Expert-led. AI-native.
Primary research for high-trust industries.
For healthcare and life sciences, and for private equity in every sector. Senior researchers use technology built for them. Full consulting-grade studies in two weeks.
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Where UserCue fits
Primary research was missingan expert-led, AI-native option.
Consulting-grade insights, without the consulting timeline.
Senior researchers lead
Strategy consultancies and agencies
Senior expertise. More manual workflow. Longer timelines.
Senior researchers lead, traditional workflow.
Senior expertise. AI-native workflow. Two weeks.
Senior researchers lead, AI-native workflow.Your team leads
Expert networks and panel providers
Respondent access. Your team leads the research and the synthesis.
Your team leads, traditional workflow.Self-serve AI platforms
Your team leads the research, with the platform’s panel or synthetic respondents.
Your team leads, AI-native workflow.How a study runs
A full study in two weeks. Here is the work behind it.
The same steps as a traditional study. One senior researcher leads it, and AI-moderated interviews run the fieldwork at scale.
01Kickoff
02Design
03Fielding
04Analysis
05Delivery
Sean · your senior researcherOne senior researcher runs the study from kickoff to readout and signs off at design finalization, data QC and report finalization.
01 · Kickoff
We start with your business question and the decision behind it.
Step by step
Who does what.
Account directorAgrees on the timeline and deliverables with you
Sean · Senior researcherScopes the study with you and names the decision it informs- Research OSRuns the background research and preps the kickoff, with the open questions for Sean
5 stages. Use the left and right arrow keys to move between them.
Introducing
One senior researcher, kickoff to readout. Research OS is why it takes two weeks.
Research OS works alongside them at every step. No handoffs. No time lost.
Senior researcher
01
Senior researcherKickoffAccount director
Takes your question on the kickoff call and turns it into the brief: the decision, the audience, the method, the deliverable.
withAccount directorthe brief, structured into a design frame: decision, audience, method, deliverable
- Structuring the brief
- Listing the open questions
- Scoring the frame against the objective
02
Senior researcherDesign
Turns the brief into the screener and the guide, then puts them in your hands. You review, your researcher revises, and you sign off before anyone is interviewed.
✓Designed by your researcherthe guide, checked line by line; the interviewing agents, programmed with their logic paths
- Checking 45 questions against the objective
- Scoring the logic paths
- Programming the agents, 5 languages
03
Senior researcherFielding
Operations
Rules on every flag the agents raise, keeps or drops each interview, and suggests edits to the guide as answers come in. Nothing for you to run.
withOperationsthe agents, run in-language; every flag routed to the researcher
- Running interview 84 of 150
- 8 checks on every interview as it ends
- Flag raised · to your researcher
04
Senior researcherAnalysis
Decides what the numbers mean and what they do not, checks every finding against what respondents actually said, and signs off on it.
✓Validated by your researcherevery response coded to the frame; every cut the researcher calls, computed
- Coding response 2,114 to the frame
- Computing cut 23 of 41
- Rendering chart 12 of 30
05
Senior researcherDelivery
Walks your team through the findings live and stays for the questions. The report, the appendix and the data are yours to keep.
✓Presented by your researcherthe researcher's findings, rendered into the report, the appendix and the data
- Rendering the report · page 17 of 24
- Rendering the appendix
- Packing the data files
Every finding on the page, traced to the people who said it.
Live transcript · Engineering leader
“…every vendor has AI on the slide, so we try it on our own repos first.”
Coded · AI under testLive transcript · Senior developer
“…before long the assistant just does everything our separate tools do today, the testing, the linting, the reviews, all of it in one place.”
Coded · Full replacementWhat we research
Research built aroundthe decision you need to make.
We build each study around the stage you are at, with quant and qual in one conversation.
The launch lifecycle · Stage 3 · Set price and access
Choice-based conjoint
Choice-based conjoint, from a medtech study of device choice.
Advanced method, modeled by your researcher and fielded in the same conversation.
Selected research
Full research studies,
and what they found.
Illustrative studies for healthcare and life sciences, and for private equity.
Private Equity
Vertical SaaS · Market assessment
Fitness Studio Management Software
200 owners and managers of boutique fitness studios.
Studio owners stay put until renewal comes around.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences
Diagnostics · Patient pathway study
Diagnostic Journey Mapping
240 patients with Condition Y and adults who care for one.
Most of the wait for a diagnosis comes before the first referral.
Read the case study
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Pharma · Monadic A/B test
Pharma Brand Identity Test
1,200 physicians and adult consumers in four countries.
Consumers liked one identity, and physicians chose the other.
Read the case study
What clients say
- Private equity
“The competition is nowhere close to where you're at right now.”
Managing DirectorPE Fund
- Venture capital
“I'm from a management consulting background and I fear for new strategy management consultants after our experience with UserCue.”
PartnerVenture Capital, $2B+ AUM
- Market research
“Speed was amazing! They told us over and over again how thrilled they were with what we gave them. The ability to get it fielded in time was really impressive.”
DirectorGlobal Market Research Firm
- Consulting
“That was the fastest study I've ever done.”
Engagement LeadGlobal Management Consultancy
- Private equity
“It was quite impressive how quickly you recruited and managed to get to 200+ interviews. It took me a couple of Red Bulls to read it all.”
Managing DirectorHealthcare Private Equity
- Life sciences
“You have done what you said you would: combined access, tech and consultant experience to deliver a lot of well-organised material.”
CEOLife Sciences Company
- Healthcare
“This report may be my favorite document of the year.”
Research DirectorHealthcare Services Company
- Life sciences
“UserCue makes these projects so straightforward that it's almost hard to remember the old days when projects would take three months or more. Almost.”
Client LeadLife Sciences Reagents Company
- Healthcare
“You guys are now the most wanted tool for the whole company. I'm trying to hop in the queue before somebody jumps in front of me.”
VP, OperationsHealthcare Technology Company
- Life sciences
“I was impressed most by the speed. With the depth of the report, I would have expected it to take another month.”
Client TeamLife Sciences Reagents Company
- Private equity
“Love the product you have built. Hopefully this will give us an edge in our work.”
PartnerTech & Software Private Equity
- Private equity
“We are extremely impressed with the quality you pulled together in such a condensed timeframe. Look forward to running it back.”
Client TeamHealthcare Private Equity
- Consulting
“I'm definitely concerned that this may make consulting obsolete in many cases... Wait weeks for a report, or get the same depth of insight in days... let me think!!”
CEOLife Sciences Strategy Consultancy
Client testimonial
Same oncology research objectives. Traditional consulting: 14 weeks, 70 respondents. UserCue: 10 days, 110 respondents across four countries.
Global Insights Team, Top-20 Pharma
Shared publicly at an industry research summit, 2026
What happens next
Start with the decision
that cannot wait.
Bring us your question. We'll show you how we'd run the study, and how fast.