$7M+ raised from Lightspeed Luminous, Factorial Funds and other top-tier VCs

Real people.
Every signal.

Anyone you need to hear from, found and verified. AI interviews them while your team watches live, then every signal is analysed.

Trusted by builders and teams at

Google
Samsung
ByteDance
Tencent
Honda
Colgate-Palmolive
Midea
Supercell
miHoYo
Ant International
BambooHR
CoinGecko
Appier
Xylem
AJE Group
Stanford
Harvard
Cambridge
UC Berkeley
Columbia
Cornell
NYU
Michigan
Northeastern
London Business School
ISB
Case Western
Tec de Monterrey
Kadence International
EyeSee Research
Coleman Insights
Intellus Media
Focus Insite
DSTNCT
Accel
Insight Partners
ICONIQ Capital
Menlo Ventures
Redpoint
Foundation Capital
Plug and Play
Conviction
HF0
Altos Ventures
Headline
Left Lane Capital
Susa Ventures
Liquid 2 Ventures
Fish Audio
FinalRound AI
BeFreed
Bond
Spira
YouArt
AhaCreator
Scrumball
190,000+interviews run with real people
170M+people reachable, consumers to specialists
100+interviews completed in a single day
~4hfrom research goal to first insights

Who we reach

Talk to anyone
you need to hear from.

Most research tools stop at a consumer panel. We recruit the way an expert network does, for every study, at the price of a panel.

Consumers

By age, market, habit and language, from a pool of 170M+ people.

Your customers and B2B buyers

Decision makers, admins and end users, screened by role and company.

Experts in any profession

Doctors, lawyers, nurses, mechanics. Credentials checked before the interview.

Hard-to-reach people

30,000+ local recruiting partners for cohorts panels miss.

How we recruit participants →

Experts

Name a profession.
We will find them.

Surgeons and school teachers, pilots and plumbers. We recruit by profession, seniority, market and language, and check credentials before the first question.

Physician
Teacher
Pilot
Hardware engineer
Chef
Scientist
Hairdresser
Veterinarian
Journalist
Physiotherapist
Caregiver
Optometrist
Driver
Product manager
Physician
Teacher
Pilot
Hardware engineer
Chef
Scientist
Hairdresser
Veterinarian
Journalist
Physiotherapist
Caregiver
Optometrist
Driver
Product manager
Nurse
Lawyer
Architect
Financial analyst
Electrician
Farmer
Firefighter
Support agent
Tailor
Police officer
Factory worker
Paramedic
Veteran
Homemaker
Nurse
Lawyer
Architect
Financial analyst
Electrician
Farmer
Firefighter
Support agent
Tailor
Police officer
Factory worker
Paramedic
Veteran
Homemaker
Therapist
Mechanic
Software engineer
Accountant
Pharmacist
Real estate agent
Dentist
Site engineer
Musician
Designer
Banker
Hospitality worker
Librarian
Coach
Therapist
Mechanic
Software engineer
Accountant
Pharmacist
Real estate agent
Dentist
Site engineer
Musician
Designer
Banker
Hospitality worker
Librarian
Coach

How it works

From research goal to insights
in four steps.

01~5 min

Describe your goal

Tell Cookiy what you want to learn. It asks a few clarifying questions and writes an expert-level discussion guide.

02We handle it

Reach the right people

Consumers, customers or specialists in any profession. We source, screen and verify them. No agency, no scheduling.

03Autonomous

AI runs the interviews

Natural conversations that follow up when something is interesting. Watch live or review later.

04<24h

Get the answer

Every interview analysed, tagged and clipped, then turned into a report your team can act on.

See the whole platform →

Inside the interview

Every angle.
Every signal.

Most research captures what people say. Cookiy also captures how they say it, where they are and what they almost said.

AI moderator

“Walk me through what happened right after you cancelled.”

14:41 · Engagement drop

Shorter answers, less eye contact.

Follow-up

Dig into the price comparison she started and dropped.

Live · 3 observers
In-home
In-home

Smart follow-ups

When someone hesitates or says something unexpected, the moderator notices and digs deeper.

In their own space

Interviews at home, at work or in the store, where real behaviour happens.

Emotional signals

Sentiment and engagement tracked through every conversation, so you see where friction lives.

Live observation

Watch as it happens, flag moments for your team and add a topic mid-session.

Meet the AI moderator →

Real-time observer

Watch it live.
Steer it as it runs.

  • Sit in on many sessions at once, with your whole team
  • Live transcript, translated as people speak
  • Flag a moment and it is clipped for the report
  • Send the AI moderator a new topic mid-session; participants never see the backroom
LIVE · P07 · German
LIVE · P08 · Portuguese⚑ Flagged by Maya · 12:04
LIVE · P09 · Japanese
LIVE · P10 · English

More on live observation →

Methods

More than a video call.

