Digital Transformation Success The Digital Transformation of Market Research with Agentic AI
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Market research has a productivity problem, and the industry has been too busy fielding studies to fix it.
Priscilla McKinney, host of Digital Transformation Success and CEO of Little Bird Marketing, sits down with Jeremy Antoniuk, Founder and CEO of Scalafai, to talk about what happens when someone who has actually run research operations builds the platform they always wished existed. On this episode of Digital Transformation Success, Antoniuk brings two decades of hands-on experience to a conversation about why the research industry is overdue for a different approach and what it looks like when digital transformation meets the day-to-day grind of a project manager.
The pressure to do more with less has pushed research teams to patch together workflows across a fragmented landscape of tools, and that fragmentation creates risk at every stage of a project. Data quality issues that force costly re-fielding, executive presentations that consume senior-level hours, survey programming that eats days when it could take minutes — these are not edge cases. They are the standard. What separates a platform built by someone who has lived that reality from one built purely by engineers is the difference between a tool that performs and one that actually fits the way researchers work.
"Building software that truly helps a user get through their day faster and with less pain," Antoniuk explains, "to me, that's the ultimate measure of success."
The build-vs-buy debate runs underneath much of this conversation, and Antoniuk's perspective is grounded in real patterns he is seeing across the industry. For research teams weighing whether to develop something in-house, the answer may be less about capability and more about what it actually costs in time, in risk, and in the domain knowledge that no engineering team inherits automatically. The path to meaningful marketing automation in research is not just a technology decision. It is an operational one.
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