Progressive Innovations
Progressive Innovations is an AI-focused consulting and investment firm based in Encinitas, California .
Progressive Innovations Solutions
Market Research Consulting
Offering contractional and fractional market research consulting services for financial services and technology organizations, acting as an extension of your insights organization.
Ethical Use of AI in Market research
Offering market research buyers and sellers education and risk assessment and ROI framework to understand the risk, impact and ethical use of AI in market research.
Capital Investment
We identify and invest in AI concepts and startups to help accelerate growth and create go-to-market strategies.
AI in Market Research
Transform insights. Reduce costs. Accelerate decisions.
AI is redefining how research is designed, executed, analyzed, and delivered. What once took weeks can now happen in hours — but the speed of innovation brings new risks involving data privacy, transparency, ethics, and reliability of insights.
We help organizations unlock AI’s potential responsibly.
Why AI Matters in Market Research
Artificial Intelligence enhances every stage of the insights cycle.
Are you capturing ROI at every stage ?
Research Stage
How AI Adds Value
Design & Planning
Automated proposal drafting, methodology selection, sample design recommendations
Survey Development
Question writing, logic design, translation, adaptive surveys
Fielding & Data Collection
Fraud detection, automated respondent validation, real-time monitoring
Analysis & Reporting
Automated coding, advanced modeling, narrative generation, dashboarding
Insight Activation
Storytelling, executive summaries, decision-support automation
AI enables research teams to:
- Reduce time and cost by 30–60%
- Increase insight throughput without increasing head-count
- Improve data quality through automated fraud detection and validation
- Empower stakeholders with real-time deliverables
Market Research Consulting
We fill the gaps and overflow of insights organizations to accelerate strategy and remove bottlenecks through contractual and fractional market research consulting. With over 20 years of experience consulting Insights Teams across Financial Services and Technology companies, we can manage aspects without the costs of FTEs
Solutions Offered:
- Project Management
- Vendor Management
- Strategy Development
- RFP Management
- Special Projects
Ethical Use of AI Market Research
AI is disrupting the market research industry across the entire research value chain, which presents risks and an opportunity to generate insights in a new and exciting way. We can help navigate the nuance of using AI across the research value chain, assess your suppliers use of AI, and increase suppliers’ win rate through transparency and ethical use of AI.
Solutions Offered:
- AI Ethics in Market Research Workshop
- Market Research Data Privacy Laws and AI Workshop
- AI Use Cases across the Value Chain Workshop
- Supplier Risk Assessment Framework
- AI ROI Market Research Framework
Capital Investment
We are constantly on the look-out for the innovative concepts and companies that are using AI to create the future. We invest in these startups and create effective go-to-market strategies to accelerate growth.
Progressive Innovations is a proud seed round investor and consultant to Yuna.io who is reimagining employee mental health support using AI.
Proven performance, our impact is measurable and significant
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About
Progressive Innovations was founded by Tim Spenny, a Strategy and Market Research Consultant with over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 100 companies across Financial Services and Emerging Technology. Tim has managed global research programs focused on brand, advertising, product, strategy, operations and innovation.
Due to the disruptive power of AI and the lack of clear guardrails or ethical framework, Progressive Innovations is filling a critical need in the market research industry by helping research suppliers understand the risks and opportunities to evolve into the future.
