What is Dscout AI?
Dscout AI is available on Plus, Select, and Enterprise plans and as an add-on available for Base and Core plans.
In today’s fast-paced research environment, it’s important the tools you rely on adapt to meet the increasing demand you and your teams are facing. That’s why we’ve built Dscout AI: a suite of tools designed to enhance productivity, spark inspiration, and streamline your work across the entire research cycle.
Dscout AI shows up in two ways:
Dscout AI Studio: Agentic capabilities for when you want Dscout AI to take action for you.
Built-in AI features: Embedded features for when you want help with work you're already doing.
The sections below outline the features you'll find in each category.
Note: Dscout AI offers research support in English but may expand to include additional languages in the future. This means only mission responses in English can be analyzed using Dscout AI, even when Dscout's translation functionality is enabled.
Dscout AI Studio
Dscout AI Studio is a suite of agentic AI features built for when you want Dscout AI to take action on your behalf within Dscout. These features expedite the more repetitive and tedious parts of research, or they help you conduct high-quality research at a larger scale:
Draft with Dscout AI: Describe your research goals or audience and let Dscout AI draft an entire study for you. For more information, see Draft a study with Dscout AI.
Explore your data: Uncover insights, trends, and more by chatting with Dscout AI about responses and interview sessions. For more information, see Explore your data.
AI moderated studies (beta): Collect interview-depth insights at scale. For more information, see AI moderated studies.
Dscout MCP: Leverage the power of Dscout within your AI workflows by connecting it to tools like Claude, Cursor, and more. For more information, see Dscout MCP.
Built-in AI features
Dscout AI also offers features embedded across the platform to help you with tasks you're already completing, whether during analysis or while designing new studies manually:
Refine your questions: Write on-point study questions by getting in-the-moment feedback and suggestions. For more information, see Refine your questions.
Improve your responses (dynamic follow-ups): Ask participants dynamic follow-up questions to get more thorough responses. For more information, see Dynamic follow-ups.
Summaries: Get at-a-glance recaps for individual questions/tasks and activities. For more information, see AI summaries.
Themes: Automatically tag similar responses to highlight trends and categorize your data. For more information, see AI themes.
Notable moments: Surface key comments or decisions made by your participants during a mission or session. For more information, see AI notable moments.
Tool availability by study type
Here's a breakdown of which study types offer/support each Dscout AI feature:
Draft your study
✅
Explore your data
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
Dscout MCP
✅
✅ (Analysis only)
✅ (Analysis only)
✅ (Analysis only)
✅ (Analysis only)
✅ (Analysis only)
Refine your questions
✅
✅
✅
Dynamic follow-ups
✅ (Desktop only)
✅
Summaries
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
Themes
✅
✅
✅
✅
✅
Notable moments
✅
✅
✅
Emerging themes
✅
For information on how Dscout works to keep your data safe when building AI features, see AI privacy and security in Dscout.