AI-moderated user and customer interviews

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Usercall runs AI-moderated interviews: live, one-to-one voice conversations with real people. The AI moderator follows your guide, asks follow-up questions, and links every theme to the quotes behind it.

It's for product, UX research, CX and brand teams who want real user and customer interviews without a human moderator on every call.

  • 15-30+ interviews in 48 to 72 hours
  • 50+ languages, and every plan includes every language
  • We can recruit participants for you, or you can bring your own.
  • From $89 a month, or pay-as-you-go. Your first interview is free.
A 3-minute walkthrough of setup, live interviews, follow-up questions, and themes linked to real quotes.

How AI-moderated interviews work

1. Write your guide

Set the questions and what you need to learn. You can show images, mockups or prototypes during the interview.

2. Pick who to talk to

We can recruit participants for you, or you can bring your own. Recruiting reaches 95M+ people across our panel partners in 151 countries, and every participant is a real, screened person.

3. The AI moderator runs the interviews

Each interview is a live voice conversation in real time. The AI listens and asks follow-up questions on what the person just said. People are told they're talking to an AI. There's nothing to schedule, it runs 24/7, and many interviews run at the same time.

4. Read the themes

Every interview is transcribed and coded with no manual tagging. Each theme links back to the quotes and the full transcript.

Interviews are 12, 25 or 45 minutes depending on your plan (Lite, Core or Pro), and up to one hour on request.

What you get back

  • A full transcript of every interview
  • Themes, each linked to the quotes and transcripts behind it
  • Themes you can rename, add or remove (merging or splitting is done by hand)
  • Every coded excerpt as a CSV export
  • A report you can download, for example as PPT, so agencies can add their own branding

Want to dig into the data yourself? See qualitative analysis.

Interviews that start on their own

You can trigger an interview right after someone signs up, buys, activates, cancels or finishes a support chat. You hear from people while the moment is fresh, about something they actually did.

It works with a webhook from your product. Read the short answers, then invite the few worth a deeper conversation. See research triggers.

Who it's for

Product teams

Hear why people sign up, get stuck or leave, in their own words, without booking a call with each one.

UX researchers

Run more one-to-one qualitative interviews than one researcher could moderate. Your team can listen in live as a silent observer and queue questions for the AI to ask (Core, Pro and Custom plans).

CX and support teams

Talk to customers after a purchase, a cancellation or a support chat, and see the themes across all of them.

Brand and market research teams

Test ideas, messages and designs with real people in 50+ languages.

Agencies

Run studies for clients, export coded excerpts as CSV, and download reports you can brand.

How it compares to human moderators and surveys

A human moderator is great for a few deep sessions, but it's hard to run dozens in a week. A survey reaches many people, but you can't ask "why?" when an answer is vague.

AI-moderated interviews sit in between. Each one is a real conversation with follow-up questions, and you can run many at once. Every theme links to the exact quote, so you can check the findings yourself. Read more in are AI-moderated interviews as good as human-moderated ones?

Start on your own, no sales call

You don't need a demo to start. Sign up, write your guide and launch.

Your first interview is free. After that, plans start from $89 a month, or you can pay as you go. See pricing.

Guides

FAQ

What is an AI-moderated interview?
It's a one-to-one research conversation with a real person, where an AI moderator asks the questions and follows up on what the person just said. Usercall runs these as live voice interviews, and every theme links back to the quotes behind it.
Can AI run one-on-one user interviews without a human moderator?
Yes. The AI moderator runs each interview from your guide, so nobody on your team has to be on the call. If you want, your team can listen in live as a silent observer and queue questions for the AI to ask (Core, Pro and Custom plans).
Does the AI moderate interviews in real time?
Yes. Each interview is a live voice conversation, and the AI asks follow-up questions as the person talks.
How many interviews can I run at once?
Many interviews run at the same time, and there's nothing to schedule. You can get 15-30+ interviews in 48 to 72 hours.
Who are the participants, and do they know it's an AI?
Every participant is a real, screened person, and they're told they're talking to an AI. We can recruit participants for you, or you can bring your own.
How long is each interview?
Interviews are 12, 25 or 45 minutes depending on your plan (Lite, Core or Pro). Up to one hour is available on request.
How many languages does Usercall support?
50+ languages, and every plan includes every language.
Do I need a demo call to start?
No. You can sign up and launch on your own, and your first interview is free.
How much does Usercall cost?
Plans start from $89 a month, or you can pay as you go. Your first interview is free.