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AI agents for customer research
Measure precisely what real people think about your product, brand, or any other topic.
Voicepanel is an AI-native feedback platform that conducts large-scale, real-person research to evaluate products, prototypes, and AI outputs. It emphasizes rapid, structured qualitative and quantitative feedback with built-in recruitment, multi-modal responses, and actionable insights to help teams launch with confidence.
Voicepanel automates end-to-end research: draft projects, recruit from an integrated panel and external sources, collect feedback via voice, video, text, surveys, and usability tasks, and analyze with AI-powered thematic analysis and real-time reports. Features include adaptive questioning, in-product intercepts, automatic translation, screen share capture, unlimited screening, built-in panel of 30M+ consumers/professionals across 150+ countries, MCP integration to connect with LLMs, and enterprise controls for research governance, branding, spending caps, and role-based access. The platform delivers quantitative themes backed by quotes, video/audio clips, highlight reels, and searchable insights, all with data security compliance (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA).
Who it’s for: Product teams and researchers at mid-to-large enterprises who need rapid, real-world user feedback on products, prototypes, and AI outputs; teams requiring multi-modal research, localization, and governance controls.
YC-backed, claims 10x faster research, case studies and enterprise focus; mentions building products faster with real-world feedback
Asa is the co-founder and CTO of Voicepanel (YC W24). Asa met his cofounder, John, while working at Optimizely, where they collectively led the creation of Optimizely’s fastest growing $40M developer-focused product. After Optimizely, Asa cofounded Level (YC S21), which was acquired by Vouch. At Vouch, Asa managed half of the engineering team. Asa’s engineering career started at Microsoft after graduating from Harvard with a degree in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science.
John is the co-founder and CEO of Voicepanel (YC W24). Prior to Voicepanel, John spent over a decade at Google working in product & engineering roles across Search, Ads, and Maps. He also spent three years at Optimizely, where he led products for developers. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard and an MBA from Berkeley.
We help businesses gather actionable feedback to improve their products & services
Voicepanel enables businesses to conduct scaled qualitative interviews by AI-driven recruitment, voice/video interviews, and rapid synthesis of insights from conversations. Targeted at product managers, marketers, and researchers in consumer-focused companies, it aims to deliver qualitative findings with the speed and scale of surveys.
From the original launch (Feb 2024) — may be outdated.
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