# AI-moderated research interviews with real participants

Evaluate AI-led research interviews in PulseLake: an adaptive conversation follows your protocol, while your team reviews the evidence and findings. This is a research workflow with real participants, separate from synthetic research and scenario simulation.

## Relevant capabilities

- Adaptive conversational and avatar-based interviews
- Study context connecting the research question, protocol and evidence
- Qualitative themes linked back to participant excerpts

## How to compare

- Does the protocol allow appropriate probing without leading the participant?
- How will you obtain consent and review interview quality?
- Can researchers trace an important finding to the original evidence?

## Bring these inputs

- Business decision and target participant profile
- Interview guide, consent requirements and recruitment plan
- Review criteria for probing, coverage and evidence quality

## A practical first workflow

- Choose a focused research question and define the participant audience.
- Agree the interview protocol, consent process and pilot scope.
- Run a small agreed pilot, review the evidence and revise the guide before scaling.

## Check before expanding

- Review whether important prompts were covered.
- Inspect misleading probes and unsupported interpretations.
- Keep participant evidence separate from synthetic or simulated outputs.

## Economics
Compare the agreed software and study scope, researcher review, recruitment or sample, participant incentives and delivery requirements. Confirm current charges and inclusions before paid work; creating an account does not make every service free.

## Switching considerations
Pilot a representative workflow and confirm data permissions, supported formats and required outputs before retiring existing tools. This page does not assert blanket feature parity or automatic migration from another product.

## Free next step
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## Sources
- https://www.pulselake.co/
- https://www.pulselake.co/answers/what-is-an-ai-moderated-interview

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