Outset

AI-Moderated research platform

  • Software
  • Radical Investment 2025

Founders

aaron outset

Aaron Cannon

michael outset

Michael Hess

Outset is an all-in-one AI-powered research platform that reveals the deeper “why” through qualitative research at quantitative speed. The company is a pioneer of AI-moderated research, an enterprise platform where AI agent moderators conduct and analyze qualitative interviews at scale.

Outset’s platform allows researchers to recruit participants, conduct real-time video/voice interviews, and synthesize results, delivering the depth of a one-on-one interview with the speed and scale of a survey.

Fortune 500 customers like Nestlé, WeightWatchers, and Microsoft have used Outset to test product concepts and user experiences, achieving research that is faster, cheaper, and larger in sample size than traditional methods.