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Configure your AI agent
Select your interaction style during study setup, applying across all participants in that study, no per-session configuration.
An interviewer that never misses a moment
Bolt Intelligence's AI Moderator conducts real-time qualitative interviews at scale, adapting its behaviour, voice, and probing depth to match your research objectives and audience.
What it doesFull control over how your AI interviews
Traditional scripted surveys cap what you can learn. The AI Moderator operates like a seasoned researcher — following your guide and requirements, but intelligent enough to know when to dig deeper.
Agent Behaviour
Custom interaction styles shape how the AI presents questions and maintains rapport with participants, maintaining your required tone-of-voice.
Smart Probe
Choose whether to give the AI the freedom to follow-up, creating a natural probe based on what the participant actually said, not a pre-scripted fallback.
Dual Architecture
While the AI Moderator conducts the conversation, the AI Referee monitors quality in real time. It flags low-quality responses, prevents hallucination, and enforces research standards before they reach your data.
Probe Direction
Guide the AI's probing without scripting every word. Simple instructions helps the AI phrase follow-ups naturally and in context.
How it worksFrom setup to live fieldwork in minutes
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Set probing parameters
Enable Smart Probe on any question where depth matters, adding probe direction to guide the follow-up where needed.
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The AI moderates live conversations
Probing in real-time, the conversation never stays surface-level, uncovering the behaviours and motivations beneath.
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The AI Referee monitors quality throughout
Simultaneously, the AI Referee monitors low-quality responses, enforcing research standards before they reach your data.
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Richer data lands in your report
Every probe generates additional data that feeds directly into the analysis layer, finding themes and insights that a traditional, fixed discussion guide would have missed.
In PracticeWhat it looks like when assumptions become evidence
How teams use Bolt Intelligence to make product decisions they can actually defend.
Finding the next product opportunity before it becomes obvious
Volvic needed to validate a series of high-stakes packaging decisions for its Vitamin+ range — covering on-pack brand presence, shelf standout, and a potential product rename — before committing to production.
Automated, but still intelligent
Contextual follow-up generation
Voice interviewing
Probe direction input
Quality monitoring in real-time
BOLT INTELLIGENCE
- Generated from participant's response in real-time
- Multiple voice profiles, participant-facing preview
- Free-text guidance, AI handles wording
- AI Referee monitors every session in real time, flagging issues as they happen
Typical AI survey tools
- Pre-scripted branching logic only
- Test only, or a single, generic voice
- Not available
- Post-fieldwork review only, or none
BOLT INTELLIGENCE
Contextual follow-up generation
Generated from participant's response in real-timeVoice interviewing
Multiple voice profiles, participant-facing previewProbe direction input
Free-text guidance, AI handles wordingQuality monitoring in real-time
AI Referee monitors every session in real time, flagging issues as they happen
Typical AI survey tools
Contextual follow-up generation
Pre-scripted branching logic onlyVoice interviewing
Test only, or a single, generic voiceProbe direction input
Not availableQuality monitoring in real-time
Post-fieldwork review only, or none
See the AI moderator in action
Book a personalized demo and watch it conduct a live interview with your discussion guide.