The Curiosity Current: A Market Research Podcast · 2026-01-06 · 47 min
In this episode of The Curiosity Current, Stephanie and Molly sit down with Nancee Halpin, a researcher and insights specialist whose career has been shaped inside tech-enabled research companies including Fuel Cycle, SurveyMonkey, Highlight, and Strella. Having worked across research, product marketing, and solutions engineering, Nancee brings a clear-eyed view of what happens when research moves into SaaS environments built for speed. She shares how her role evolved from running studies to protecting research quality inside systems optimized for scale. Much of her work now centers on helping teams understand trade-offs, explaining methodology to non-researchers, and ensuring insight remains trustworthy when timelines shrink. Nancee explains why leadership teams continue to respond more strongly to real language and lived context than to high-volume data alone, especially in a market where differentiation is hard to sustain. The conversation also addresses AI directly. While AI accelerates setup and reporting, Nancee makes clear that context, judgment, and storytelling still sit with humans.
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