AI Product Lead at Typeform | AI Research to Decide What to Build Next in Hours, Not Weeks
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The video introduces "Research Flow," an innovative AI-powered tool developed by Typeform designed to bridge the gap between product management, design, and research teams. The speakers explain that traditional workflows often force a painful trade-off between speed and depth; quantitative surveys are fast but lack nuance, while qualitative interviews provide rich context but require significant time for scheduling, conducting, and analyzing. Research Flow solves this by combining both methods into a single platform where an AI moderator conducts mixed-method studies in real-time. This agent probes respondents with follow-up questions based on their initial answers, capturing the depth of human conversation—such as tone, hesitation, and body language—while simultaneously generating quantitative data structures like Likert scales to satisfy stakeholder needs for quick metrics.
The demonstration highlights how the tool accelerates research execution from weeks down to hours by automating tedious tasks like participant recruitment, screening, and transcription analysis. The speakers share their personal journey with the product, noting that while they initially resisted it as a threat to rigorous human oversight, collaboration between researchers and engineers transformed the experience into an indispensable asset. By integrating directly with panels like Prolific or internal user bases, the tool allows teams to launch studies instantly and synthesize results in minutes rather than days. The AI not only manages the logistics of finding diverse participants but also adapts its questioning style dynamically, ensuring that even brief interactions yield actionable insights without forcing respondents through repetitive logic trees.
A key strength demonstrated is the platform's ability to present complex data in an executive-friendly format while preserving access to raw evidence for deeper dives. The AI generates high-level summaries and highlight reels featuring video clips of real users discussing their experiences, which are often more persuasive than charts alone when communicating with leadership or engineering teams. Researchers can instantly filter these insights by sentiment—focusing on trust blockers like accuracy issues in data analysis versus creative successes—or zoom into individual transcripts to understand specific user motivations. This capability ensures that product decisions are backed by both broad statistical trends and authentic human stories, allowing teams to build features with confidence even when facing tight deadlines or competing priorities from leadership.
Ultimately, the speakers conclude that Research Flow represents a paradigm shift in how organizations approach market research, particularly for AI products where trust is paramount. The tool empowers non-researchers like product managers to conduct serious, rigorous studies without needing deep expertise in methodology, effectively democratizing access to high-quality data. By capturing subtle human elements such as eye rolls or frustration alongside structured survey responses, the platform provides a holistic view of user sentiment that traditional tools miss. For Typeform and similar companies operating with small research teams but large product roadmaps, this technology is no longer just an efficiency booster but a critical necessity for validating ideas quickly and building products that truly resonate with real human experiences.
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Hello.
>> Hi everyone. I'm Sun. I'm a lead product
manager at Titeform working on our
analytics features and I've spent years
building products and what's been the
hardest part about being a PM and
actually building is having the
confidence to know that we're actually
building the right thing.
>> Exactly. Uh I'm Lee. I'm the senior
director of research at Type Forum. So
even though I'm the senior director, I'm
actually 95% IC. I spend much of my day,
the majority of my day executing
research, running research, not just
overseeing it. I have a PhD in social
psychology and for many years I actually
studied close relationships like
romantic relationships, uh,
relationships between family members.
Then I moved into studying the
relationship between mental health
practitioners and their clients. And
then finally, I moved into studying the
close relationships we have with our
closest technology, which is how I
transitioned out of academia into tech.
I'm also a research methods professor at
UC Davis and UC Berkeley. Um, the reason
I'm telling you this is because what
we're going to share with you today is
essentially a new research method, a
mixed method AI automated project um
product. And I want you to know that as
um a researcher and as a as someone who
communicates research lessons and best
practices to hundreds or thousands of
students every year, I need the kind of
tools that we use for mixed methods
research to actually be reliable to be
something that I trust to be something
that I feel are rigorous and follow best
practices. And it is not easy I would
say to like hit that bar for me. I don't
want to embarrass myself by using tools
that don't work. I don't want to be
discredited as a researcher by using
tools that don't work. And so what we're
going to share with you today is a tool
we've integrated into our tech stack
that has changed our lives. I know that
sounds cheesy, but has changed our
ability to do research quickly. And so
um I know Sun introduced herself as a
PM, lead PM at type forum. She and I
have been working with each other for
two years, two and a half years at this
point. And I think something that I've
learned as a researcher, director, and I
see is that when product and design and
research actually collaborate well
together, that's when we're able to
create the most value. And that sounds
obvious, but in practice, it's actually
really hard. I can think back, sorry,
son. I can think back to the first
couple of
>> Yeah.
that son and I were collaborating and I
was like delivering research to her and
then she'd like come up with her next
roadmap items and I was like is this
based on the research? Is this based on
any research? And she was like girl I
have priorities like yes it is based in
part on the research but I'm managing
these other things. I'm managing tons of
other tradeoffs. Um, and I'd say it was
a positive relationship to start, but
that we were really trying to negotiate
how and to what extent she could bring
in-depth uh, intense quantitative and
qualitative research into her process
quickly so that it didn't hold her back.