01

AI interviews, 1:1 →

Twenty to a hundred-plus in-depth interviews in hours, in many languages, moderated by AI and watched by your team.

02

In the moment, with consent →

Some behaviour cannot be recalled in an interview. We record real moments with consent: shopping, cooking, a support call, a first run of your app.

03

Expert panels →

For hard questions, several specialists work the case together. You get the verdict, the reasoning and where they disagreed.

04

Groups and surveys →

Focus groups when people should react to each other, and multi-language surveys when you need the numbers behind the story.

After the interview

Read every interview.
Not just the transcript.

When the interviews end, the work starts. Each conversation is broken into four aligned timelines, then analysed by models and reviewed by people.

Hesitant
Upset
Delighted
P14 · Checkout study18:02 → 21:40
TranscriptWho said what, and when
TonePitch, pace, pauses, hesitation
EmotionFrustration, doubt, delight
BehaviourSkips, rereads, what they did on screen

“It's fine, I guess… [pause 2.1s] I just didn't expect the extra fee.”

Theme: hidden costsTone: resignedReviewed by annotator

Tone and paralinguistics

How something was said: hesitation, emphasis, sarcasm, the pause before a price. Measured across every session, not guessed from a quote.

Human labelling

Trained annotators code themes, check the AI's tags and label against your codebook. Linguists and domain experts when the study needs them.

Offline, across studies

Re-run analysis on past interviews with a new question. Compare cohorts, markets and waves without going back to field.

How analysis works →

For AI agents

Let any AI
talk to real people.

The Cookiy Skill and CLI turn any question into a full research program inside Claude, Codex or Cursor: participants, interviews, surveys and the report. Open source, MIT licensed.

QualAI interviews with real people, from five to hundreds per study
QuantMulti-language surveys with screening, conditional logic and recruitment, at the scale you need
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> /plugin marketplace add cookiy-ai/user-research-skill
> /plugin install user-research@cookiy-ai
✓ installed cookiy user-research

> Interview 20 ICU nurses about shift handover,
  then survey 2,000 nurses in the US and UK to size it.

● Discussion guide + survey drafted .. done
● 20 ICU nurses verified, interviewed  20/20
● Survey live in 2 markets ...... 1,312/2,000
● Themes, tone and crosstabs ...... running
→ One report: the quotes and the numbers

Deliverables

Ready to share
the moment fieldwork ends.

Report
  1. Background
  2. Business question
  3. Respondent profile
  4. Executive summary
  5. Key takeaways
  6. Recommendations

Written findings, ranked

A structured report with every claim linked to the quote and clip behind it.

Slides34%drop off at workspace setup

A deck your stakeholders read

Charts and numbers built from the interviews and surveys. No manual slide work.

Clip · 2:45

“A wall of logos.”

P8, DevOps lead, at 20:08
Decision paralysisSkip

The moments that matter

Key quotes and hesitations clipped with timestamp, tags and transcript.

From the team behind Cookiy Labs

The network frontier AI labs
buy human data from.

Cookiy Labs supplies AI labs with expert judgment, real conversations and recorded sessions. Your studies run on the same recruiting, verification and annotation.

Security and consent

Enterprise-ready
from the first study.

Participants always know they are talking to an AI and agree to how their words are used. Data is encrypted, access is logged, and we sign your DPA.

Security and privacy →

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
GDPR
HIPAA

Questions teams ask.

Is an AI moderator as good as a human interviewer?

It follows up in real time, picks up on hesitation and emotion, and never gets tired at interview forty. For most exploratory, concept and message research it matches experienced moderators at a fraction of the time and cost. Your team can watch live and step in.

Do participants know they are talking to an AI?

Yes, always. Transparency is part of our research ethics. Many participants tell us they are more candid with an AI than with a person.

Who can you recruit?

Consumers from a pool of 170M+ people, your own customers, B2B decision makers, and experts in almost any profession: doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, tradespeople. For hard-to-reach cohorts we work with 30,000+ local recruiting partners. Credentials are checked before the interview.

How do you keep quality high?

Every participant is screened and verified before the session. After each session, automated consistency checks run, and trained annotators review anything that gets flagged.

What happens after the interviews?

Each conversation is transcribed and analysed for themes, tone, emotion and behaviour. Annotators can label against your codebook, and you can re-run analysis on past studies with a new question.

How long until I see results?

Most studies deliver synthesized insights within 24 hours of launch. You can watch interviews live and read early findings as sessions wrap.

Who do you need
to hear from?

Free to start. No credit card. Video on this site is licensed stock footage of real people.