For research owners

Make your research a platform others can build on.

POPULAB gives research owners a streamlined way to put research where more customers can build with it: load and configure the research once, control who can access it, and allow licensed customers to use it across applications, dashboards, APIs and AI products.

The opportunity

Your data should support more products than you can build yourself.

Every research customer has different needs.

Onewants a dashboard.
Anotherwants an API.
Anotherwants an AI assistant.
Anotherwants to integrate your data with proprietary client data.
Anotherwants to create a completely new workflow around your research.
It is not realistic for a research owner to build every possible front end. Nor should it need to. POPULAB provides an infrastructure layer that supports a broader ecosystem of authorized products while the research owner maintains control.

The research-owner model

Load once. Govern once. Serve many times.

01 · Load once

Managed platform assets

Turn respondent-level datasets into governed platform assets.

Study metadataVariable metadataWeightsWavesSchemasTaxonomiesVersions
Avoid rebuilding delivery infrastructure for every new product or customer requirement.
02 · Govern once

A consistent control layer

Define who is allowed to access what.

Customer organizationsLicensed datasetsEntitlementsApplicationsUsersPermissionsClient grantsUsage rules
One control layer around all downstream use.
03 · Serve many times

Product-ready data

The same dataset can support many consumers.

Your own analysis productCustomer dashboardsAgency-built planning applicationsSoftware integrationsAI agentsCustom enterprise productsAPI customers
Rather than forcing every use case through a single interface.
04 · Meter usage

Know how data flows

Understand consumption across organizations and applications.

OrganizationApplicationDatasetServiceClientPeriod
A foundation for new licensing and commercial models over time.
Prepare once. Serve multiple customers. Research data operations are expensive because the same source material is repeatedly prepared for different systems and customers. POPULAB is designed to reduce that duplication—without creating a separate delivery process for every customer implementation.

Expand the value of your research

Distribution becomes a product capability.

Research owners historically had to choose between two delivery models.

Model 01

Supply raw files

Maximum flexibility for customers, minimal control and recurring delivery effort for you.

Model 02

Build full applications

Control and productization, but every new customer need becomes a development project.

Model 03 · POPULAB

Governed platform access

Provide a platform through which trusted customers and partners can build — while you retain control of the research asset, your customers gain flexibility, and your data becomes easier to integrate into modern software.

Become part of a global data catalog

Increase the routes through which customers can discover and use your research.

When your dataset is available through POPULAB, it becomes part of a broader catalog of research available to organizations building on the platform.

Agency networks

Planning and strategy teams looking for the right licensed research in each market.

Media organizations

Advertiser and audience product teams incorporating syndicated research into their products.

Software companies

Products that can incorporate licensed respondent-level research where licensing permits.

Enterprise insights teams

Organizations standardizing how they consume research across markets.

Global product teams

Products that expand across markets by switching the dataset underneath.

POPULAB

Infrastructure and distribution

Your dataset is technically available once—and discoverable by every organization building on the platform, wherever licensing permits.

More ways to commercialize the same research

A new channel for research you already produce.

A research owner may distribute data through several channels.

Traditional distribution routes
Your own analysis applicationData filesCustom extractsAPIsBespoke client solutions

The future catalog would add another channel.

A customer could use licensed research through the same platform as its other respondent-level datasets.

Simpler integration can make more commercial opportunities viable for the research owner.

Sell access without giving up control

Your commercial decisions, enforced by the platform.

Research owners remain responsible for their commercial relationships and licensing decisions.

01

POPULAB manages technical access

A dataset can be available within the platform while each customer receives only the permissions to which it is entitled.

Organization entitlementsDataset permissionsApplication accessUsage rules
02

You control commercial access

Licensing decisions, customer relationships and data rights remain with the research owner. POPULAB provides the infrastructure to enforce those decisions technically.

LicensingPricingCustomer relationshipsData rights

POPULAB manages technical access. The research owner controls commercial access.

The larger opportunity

Become the data layer inside your customers’ products.

The ultimate opportunity is larger than replacing a crosstab application. It is making your research useful inside the systems where decisions increasingly happen.

Planning platformsAI systemsClient portals Marketing applicationsProprietary agency toolsAnalytics products

When your dataset becomes programmable, its addressable set of use cases expands.

Load once. Govern once. Authorize once. Serve many customers.

The easier research is to integrate into a customer’s own products, the more opportunities there are for that research to be used—and licensed.

Your research, as a platform

Make your data easier to build on.

Ingest, govern, expose and meter respondent-level research through enterprise APIs and product infrastructure—while retaining enterprise control over access.

Become a Research Strategic Partner