And I know that we're on a a webinar
with AI product builders, product
managers, designers, and we know what
those competing priorities are, right?
Like you have a road map item that
you're working on, and then the
leadership team has an idea that they
think would be worth investing in. You
see a competitor launch a new product
that makes you kind of rethink potential
strategies, how you're responding to
this. you maybe have some customers who
are giving you feedback saying that this
is what I would want or this is what I
would need to upgrade to the next plan
etc. And as PMs and designers we're
trying to manage all of those competing
priorities while trying to stay close to
the customer and have really good
research and data that validates what
you're building so you can build with
confidence.
>> Exactly. And then researchers who want
to support your process and your
workflow with that data um can't always
move as quickly as you need to move. I'm
one of the researchers that does
actually believe we slow people down and
that that's not always necessary.
Sometimes we can move lightning quick,
but like the main complaint I will get
from stakeholders is like look, I need
this in two days and I have really
strong intuition uh and experience and
data. I've been collecting for the
direction we need to move in. Right? But
if you want to you bring research into
the process formally, I'm going to need
it in 48 hours, right? And so there's
those moments where my team can either
drop everything we're doing based off of
the urgency and the risk and make sure
we get those data to teams or to be
frank like we can't deliver at the speed
that they need us to deliver and we end
up having to move forward without
research or we used to have to end up
moving forward without research. Um so
what we're going to walk through today
is this new product that type form has
created called research flow. Before son
jumps in, I do just want to get real for
a second and say that
eight, nine months ago when the teams
were initially building this, they
brought it to my team, right, to test
and to trial and get feedback on because
we're buyers of the product, right?
We're power users or we would be power
users of the product. At a company like
Typform, there's 200 plus people at the
company, only four researchers, and they
were running it by us to get our
feedback on whether or not it made our
lives easier, whether or not it could
replace some of the tasks we were doing.
And eight months ago, I was like, hard
no. I was like, this is making my life
harder. I would never use this tool. And
so, we worked in conjunction with the
PMs, with the designers, with the
engineers. They took our feedback very
seriously. We also collected feedback
from dozens and dozens of customers who
might be interested in using this type
of product. And we I'd say we turned the
corner really in late January, early
February where my team did start using
it, replacing competitor tools with it,
replacing our own workflows with the
tool. And I remember if you had seen my
feedback at the end of last year, end of
2025, where I was making people cry with
my feedback like hand to God, making
people cry, giving them feedback about
what the ways the tools letting us down,
right? And the ways we needed it to step
up to now where I can't imagine,
I know this sounds cheesy, but like I
can't imagine not having this tool in my
tech stack. I can't imagine taking on
the work that we take on, especially as
a four-person team without this type of
tool in our tech stack. Like it is night
and day and it's still being developed,
right? New features are being released
every time I come into it. But it's
really the question of like what do we
all need? What do researchers need? What
do non-ressearchers doing research,
doing serious research need to get their
jobs done? And so with that, I'll
actually uh hand it over to Sun. We're
going to jump into the interface and
show you what we've been using and how
we've been working.
>> Yeah. [clears throat] So, before we even
go into the user face, let me just give
you like a highle overview of what
research flow is. Building off of what
Lee just said, you know, every PM, every
designer, anyone who's working under
time constraints knows that you're
wanting to both have confidence in what
you're building, but you're also making
trade-offs every single day. And the
trade-off that I oftentimes make with
research is surveys are really fast.
They're easy. I can maybe launch a
survey without even having the research
team help me because I can draft
multiple choice questions and just send
it out into the wild. However, a survey
just tells you what happened. It doesn't
really give you that color or nuance.
And that's where I would typically want
to get on customer calls and do
moderated interviews. But anyone who's
done moderated interviews knows how
painful that can be. You have to
schedule them. You have to be extremely
present and engaged for the 30 to 60
minute session. You have to take notes.
You have to look at the transcript. You
have to find patterns across all of
them. And it's it's painful. So you're
oftentimes choosing between speed of a
traditional like quantitative survey or
death which you get in those moderated
interviews. And you
>> Yeah. And it's not just painful girl.
