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Gather · For B2B marketing teams Thought leadership, continuously

AI-led Research and Insights.

Original research, branded reports, a living strategy stack — continuously. The engine behind Fortinet, SailPoint, Datadog, Envoy, and many others.

LinkedIn-verified
B2B panel · senior buyers
5–7 days
Brief to published report
+42.2%
Backlink lift vs other formats
3× faster
Than traditional research
01 — What we deliver

Listen. Launch. Learn.

Three jobs your category team is doing in a stack of agencies, panels, and freelancers. All three, continuously, on one platform.

01 · Listen

Original research.

Interview guides in minutes. LinkedIn-verified B2B panel — CISOs, IT directors, VPs of marketing, founders. Quant + qual in days, not quarters.

Category research · Buyer personas · Messaging · Win/loss · Competitive intel
02 · Launch

Published reports.

Every study becomes a publication-quality category report — branded, press-ready, AEO/SEO optimized. Plus the social, sales, and exec assets that surround it.

Category reports · Press kits · Sales battlecards · Exec posts · Webinar decks
03 · Learn

Living strategy docs.

Brand health, messaging, positioning, ICP, competitive framing — refreshed every time a project lands. The category POV stops aging.

Brand health · Messaging house · ICP · Category POV · Competitive landscape
The unlock
Every Listen sharpens the next Launch. Every project feeds Learn. The hire gets better the longer it works.
02 — Listen
Leg 01 · Listen

Research, in days.

Plain-English brief in. Interview guide, LinkedIn-verified B2B panel, quant + qual, quotes, and a natural-language data analyst out. No agency, no panel vendor, no 8-week timeline.

Demo

From blank box to live insights, in minutes.

You · brief in plain English
Role
Research interviewer
Audience
B2B CMOs · $100M+ revenue
Question flow
Q1. What are your top 3 strategic priorities right now?
Q2. Walk me through one — what's making it hard?
Q3. What insights would actually be useful here? + 2 more
Audience 200 CMOs · B2B SaaS · North America · $100M+ revenue
Panel reach
3,847
qualified respondents
ready to field
Verified job title (CMO / VP Marketing)
Company revenue confirmed $100M+
Active marketing decision-maker (last 90 days)
Top theme · 68%
Attribution is broken — 68% can't reliably tie pipeline to channel
Emerging · 42%
Agentic AI on every shortlist — 42% piloting; nobody knows what good looks like
Blind spot · 31%
Vendors miss the buying committee — 31% say sales-stage pivots get ignored
Verbatim quote
"Half my budget is going to channels I can't defend in a board review."
01 · Plan

From business problem to interview guide.

Describe the business question. The Planning agent drafts a senior-buyer-ready guide with adaptive follow-ups. Edit it, or hand off to our research team.

Gather · Goal setup
Goal name
AI in cybersecurity — buyer landscape
Objective
Understand how CISOs and IT directors at $100M+ companies actually evaluate AI security platforms — what they trust, what they discount, what wins shortlist.
02 · Reach

Survey scale, interview depth.

LinkedIn-verified B2B panel — by title, function, company size, vertical. Voice or text. Adapts in real time. Filters bot and low-effort responses.

Live interview · CISO · Financial services
When you're evaluating an AI security vendor, what's the single thing that takes them off the shortlist?just now
Vague claims about "agentic AI" with no real architecture behind them. We've been burned twice.just now
Got it. Walk me through one of those — what did the vendor show you, and what should they have shown instead?just now
03 · Analyze

Just talk to your data.

Skip the data team. Ask in plain English — "show me objections to price," "what do CISOs say about AI hype" — get structured answers with the underlying quotes.

Explore audience · 142 senior-buyer interviews
U
What do CISOs say about AI vendor over-promising?
AI
5 themes — "agentic" overuse (68%), missing architecture detail (54%), and three more. Want the verbatim quotes?
03 — Use cases

Research for every B2B motion.

