Recruit
Recruiting participants for research made easier on Outset
Find the right participants without the hassle. Outset integrates with top recruitment platforms to streamline your recruitment and cut your time-to-insights.
How it works
Check out ways that make Outset's native participant recruitment solution best-in-class.
Test with synthetic users
Test your guide before sending it. Get the most from your research by using AI to run through your questions and uncover what isn't working.
Partnered with diverse panels for all recruitment needs
With Outset and our preferred partners, you can recruit from over 1.1 billion global participants in over 85 countries across B2C and B2B segments.
For any research participants you need
B2B audiences
Recruit B2B audiences through panels like Emporia and User Interviews.
B2C audiences
Recruit B2C audiences through panels like Prolific and User Interviews.
Bespoke audiences
Work with our Research Success team on sourcing participants for niche recruitment needs through panels like GMO-Z and more.
Purpose-built participant recruiting features
Trusted by the best
Top companies use Outset’s AI-moderated research platform to learn faster and make better decisions.
Outset is now a key tool for our team to get more, better, and most importantly, faster research done, accelerating our innovation pipeline substantially.
Michael Widenmeyer
Consumer Insights Sr. Manager
The speed and quality of the responses were outstanding. Outset will afford my team the opportunity to significantly increase the speed of delivery.
Wil Readinger
Head of UX Research
Outset is an integral part of our Microsoft Copilot research team, and access to their tool has transformed the way we work and the speed and depth of how we are able to understand and build for our users.
Chris Monnier
Principal UX Researcher
I would have never been able to moderate 50 sessions in a reasonable amount of time, but with Outset, you can run 50 interviews while you’re on a 20-hour flight.
Athena Petrides
Senior Lead UX Researcher
Being able to focus my energy and leaving the interview process and the first analysis portion to Outset has helped me grow in my career.
Jennifer Lien
Senior UX Researcher
[Outset] opened up a Pandora’s box, in a good way. We have all of these options for different types of research that our team couldn't do before. Now we can.
Jessica Davis
Senior Manager of Customer Insights
Outset allows users to spend their time on what really matters, which is understanding the consumer and designing products, rather than on countless hours of interviewing and labeling.
Leo Velásquez
Senior Experiment Designer
These are tools you’d have to pry from my cold, dead hands. I truly couldn’t do my job the same way without them.
Krista Lipps
Senior UX Researcher
Research participant recruitment FAQs
Learn how Outset’s recruitment works, how to find and qualify the right participants, and how it supports both market research and user research at scale.
How does Outset help with recruiting participants for research?
Outset integrates with trusted global panels like Prolific and User Interviews, making recruiting participants for research fast and seamless. You can also invite your own users or test your questions with AI-generated synthetic participants before launching a study. Read our blog on recruiting participants for AI-moderated research to learn more.
What types of participants can I recruit through Outset?
You can recruit from millions of B2C and B2B participants across a wide range of geographies, demographics, job roles, and behaviors. Outset’s participant recruitment solution is ideal for usability testing, interviews, concept testing, and qualitative research participant recruitment. For hard to source audiences, Outset’s bespoke recruitment support helps you fulfill even the most complex recruitment needs.
Does Outset support participant recruitment for qualitative research?
Absolutely. Outset is designed for user interviews, usability tests, diary studies, and other participant recruitment in qualitative research workflows. You can source niche audiences or broad populations depending on your needs.
How quickly can I start a study after selecting participant criteria?
Most studies can begin within hours. With immediate access to large global panels and fast participant matching, Outset accelerates the entire research participant recruitment process.
Does Outset integrate with other research tools?
Yes. Outset integrates with leading recruitment partners and fits smoothly into your broader research stack. This allows teams to manage recruiting, interviews, synthesis, and insights in one workflow.
Can Outset’s recruitment support both market research and user research studies?
Yes. Outset’s recruitment capabilities are designed to support both market research and user research, whether you’re sourcing broad audiences for market insights or highly specific users for product feedback. You can target participants based on demographics, behaviors, or product usage, ensuring the right fit for each study type. Combined with AI-moderated interviews and Visual Intelligence, this allows teams to quickly recruit and learn from participants in ways that connect what people say with how they respond to experiences, concepts, and creative assets.
