AI-Moderated Research Platform

The all-in-one AI-powered research platform

Run AI‑moderated interviews, recruit participants and synthesize insights in minutes — all within an end-to-end AI‑moderated research platform.

Outset gives teams the power to move from raw feedback to clear, actionable insights in days, not weeks.

Research and Insights

Recruit

AI-Moderated Interviews

AI-Driven Interview Synthesis

Recruit participants directly through Outset

Quickly find the right participants for any study through integrated recruitment partners or your own panel.

Features

Recruit via Outset

Integrated with Prolific and User Interviews.

Recruitment criteria panel with platform and location filters

Recruit on your own

Share a link directly with your panel.

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Test with synthetic users

Validate your interview guide with AI participants.

List of AI participant profiles with demographics
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Recruit case study

Away used Outset to quickly understand shifting shopper behavior and uncover insights that shaped their strategy.

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How Away Used Outset to Conduct 75 Interviews Overnight — With a Team of One

Research and Insights

Recruit

AI-Moderated Interviews

AI-Driven Interview Synthesis

Recruit participants directly through Outset

Quickly find the right participants for any study through integrated recruitment partners or your own panel.

Features

Recruit via Outset

Integrated with Prolific and User Interviews.

Recruitment criteria panel with platform and location filters

Recruit on your own

Share a link directly with your panel.

Row of participant profile photos under a ‘Share link with participants’ button

Test with synthetic users

Validate your interview guide with AI participants.

List of AI participant profiles with demographics
Away logo

Recruit case study

Away used Outset to quickly understand shifting shopper behavior and uncover insights that shaped their strategy.

How Away Used Outset to Conduct 75 Interviews Overnight — With a Team of One

Research and Insights

Recruit

AI-Moderated Interviews

AI-Driven Interview Synthesis

Recruit participants directly through Outset

Quickly find the right participants for any study through integrated recruitment partners or your own panel.

Features

Recruit via Outset

Integrated with Prolific and User Interviews.

Recruitment criteria panel with platform and location filters

Recruit on your own

Share a link directly with your panel.

Row of participant profile photos under a ‘Share link with participants’ button

Test with synthetic users

Validate your interview guide with AI participants.

List of AI participant profiles with demographics
Away logo

Recruit case study

Away used Outset to quickly understand shifting shopper behavior and uncover insights that shaped their strategy.

How Away Used Outset to Conduct 75 Interviews Overnight — With a Team of One

Access & Experiences

Enterprise-Grade

Sharing

Speed and Scalability

Built for mature teams running robust research

Access advanced features purpose-built for large enterprises, to amplify your research, not add friction.

Features

Custom interview branding

Add your logo to create a familiar, branded experience for participants.

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Data segregated workspaces

Data-segregated workspaces to keep teams, studies, and clients cleanly partitioned

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Interviewer white labeling

Present Outset’s AI-moderated interviews as your own product, fully branded as your company.

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Access & Experiences

Enterprise-Grade

Sharing

Speed and Scalability

Built for mature teams running robust research

Access advanced features purpose-built for large enterprises, to amplify your research, not add friction.

Features

Custom interview branding

Add your logo to create a familiar, branded experience for participants.

Profile card with text on the left and a smiling older woman’s photo

Data segregated workspaces

Data-segregated workspaces to keep teams, studies, and clients cleanly partitioned.

Organization card listing Hearthstone Home teams with counts

Interviewer white labeling

Present Outset’s AI-moderated interviews as your own product, fully branded as your company.

Dashboard with a ‘Your logo’ placeholder and project cards

Access & Experiences

Enterprise-Grade

Sharing

Speed and Scalability

Built for mature teams running robust research

Access advanced features purpose-built for large enterprises, to amplify your research, not add friction.

Features

Custom interview branding

Add your logo to create a familiar, branded experience for participants.

Profile card with text on the left and a smiling older woman’s photo

Data segregated workspaces

Data-segregated workspaces to keep teams, studies, and clients cleanly partitioned

Organization card listing Hearthstone Home teams with counts

Interviewer white labeling

Present Outset’s AI-moderated interviews as your own product, fully branded as your company.