From category creation to closed-lost analysis — every B2B marketing motion has a decision waiting on real buyer signal.

Stage 01

Category & awareness

  • Category creation reports
  • Brand health & awareness tracking
  • Analyst & press-ready research
  • Competitive intelligence
Stage 02

Demand gen

  • Thought-leadership reports
  • Webinar/event content sourcing
  • Messaging & positioning validation
  • Ad creative testing
Stage 03

Buyer consideration

  • Buyer persona & ICP research
  • Vertical & segment deep dives
  • Purchase criteria mapping
Stage 04

Sales enablement

  • Win/loss analysis
  • Battlecards from primary data
  • Pricing & packaging research
Stage 05

Customer & expansion

  • Customer advisory board research
  • Churn & renewal-risk analysis
  • Reference & advocacy programs
04 — Launch
Leg 02 · Launch

One report. A category-defining moment.

Same study becomes the flagship report, press release, exec voice, sales battlecard, and AEO/SEO ammo — branded, on-message, ready to ship. The "turn the deck into content" agency line disappears.

The Fortinet "Connected Building" report. A primary-data category study, distributed to press, analysts, sales, and exec teams. Branded carousels for LinkedIn. Battlecards for the field. Exec posts in the founder's voice. AEO-optimized landing pages.

Most teams pay an agency $40–80K and wait 8 weeks for the report alone. Gather ships the full asset suite in a week.

Fortinet · The Connected Building Conundrum · v1
A Fortinet research publication · 2026

The Connected Building Conundrum.

How operational technology leaders at Fortune 1000 facilities are securing the convergence of IT and OT — and where the consensus playbook is dangerously wrong.

Respondents
412
OT/IT leaders · F1000
Method
Mixed
Quant + 84 qual interviews
Fielded
28 days
Q1 2026
Partner
Gather
gatherhq.com
External
Flagship report

Press-ready, analyst-grade, AEO-optimized. The keystone asset.

External
Founder & exec posts

Stat-led LinkedIn series in the exec's actual voice.

External
Press & analyst kit

Headline stats, methodology, embeddable charts, briefing deck.

External
Gated landing page

Lead-capture flow with conversion-tuned hero and form.

Internal
Board one-pager

Decision-ready summary for board, ELT, or CEO 1:1.

Internal
Sales battlecard

Objection handlers and competitive framing from real buyer language.

Internal
Field enablement deck

AE/SE-ready slides with quotes, segments, and proof points.

Raw
Data & quotes

Full transcripts, segment cuts, quote library, CSV/JSON export.

05 — Why this works

Original research dramatically outperforms everything else.

Here's why the content engine works. Content built on proprietary research dramatically outperforms everything else — in a market where AI flooded the content channel, primary data is the only defensible edge left. The reports, posts, and decks coming out of Launch carry that edge by default.

+64%
marketers report higher conversion
from content sourced from proprietary research
— Datalily, 2025
+42.2%
average backlink growth
earned by original research reports vs other formats
— B2B SEO Benchmarks, 2026
+162%
more impressions on LinkedIn
for sponsored content with original statistics
— LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
+30–40%
improvement in generative-engine visibility
for statistics-rich content in ChatGPT, Claude & Perplexity
— AEO Benchmarks, 2026
+86% of B2B SaaS marketers plan to increase proprietary research budgets in 2026. — Datalily, 2025
06 — Learn
Leg 03 · Learn

Come back in three weeks. It's all there, updated.

You're not going to log in every Tuesday to update the messaging house — nobody is. So Gather does it for you. Every senior-buyer interview compounds into the same five living strategy docs, refreshing in the background. When the next big decision lands, the voice of customer is sitting there waiting, current.

Live
Messaging house.

Primary message, pillars, proof points, do-not-says — sourced from senior-buyer language.

Last refreshQ2 buyer language study · 2 days ago
Live
Positioning doc.

Category frame, for-whom / against-whom, the CEO's board-ready one-liner.

