Qualtrics) | losing to | Automate full search-extract-analyze-deliver pipeline RAM's reports exist to shortcut, as of Apr-May 2026 |
Questions people ask
- Is ResearchAndMarkets.com profitable in 2026?
- No public profit figures exist since it is privately held. Signals point the other way: headcount fell 24.6% year over year to 49 employees by June 2026, and website traffic dropped 14.4% quarter over quarter in the same period, per Crustdata data.
- Who owns ResearchAndMarkets.com?
- ResearchAndMarkets.com, legally Research and Markets Ltd, is privately held and has never traded publicly or reported outside funding. No ownership change or acquisition has been found since its founding in Dublin, Ireland in 2002. Ross Glover was named CEO in press releases as of May 2025.
- Could AI replace ResearchAndMarkets.com?
- Its core business of reselling static third-party PDF reports overlaps heavily with what agentic deep-research AI tools like Parallel.ai now automate end to end. Industry commentary from May 2026 says AI adoption exceeds 95% for the discrete research tasks RAM's reports used to serve.
- Is it safe to buy reports from ResearchAndMarkets.com?
- A third-party trust scan flagged the domain as 'Suspicious' with a 55/100 score, citing historical complaints about non-delivery and report quality. The company has no publicly disclosed litigation, but the trust flag is worth weighing before purchase.
- Who is ResearchAndMarkets.com's biggest competitor?
- MarketsandMarkets, based in Pune, India, is the closest scale peer with about 2,126 employees as of December 2025, dwarfing RAM's 49. Other near-identical aggregators include Grand View Research, Mordor Intelligence, and Market Research Future.
- Is ResearchAndMarkets.com growing or shrinking?
- Shrinking on available signals: headcount dropped from about 84 employees in October 2022 to 49 by June 2026, a 24.6% year-over-year decline, while monthly web traffic fell 14.4% quarter over quarter as of June 2026, per Crustdata.
Timeline
- 2026-06-21Headcount down to 49 employees, -24.6% YoY; traffic -14.4% QoQ per Crustdata
- 2025-05-28Press release touts increased demand from Korean semiconductor, battery, biotech firms
- 2025-05-22Positions itself as resource for navigating new US tariff and trade volatility
- 2025-05-21Publicizes procurement-focused positioning around access to 650+ research publishers
- 2024-09Headcount estimated at 67 employees per Crustdata tracking
- 2023-10-26Hosts webinar on AI and Big Data's impact on market research
- 2022-10Headcount estimated at 84 employees per Crustdata tracking
- 2002Company founded in Dublin, Ireland
Revision history
21 July 2026
First assessed. Little protection left. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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