Research for Private-Sector Teams

Run thousands of in-depth interviews in days.

In-depth AI-moderated phone and WhatsApp interviews across 50+ languages, including low-connectivity LMIC markets. Structured insight your private-sector team can act on, vetted by Human Analysts.

50+
Languages
100+
Countries
35×
Faster time to insight*
3–10×
Lower fieldwork cost*

*Compared with traditional research fieldwork, transcription, translation, and analysis.

Selected partners and collaborators

Gates Foundation
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University
PSI
Indlela
Busara
The World Bank
United Nations
Mitsubishi
Gates Foundation
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University
PSI
Indlela
Busara
The World Bank
United Nations
Mitsubishi
The Research Challenge

Traditional research forces teams to choose between depth, speed, and scale.

And reaching new markets fast, especially across LMIC populations, only widens the gap between speed, cost, and rigor.

  • 01
    Too slow

    Recruitment, interviews, and analysis can take weeks or months.

  • 02
    Too expensive

    Traditional fieldwork becomes costly across larger samples and multiple markets.

  • 03
    Too shallow

    Surveys provide scale but often miss the motivations and context behind an answer.

The research tradeoff

Surveys scale, but miss the why.
Interviews reveal the why, but take weeks.

The Platform

The Complete Customer Research Workflow,
in One Platform

HumanTruths is the complete research workflow: reach the right participants, run in-depth AI-moderated phone and WhatsApp interviews, and turn every conversation into insight your team can act on, vetted by Human Analysts.

01Reach

Reach the right participants

Recruit from customer lists, trusted panels, phone, digital, or locally supported channels, with or without internet access.

Participants reached across phone, digital, and panel channels
02Interview

Run in-depth audio and video interviews at scale

AI moderators conduct natural audio or video conversations, probe for depth, clarify responses, and code-switch across languages in real time.

Participant speaking with a HumanTruths AI voice interviewer
03Understand

Go from conversations to clear answers

Automatically translate, transcribe, structure, code, and compare responses, then have a Human Analyst vet findings for accuracy and decision-ready insight.

HumanTruths analysis dashboard
04Act

Deliver insight teams can act on

Turn findings into executive-ready reports and recommendations for product, brand, marketing, and customer experience.

HumanTruths message experiments comparing conversion rates across framings
Global Participant Recruitment

Find and qualify the exact people you need.

Recruit across panels, social media, phone, WhatsApp and SMS, customer lists, and custom outreach.

From broad consumer audiences to the hardest to reach.

  • 01Web Panels

    Global and local

  • 02Social Media

    Targeted campaigns

  • 03Phone Calls

    Direct outreach

  • 04WhatsApp / SMS

    Invite and recontact

  • 05Customer Lists

    Your existing audience

  • 06Custom Recruitment

    Built around your study

Your Qualified Audience
ScreenedQuota-matchedReady to interview
Use Cases

Research for the decisions your team makes every day.

For insights, product, UX, marketing, brand, and innovation teams across any market.

  • 01

    Concept & Message Testing

    Test positioning, claims, and creative across markets. Learn what resonates, with whom, and why before you invest.

  • 02

    Multi-Market Segmentation

    Build segments around needs, motivations, and behavior across countries and languages, not demographics alone.

  • 03

    Adoption, Retention & Experience

    Understand why customers adopt, stay, disengage, or switch, and where experience breaks down.

Case Study
Gates Foundation
0

AI-led interviews on vaccine uptake
completed in 5 days.

A validated AI-voice study across Kenya, tested head-to-head against human interviewers and independently evaluated with Harvard University.

The same platform private-sector teams use to reach, interview, and understand participants in any market.

Part A · Head-to-head study

Scale, speed, and value

Sample size
Nationally representative
= 50 interviews

Average interview length: 25 minutes.

Nationally representative

Speed
Time to complete 400 interviews
Traditional fieldwork
44days
HumanTruths AI
1.25days

Benchmark shown for 400 interviews.

35×faster

Cost
Cost per completed interview
100%
Traditional
33%
HumanTruths

Roughly one-third the cost of traditional data collection, transcription, and translation.

3×cheaper

Part B · Validated head-to-head

Faster did not mean less human.

In a Gates Foundation-supported head-to-head study independently evaluated with Harvard, participants rated the HumanTruths AI interviewer as highly as human interviewers across three core experience measures.

Human interviewer
HumanTruths AI
Treated with respect
95.8%
96.8%
+1.0 pts
Felt understood
87.2%
89.2%
+2.0 pts
Overall satisfaction
91.3%
95.6%
+4.3 pts
85%
90%
95%
100%

No statistically significant differences were detected between AI and human interviewers across these measures.

Part C · Trust & Satisfaction

People felt comfortable speaking to AI.

Respondents reported high comfort, respect, trust and understanding after AI-led interviews.

Live interview
AI-led · Swahili / English
0:00 / 1:25
Call complete.Recording shared with the respondent's explicit consent.
4.94/5
Felt comfortable
4.94/5
Felt treated with respect
4.63/5
Overall satisfaction
4.56/5
Ease of speaking
4.56/5
Trusted the interviewer
4.56/5
Felt understood
Part D · Depth of insight

We uncovered vaccine coverage and barriers to uptake within 1 week.

The same study measured coverage, revealed the barriers behind uptake, and translated thousands of conversations into decision-ready evidence.

01

Coverage at scale

Measured vaccine coverage at nationally representative scale across regions and demographics.

Vaccine coverage chart
02

Behavioral barriers

Identified behavioral, trust, and operational barriers to uptake, mapped to the BeSD taxonomy with verified supporting quotes.

Barriers treemap mapped to BeSD
03

Actionable personas

Translated findings into personas and intervention opportunities the team could act on immediately.

Persona cards
Pricing

Transparent AI fieldwork at $9–$12 per completed interview, with Human Analyst QA and a deck-ready report.

Every project is quality-checked by a Human Analyst and delivered as a deck-ready report. Incentives are passed through at cost; managed research is available when you need full study design, analysis and recommendations.

01

AI fieldwork

$9–$12per completed 2 Standard Screener interview

Includes AI interviewing, transcription, structured data, dashboard access, Human Analyst quality checks and a deck-ready final report. Participant incentives are passed through at cost.

Example project
500 completed interviews
One country · 2 Standard Screener · incentives included
Estimated total
$4,850–$6,350
02

Managed research

Fixed-scope engagements, quoted per project.

HumanTruths supports behaviorally informed study design, analysis and synthesis, and decision-ready recommendations, end to end.

  • Study design
  • Analysis and synthesis
  • Recommendations
35× faster

Fieldwork speed compared with traditional methods.

3–10× lower cost

Compared with traditional methods.

Human-quality experience

Participant satisfaction statistically equivalent to human interviews.

What affects pricing? Pricing depends on audience, market/language, sample size, study complexity, and timeline. Participant incentives and specialized recruitment are quoted separately.

Prices shown are in USD. Taxes may apply.

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Run your next study across any market.

Reach the right participants anywhere, run in-depth AI-moderated interviews, and get Human Analyst–vetted insight your team can act on.

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