Last refreshClosed-lost analysis · 5 days ago
Live
ICP & buyer personas.

Title, function, vertical, buying triggers, evaluation criteria — by segment.

Last refreshVertical deep-dive · 1 week ago
Live
Competitive landscape.

How buyers actually compare you. The frame they bring, not the one you wish they brought.

Last refreshAnalyst-call synthesis · today
Live
Brand health tracker.

Awareness, consideration, NPS, attribute drift — continuous, not a Q4 snapshot.

Last refreshContinuous · updated daily
Plus
Synthetic buyer personas that get smarter every project. Every senior-buyer study you run — and every research file you upload (win/loss, analyst calls, sales-call transcripts) — feeds a living set of personas you can interview anytime. Market and intent data round them out. The longer you use Gather, the more your buyer panel knows.
Real interviews (Gather-run) Existing research (uploaded) Market & industry data Third-party intent data
D
Grounded persona · built from real responses

Dana the Pragmatic Evaluator

B2B senior buyer · 1,420 respondents (71% of base) · 4 studies

96%confidence 38cited claims 4studies feeding 1d agolast updated

Dana is the dominant archetype, representing 71% of the respondent base. Not a first-time buyer — Dana has seen three vendors in this category fail their own positioning, and walks into every deck with a counter-argument already loaded.

Dana values operational specifics over category narrative, and disengages from messaging that leads with vision before proving it can deliver the boring middle.

Strategically, Dana is a high-leverage audience: earn their intellectual respect and they become internal champions; overpromise and they disqualify you in the buying committee before legal review.

“Show me how it works in a customer that looks like me. Not in a customer logo wall. Not in a webinar. In a real workflow. That's what gets it past procurement.”

— Dana the Pragmatic Evaluator · 7c104de9:08
Talking to Dana

I'm Dana. Ask me anything about messaging, buying committee, objection handling, or competitive framing — I'll answer from the data behind it.

The compounding
Every Listen sharpens the next Launch. Every project feeds Learn. The category position compounds.
07 — In short

Everything in one place. One platform. One brain.

Six things that change when senior-buyer research, content, and living strategy live in a single system instead of spread across three vendors.

02
Continuous, not on-demand.

Voice of customer compounds while you're not looking. Come back in three weeks — the brand health doc, the persona, the competitive frame are all fresh. You don't have to tend to it.

03
Real buyers + grounded personas.

Primary research at scale plus persona reads in minutes. Field a real study when the decision needs it. Stress-test a hypothesis with the persona twin when it doesn't.

04
Your brand, your data.

White-labeled studies. Your customer interviews are free for respondents. Trust signal stays with you, panel cost is zero when you bring your own audience.

05
Decision-grade, in hours.

Quant and qual in the same study. Ship-ready output. Not a slide deck waiting on the next analyst pass — the report, the assets, and the messaging are generated together.

06
Best practices, built in.

Research rigor without an internal research function. Methodology, screener design, sample sizing, analysis frameworks — enforced by the platform so your team can stay focused on strategy.

08 — Pricing

Designed for rapid research & content.

Every plan includes all senior-buyer interviews, all reporting, all content, and access to our CS & research partner team. Interviews with your own customers, community, or authenticated users are free — always included, no credits charged. Credits are for panel-sourced research only.

Starter
$36k/ year
600 credits included
  • All senior-buyer interviews — market & synthetic
  • All content & reporting — deliverables included
  • CS & research partner team — world-class input + output
  • Research platform & AI analyst
Each additional credit$70
Enterprise
$108k/ year
2,000 credits included
  • All senior-buyer interviews — market & synthetic
  • All content & reporting — deliverables included
  • CS & research partner team — world-class input + output
  • Research platform & AI analyst
Each additional credit$40
1 credit = 1 senior-buyer interview · 10–15 min adaptive · voice or text · 1 credit = 4 synthetic interviews · AI panel · instant
09 — One picture

Research, content, strategy — one engine.

