Dscout launches AI-moderated studies to bring deeper feedback to teams at scale

AI-moderated studies, a new study type from Dscout, helps teams gather deeper human feedback at scale.

AI-moderated studies bring interview depth to Dscout, helping teams reach high-quality participants across 40 languages and time zones.

CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Dscout, the experience research platform, today announced the general availability of AI-moderated studies, a new study type that helps teams gather deeper human feedback at scale. Built on Dscout’s high-quality network of active, vetted, and verified participants, AI-moderated studies extend the reach of qualitative research across 40 languages and time zones, helping teams hear from more people and uncover the context behind their experiences, without being limited by their team’s time and resources.

AI-moderated studies are part of Dscout AI Studio, a suite of tools that helps teams move from research questions to actionable insights. Teams can create custom questions or use Dscout AI to draft a study in seconds, then guide the AI moderator to follow a script or explore participants’ answers in greater depth. Beyond spoken responses, Dscout AI helps teams understand facial expressions and on-screen behavior, with transcripts and English translations available across participant languages. After sessions, teams can use Dscout AI to explore findings, investigate patterns, and connect insights back to participants’ responses.

Bringing depth to research at scale
Teams across product, design, research, marketing, and more can use AI-moderated studies on their own or alongside other Dscout methods, including human-moderated interviews, usability testing, and diary studies, to build a fuller picture of people’s experiences.
- Build on a trusted participant network: Hear from Dscout’s active, vetted, and verified participants to gather feedback grounded in real human experiences.
- Extend research across languages and time zones: Reach more participants across geographies without being limited by a team’s capacity or schedule.
- Go beyond first responses: Use AI moderation to explore participants’ answers in greater depth and surface context that might otherwise go unasked.
- Understand more of the experience: Bring spoken responses together with facial expressions and on-screen behavior for a richer view of participants’ experiences.
- Adapt moderation to research goals: Guide how closely the AI moderator follows a script and when it explores participants’ answers in more depth.
- Investigate findings with AI: Use Dscout AI to explore themes, recordings, and data visualizations, ask follow-up questions, and trace findings back to their source.

Together, these capabilities give teams more flexibility in how they gather and interpret feedback. AI-moderated studies can complement human-led interviews and other research methods, helping teams explore more experiences and build a richer understanding of the people behind the data.

“Teams shouldn’t have to choose between the scale of unmoderated research and the depth of an interview,” said Jonathan Fairman, VP of Emerging Product at Dscout. “AI-moderated studies help bridge that gap, giving teams more flexibility to explore participants’ experiences and uncover the context behind their answers.”

AI-moderated studies also reflect Dscout’s broader approach to AI: combining high-quality human signal with tools that help teams ask better questions, investigate findings, and make more informed decisions.

“Everyone's building faster with AI, which means they need feedback faster, too,” said Michael Winnick, founder and CEO of Dscout. “With AI-moderated studies and Dscout AI Studio, teams have more ways to capture high-fidelity human feedback at the pace this new world demands.”

Start using AI-moderated studies
AI-moderated studies give teams a new way to scale the depth of moderated research, whether they’re exploring new questions or extending an existing interview to reach more participants. Try a quick AI-moderated study yourself, or learn more at dscout.com.

About Dscout
For over a decade, Dscout has provided high-fidelity signal to the world's best-known brands. Enterprise UX teams at Spotify, Microsoft, Google, Airbnb, Target, Affirm, VividSeats, and more rely on Dscout's platform and verified panel to test ideas, iterate quickly, collaborate, and build confidently. With the 2026 release of Dscout AI Studio and Dscout MCP, everyone in an organization can now collect the signal they need, at the pace the AI era demands. As more of the world runs on AI, that same verified panel now delivers the real judgment teams need to evaluate and train their models.

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