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.
Conversations that scale, insights that matter
Designed for researchers who want in-depth qualitative interviews without compromise.
Capture rich, nuanced insights from hundreds of participants at once — across any language. It’s the most comprehensive research you’ve ever run.
Turn raw conversations into themes, quotes, and insights in hours instead of weeks. It’s the fastest user research project you’ve ever completed.
Run high-quality research with fewer resources. One person can now do the work of an entire research team — for a fraction of the cost.
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.
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.
Instantly generate summaries, themes, powerful quotes, and customizable highlight reels from every interview.
Treat your own AI interviewer by picking your AI interviewer persona, building your own discussion guide, adding moderator instructions, and selecting the moderator language.
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.
Recruit from anywhere — your own customers, your internal panel, or through our trusted partners like User Interviews and Prolific. No extra fees, no limitations.
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
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
Run user research in minutes, not months
See how leading teams use Outset’s AI-moderated research platform
Discovery Use Cases
Evaluative Use Cases
Built for teams who need real insights, fast
Whether you're testing creative or improving product experiences, AI-moderated research gives marketers, researchers, and product people the depth they need—without slowing down.
Use AI market research tools to explore customer needs, test creative concepts and messaging, and generate highlight reels to bring insights to life for stakeholders.
Run discovery interviews, concept and usability tests with AI for UX research. Track user behavior over time with instant synthesis and zero scheduling friction.
Designed for every kind of research you need to run.
Outset empowers teams to conduct AI usability testing that uncovers user pain points and design opportunities — without the need for live moderators.
With AI concept testing, Outset helps teams validate new ideas quickly by gathering rich, qualitative feedback at scale.
Outset makes exploratory research fast and scalable, using AI-moderated interviews to uncover unmet needs, motivations, and behaviors.
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.
Michael Widenmeyer
Consumer Insights Senior Manager
The speed and quality of the responses were outstanding. Outset will afford my team the opportunity to significantly increase the speed of delivery.
Wil Readinger
Head of UX Research
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.
Jeff Zimmerman
Chief Product Officer
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.
Leo Velásquez
Senior Experiment Designer
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.
Brynna Mann
Managing Director