Sometimes it's straight up impossible.
Like if I need to be if you want to talk
to 10 people and I'm talking to them for
10 hours each, that's at least 10 hours
of work because 10 hours on every call,
however many hours it took to find them.
And then maybe like two to four hours
re-watching the hourong video. So I got
to express my pain [laughter] around
>> I feel it too.
>> Yeah, I know you do, girl. I know we all
feel it. And [laughter] so
>> please continue. Yes,
>> it's great when you have a research team
like Lee at Typform, but like we already
talked about, there's all these
constraints. And so what research flow
does at a high level is that it's a
single tool that runs both qualitative
and quantitative data. You, the
researcher or the PM designer, can set
the structure of the research that you
want to run. And an AI moderator takes
the context of your research goals, the
questions that you've asked, and follows
up with the respondent to learn more. So
that's a high level. And now that we're
in the product, let's actually talk
about how you would start using this
tool. Let's show you how the research
agent even helps you with the study
process. And I'll turn it over to Lee to
just walk us through that.
>> Yeah. So let's just imagine and this is
the study that we're going to walk you
through today like the one we ran end to
end that you're interested in the extent
to which people trust AI tools. So what
you're looking at right now is the very
first stage in the research flow
interface where I can straight up drop a
question in something sad and busted,
right? I need a one to five question
asking how much people trust AI. This
isn't me thinking really deeply. This
isn't me uploading a 10-page research
script. It's me moving as quickly as I
can to start generating study questions.
So, what you'll see is that this is a
chat interface. And so, I'm able to say,
"Look, I need this type of question."
And it's going to think about what I've
uh prompted it with just like any
generative AI chatbot you've seen,
except for this one is trained
specifically on research methods. So,
it's like happy to help Lee to make this
study useful. What specific aspect of
trust in AI do you want to measure?
That's actually a very good question.
overall trust, trust for work decisions,
trust in accuracy, trust in how AI uses
data. I want to be like, I want all of
those.
I want to hear about concrete
experiences.
So,
you have this ability to go back and
forth with the agent just like you would
with any generative AI tool, except you
know you're talking to an agent who's
been trained on best practices. They're
going to probe you until it knows enough
to start generating study questions that
are meaningful. So it's saying that
helps. This study is about understanding
overall trust in AI, understanding,
sorry, including trust for work
decisions, accuracy, data use, the real
experiences, shaping those views, etc.
So just wanted to show you really
quickly how you can go back and forth.
But you can also just upload some
questions into this uh interface if you
already know what you're gonna say, what
you want to ask. Like Sun and I might
have different experiences, right? I
might already have a full script written
out because my job as a researcher is to
build these types of questions, but Sun,
I know that you have a different
experience when you're generating your
research questions for studies. And as
I've used our tool, one thing that I
found really helpful is like I
oftentimes have an idea or some question
that I'm trying to answer. But what I
sometimes forget is to think about how
would I actually take this research and
present it to a stakeholder that I'm
maybe trying to influence. Is it my
leadership team? Is it the engineers
that I'm working with? Is it the
designer that I'm partnering with on
this? And so it will really help you
narrow your hypothesis and be crisp on
what you're actually trying to get out
of the research, which is so critical
because even though this tool helps so
much, having more clarity in what you're
actually trying to use the research for
is only going to make you better as a
product builder, especially with all the
AI slop that's out there in the world.
Like, you need to be critical in
thinking about how do you build
meaningful products and that's always
been the core of building great
features. And that's not changing with
AI. It's just now a different landscape
that we're working in.
>> Exactly. And just to call back to what
Sun just said, you can see that the
research agent here does ask, "What
decision will this research drive?" And
that is definitely one of the questions
we often find stakeholders aren't
thinking about at the very beginning of
collecting the data. The best PMS and
designers always have it on their mind.
But just in case it didn't occur to you
while you're building out those study
questions, interview questions, survey
questions, focus group questions,
usability testing questions, whatever
types of questions you're building, um
the agent is going to prompt you with
the same types of questions that I as a
researcher might ask you if I was
planning to run this study on your
behalf. And so you can see it's it's
actually prompting here. For example,
whether to shape type forms AI product
direction, probably. How to position AI
features and messaging. Yes, probably.
