July 2026
What's been released, changed, and improved across the Dscout platform
AI analysis is now a launchpad into Explore your data
Themes and charts generated for study responses now carry straight into an Explore your data session, so you don't have to start from scratch. Previously, that analysis stopped at the responses page. Now, click Explore on any of these items to pass them in as context, so your first question in Explore your data can pick up right where the analysis left off.
For more information, see Explore your data.
Other improvements
Time to fill estimates now show up for intercept studies targeting a specific section of a site or an exact page, not just studies targeting an entire website.
Bug fixes
Project-level participant and submission counts sometimes included rejected or excluded submissions, inflating the numbers you'd see for some study types. Counts are now accurate across the board.
CSV exports could be misread as formulas by spreadsheet apps like Google Sheets, showing an error instead of your data. That's now fixed.
Exporting a mission's question script as a PDF or RTF no longer crashes when a question's skip logic targets a question group or segment group.
More transparency for intercept and behavioral targeting
Three additions give you more confidence before you launch:
When you select an intercept URL, you'll now see how many visitors it's had in the last 21, 14, and 7 days, so you can set realistic expectations for time to fill.
When you set up a behavioral targeting attribute, you'll see the specific number of qualifying members instead of a general "highly specific" indicator.
You can now test a different URL against your intercept setup to confirm whether it would qualify before you launch.
For more information, see URL matching in intercept studies and Behavioral targeting attributes.
A refreshed look for the researcher help center
We've moved help.dscout.com to a new platform. The content and categorization you're used to are still here, plus a new, dedicated Private Panels section.
You'll also notice a new Get help button in the bottom-right corner of the Dscout platform. Click it to chat with an AI assistant tied directly to our documentation. If it can't answer your question, it'll offer to hand you off to the Dscout Support Team.
Stronger participant verification in Partner Panels
Partner Panels now includes identity verification (checking participant details against government records and matching a live selfie to an uploaded ID) and LinkedIn verification (confirming a real, verifiable work history for B2B roles).
This is available to all customers with Partner Panels enabled. Identity verification applies to all projects; LinkedIn verification applies to B2B-targeted projects.
Other improvements:
The Language setting in the mission settings modal for usability tests, media surveys, and intercept studies is now called Notification language. This setting only affects the emails and push notifications sent to participants—it doesn't change transcription, in-app language, or transcript translation. (This is a copy change only, with no change to functionality.)
The Copy collaborator link option when sharing an interview session is now called Copy observer link. This makes it clear which link to copy when inviting someone to sit in on a session. For more information, see Share an interview session link.