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Type "how is spending intent shifting toward agent platforms in financial services" and Futurum AI answers from the ETR panel, Signal scores, G2 intent, and the analyst notes on record. Every figure links back to its source, and every output is reviewed against the practice lead's current position.

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Market sizing and five-year forecasts across 11 practice areas, segmented by company size, vertical, role, and geography. Build the view your board wants and export it, or leave it live and let it refresh.

ETR spending intentions, inside the platform

Fifteen years of quarterly Technology Spending Intentions data from 10,000+ verified decision-makers. Net Score, pervasion, adoption and replacement intent by vendor and sector, with the survey history that lets you see a move as it starts rather than after it lands.

Analyst access included

Every subscription includes time with the analysts who cover your categories. No add-on seats, no briefing quotas. The platform is how you find the answer; the analyst is how you pressure-test it.

How a score comes to exist

Every vendor in a covered category carries a 1 to 100 score built from five dimensions: market momentum, product velocity, buyer intent, financial strength, and ecosystem reach. The dimension weights are set by the practice lead for that category and published with the score.

Signals arrive continuously: earnings transcripts, product launches, pricing changes, hiring, partnership announcements, G2 evaluation activity, and ETR spending intent. Each is classified, weighted, and applied. The practice lead reviews material moves before they publish.

Why it is predictive

Signal does not describe the current quarter. It projects where a vendor's position will be in 6 to 12 months, and it shows the signals driving that projection so a client can disagree with a specific input rather than the whole model.

Bring credibility to competitive decisions with vendor evaluations that show their work.

Read a Signal report

Each category report is published online and as a download, with the full scoring table, the forecast, and the analyst's read on what moved. The latest is ERP platforms.

Three lenses

Model intelligence. Which model can actually do this job. Every model runs the same multi-step enterprise jobs, from the same handbooks, producing the same deliverables, graded the same way, under both messy real-world data and tightly controlled scope.

Silicon capacity. Which accelerator or CPU delivers more correct work, at what concurrency, before quality gates fail.

Solution economics. What a correct result costs deployed, including the repeated context processing and failed attempts that price sheets never show.

Why the ordering is different

The first data set covered 44 model configurations, three accelerator platforms, two serving engines, and six hosted APIs on the same enterprise jobs. The ranking does not match any general capability leaderboard, because a capability leaderboard says whether a model can answer a question, and PINNACLE asks whether the work came out right on the data an enterprise holds, at the volume it needs, for a price it can defend.

Governance

Every published result comes from a run Signal65 conducts itself. Vendor-submitted results are not published. Access, review, timing, and disclosure rules are identical for every vendor and every customer regardless of commercial relationship, and errors are corrected in public with superseded figures left visible. Scoring is deterministic and in code; no model judges and no human raters.

Signal65 re-runs PINNACLE as new models ship. It is a living benchmark, and it is the proof layer behind Futurum's Hard ROI research.

Methodology

Coverage is organized by a published taxonomy of 11 practice areas. Vendor scores, forecasts, and research conclusions are built from the Futurum data spine and reviewed by the responsible practice lead before publication. Dimension weights, survey instruments, and data sources are documented and available to clients.

2026 research agenda

Key issues and predictions for the year, plus the topics and coverage areas each practice has committed to. Published annually and updated as the market moves.

Custom research

From a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program: business, channel, and go-to-market strategy; vendor evaluation and ROI justification; and commissioned market studies. Built on Futurum surveys, ETR's panel, G2 data, and analyst-led and AI-moderated primary collection. Delivered for internal decisions or activated to the market through Futurum Media.

Editorial independence

Media programs are sold separately from research coverage and never change a Signal score, a forecast, a PINNACLE result, or an analyst position. Techstrong and Tech Field Day audiences trust those properties because their editorial judgment is their own, and the same disclosure rules apply across every Futurum property.

Media partner: Six Five Media

The Six Five podcast, webcast, and summit, hosted by Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead, operate as an independent media partner to Futurum.

Disclosures and policies

Futurum and its analysts have commercial relationships with many of the companies we cover, including research, advisory, testing, and media engagements, and in some cases equity positions. We publish those relationships, separate commercial work from coverage decisions, and apply the same rules to every vendor. Signal scores, PINNACLE results, and research conclusions are not for sale.

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Newsroom

Press releases, media coverage, and quote requests. Quotes and citations: citations@futurumgroup.com. Press and media: press@futurumgroup.com.

Newsroom

What it is like

Small teams, live data, public accountability. Every analyst's score carries their name. Every engineer's model is checked by an analyst. Every media producer starts from research rather than a brief.