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# Dynamic follow ups
Study type
Availability
Usability tests (desktop)
true
Intercept studies
true
Participant responses often inspire additional questions you didn’t think to ask when designing your study. And this inspiration typically strikes during analysis when it’s too late for you to ask the participant to elaborate. But with the help of Dscout AI, you don’t have to wait to ask a follow-up question.
Dscout AI can analyze a participant’s response, anticipate where more information would be useful, and ask the necessary follow-ups at the end of your study before the participant concludes the study.
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**Note:** Dscout AI currently only assesses responses to talk out loud questions when creating dynamic follow-ups, and it will only present follow-ups for what it deems “incomplete” responses.
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**To enable dynamic follow-ups:**
{% stepper %}
{% step %}
In the builder, add at least one **Talk out loud** question to your study. The **Dynamic follow-ups** toggle appears at the top of the builder.
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{% step %}
Set the **Dynamic follow-ups** toggle ON.
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{% endstepper %}
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**Warning:** This setting cannot be changed after you launch your study.
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Now, when participants complete your study, Dscout AI evaluates their responses to all talk out loud questions, looking for opportunities to dive deeper, gather further insight, or ask for clarification. If Dscout AI identifies the need for follow-up questions, it will present them in the form of additional talk out loud questions at the end of your study.
## Analyze dynamic follow-ups
You’ll find dynamic follow-ups and their responses in different places depending on how you analyze your study.
### Questions view
When analyzing all responses to individual questions, you’ll find dynamic follow-ups beneath the talk out loud questions that inspired them. So, if Dscout AI decided to gather more context behind a participant’s response to the first question in your study, you’ll see a dynamic follow-up in that question’s responses:
### Participants view
When analyzing a single participant’s entry, you’ll find dynamic follow-ups beneath the talk out loud questions that inspired them:
And when viewing a participant’s submission recording, you’ll find dynamic follow-ups beneath their related question in the transcript. To see their response to the follow-up in their session recording, click **Go to follow-up:**
To learn more about how Dscout AI can help speed up your research, see [What is Dscout AI?](/dscout-ai/what-is-dscout-ai.md).
For information on how Dscout works to keep your data safe when building AI features, see [AI privacy and security in Dscout](/dscout-ai/what-is-dscout-ai/ai-privacy-and-security-in-dscout.md).
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