Market Research & Consulting · United States

How Kantar saved 17,000 hours a year by automating client report generation

Replacing manual, error-prone report creation with automated, reusable workflows — delivering insights 75% faster.

17k hrs
Saved annually
100%
Formatting consistency
75%
Faster insight delivery
Company size
Large enterprise
Company industry
Market Research & Consulting
About the company

A premier market research and consulting firm delivering data-driven insights globally

Kantar North America is a premier market research and consulting firm known for delivering data-driven insights and actionable recommendations. Focused on quality and innovation, Kantar continuously evolves its methodologies by integrating advanced technologies to improve research delivery and client satisfaction.

At Kantar's scale, consistency is everything. Clients depend on reports that look, feel, and perform the same way — every time, across every team. When that consistency breaks down, trust breaks down too.

The challenge

Highly templated reports built by hand — slow, inconsistent, and impossible to scale

Kantar's analysts produced large volumes of highly templated client reports — each following strict formatting standards. But the process for creating them was almost entirely manual. Every report meant hours of repetitive data transformation, formatting, and validation work before anything could go to the client.

The manual approach introduced inconsistencies that eroded trust in the outputs. Formatting errors crept in. Delivery timelines slipped. And as client volume grew, the team had no scalable way to keep pace — the bottleneck was baked into the process itself.

The solution

Reusable automated workflows — consistent reports, delivered faster, at scale

Mammoth gave Kantar's teams the tools to automate the entire report generation pipeline — without any coding:

  • Deploy automated workflows to harmonise data across multiple sources
  • Standardise and consolidate disparate datasets into a unified, templated format
  • Enable non-technical analysts to manage and update pipelines independently
  • Build reusable workflow templates that scale across teams and client engagements
  • Eliminate manual formatting steps — ensuring 100% consistency on every output
The outcome

17,000 hours saved. 100% consistent. Delivered 75% faster.

  • 17,000 hours saved annually through workflow automation across reporting teams
  • 100% consistency in report formatting — every output matches the template, every time
  • 75% faster insight delivery — from data ingestion to client-ready report
  • 60% less manual work in data preparation — automated harmonisation of sources
  • A scalable solution adopted across multiple teams — reusable, not rebuilt each time

Mammoth's platform has significantly enhanced our reporting processes, delivering consistency and efficiency across our operations.

Director of Data Design
Kantar North America
The transformation · From manual report creation to automated, consistent delivery at scale
BEFORE Manual · inconsistent · slow AFTER Automated · consistent · scalable CLIENT A — v3_FINAL Wrong font Missing header Column mismatch SENT BACK BY CLIENT CLIENT B — v7_FINAL2 Different template Manual formatting Inconsistent totals REVISION REQUESTED CLIENT C — v12_SEND 3 hrs to format Manual QA check Wrong date range v1 · v2 · v3_rev · v4_FINAL v5_ACTUAL_FINAL · v6_send v7_FINAL2 · v8 · v9_ok v12_SEND ← current 3–5 hrs per report · errors creep in No reusable template · every client rebuilt from scratch HOURS PER REPORT 4h MAMMOTH Reusable workflows CLIENT A · AUTO CLIENT B · AUTO CLIENT C · AUTO 100% CONSISTENT Report throughput REPORTS / WEEK 75% ▲ faster delivery HRS SAVED / YR 17k ▼ manual effort BEFORE → AFTER MAMMOTH Reports delivered Hours spent HOURS PER REPORT NOW <1h 17,000 hours saved annually 100% formatting consistency · 75% faster client delivery HOURS PER REPORT <1 hr · automated

The Mammoth advantage

Why Mammoth worked for Kantar

Three things made the difference — and they're the same three things every research and analytics team tells us about.

Scale without cost

17,000 hours of manual work eliminated annually. Reusable workflow templates mean every new client engagement takes minutes to set up, not days.

Consistency

100% formatting consistency across every report. The same automated rules apply every time — no manual formatting, no human error, no client callbacks.

Analyst independence

Non-technical analysts manage and update pipelines directly. No engineering dependency, no backlog — teams move at the speed of the work, not the speed of IT.