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How the Data Trust Score identified 2.7x more quality risk than device-based checks alone.

The industry's first comprehensive metric built on ecosystem-level data to measure respondent trust across studies.

New market research industry metric turns fragmented quality signals into one actionable score for sample buying, routing and supplier decisions

Proprietary data no longer wins by being exclusive. As AI models grow more capable of reasoning over public information, advantage now comes from data that is verified, permissioned, and trustworthy. This piece explores why data quality, not data volume, is becoming the foundation for reliable AI and confident decision-making.

The latest DQC platform updates expand the tools researchers use to evaluate traffic, compare suppliers, and monitor device behavior.

A look at our latest Greenbook article on why a whitelisting model—rewarding verified, trustworthy respondents—could streamline survey experiences and boost data quality across the industry.

A Data Quality Co-op perspective on Anthropic’s new data-poisoning research, underscoring why trusted, verified inputs are the foundation of safe AI and reliable insights. Data Quality Co-op highlights how its shared infrastructure, supplier benchmarking, and multi-signal validation layers help the industry strengthen data integrity long before models or analyses are built.

On Sima Vasa’s Data Gurus podcast, Data Quality Co-op CEO Bob Fawson discussed why market research doesn’t have a tools problem—it has a coordination problem. He explained how programmatic sampling and AI have increased complexity and called for shared, privacy-safe quality signals “like a credit score” to strengthen transparency and trust across the industry.

Latest updates improve transparency, streamline workflows, and enhance visibility into data quality performance.

In an Insights Association webinar, industry leaders from Sago, SampleCon, and Data Quality Co-op discussed how transparency, empathy, and shared accountability can rebuild trust in research. They agreed most data is good—the challenge is learning from exceptions, not defining the whole picture. Quality improves when the industry collaborates, measures openly, and treats respondents as people, not data.

In a recent article for the Insights Association, Cassandra Fawson, head of Client Success at Data Quality Co-op, addresses a credibility gap in the market research industry: how we choose sample suppliers.

Open letter urges industry to move beyond problem diagnosis and adopt shared accountability to restore confidence in insights.