Or which trust concerns to address
first. So, it's even giving you
thoughtful recommendations of how you
could use this uh the research moving
forward, which listen, [laughter] it's
actually hard to ask these questions and
then to build a study that reflects not
just what you want to ask respondents,
but then what you want to do with that
data later. So, you're going to be able
to do all of that um in this
conversational chatbot. So, now that
we've showed you this helpful
experience, I want to actually take you
into a study that we've launched prior
to us joining this webinar because
we're all AI product builders and we
know that we have [clears throat] a lot
of questions here when we're building
things. And so, we wanted to run a study
not asking people like whether they use
AI because basically everyone uses AI
now. We want to get into how they use
it, how much control they're willing to
give AI, in what circumstances would
they want to give more trust or less
trust. And so let let me walk you
through how the study actually works. So
like a traditional study, we have a
welcome screen. We added some screeners.
So this is to make sure that we're
getting the right people to take the
study. And then we have research
questions. So you'll see that these
research questions are really around the
idea of how do we have people um engage
with AI. The first question that you'll
see is a multiple choice question very
similar to one that you might ask on a
traditional survey. How much overall how
much do you trust AI? It's on a one to
five scale. And if we just use a
traditional method, all you would get
from this is a distribution and maybe an
average number of what the average trust
in AI is. But we know that as builders,
we really care about in what
circumstances does this change? There's
so much nuance to this and you don't get
that with just a straight multiple
choice. So, you'll see that we have up
to three follow-up questions added, and
these are the the questions that the AI
moderator will probe specifically
launching off this question to get more
detail and color from the respondent.
Overall, this study has five questions.
You'll see um there four multiplechoice,
one open-ended. A couple of them have
follow-ups, but it's really about how
much do you trust AI? What would make
you trust an AI tool more? How do you
interact with AI tools? Describe what
tool you use the most and what reflects
your ideal way of working with AI. And
so I want to give you a taste of the
study that we actually ran because Lee's
going to run through the insights, but
we keep talking about like this AI
moderation experience and you're
probably like, what does this actually
mean? So, I'm gonna turn it over to Lee
to do a preview of this study so you can
actually see how it works in practice.
>> Exactly. So, I'm just going to do a
preview. I'm going to do it in real time
so you can see how this agent interacts
with us. Okay, I'm going to start the
study. First, we've got to set up the
interface. So, it's letting me know I
need to turn on my microphone and
camera, though. Sometimes we use video,
sometimes we use voice, sometimes we use
text. It really depends like what is the
most appropriate modality for the
audience you're going after. Sometimes
we know people don't want to be on
camera, right? And we are collecting
data that's maybe more private or
confidential. And so we'll we'll send
them to voice or we'll send them to
text. But for this study, we're going to
do video. So let's see. Get set up here.
Can you hear me? It is Lee. Can you see
me? It is Lee. You can. We're ready to
go. All right. I'm going to make this a
little bigger. Start the study.
Okay, agent.
Okay. Hi, I'll be asking you some
questions today. Have you ever used AI
like Chat GBT, Gemini Claude or similar
tools? Yes. Literally, I think of
ChachiBT is the fifth member of the
research team. I refer to him as
Japetto.
>> And these are the screener questions
that we set up at the very beginning.
>> That's right. Thank you. Can you think
of at least one concrete experience
you've had where the AI tool dis where
where the AI tool disappointed you or
let you down? Yes, I can remember an
experience where AI has let me down.
This is uh like Sun said, we just got
through the two screener questions
because we want to make sure we're
talking to people who have used the AI
tools and who have had not just positive
experiences but negative experiences
with them. All right, thanks for your
responses so far. This study explores
how people use AI and when it works and
doesn't work. Let's continue. Okay,
let's continue.
All right. Overall, how much do you
trust AI? This is that traditional
liyker scale question that you're going
to see in a basic form or survey.
There's a lot of power behind these
seemingly simple uh liyker scale
questions because they do lead you to
have quantitative output um and they're
easy for respondents to take. But I'm
just going to say how much do I trust
AI? Answering honestly like somewhat.
It depends
what makes it land at somewhat trust for
you rather than higher or lower. So I
don't know like sometimes it's hard to
trust AI.
So Lee's response here is a classic
example of what a respondent would
actually say. We have a pool of
respondents who are like, I'm busy. I
don't really want to take this study,
but I'm just going to do it. And so
they're going to just give you fast,
quick answers because they just want to
get it over with. And that's when you
would want to have a true moderator in
the conversation to probe more and to
get more details. Then you have this
other pool of respondents who are like
helpful, want to are engaged, and think
that that response because it actually
just straight up answered the question
was all you needed. But it's very
shallow and surface level. And in both
of those situations, you would want
someone to be like, "And tell me more."
