Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive.
Outset is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI-powered user interviews. The founders listed are Aaron Cannon (Founder), Michael Hess (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 12, 2023).
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Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive. Outset uses LLMs to lead interviews and synthesize results so researchers get high quality data 100 times faster.
Outset lists 2 open roles on its directory entry.
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Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business.
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Aaron Cannon
Founder
Co-founder and CEO of Outset. Aaron was previously the head of product at Untapped and Triplebyte and played senior product roles at Tesla, Pebble, and Monitor Deloitte before that. He started his career as a tour manager for a band called Timeflies.
Michael Hess
Founder
Engineer-turned-firefighter-turned-founder
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