Dashboard with a ‘Your logo’ placeholder and project cards

Trust & Safety

Security

Outset is GDPR compliant and SOC II certified

Outset provides enterprise-grade security with SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance, Azure infrastructure, and encrypted data never used to train external models. Outset is dedicated to safeguarding all sensitive data.

Features

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ISO 42001 certification badge
AICPA SOC 2 compliance badge
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Fraud Detection

Ensure high-quality data, regardless of source

Ensure quality results for every project. Outset’s AI detects inconsistent or fraudulent responses automatically, so you only pay for authentic data. Outset’s fraud detection system evaluates every participant in your research.

Features

Automatic detection

Only pay for truth

Sift out low quality answers

Trusted by the most respected enterprises

Trusted by the most respected enterprises

Trusted by the most respected enterprises

Dive into the experience of AI-moderated research.

Dive into the experience of AI-moderated research.

Dive into the experience of AI-moderated research.

Trusted by the best

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

  • Nestle logo

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

    Profile photo
    Michael Widenmeyer

    Consumer Insights Sr. Manager

  • WeightWatchers logo

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

    Profile photo
    Wil Readinger

    Head of UX Research

  • Benchmark logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Jeff Zimmerman

    Chief Product Officer

  • Board of Innovation logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Leo Velásquez

    Senior Experiment Designer

  • Treacy&Co logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Brynna Mann

    Managing Director

  • Opendoor logo

    Outset dramatically increases the productive potential of a single researcher, helping them uncover many more insights much more quickly.

    Profile photo
    Chris Monnier

    Senior Staff User Researcher

  • Glassdoor logo

    I would have never been able to moderate 50 sessions in a reasonable amount of time, but with Outset, you can run 50 interviews while you’re on a 20-hour flight

    Profile photo
    Athena Petrides

    Senior Lead UX Researcher

  • Away logo

    Being able to focus my energy and leaving the interview process and the first analysis portion to Outset has helped me grow in my career

    Profile photo
    Jennifer Lien

    Senior UX Researcher

Trusted by the best

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

  • Nestle logo

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

    Profile photo
    Michael Widenmeyer

    Consumer Insights Sr. Manager

  • WeightWatchers logo

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

    Profile photo
    Wil Readinger

    Head of UX Research

  • Benchmark logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Jeff Zimmerman

    Chief Product Officer

  • Board of Innovation logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Leo Velásquez

    Senior Experiment Designer

  • Treacy&Co logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Brynna Mann

    Managing Director

  • Opendoor logo

    Outset dramatically increases the productive potential of a single researcher, helping them uncover many more insights much more quickly.

    Profile photo
    Chris Monnier

    Senior Staff User Researcher

  • Glassdoor logo

    I would have never been able to moderate 50 sessions in a reasonable amount of time, but with Outset, you can run 50 interviews while you’re on a 20-hour flight

    Profile photo
    Athena Petrides

    Senior Lead UX Researcher

  • Away logo

    Being able to focus my energy and leaving the interview process and the first analysis portion to Outset has helped me grow in my career

    Profile photo
    Jennifer Lien

    Senior UX Researcher

Trusted by the best

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

  • Nestle logo

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

    Profile photo
    Michael Widenmeyer

    Consumer Insights Sr. Manager

  • WeightWatchers logo

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

    Profile photo
    Wil Readinger

    Head of UX Research

  • Benchmark logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Jeff Zimmerman

    Chief Product Officer

  • Board of Innovation logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Leo Velásquez

    Senior Experiment Designer

  • Treacy&Co logo

    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.

    Profile photo
    Brynna Mann

    Managing Director

  • Opendoor logo

    Outset dramatically increases the productive potential of a single researcher, helping them uncover many more insights much more quickly.