And so, let's see how the AI moderator
takes Lee's response and follows up on
it. Because you'll see this question,
what makes it land some at somewhat
trust for you, wasn't in our original
research outline. This is an AI
moderator follow-up.
>> Exactly. And so, I was just like, I
don't know. Sometimes it's hard to
trust. So, let's see how it handles
that.
thinking.
When does it feel hardest to trust AI in
real life? Tell me about a recent moment
that made you hesitate. Okay, this is
probing me in a way I would want to be
probed. I could still give a shitty
answer if I wanted to, but it's trying
to be more pointed here. When does it
feel hardest to trust AI in real life?
It usually feels hard when I feel like
it's output something that is not
accurate or I can tell that it's output
something that's not accurate. I use it
a lot for uh data an analysis, coding,
etc. And there are times it spits out
stuff to me. I feel like it's going to
work and then I try to use it and it
doesn't work or it doesn't complete my
task successfully. So that's a that is a
moment where it feels hard to trust AI
in real life. Move to the next one. I
now feel I'm in conversation with this
tool.
I did talk for a long time. So, it's
going to think through this.
That mismatch between confident output
and broken code is a rough one. It is.
What types of things would make you
trust AI tools more? That is, what would
make AI feel more like a trusted
teammate? Uh, it's like when I'm
actually collaborating with a trusted
teammate, there's a lot that goes into
building that relationship. So, I'd
already want them to have verified that
they're an expert. I want to already
feel like they know what they're doing
and that I can hand off tasks to them.
But more concretely, like when I'm
dealing with broken code or output
that's not reliable, I want a way to
verify and check that the output you've
given me is actually something that's
going to be functional, efficient, and
worthwhile. And notice that first
sentence, that mismatch between
confident output and broken code is a
rough one. Those kinds of connections
between questions that the AI moderator
asked really makes this feel like a
natural conversation. So, as a
respondent, you feel like you're
actually in conversation with someone
that's listening to what you're saying.
It's not going to ask you repetitive
questions that you're like, I just
answered this. Which is what you
sometimes get when you're just relying
on like logic and branching or if
statements like this moderator is really
thinking about what is the researcher's
goal here and what has the participant
actually said. Mhm. Okay, I'm going to
drop out of the preview for now because
we just uh wanted you to get a little
bit of a flavor of what is actually
happening when the agent is interacting
with a live participant.
And so you'll see this is the study and
then after you actually have this study,
you need to find people to send this
study to or you actually need to start
collecting the data. So Lee's going to
share with you how we've used this tool
to collect data for a whole host of
studies that we've run. Yeah. Okay. So,
finding participants is one of the most
challenging um elements of doing
research for most teams, whether you're
a researcher or a non-ressearcher. If
you have a list of your existing
customers, that's amazing. And you're
able to build this study out, publish
your edits, create a link, and just
share it with whomever you want to share
it with. But sometimes, and I cannot
tell you how often, you really do need
larger samples. You can't just talk to
three customers or that one customer
over and over and over again depending
on how large your company is. So one
thing that we really make use of quite a
bit is this recruit panel. So we're able
from inside the product to source
respondents or participants from
prolific which is a great panel when you
have like BTOC questions. You want to
talk to the general population. You want
to understand the everyday average human
or a particular segment of the
population. women who have recently had
a kid and are breastfeeding and are
using um considering using formula. Uh
but you also have user interviews built
into the platform for those deeper um
um conversations you need to have with
experts like buyers who are making
buying decisions or experts in a
particular industry like medical doctors
who have very unique experiences that
you need to learn about in probe. So you
can see that we've already launched this
study to one recruitment group. We
gathered 25 responses and I had a
handful of filters on. What I am
actually going to do because we're going
to walk through the results for those 25
people is I'm just straight up gonna
launch this to another 25 people to show
you how quickly the tool can actually
locate the right respondents, screen
them, administer the mixed method
interview survey blend to them and
synthesize the results. So I am gonna
put one
>> one thing uh because of this study we
don't need a specialized set of
audiences.
>> Oh yeah best.
>> Good call. Thank you son. I was like
about to recruit from user interviews.
We can actually go to a more generalized
sample as son mentioned who hasn't used
AI. So almost anybody um over a certain
age has probably had experience with
this tool. So I'll go ahead and use the
prolific sample. Thank you girl.
[laughter] And I'm going to put a
primary language on for English just
because I want to make sure the results
are in my first language so I'm able to
consume the responses. But a a note is
that if you wrote your study in Serbian,
um, Spanish, French, Croatian, right,
the agent can deliver the study in that
language and it will also generate the
responses in that language, which has
been pretty important for us because we
do have an international market and are
trying to reach people across the world.
