Northern Light Recognized by Two Independent Research Firms in Their Latest Competitive and Market Intelligence Platform Evaluations

In most recent Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026 evaluation, Northern Light is one of two vendors to earn the highest possible score in the innovation criterion, adding to its Leader placement in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ earlier this year. The company also debuts its new Conversational Intelligence capability.

BOSTON, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Light, the market and competitive intelligence company behind the SinglePoint® platform, today announced it has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026, where it earned the second-highest Strategy category score of all vendors evaluated and one of two vendors to receive the highest possible score in the innovation criterion. The recognition adds to Northern Light's designation as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms earlier this year.

Forrester named a single Leader among the ten providers evaluated. In that evaluation, Northern Light earned the second-highest Strategy category score and was one of only two vendors to receive a 5.0 score, the highest possible score, in the innovation criterion. Northern Light also received the highest possible scores in the vision and security criteria.

"Analyst recognition is not new for Northern Light; the leading firms have consistently acknowledged our platform, and this dual recognition confirms for us where we stand today and where this market is heading," said Robert Trail, CEO of Northern Light. "Enterprises don't want more data. They want trusted answers at the moment of decision, drawn from sources they can stand behind. That is exactly what SinglePoint delivers."

In naming Northern Light a Leader, Gartner evaluated providers on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Northern Light's SinglePoint platform was recognized for its breadth and curation of public and proprietary intelligence, its flexible AI deployment, and its alignment to high-value product and corporate strategy use cases.

The results reflect Northern Light's central conviction: in an AI-driven market, trust is the differentiator. SinglePoint pairs generative and agentic AI with uniquely curated, authoritative content and enterprise-grade security, including flexible AI deployment that lets customers use their own approved large language models, so that AI-generated answers are grounded in sources organizations can trust and govern.

Since the evaluations concluded, Northern Light has launched Conversational Intelligence, a new capability that brings conversational AI to trusted, curated content across any use case, not just deep-research reports. With Conversational Intelligence, users can ask a question in natural language and receive grounded, cited answers drawn from Northern Light's curated corpus, extending the platform's deep-research strength to everyday decisions across strategy, product, marketing, sales, and beyond. The launch delivers the conversational, AI-driven direction identified in Northern Light's roadmap.

"Conversational Intelligence takes deep research done right and opens it to everyone," said Sheri Larsen, CPO of Northern Light. "It's the difference between a general AI that guesses and an enterprise AI that answers from content you trust, for any question, any team, and any moment a decision needs to be made."

About Northern Light

Northern Light is a Boston-based market and competitive intelligence company. Its SinglePoint® platform combines uniquely curated public and proprietary content with generative and agentic AI to help large, complex organizations turn market and competitive information into trusted, decision-ready intelligence at enterprise scale.
 

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