For independent, boutique & in-house qualitative researchers

Synthetic consumers generated from your brief

Stop guessing what to ask before fieldwork.

QualiSynth generates and interviews the synthetic consumers your study needs — from a focused cohort to several hundred — so you pressure-test your hypotheses before you commit real fieldwork budget.

We build the panel from your brief. You give us the brief, audience and interview guide; we generate the synthetic respondents, interview them conversationally, and show the evidence behind every theme. It is not transcript analysis — we create the respondents, we do not process yours.

Back-tested against real-world survey data, and benchmarked against humans theme by theme.
Speed
217 interviews · under 30 min
A real study, end to end. Scale to what the research needs.
Evidence
Theme → quote
Every insight links back to the transcript that produced it.
Deliverable
Agency-grade PPTX + PDF
The file you ship to your client, not a dashboard screenshot.
Real study · Spain 2026
Insurance Coverage Choice
N=217 synthetic consumers · SHQI 0.989
Mode
Synthetic
Interviews
217
SHQI 0.989 · 2.3% rejected
Top positive signal
Peace of mind
145 spontaneous mentions across all segments
Top rejection pattern
Fear-based upsell
125 mentions — rejected every single time
Verbatim · Spain 2026
What stops you from switching insurer, even when you're not happy?
"Price is the brake. Complexity is the fog. The fog is worse — it stops me from even seeing the road."
Structured output
Top positive
Peace of mind — 145 spontaneous mentions
Top rejection
Fear-based upsell — 125 mentions, 0 acceptances
Unmet need
Transparent, simple coverage without scare tactics
Traditional qualitative pre-research
Desk research + intuition, up to two weeks

Teams walk into the briefing with secondary data and assumptions — because real pre-interviews cost as much as the study itself.

QualiSynth pre-research
Generated interviews + traceable output in 30 minutes

Segmented synthetic respondents, transcripts you can quote, evidence-linked themes and an agency-grade deliverable — before real fieldwork starts.

Evidence trail, not black-box insight

From brief, to synthetic conversation, to a traceable theme.

Before we ask you to trust synthetic research, we show you where the output comes from. This is one real study, end to end.

Client brief

"Why do customers stay with their insurer even when they are unhappy?"

Internal hypothesis: Price is the main barrier.

Audience: Spanish insurance customers, mixed age and income segments.

Guide: Switching triggers, trust, coverage understanding, reactions to renewal messaging.

Verbatim from the study
Interviewer

What stops you from switching insurer, even when you are not happy?

Synthetic respondent

"Price is the brake. Complexity is the fog. The fog is worse — it stops me from even seeing the road."

Theme detected

Complexity blocks switching more than price.

Mapped across 217 synthetic interviews — strongest where coverage feels hardest to compare.

Decision changed

The brief shifted before fieldwork.

From "test price messaging" to "probe clarity, trust, and rejection of scare tactics".

Real study · Spain 2026

What 217 Spanish insurance consumers actually said

Insurance Coverage Choice — Spain 2026. N=217 synthetic consumers. SHQI 0.989.

A client needed to understand why Spanish consumers stay with their insurer even when unhappy — and what triggers switching. The internal hypothesis: price is the main barrier. They ran 217 synthetic consumer interviews in under 30 minutes.

What the study found:
  • Fear-based upsell was the #1 rejected pattern — 125 mentions, 0 acceptances across all 217 respondents
  • Mapfre dominated spontaneous recall with 530 mentions — 2.2× more than any competitor
  • "Complexity is the fog" — consumers could not evaluate coverage options, so they stayed put by default
The hypothesis was wrong — price was not the primary barrier.

The real blocker was complexity and distrust of scare tactics. The brief shifted from price messaging to transparency and simplicity — before a single real interview started.

Before

Hypothesis: price is the main barrier.

After

Real blocker: complexity and distrust of scare tactics.

Result

The fieldwork guide was rewritten before a single real interview — before any of the budget was spent on the wrong questions.

Human vs synthetic

You don't have to "believe" in synthetic.

See where it aligns with humans. And where it doesn't.

Mirror View runs the same interview guide on humans and synthetics and compares them side by side — mention rates, themes, sentiment. Same analysis pipeline, same metrics. You ship convergence and divergence, not AI claims.

Live example: hybrid study, ChatGPT productivity

3 human + 18 synthetic respondents, same guide, real convergence.

Real dashboard excerpt, data anonymised.
Efficiency (driver)
Human 67%
Synthetic 61%
High convergence
Accuracy concerns (barrier)
Human 33%
Synthetic 28%
Aligned
Learning curve (barrier)
Human 33%
Synthetic 17%
Divergence — worth probing
Why this matters
  • Same interview guide and analysis pipeline for humans and synthetics — comparable outputs.
  • Quotes and evidence trace back to conversation transcripts, not free-floating AI summaries.
  • Use synthetic for coverage and speed; use humans when live validation is required.
Why researchers trust the output

Built to be audited, not believed.

Every claim on this page maps to something you can inspect — not an AI wrapper that asks for faith.