But I'm going to put a filter on for
English. I'm just going to ask for
another 25 people. And I've already put
in a little bit of information about the
study. It's a five minute study about
trust in AI and I'm going to just
publish it and launch it and we'll see
if in a few minutes we have actually
started to get more responses in
addition to the 25 we initially
collected. So publish and launch says 24
to 72 hours. I think it can move
quicker.
TBD.
All right. Got But we're doing it live
so we can really show you like if you
were to use this tool and you needed
insights because you had a meeting
tomorrow with your stakeholders and you
wanted to say here's the data to back up
my road map item or my design choice.
>> How fast you can actually collect the
data.
>> Exactly. So as of this moment 7:30 a.m.
Pacific time we have zero out of
additional of the additional 25
responses. I'm even tempted to just
refresh now. And to remind you, we
already collected 25 responses
earlier, and those are the results that
I'm going to walk you through. So, we
showed you what it's like to actually
build the product out. Sorry, build the
study out, build your research
questions, add welcome screen, screener.
There's other elements you can add in as
well. You can customize the design, etc.
We showed you what it's like to share
it. You can either create a link to send
to people or you can uh send it to an
internal panel. And now we're going to
look at some results. So this is my
favorite part. So [laughter]
whenever um I'm working with a new
teammate or a colleague and onboarding
them to using this tool um because my
team has really started to push people
in the direction of using this research
flow tool especially when we can't
manage or service every request that
comes through to our team. I'm pushing
them in this direction. But the thing I
want them to get to is the insights
because this is where so much of the
value lies for me. We've got 25
completed sessions here and this truly
would have taken me around 10 to 12
hours to field this research. And so
getting to the place where I can learn
from what the AI is extracting from the
raw data in just a few hours or just a
couple of days or just a few minutes in
some cases.
That's where the timesaver is for me.
Like
I don't know. It's it's it's it's hard
to express how like my conflict in this
space where like on one hand I'm like is
this just replacing me? And on the other
hand I'm like yes just replace me.
There's other value that we bring as
researchers to companies there's
additional research that we really do
need to have a human in the loop for.
But so much of the work that we do, we
have smart, intelligent. I know those
are synonyms, but smart, intelligent,
sophisticated, thoughtful, creative,
serious product partners and design
partners and engineer partners and GTM
partners, right? Marketing partners, PMM
partners that are able to build a study,
especially with the support of this kind
of tool. So I don't know game changer is
also a cliche but it has 100% been a
gamecher for me and my team. Okay so
let's look at some of the things. I'll
just orient you really quickly. You get
this executive summary that pulls out
the top key insights that are aggregated
across all of the respondents and all of
the questions. Sun and I went back and
forth with whether or not the executive
summary was valuable. And at first when
they were building the product I'm like
no no I'm a researcher. I'm gonna dive
deep into every question. I don't need
an executive summary. Do you remember
this sign?
>> Yes, I do.
>> I [laughter] was like I was like, "No,
if you're taking the data seriously,
you're just going to go in and you're
going to look at every question. You're
going to read every response. I don't
need an executive summary." Same with
the highlight reels. I was like, "I
don't want highlight reels. I need to go
in and I need to find the perfect
clips." But as you can see, you saw that
first clip, the second clip, third clip.
One of the things I want to point out
here is I'm already seeing gender
diversity, ethnic diversity, location
diversity. Some people it was light
outside, some people it was dark
outside. I'm seeing age diversity,
right? I'm realizing that when we have
this type of tool, it is incredibly
useful to be able to have summaries at
the top. This gave me a quick view of
like who was I talking to? Was I talking
to the same person in every single
respondent? And I'm already like, no,
no, I've got a great cross-section of
the population here. And then the
executive summary, being able to take
all of the data from across all of the
questions and all of the participants
and synthesize it into a few highlights.
I will be honest, like for the first two
months of working with this tool, I was
fact-checking every single highlight. I
was reading every single response,
watching every single video, and I
finally got to the point where I
realized like this is doing a as good of
a job, if not a better job, no, a better
job than me. It's certainly moving
quicker than me. And if anything else,
it's a great jumping off point for me to
do my deeper dive. So, let's see some of
the things it's learned.
>> Yeah, let's see. Okay. Accuracy and
verifiability are at the core are the
core trust blockers. No surprise there.
Uh users want AI to do the heavy lifting
but not decide alone. That's right.
