Listen to More Users, Faster with AI-Moderated Research.

Use AI moderated research to conduct and synthesize video, audio, and usability sessions to give you the depth of an interview at the speed and scale of a survey.

Supercharge user research with AI-moderated interviews

Outset’s AI research tools allow you to test new concepts or designs, identify new opportunities, and build a deeper understanding of the people you serve at a speed and scale that was never before possible.

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AI-moderated user interviews

AI-moderated user interviews

AI-moderated user interviews

Conduct hundreds of user interviews at once, in any language. Our AI interviewer engages participants in rich dialogue and probes deeper to get the "why" behind answers.

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AI synthesis & highlight reels

AI synthesis & highlight reels

AI synthesis & highlight reels

Instantly generate summaries, themes, powerful quotes, and customizable highlight reels from every interview.

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Endlessly customizable

Endlessly customizable

Endlessly customizable

Treat your own AI interviewer by picking your AI interviewer persona, building your own discussion guide, adding moderator instructions, and selecting the moderator language.

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Truly multimodal research

Truly multimodal research

Truly multimodal research

Run qualitative research interviews via video, voice, or text — and let our AI interviewer speak back too. Whether it’s talking, typing, or watching, Outset meets participants where they are.

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Flexible participant recruitment

Flexible participant recruitment

Flexible participant recruitment

Recruit from anywhere — your own customers, your internal panel, or through our trusted partners like User Interviews and Prolific. No extra fees, no limitations.

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More than just conversations

More than just conversations

More than just conversations

Test anything — from marketing assets and Figma prototypes to live websites, product designs, videos, and more. Outset adapts to whatever you’re working on.

The most advanced unmoderated user testing ever created

Let participants share their screen and walk through your prototype while the AI interviewer asks questions and follows up — just like a real qualitative researcher would.

Let participants share their screen and walk through your prototype while the AI interviewer asks questions and follows up — just like a real qualitative researcher would.

Ask follow-up questions and go deeper with dynamic AI-led conversations

Instantly synthesize what participants say — no manual review needed

Set up in minutes with flexible flows, not rigid test scripts

Recruit anyone: your users, your panel, or ours — no extra cost

See how leading teams use Outset’s AI-moderated research platform

Outset is a powerful user research platform built for modern teams seeking fast, high-quality feedback, whether for exploring new ideas, validating existing ones, or supporting ongoing decision-making.


From market strategy to usability testing, Outset powers deep customer insights across every stage of product development.

Outset is a powerful user research platform built for modern teams seeking fast, high-quality feedback, whether for exploring new ideas, validating existing ones, or supporting ongoing decision-making.


From market strategy to usability testing, Outset powers deep customer insights across every stage of product development.

Designed for every kind of research you need to run.

From exploratory research to AI usability testing and AI concept testing, Outset powers smarter decisions across every stage of the product and innovation lifecycle.

From exploratory research to AI usability testing and AI concept testing, Outset powers smarter decisions across every stage of the product and innovation lifecycle.

Trusted by the best

Top companies use Outset’s AI-moderated research platform to learn faster and make better decisions.

Outset is now a key tool for our team to get more, better, and most importantly, faster research done, accelerating our innovation pipeline substantially.

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Michael Widenmeyer

Consumer Insights Senior Manager

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The speed and quality of the responses were outstanding. Outset will afford my team the opportunity to significantly increase the speed of delivery.

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Wil Readinger

Head of UX Research

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Outset's AI engaged users and asked follow-up questions that elicited specific, long-form answers that helped us understand what was important to them. And it did so at 10x-20x scale of customer interviews.

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Jeff Zimmerman

Chief Product Officer

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Outset allows users to spend their time on what really matters, which is understanding the consumer and designing products, rather than on countless hours of interviewing and labeling.

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Leo Velásquez

Senior Experiment Designer

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Outset saved us over 120 hours of research on a single project while delivering high quality insights that cannot be achieved with a survey. This is the future of research.

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Managing Director

Want to give AI-moderated research a try?

Go through an interview as a participant to see what AI moderated interviews can feel like.

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Want to give AI-moderated research a try?

Go through an interview as a participant to see what AI moderated interviews can feel like.

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Want to give AI-moderated research a try?

Go through an interview as a participant to see what AI moderated interviews can feel like.

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