    Profile photo
    Chris Monnier

    Senior Staff User Researcher

  • Glassdoor logo

    I would have never been able to moderate 50 sessions in a reasonable amount of time, but with Outset, you can run 50 interviews while you’re on a 20-hour flight

    Profile photo
    Athena Petrides

    Senior Lead UX Researcher

  • Away logo

    Being able to focus my energy and leaving the interview process and the first analysis portion to Outset has helped me grow in my career

    Profile photo
    Jennifer Lien

    Senior UX Researcher

AI-moderated research platform FAQs

What makes Outset’s AI-moderated research different from traditional research tools?

Outset’s AI interviewer conducts natural, adaptive conversations at scale — asking smart follow-ups, clarifying context in real time, and synthesizing results instantly. It combines qualitative depth with the speed and scale of automation.

What makes Outset’s AI-moderated research different from traditional research tools?

Outset’s AI interviewer conducts natural, adaptive conversations at scale — asking smart follow-ups, clarifying context in real time, and synthesizing results instantly. It combines qualitative depth with the speed and scale of automation.

What makes Outset’s AI-moderated research different from traditional research tools?

Outset’s AI interviewer conducts natural, adaptive conversations at scale — asking smart follow-ups, clarifying context in real time, and synthesizing results instantly. It combines qualitative depth with the speed and scale of automation.

Can I use my own participants, or do I have to recruit through Outset?

You can do both. Outset integrates with top recruitment partners like Prolific and User Interviews, or you can invite your own users directly. The platform also supports synthetic testing so you can validate guides before launch.

Can I use my own participants, or do I have to recruit through Outset?

You can do both. Outset integrates with top recruitment partners like Prolific and User Interviews, or you can invite your own users directly. The platform also supports synthetic testing so you can validate guides before launch.

Can I use my own participants, or do I have to recruit through Outset?

You can do both. Outset integrates with top recruitment partners like Prolific and User Interviews, or you can invite your own users directly. The platform also supports synthetic testing so you can validate guides before launch.

How fast can I go from running interviews to getting insights?

Most teams complete interviews within hours and receive AI-synthesized summaries minutes later. Outset’s platform eliminates manual sorting and tagging, turning raw conversations into ready-to-share insights almost instantly.

How fast can I go from running interviews to getting insights?

Most teams complete interviews within hours and receive AI-synthesized summaries minutes later. Outset’s platform eliminates manual sorting and tagging, turning raw conversations into ready-to-share insights almost instantly.

How fast can I go from running interviews to getting insights?

Most teams complete interviews within hours and receive AI-synthesized summaries minutes later. Outset’s platform eliminates manual sorting and tagging, turning raw conversations into ready-to-share insights almost instantly.

How does Outset handle privacy and data protection?

Outset is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and powered by Microsoft Azure. No personally identifiable information (PII) is required for research, and your data is never used to train external models.

How does Outset handle privacy and data protection?

Outset is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and powered by Microsoft Azure. No personally identifiable information (PII) is required for research, and your data is never used to train external models.

How does Outset handle privacy and data protection?

Outset is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and powered by Microsoft Azure. No personally identifiable information (PII) is required for research, and your data is never used to train external models.

Can Outset be used by global teams or multilingual participants?

Yes. Outset supports research in over 40 languages, automatically translating insights into your preferred language — enabling global teams to collect, analyze, and share findings seamlessly.

Can Outset be used by global teams or multilingual participants?

Yes. Outset supports research in over 40 languages, automatically translating insights into your preferred language — enabling global teams to collect, analyze, and share findings seamlessly.

Can Outset be used by global teams or multilingual participants?

Yes. Outset supports research in over 40 languages, automatically translating insights into your preferred language — enabling global teams to collect, analyze, and share findings seamlessly.

Find out how Outset accelerates every step of research.

Test out a demo interview to see how Outset transforms research speed, scale, and insight quality.

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Find out how Outset accelerates every step of research.

Test out a demo interview to see how Outset transforms research speed, scale, and insight quality.

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Find out how Outset accelerates every step of research.

Test out a demo interview to see how Outset transforms research speed, scale, and insight quality.

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