Discuss Made the 2026 Inc. 5000. Here’s What’s Driving the Growth.

By Jennifer Zember, Chief Marketing Officer 

Last updated: August 11, 2026

Discuss is now an Inc. 5000 company! We made the 2026 Inc. 5000, Inc.’s annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.

This list is the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s most successful independent and entrepreneurial businesses, recognizing companies that have achieved remarkable growth while driving innovation, creating jobs, and shaping the future of the economy. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%, and those companies have collectively added more than 627,208 jobs to the U.S. economy over the past three years. 

We’re proud of this accomplishment, and the credit belongs to the insights leaders, brands, and agencies that trust us and the team that keeps building for them. But a ranking is a lagging indicator. Behind the number is a shift in how research gets done.

What changed in how research gets done?

Most companies sit on years of research they’ve already paid for and rarely reuse. Studies close, get filed, and stop working. Insights industry leader Pavi Gupta named the pattern “insights slop”: funding new research to answer questions you already answered. When the person who ran the original study leaves, the knowledge leaves with them.

Discuss Intelligence fixes that. It turns an organization’s entire research library, from Discuss or any other source, into an always-on layer teams can question in plain language. Ask something, get a sourced answer in seconds, traced back to the original participants, segments, and verbatim quotes. AI handles retrieval and synthesis at scale, and experienced researchers make the answers trustworthy enough to act on. Research stops evaporating and starts compounding.

The outcomes Discuss customers achieve fuel our growth:

• Danone answered more than 600 business questions and gained more consumer understanding in six months than in the previous six years.
• HelloFresh cut research cycles from 24 hours to 24 seconds.
• Dexcom got 10 times the insights for the same budget.

It’s also why Discuss is a Forrester™ Wave Leader for Experience Research Platforms, Q1 2026, one of two vendors named a Leader and holder of the highest score in Current Offering.

We’re grateful for the recognition. What matters more to us is helping the people who rely on us make faster, better decisions, so we’ll say thank you and get back to it. 

For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000.