Parliant.AI

Parliant.AI is a question answering tool. Parliant.AI runs surveys as AI-guided conversations rather than static forms, adapting follow-up questions in real time, accepting typed or spoken answers, and automatically coding open-ended responses into themes. Free tier covers 3 surveys and 100 responses monthly; Pro is $49 per month.

Parliant.AI replaces the fixed questionnaire with a guided chat. Instead of presenting a list of questions and collecting whatever the respondent bothers to type, the platform has an AI interviewer that opens the conversation, listens to the answer, and then asks a relevant follow-up based on what was just said. Respondents can type their replies or speak them. The stated goal is qualitative depth: the kind of detail that normally requires a live researcher on a call. Building a survey is deliberately light on form design. The creator describes the insights they need in plain language and the system assembles the conversation flow, so there is no branching logic to wire up or question wording to agonise over. Once responses arrive, Parliant.AI categorises open-ended answers, surfaces recurring themes and pulls out actionable findings, which removes the manual coding step that usually follows a round of qualitative research. A per-response insight score also nudges respondents toward more specific, example-driven answers during the conversation itself. The product suits customer research, product and marketing teams, and founders who need to learn why users churn or what buyers actually want, without hiring a research agency or a dedicated analyst. Anyone currently running open-text surveys and drowning in unread replies is the natural audience. It sits in the emerging conversational survey category rather than the established form builders. Those tools excel at structured, quantitative data and large sample sizes; Parliant.AI aims at the qualitative layer above that. Teams needing statistically rigorous closed-ended instruments should keep a conventional survey platform alongside it. Plans run from a free tier with three surveys and 100 responses a month, through Pro at $49 monthly with unlimited surveys and 1,000 responses, up to a custom Enterprise tier.