Technical tasks earn trust. Emotional
depth remains off limits. Oh, that's
interesting. I can read that a little
more. Data analysis, code
interpretation, and general Q&A generate
clear satisfaction, making structured
information work AI's strongest zone.
Creative tasks spark enthusiasm but also
hesitation. Well, anything requiring
empathy or nuanced human understanding
is where users draw a firm line. Very
interesting. Um, okay. [clears throat]
So, this is that highlevel set of
insights you get. I spend a lot of my
time here. I think a lot of stakeholders
spend a lot of night their time here and
just jump into the highlight reels. you
can actually watch them and hear what
each person had to say around the main
key takeaways that were surfaced. But
here's here's where we kind of started
this conversation. Sun was talking about
how you might have this question
overall. How much do you trust AI?
Classic liker scale. I can look at this
graph. This is what you're going to see
in a traditional survey. And I can see
easily from my first 25 people trust is
falling somewhere around three and a
half out of five. Right? Can I really
take that back to my stakeholders and
expect them to be satisfied and expect
them to feel like they know how to
build, what to build, what to avoid if
they're trying to build products that
engender trust in AI. No, I cannot
because what happens is I go back and
I'm like, uh, trust is about three and a
half out of five. So, it's not on the
low side, it's not on the high side. I
can even give them this um summary
that's uh a synthesis of this quick bar
graph, right? But the first thing my
stakeholders ask me when I'm like a
trust is about three and a half out of
five is okay great that is interesting
but do you know like why
>> yeah exactly why
>> and I'm like we didn't we didn't we
didn't ask that question right you told
I showed you this question I told you I
was going to go in get an average trust
right but at the end of the day we have
to be able to answer why if we want
anything to be actionable
That is where I'm able to just go to the
follow-up questions. So, what this is is
a synthesis of every follow-up question
that was asked to every respondent
probing deeper regardless of what they
selected here. They're going to ask,
"Well, nobody look at that. Straight up,
nobody trusts AI completely." But
whether they said they trusted AI a lot
or they said they trusted it a little
bit, right? The AI is adapting its
follow-ups to that initial question and
diving deeper. And so just going to look
at a few of these really quickly.
Accuracy doubts define the trust
ceiling. Yeah, for sure. We already saw
that theme. We're seeing trust is
conditional on the task at hand. Yes,
makes sense. But ultimately, let's just
stop here because I just want you to see
a little slice of how I would how I use
this in real life. It's like accuracy
doubts define the trust ceiling. I'm
like, okay, that's intuitive to me. I
don't feel like that's wrong, but I need
to see the receipts, right? And my
stakeholders need to see the receipts.
So, I'm able to come into the topic. The
agent is going to surface the top quotes
for me. So, no hallucinating of quotes.
No, no quotes that come out of nowhere,
and I can't verify those came from an
actual participant. I'm actually going
to look at the negative one. Let's see
what they actually Let's just watch it.
So, this is going to allegedly be in
support of this idea that AI is not
accurate or reliable. We can jump in.
Let's take a look at this person says.
Okay. Hi. Hi, friend. Here we go.
>> Roster players, it was giving me the
wrong information. Coaches, I'd asked a
specific question about who held the
Florida Panthers rookie goalc scoring
record, and he told me it was Alex
Oveskin, who's only ever played for the
Washington Capitals. Uh,
you know, so it just really blatantly
wrong information.
>> Okay, that was compelling. That would
upset me if I was watching this and that
were my product. the PM. Like what I
love about this is
as helpful as it is to see, you know,
the written out explanations and the
charts, sometimes you just need a really
good sound bite to get people to
understand and empathize with what our
users are going through. So this person
who's like a big sports fan who's like
it was straight up wrong
like is sometimes the most compelling
piece of evidence that you can have when
trying to influence to support your road
map like it's unfortunate that sometimes
you can have all the data in the world
and one sound bite can be more
>> influencable that's the reality of the
situation and research flow you know Lee
talked about how you can do texton audio
Audio only, audio, video. We chose audio
and video because in these situations,
like seeing him roll his eyes, seeing
him engage, like take a pause really
shows like how authentic people are in
these responses.
>> Exactly. He's like his tone of voice is
so critical here. And yes, girl, I do
agree that. And whether, you know,
whether or not I like it, a really
compelling personal clip of a real
person talking about their experiences
is usually the thing that moves the
needle. But for people like me who are
like, "Yes, thank you for surfacing the
top quotes. I find these helpful. I
actually need to go and have an easy
place where I can look at everything."
