Qualitate, a company that uses AI for expert interviews and primary market research, recently announced the completion of a $25 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. We've previously collaborated with many similar traditional companies in China (non-AI-based expert interview companies), such as Jiuqian Data/Consulting. These companies keep a low profile but are quite profitable. They employ many highly paid finance or investment-related experts. Qualitate's approach, combining AI to reduce costs, makes this a promising AI application scenario and startup direction. Their clients are primarily well-funded startups, investment/finance companies conducting background checks, and business analytics, and they offer good research fees. As an aside: Considering the recent Dessa model by former Twitter inventor/CEO @jack, a true two-way full-duplex voice model, the results are expected to be even better. Of course, this model hasn't been released yet; it seems to be just an early introduction. Judging from the "mimicking human voice" effect, it looks very good. This kind of model would likely provide a better experience for customer service centers and AI interviewing services. Model: https://block.xyz/dessa Product Introduction: Qualitate has built an AI-native continuous primary intelligence system. Its core is the use of AI Interviewers (AI Moderators) to proactively conduct in-depth interviews with industry experts on a large scale, transforming traditionally expensive, time-consuming, project-based expert networks and consulting research into continuous, searchable, and workflow-embedded intelligence. Qualitate Product Features: AI Moderators: Proactively conduct thousands of expert dialogues monthly (over 1 million minutes of AI-hosted interviews to date), with adaptive follow-up questions that are more precise based on previous conversations and client context. Proprietary Expert Network and Research Library: Builds and operates its own validated expert panel (decision-makers, budget holders, industry experts), forming a structured research library covering tens of thousands of companies and end markets. Each interview makes the system smarter. Continuous, not one-off: Traditional expert networks/consulting are one-off projects with results quickly becoming outdated; Qualitate transforms research into a continuously running intelligence stream, tracking changes in sentiment, demand, competition, and buyer behavior. Product Form: Clients can access the information through their own Agentic research application or directly via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) through tools like Claude and Codex; it supports due diligence, market monitoring, product/GTM strategy, and investment research. Target Market: The market research industry, estimated at over $100 billion, primarily serving hedge funds, private equity, credit investment, venture capital firms, and companies (product, strategy, GTM teams). Clients include Alger, Stone Point Capital, Squarepoint, UiPath, Collibra, Alteryx, Commvault, and others. https://www.(qualitate.io)/