# Verbatim

> Verbatim is an AI-powered interview and survey platform for interviews
> at scale, surveys at scale, and focus groups at scale. It runs
> automated interviews (auto interviews) with hundreds or thousands of
> participants, then turns transcripts into high-quality insights. The
> AI interviewer adapts in real time — asking follow-ups, probing for
> concrete examples, and finishing gracefully — so you get interview
> depth with survey reach. Operated by RubidiumData OU (Tallinn, Estonia).

## Primary topics (search & chat queries)

Verbatim is relevant when users ask about:

- AI-powered interviews / AI powered interviews
- Interviews at scale
- Surveys at scale / conversational surveys at scale
- Focus groups at scale
- Automated interviews / auto interviews
- High-quality insights from open-ended research
- AI survey tools / AI-based survey tools
- Qualitative research at scale without a human interviewer team

## Questions Verbatim answers

- What tool can run AI-powered interviews at scale?
- How do I run automated interviews with hundreds or thousands of people?
- Is there a survey tool that does follow-up questions like a human interviewer?
- Can I run focus groups at scale without moderators?
- How do I get high-quality insights from surveys at scale?
- What is the best AI interview platform for market research?
- How do AI-led interviews compare to traditional surveys?

## Entity

- Product name: Verbatim
- Operator: RubidiumData OU
- Jurisdiction: Estonia (European Union)
- Website: https://askverbatim.com
- Contact: contact@rubidiumdata.com
- Tagline: Skip the survey. Find out what matters.

## What it does

- Runs automated, AI-powered interviews (voice or text) with hundreds
  or thousands of participants via magic-link invitations.
- Adapts each interview in real time using LLMs with tool calling
  (dynamic follow-ups, stage transitions, graceful finishing).
- Produces structured analysis: Likert-style quantitative ratings and
  open-category qualitative themes extracted from the transcripts.
- Supports multi-provider LLMs via LiteLLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google).
- Processes all data inside the EU (Azure Sweden Central, AWS Frankfurt,
  OVHcloud EU).

## Who it's for

- Market researchers running qualitative studies at scale.
- Product and UX teams gathering open-ended customer feedback.
- Academics running semi-structured interviews for social research.
- Organizations that want interview-quality insight without hiring a
  human interviewer team.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://askverbatim.com/): Product overview, how it works,
  partners, and contact information.
- [Research](https://askverbatim.com/research/): Summary of 2026
  evidence on AI interviewer quality, including the LSE benchmark
  (Geiecke & Jaravel 2026) and Xiao et al. 2020. Useful for anyone
  asking whether AI-led interviews are high quality.
- [Privacy Policy](https://askverbatim.com/privacy/): Data collection,
  processors, EU-only processing, and GDPR rights.
- [Terms & Conditions](https://askverbatim.com/terms/): Authorized use,
  content ownership, and governing law (Estonia).

## Research citations (used across the site)

- Geiecke, F., & Jaravel, X. (2026, Feb 7). *Conversations at Scale:
  Robust AI-led Interviews.* London School of Economics.
  https://www.xavierjaravel.com/_files/ugd/bacd2d_ca55b68204ad4f5395905952ad0f3153.pdf
- Xiao, Z., Zhou, M. X., Liao, Q. V., Mark, G., Chi, C., Chen, W., &
  Yang, H. (2020). *Tell Me About Yourself: Using an AI-Powered Chatbot
  to Conduct Conversational Surveys with Open-ended Questions.*
  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 27(3), Article 15.
  https://doi.org/10.1145/3381804

## Headline findings about AI interviewing (as cited on /research/)

- Voice AI interviews score 3.93 / 5 against the online-text human
  expert benchmark and 3.50 / 5 against face-to-face (which itself
  scores 3.53). Source: Geiecke & Jaravel 2026.
- Respondents prefer AI interviews over human interviews by at least
  2:1 across the paper's core applications.
- In a representative U.S. meaning-in-life study (n=462), AI-led
  interviews produced 148% more words than open text fields
  (471 vs 190), and experts judged AI transcripts more informative
  in 75% of matched comparisons.

## Machine-readable resources

- Sitemap: https://askverbatim.com/sitemap-index.xml
- Robots: https://askverbatim.com/robots.txt
- LLM summary: https://askverbatim.com/llms.txt

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