Introducing: Outset Explore

Sep 16, 2025

Michael Hess

Parsing through insights, especially at scale, is way too complicated. While AI-moderated research unlocks the ability to do hundreds of interviews, it also means having hundreds of interviews to analyze.

We know just as much as you do that no one has the time to dig through 15 studies with 200 interviews each to find that one great quote they saw last month.

Not with product timelines being so short, and not with teams tackling so many priorities and projects at once. That’s why we made Explore.

Explore is the fastest way to surface the insights that matter most across all your research projects.

No more digging through endless transcripts.

Why Explore Matters

Researchers are drowning in transcripts. Each study generates hours of conversations and dozens of pages of notes, and finding one meaningful quote can take hours. By then, projects have already moved on.

And when insights live in silos, their impact is lost. Teams might run ten studies but struggle to connect the dots, leaving patterns hidden and work duplicated.

Explore fixes that. It lets you search and cross-reference your entire repository in seconds—like asking a colleague who’s read everything for you. Instead of digging through transcripts, you get instant answers and can focus on what matters: telling a complete story at the speed design and product teams demand.

How It Works

The rest of the navigation through your data has the same format you’re used to with Outset, so no frustrating need to relearn how to use the platform.

Using Explore couldn’t be easier. Just type a question in plain, conversational language—like you would to a teammate—and get quotes, comparisons, reports, and graphs back in seconds. No manual labor spent on setting filters and no endless scrolling through transcripts.

Explore also bridges insights across studies, connecting patterns that used to stay hidden in silos. Beyond speeding the research process, this surfaces insights that might otherwise be hidden, unlocking deeper levels of research. Instead of piecing things together manually, the bigger picture comes into focus right away.

And the interface works the same way you’re already used to with Outset, so there’s no learning curve—just a smarter, faster way to work with your research.

Why We Built It

This is another feature that came from our users. Qual at scale is only a couple of years old, so researchers are facing some new challenges with all the added volume of data. We were hearing from users how frustrating it is to dig through so many transcripts to find insights and compare data, so we made it easier.

After all, what’s an AI-moderated research platform good for if it doesn’t actually improve your research workflow and reports?

Explore is the next step in unlocking the full potential for efficiency and powerful research analysis for scaled qual. Your research has never been this powerful.

Try Explore today or reach out to our sales team to see how it works!

About the author
Michael Hess

CTO - Outset

Michael Hess is the co-founder of Outset, an AI-powered research platform helping insights teams scale high-quality, human conversations. With a background spanning firefighting, technical leadership, and multiple startups—including the widely used wildfire-alert nonprofit Watch Duty—Michael brings a diversity of experience to product innovation. His work is reimagining how teams access insight at speed and scale.

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