Emerging Tech Research & Advisory
Wheelhouse Insight is a market intelligence and advisory firm that focuses on assessing emerging technology trends to analyze maturity, demand, and product-market fit for new and enhanced business applications.
Wheelhouse’s global market research, consulting, and custom content services combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to provide innovation, strategy, product, and marketing professionals with a comprehensive view of the new market opportunities surrounding Advanced Computing & AI, Connectivity & Digital Interaction, Security & Trust, Scientific & Industrial Advancement, and Energy & Climate Tech.
Wheelhouse Insight strategically focuses on providing services to the following types of companies:
- Enterprises that are exploring and piloting emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and edge computing
- Mature organizations seeking a more agile, high-touch alternative to legacy analyst firms to accelerate their digital transformation
- Industry leaders that need rigorous, data-driven validation to de-risk high-stakes technology investments and R&D strategies
- Legacy businesses facing competitive pressure to modernize their infrastructure and operationalize innovation to survive disruption
- Technology vendors and service providers that need authoritative third-party validation and go-to-market support to accelerate sales cycles
Our services include:
- End-User and Ecosystem Surveys
- Custom Research Reports
- Competitive Analysis
- Market Sizing & Forecasting
- Customer Profiling & Segmentation
- Strategy Consulting
- Market & Product Strategy
- Market Messaging & Campaign Support
- Customer Journey Mapping
- White Papers
- Custom Infographics
- Webcasts & Video Interviews
- Speaking Engagements & Workshops
What Makes Wheelhouse Unique?
Wheelhouse Insights is distinguished by its agility and the direct access clients have to seasoned industry analysts. By stripping away the high costs, rigid subscriptions, and bureaucratic layers of legacy market research giants, we deliver high-fidelity intelligence that is both accessible and actionable for agile technology vendors and forward-thinking enterprises. Our analyst team is composed of industry veterans who don’t just track market data — they have lived the technology lifecycle, offering practical guidance that bridges the gap between theoretical innovation and operational reality.
Our leadership team brings decades of experience building and scaling world-class market intelligence firms. Having previously launched and led dominant research organizations in the emerging technology and cleantech sectors — including Tractica and Pike Research — our principals have successfully guided hundreds of companies through complex market transitions. This deep institutional pedigree means our methodologies are battle-tested, ensuring that our clients receive rigorous, defensible insights capable of withstanding the scrutiny of boardrooms and investors alike.
Wheelhouse aims to democratize access to strategic intelligence, removing the barriers that often prevent mid-sized innovators from accessing top-tier research. Beyond just identifying trends, we commit to a “Insight-to-Action” promise: helping our clients translate data into revenue. Whether it’s equipping a vendor with the narrative to win a competitive deal or empowering a CIO to de-risk a multimillion-dollar investment, we measure our success by the tangible positive outcomes we create for our clients’ bottom lines.
Clint Wheelock, Managing Director
Clint brings over 25 years of market analysis and management consulting experience, focused on emerging technology, energy and cleantech, and customer experience sectors, among others. He previously founded Tractica, a market analysis firm with a focus on human interaction with technology, including coverage of artificial intelligence, robotics, user interface technologies, and other emerging sectors. Following Tractica’s acquisition by Informa Group in 2018, Clint served as Chief Research Officer for Informa’s research division, Omdia, with management and content strategy responsibility for a global team of more than 400 analysts and support staff.
He was previously the founder and President of Pike Research, a leading market intelligence firm focused on the global cleantech industry, which was acquired by Guidehouse in 2012. Following the acquisition, Clint continued to lead and expand the Guidehouse Research business as part of the firm’s Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure consulting practice. Clint was also co-founder and CEO of Dash Network, an integrated research and digital media firm focused on the CX market, which was acquired by The Futurum Group in 2022, after which he served as Chief Research Officer.
Prior to Pike Research, Clint was Chief Research Officer at ABI Research, a New York-based industry analyst firm concentrating on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets. He previously held senior management roles at Circana, RELX Group, Lumen Technologies, and Verizon, in addition to a prior background in management consulting and private investment banking.
Clint holds an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BA from Washington & Lee University.