Analyst Relations Top 10 List

B2B technology vendors need to identify which industry analysts actually matter to them, the people at Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, Everest Group, Futurum, and 451/S&P who shape Magic Quadrants, Waves, and buyer shortlists. Building this list usually takes hours of research and quickly goes stale.

1. Provide your company name, target market category, and positioning/competitors. 2. AI reads your company website to confirm real product categories and align them to your target market. 3. AI establishes 3-5 anchor categories (target market + technology layer + adjacencies). 4. AI searches major analyst firms in order (Gartner → Forrester → IDC → Omdia → Everest Group → Futurum Group → 451/S&P → boutiques), using vendor press releases citing MQs/Waves/MarketScapes to find report authors. 5. For each analyst, AI captures title, firm, 3-5 coverage areas, most recent article with live link, flagship research, and vendor-specific note on relevance. Returns a prioritized Markdown table ranked Top 10 by relevance, plus recommendations for top 5 to engage first.

Produces a prioritized Top 10 analyst target list with sourced, verified information in a single pass instead of days of manual research. Results stay current with 12-month recency gate and are specific to vendor positioning and buyers.

Prompt enforces 7 core rules: (1) vendor-first, not category-first approach; (2) anchor on 3-5 categories; (3) author-first discovery via press release citations; (4) firm priority order with balance across firms; (5) 12-month recency gate with linked evidence; (6) primary sources only, never fabricate; (7) vendor-specific notes explaining relevance to each vendor. Output format: Markdown table with columns: Analyst Name | Title | Firm | Research Coverage | Most Recent Article (linked) | Influential Research | Notes. Optional tiering groups results into Tier 1 (flagship report authors), Tier 2 (adjacent coverage), Tier 3 (relevant firm, no recent primary research).

Relies on public web search only — no proprietary analyst databases or subscriptions. Accuracy depends on AI's ability to verify names, titles, and links without fabrication. Cannot access paywalled analyst research or closed analyst firm databases. Requires vendor to provide accurate positioning and competitor information as input.