Methods
AI moderated
studies
Conduct sessions with your participants, asking questions, probing for detail, and surfacing insights in real time. All without scheduling a single call.
The Dscout
Difference
1
Participant quality
An AI moderator is only as good as who it talks to. Dscout's ID-verified and engaged participants mean richer answers to probe.
2
Everything in one tool
Pair AI-moderated studies with any other study type, like human-led interviews or multi-part mobile usability tests. Customize recruiting and automatically pay incentives.
3
Launch in minutes
Set your research goal, and Dscout AI drafts the study and reviews it for improvements before launch.
4
Immersive analysis that keeps up
Spotlight surfaces themes as responses come in. Visual intelligence flags facial expressions and screen behavior. And you can chat with your data.
5
Depth of researcher expertise
Built by expert researchers. Dscout's AI-moderated studies reflect how good research is actually done, not just how conversations are automated.
4
Immersive analysis that keeps up
Spotlight surfaces themes as responses come in. Visual intelligence flags facial expressions and screen behavior. And you can chat with your data.
5
Depth of researcher expertise
Built by expert researchers. Dscout's AI-moderated studies reflect how good research is actually done, not just how conversations are automated.
Why use
AI-moderated studies?
Interview depth, at scale. Uncover the motivations, experiences, and trade-offs behind people’s answers. An AI moderator follows your research guide and asks follow-up questions, giving participants room to explain what matters and why.
Get higher-quality feedback. Probe past the first answer for the context and detail a quick response can miss.
Understand what drives decisions. Explore why people choose, hesitate, or change their minds.
Hear more perspectives, faster. Bring interview-like depth to more people, without scheduling every session.
When to use
AI-moderated studies
When you need feedback fast
When you need feedback in a different language
When you need to scale
When you’re not a research expert
When it’s a sensitive topic
....and more
The research process for teams that are moving fast can be either an accelerant or a speed bump...Dscout’s MCP and AI-moderated studies are accelerating what we’re doing.
Andy Vitale
VP, Product Design @ Taxwell
HOW IT WORKS
Get customer feedback
fast enough to act on it.
Design
Set your research objectives and context, then draft your study with AI to go from idea to study in minutes. From there, get AI suggestions to refine your questions before launch.
Run
Participants join whenever it works for them, across multiple languages and time zones, with no scheduling required. AI moderator asks your questions in order, listens closely, and follows up when there's more worth uncovering.
Analyze
Jump-start your analysis with key moments from Spotlight, and use visual intelligence to spot facial expressions and screen behavior worth a closer look. Chat with your data directly to spend less time digging and more time deciding what’s next.
Control and flexibility built into
every conversation
Structured questions, smarter follow-ups
Choose from Talk Out Loud, scale, and multiple-choice questions, then decide how deep AI should probe and which topics it covers—no need to be in the room.
Turn-based and natural conversation modes
Switch between turn-based sessions (where participants click "Continue") for longer, thoughtful answers and natural conversation, for faster back-and-forth exchanges.
Tasks with screen recording
Participants complete a task on a website, a Figma prototype, or an HTML prototype, confirm completion, and the AI follows up (with everything recorded automatically).
Scale your interviews
Already run a few human-moderated interviews? Click "Scale with AI moderator," and Dscout AI drafts a study that asks the same questions, in the same order, and probes the same way.
Speak their language
Participants get to use whichever language they're most comfortable with. AI Moderator supports 40+ languages today, with more on the way.
Analysis that keeps up
Spotlight surfaces key moments as responses come in, and visual intelligence reads what people show or how it makes them feel, so you can see exactly where they got confused or delighted. Use Explore to chat with your data and ask Dscout AI questions about your study.
Dscout
AI Studio
An AI-native platform that pairs authentic human input with agentic AI tools, so you get high-fidelity feedback, fast. Draft your study, run AI-moderated studies, and explore your data.
