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Real-time market research and consumer insights platform for surveys and brand tracking.

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Appinio is layering AI across the research workflow, from survey draft to reusable insight.

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◆Current state
Appinio is steadily wrapping its survey platform in AI: importing drafts from any document format, generating sentiment and multi-question insights on results, and turning past studies into a queryable knowledge base. The non-AI work is polish — dark mode, white-labeled sharing, flexible KPI displays, richer significance testing — aimed at making the tool presentable to stakeholders. The shape is a research tool trying to compress the distance between fielding a survey and acting on it.
◆Where it's heading
Direction is toward AI handling the tedious ends of research: setup and synthesis. The questionnaire importer removes data entry at the front; sentiment analysis and the cross-survey knowledge base remove manual reading at the back. If the knowledge base graduates from beta, Appinio shifts from a per-study tool toward an institutional research memory.
◆Prediction
Expect the beta knowledge base to reach general availability and connect to the AI insights engine, so users query across all historical surveys rather than analyzing one at a time.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7mo ago

    AI-Powered Questionnaire Importer

    The AI questionnaire importer attacks the front end of the workflow: drag in a Word, Excel, PDF, or PowerPoint draft and it becomes a formatted, launchable survey. It fits the arc of using AI to remove manual setup, complementing the synthesis-side AI features shipped earlier in the year. Useful friction removal rather than a new capability surface.

  2. 8mo ago

    Hello, Dark Mode 🌚

    Dark mode is a cosmetic preference with no effect on the research workflow. It signals attention to everyday UX polish but carries no analytical weight.

  3. 10mo ago

    Additional KPIs, clearer insights | Top-bottom 3–5 metrics, sorted your way

    Configurable top/bottom 3-5 KPI displays with custom sorting sharpen how Matrix and Likert results summarize at a glance. It is incremental reporting flexibility that supports the broader goal of making results faster to read and present.

  4. 11mo ago

    White-labeled public links | Share insights under your own brand

    White-labeled public links let users share results without Appinio branding, aimed squarely at agencies and teams presenting to clients and stakeholders. It is a presentation-layer improvement that broadens who Appinio output can be shown to, not a change in analytical capability.

  5. 11mo ago

    Sentiment Analysis | Add emotional context to open-ended questions

    One-click sentiment analysis turns open-ended responses into positive/neutral/negative signals visualized as a chart, filterable like any other result. It is a substantive addition to the AI-synthesis side of the product, extending automated analysis from structured data into free text. Strong but discrete — one new analysis type rather than a directional shift.

  6. 0y ago

    All your research, now your own knowledge base

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    The cross-survey knowledge base (beta) lets users ask one question and get themes, summaries, and linked insights drawn from all past surveys. It is the most directional move in the set: it reframes Appinio from a tool for running individual studies into a persistent, queryable research memory.