And so this is where you can come in and
you can actually break down. It seems
that the 24 respondents who mentioned
this topic, 24 out of 25, they mentioned
it 90 different times. So, we can see
one person had a lot to say about
accuracy and reliability. H such it's
such a good range. Sorry. Such a good
range of participants when I'm just
seeing who they are and where they are.
And I'm like, I'm going to hear lots of
interesting ways people don't trust AI.
I can split this up by if I actually
want to go to stakeholders and
communicate, look, this is how we're
feeling, then I'm going to zoom in on
the negative feedback. If I want to talk
about where we're succeeding and what
we're doing right and how we want to
just push that further, optimize it, I'm
probably going to focus in on the
positive feedback. And so fundamentally
this gets me to a place where I can just
answer almost every stakeholder's
questions and push uh push data in their
direction for whatever their need is.
Whether it's improving something uh
because we know it's broken or not
effective, whether it's discovering
something new because they uh want to
develop a new set of features that
aren't in the product yet or a new way
of conceptualizing the design in a way
we haven't thought of. I can also give
evidence to the board, right, or the
executive LT around the places we're
doing really well and pull up those
highlights in those clips. So, I know
we're coming on time, right? I know. So,
>> we might since we ran the panel earlier.
>> I'm gonna check. I'm gonna check.
>> We should refresh the analysis.
>> All right.
>> Refresh the analysis on the insights
page. Lee,
>> first we got into 37 complete from 25
just in the time that Sun and I were
talking. And so I am going to refresh
the analysis. You can see we've only got
25 here. So what in like nine minutes?
And
>> and then let's go to the sessions table
while we have a couple of minutes and
just show people how you use that.
>> Perfect. So it's like I see more people
are coming in. But while that refreshes,
one of the features that I also really
love is while the insights aggregates
data across all participants and all
questions, sometimes you really need to
do a deep dive on a single person, one
respondent. So what you're seeing in
this table is um each response has its
own row and you've got their responses
to every question, but you also get this
brilliant little summary of this person.
So I can see this respondent uses AI for
both personal and work tasks. They use
it mostly for content creation. They
identify as a creator. And then it gives
me the main findings for this one
person, their motivations, their
concerns. And so I can actually zoom in
on them without having to read, "Yes, I
love this person. Look at their
sunglasses." I can zoom in on this
person without having to read the entire
transcript and have a quick overview of
who they are because maybe they're a
particular customer that I want to
highlight in a deck. And so, okay, let's
come back and see. All right, we're
refreshed. We've now got 37 responses.
Still, nobody trusts AI completely. But
what you're going to see is that the
insights themselves here. I know we
didn't go through all of them, but
they've already updated. So, we've
brought in an additional
12 people and it's synthesizing that
information immediately, updating the
topics, updating how much of the
sentiment was positive versus negative
in real time.
um updating some of the quotes
previously um and updating the mentions.
So there we Okay, I feel like we're
close to time, but we wanted to show you
how we use this product. Yeah.
>> And if you're interested in bringing
research flow to your team, we're
offering a special product school
attendees discount of $500 off your new
research flow plan and we'll share a
link that you can connect with our team
to learn more and take advantage of the
offer. We also didn't share with you
this actual study, but you can actually
share this link publicly if you want to
show that really quickly.
>> We'd love to send this. Um, you have to
turn the hidden on to visible.
>> Thanks, girl.
>> That's for privacy reasons. Um, so you
can then see and access this yourself
and see the different responses and see
like as responses come in how the nuance
and depth changes. And there's a lot of
really interesting things here that we
didn't even get to cover with just the
study with five questions.
>> So, I think we're at time, but thanks so
much for hanging out with us for a
little while. We can stop the demo. um
hanging out with us for a little while.
Um we're also always available if you're
thinking through like how do I um use
this kind of tool or even this kind of
method, right? Whatever tool you use to
get at quantitative and qualitative data
in one study. I can't think of a more
powerful method to use from going from
like your output being three and a half
out of five to te paragraphs and
paragraphs of text video clips that have
been organized um organized by topic and
sentiment for you. This is just a
massive jump and I'm at the point where
I don't even run traditional surveys
anymore unless there's a really strong
reason to not bring in the qualitative
data. like why would I not bring in that
additional color, the tone of voice, the
body language, the eye rolls, the
smiles, the frustration. And so I think
it just gets us closer to real human
experience instead of just clicking
buttons on a survey and not really
paying attention. That's what we got
[laughter]
>> much everyone. Right. Thank y'all.
Thanks y'all.