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Task guide · Customer research

Interview customers

An AI moderator can ask real people about a product, an idea or an advertisement and organise their answers.

What AI can take over

An AI moderator can ask real people about a product, an idea or an advertisement and organise their answers.

Your remaining responsibilities

  • Choose the right participants and check the conclusions against their answers.
  • Write a clear research question.
  • Separate what people say from evidence that they will buy.

Tools for the job

1 tool

Customer research

Listen Labs

Run adaptive interviews with real customers and test concepts, prototypes, usability and marketing messages.

Online platform · Trial / demoSource-based guide
Try it. Then check it. ↗

Start small

Give it something real to do.

01

Test one idea

Show the same concept to a relevant group of people.

02

Ask follow-up questions

Check whether the moderator explores vague or contradictory answers.

03

Read the interviews

Compare the summary with the original conversations.