  • SHQI — 12 deterministic quality metrics, no LLM in the scoring loop
  • Mirror View — human vs synthetic on the same guide and pipeline
  • Every theme linked back to the conversation that produced it
  • Full transcript export — read the raw evidence yourself
  • Population back-tested against real-world survey data (World Values Survey)
  • Honest about limits — we show you where synthetic diverges from human
Try QualiSynth

Describe people. Talk to them.

Generate synthetic respondents from a plain-text description and ask them one question — in your own market and language. This is a free demo of the engine, not a full study. No signup.

5 synthetic respondents · 1 question · SHQI quality score · free · no signup

1. Describe people2. Meet them3. Ask one question
Describe the people
AI-skeptical consumers in the US, 30–45, who distrust big tech
Market
United States · United Kingdom · Spain · Mexico · Germany…
Ask one question
Would you trust an AI assistant with your finances?
Open the free playground →
From brief to boardroom

Built for the researcher who still has to present on Friday.

Everything from the brief to the final deck: the process you run, the insights it surfaces, and the artefacts you hand a client — editable, traceable, boardroom-ready.

Research workflow
Study setup and audience definition
Interview guide builder
Synthetic, human, and hybrid fieldwork
Conversation monitoring and evidence capture
Insight output
Drivers, barriers, and unmet needs
Segment-level patterns
Voice of consumer, traceable quotes
Structured data export (JSON / CSV)
Client deliverable
Agency-grade PPTX with charts and narrative
Executive PDF with radar and distribution
Mirror View report (hybrid studies)
Exportable insight bank per study
Use cases

More than pre-research: pressure-test anything you would normally take to a focus group.

Same engine, different study object. Put a value proposition, message or concept in front of your target consumer and see how they read it — directionally, before you spend on live testing.

Concept & product testingMessage, claim & pitch testingLanding & ad copy reactionsBrand & category explorationSegment prioritisation
We use it on ourselves

We pressure-tested this very page with QualiSynth.

Before publishing, we ran synthetic interviews with agency researchers in the US, UK and Spain — the exact buyers this page is for.

Finding

One finding: buyers thought QualiSynth analysed their own transcripts, instead of generating respondents.

Resolution

That's why this page now leads with the mechanism. Directional, fast, and honest about its limits — exactly how we'd want you to use it.

What QualiSynth is not

Honest limits make the product more credible.

The fastest way to destroy a research relationship is over-promising. Here is what QualiSynth does not do, so we start the conversation on solid ground.

Not transcript analysis

We do not just code interviews you already have. We generate and interview synthetic consumers from your brief.

Not a replacement for fieldwork

Use it for pre-research, concept pressure-testing and hybrid coverage. In hybrid studies we place synthetics next to real respondents so you see where they converge and diverge.

Not a quantitative panel

Useful N runs into the low hundreds for qualitative depth. If you need statistical significance at N>500, keep your panel partner — use us for the pre-work.

Not an automatic insights generator

Every theme in the report links back to the conversation that produced it. SHQI, Mirror View and full transcripts — visible and auditable.

FAQ

Clear answers for agency leads evaluating the platform.

Can we upload our own transcripts?

That is possible in hybrid workflows, but it is not the core. The core is generating and interviewing synthetic consumers from your brief — and showing the evidence behind every theme.

How many synthetic respondents can you run?

From a focused pre-research cohort to several hundred in a single study (our largest to date ran 217). We are qualitative — for statistical significance at N>500, keep your quant panel.

How do you validate the synthetic respondents?

Every conversation is scored with SHQI (12 deterministic metrics, no LLM in the scoring loop). Hybrid studies run the same guide on humans and show you the convergence per theme, so you can audit alignment per study.

Is QualiSynth a survey tool?

No. It is built for conversational qualitative research, not static form collection. We run interviews with follow-ups and context capture.

Is the report editable?

Yes. We generate agency-grade PPTX with native charts — editable in PowerPoint or Keynote. The PDF is for executive distribution. Plus JSON / CSV exports for downstream analysis.

Should we trust synthetic respondents?

Treat them as a fast, directional complement — not a replacement for every human validation. In hybrid mode you see how synthetic mention rates and themes align with humans on the same metrics, with evidence traceable to transcripts.

Who it is for

Designed around how qualitative researchers actually work.

Freelance & independent researchers

Run a directional pre-test on your next brief and hand your client a branded deck — without subcontracting a full panel or blowing the budget.

Boutique qualitative research agencies

Run more studies, reduce pre-research turnaround, deliver stronger hypothesis maps and briefings to clients.

Strategy and innovation consultancies

Use conversational synthetic interviews to pressure-test concepts and positioning before client presentations.

In-house consumer insight teams

Test brand perception, product concepts, and unmet needs with a pre-research sprint before committing to real fieldwork.

Get in touch

Book a demo or start a study.

Tell us about your agency and the next study in your pipeline. We will show you the mechanism, the evidence trail and the deliverable — not just a slide deck.

Boutique agencies

Run multiple pre-research sprints in parallel and deliver faster to clients.

In-house insight teams

Walk through a real brand health or concept test end to end.

Strategy consultancies

Explore how conversational synthetic interviews fit your concept and positioning work.