Three jobs marketing teams used to spread across vendors. Gather is the brain in the middle — everything overlaps because it all runs in one system.

Research Content Strategy Platform Gather
Research
The voice of customer, on tap.

Senior-buyer interviews at scale plus grounded persona reads in minutes. Quant + qual in the same study, no agency rotation.

  • 60M+ LinkedIn-verified panel · voice or text
  • Grounded buyer personas, instantly accessible
  • Decision-grade insight in 36–72 hours
Content
Ship-ready output, on brand.

Every study fans out into roughly twelve campaign-ready assets — reports, posts, briefs, decks, landing pages. White-labeled in your brand, sourced from validated research, ready to deploy.

  • ~12 assets per study, automatically generated
  • Your brand, palette, tone of voice
  • Custom-formatted reports + presentations
Strategy
Living docs that stay current.

Five strategy docs that refresh automatically as new buyer research lands. Come back in three weeks — messaging house, positioning, ICP, competitive frame are all current.

  • Messaging house, positioning, ICP, brand health
  • Competitive frame & analyst briefings
  • Every interview compounds — you don't tend to it

Your next flagship report, fielded next week.

Bring a category question. Insights, the branded report, and the launch suite — ready in a week.

Appendix

Go deeper.

More example B2B reports, the agent architecture, the project cadence, and the budget-cycle pitch — for anyone who wants the longer read.

A1 — Example reports

Real B2B reports. Built with Gather.

Live demo reports from enterprise B2B customers. Pick the pattern that matches what you'd run first.

A2 — How it works

Four agents. One workflow.

You bring the business question. Four agents handle planning, interviewing, analysis, and reporting end to end — orchestrated against a LinkedIn-verified B2B panel.

Research participants
60M+ verified panelists
Input
Business context
Goals · headlines · hypotheses
Files
PDF · DOCX · PPT · web · images
Agent orchestration
Planning
Works backward from success to define goals
Interview
Builds adaptive qual + quant guide
Analysis
Cleans data, removes spam, extracts insights
Reports
Generates reports per type & audience
Research session · Text + voice
Output
Exec reports
Branded, audience-ready
HTML reports
Interactive · shareable
Conversations
Full transcripts · quotes
Quant + qual
Real numbers, not inferred
The unlock
One stack handles the full loop. The same engine that plans a study runs it, analyzes it, and ships the report. No handoffs, no waiting on agencies, no data sitting in someone's Drive.
A3 — The cadence

From brief to flagship report, in a week.

Setup: ~20 minutes. Senior-buyer interviews complete inside 5 days. Branded report and asset suite ready by Friday.

Day1

Pick topic & headlines

Create the agent and launch conversational interviews. ~20 minutes.

Day2

Data comes in

Responses start arriving. 100–5,000 responses per day depending on audience.

Day3

Volume builds

Interviews continue. The Analysis agent cleans, codes, and structures in parallel.

Day4

Report generated

Actionable insights presented in a custom report — exec-ready, branded, shareable.

Day5

Content generated

Production-ready content made available for press, social, AEO/SEO, lead-gen.

20 min
→ 5 days

"We should publish on this" → "here's the report, the press kit, and the LinkedIn series." An 8-week cycle, in 5 days. For a fraction of one agency line.

A4 — Why CMOs buy

Five answers for the next board meeting.

The one-line answer to the harder board questions — share of voice, AI moat, category leadership, doing more with less.

01

Collapse the stack.

One platform replaces agencies, freelancers, panels, and a SaaS line item that dwarfs martech and headcount combined.

02

Always-on category truth.

Defend any positioning call with buyer data from this month — not a brand tracker from last quarter.

03

Insight → flagship.

The deliverable is a published category report. A press hit. A sales battlecard. Not a 60-page PDF nobody opens.

04

Own the category.

In an AI-flooded B2B content market, proprietary primary data is the only durable thought-leadership moat.

05

AI-native answer.

"We replaced four vendors and ship 3× more output." Not "we're piloting Copilot."