Dutch and Chinese participant languages, and tags and highlights on AI-moderated studies
New
- Dutch and Simplified/Traditional Chinese are now generally available in the participant language picker on every study that already supports multiple languages, alongside French, German, Spanish, and the rest. (Study Templates & Methods)
Improved
- Team pickers on the Invite page and on Candidate contact access are now searchable and height-bounded, so accounts with many teams can find one without scrolling. (Users Roles & Permissions)
- User pickers across the app (moderator, observer, owner, sender, table filters) now return a full page of matches in a stable name order, and a truncated selected value reveals its full text on hover. (Platform & Integrations)
- On study Attendees, the remove control on moderator and observer cards has been polished and now also appears next to “Already added” suggestions in the search results, so a teammate can be removed without scrolling to their card. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Reporting board polish: sections without a customer-meaningful heading no longer draw one, unassigned studies are now labelled Workspace instead of Unassigned, and the Most viewed research table has a proper Unique views column with a set of clearer tooltips and titles across cards. (Repository)
Fixed
- Rescoring an applicant now auto-qualifies them when they meet the qualification criteria, instead of leaving them stuck at their previous status. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Email templates with unsupported formatting now recover in the editor by dropping only the unsupported marks, instead of loading as a blank editor. (Participant Experience)
- Long study titles in the study picker on Shortlist and Participation invite now ellipsize instead of overflowing the closed combobox. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Repository sorting by Name is now faster and returns consistent results. (Repository)
A four-state control for incentive automation, plus scheduling, transcript, and incentive fixes
A four-state control for incentive automation
The Incentive Automation control under Settings > Governance > Permissions is no longer an on/off toggle. It’s now one setting with four states, and each state names both who can use automatic session completion and what new studies default to:- Never: No study can complete sessions automatically. This is the only state that also stops studies already running.
- Only admins can turn it on: New studies start with it off, and only Admins can turn it on. Studies already running are unaffected.
- Off for new studies: New studies start with it off. Creators can turn it on.
- On for new studies: New studies start with it on. Creators can turn it off.
A heads-up before your balance runs low
Topping up your incentive wallet now offers to set a low balance alert right in the confirmation, instead of requiring a separate trip to Manage wallet. If the balance had run down close to empty before the top-up, the confirmation calls that out and suggests a threshold; if you already have an alert set, it shows the amount and lets you change it right there.Only Admins can set the threshold, since they’re the ones who receive it; other roles see a note explaining why instead of a control that won’t save. See Incentives 101.Improved
- Repository can now be sorted by Name, in addition to Created, Updated, and Owner.
- The Choose new time modal (including focus-group scheduling) now shows which timezone times are displayed in, using the same indicator as every other scheduling picker in the app. (Interviews Scheduling & Calendar)
- Calendar Sync now replays scheduling changes that failed to push while a calendar connection was expired, once you reconnect, instead of leaving them stuck. (Interviews Scheduling & Calendar)
- A bulleted list item in the study editor can now hold a heading, without losing either the heading or the list. (Study Templates & Methods)
- API requests that fail with a 422 now return a reason instead of an empty body. (Integrations & API)
Fixed
- AI-moderated transcripts: fixed timestamp ordering and speaker separation issues that could produce out-of-order captions or collapse a two-person conversation into a single speaker. (Repository)
- Editing a candidate’s email to one already used by another candidate now shows a clear validation error instead of failing unexpectedly. (CRM Candidates & Attributes)
- Admins can once again see CSV import history for the whole account, not just their own imports. (CRM Candidates & Attributes)
- Candidate profile incentive totals now display correctly formatted in USD instead of raw cents. (Billing Subscriptions & Credits)
- The team wallet label no longer appears on studies that aren’t actually using a team wallet. (Billing Subscriptions & Credits)
- Incentive-only placeholder studies no longer appear on the Studies page. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Fixed screener invite email preview text landing out of order when a button appears inside a bulleted list. (Studies Participants & Screeners)
- The “Available highlights” count in the reel editor now matches the filtered list when filtering by tag. (Repository Search Tags & Highlights)
- Video player controls no longer overlap on narrow screens; they now collapse into compact controls. (Repository)
- Recording now starts once the first participant joins, instead of when the host joins alone, so the idle timeout no longer burns down before the interview begins. (Interviews Livestreams & Observer Rooms)
- Great Question managed room bookings now wait for the room link before sending calendar invitations, so invitations no longer go out with a blank location. (Interviews Scheduling & Calendar)
- Canceling edits to a study’s branding now correctly restores the previously saved branding. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Fixed the CSV export success toast reappearing when reopening the export modal. (Studies Participants & Screeners)
- Fixed mobile incentive redemption failing for some participants when redeeming a Tremendous reward. (Studies External Recruitment & Incentives)
- The “external participants not thanked” alert no longer fires indefinitely on studies from years ago. (Studies External Recruitment & Incentives)
- Fixed the Workspace name field’s label pointing at the Company name field instead of its own field. (Account Users & Roles)
Questions tab, highlight reels from chat, and study reports for everyone
Improved
- Clicking a quote citation in a report now seeks the recording to the cited moment, in addition to scrolling the transcript, in both in-app and publicly shared reports. (Repository)
- Long-running assistant searches no longer trigger a false “assistant stopped responding” notice while a tool is still working. (AI Assistant)
Fixed
- Partial responses no longer appear in the study’s responses list, question aggregates, or response drawer, so the counts you see match the report’s analysis. (Repository)
- When a participant asks to skip a question, the AI moderator now records a real skip instead of a placeholder answer, and past placeholder answers are treated as skips too. (Participant Experience)
- If a required screen share stops mid-session, the session now pauses until the participant restores it, so recordings capture the screen throughout. (Participant Experience)
- Session recordings no longer clip the moderator’s opening. The session waits until the recording is confirmed live before starting. (Participant Experience)
- Sessions that share a screen without a camera now play back as video instead of audio-only. (Repository)
- A reel that fails to process is now marked as failed instead of showing as preparing indefinitely. (Repository)
- Highlights from AI moderated sessions can now be added to reels. (Repository)
- Recording now starts only after the participant confirms recording consent. (Participant Experience)
- When a participant says they’re ready to continue, the AI moderator now reliably advances to the next question or task. (Participant Experience)
AI moderated studies, booking webhooks, and a combined spend report
New
- You can now launch AI moderated interviews and AI moderated prototype tests (beta) from the study creation page, letting an AI moderator run sessions and follow-ups for you. See AI moderated interviews and AI moderated prototype testing. (Unmoderated Surveys & Tests)
- Your integrations can now subscribe to a
participation.bookedwebhook and read the assigned moderator from the participant API, so external systems know about a booking the moment it happens. See the Great Question API. (Integrations & API)
Improved
- Eligibility rules for invite count, participation rate, response rate, and no-show count now accept a Custom period, so you can define the exact lookback window that applies. See Candidate eligibility settings. (CRM Candidates & Attributes)
- The MCP server now exposes richer repository consumption tools, so AI clients can search, list, and read sessions, transcripts, highlights, insights, and reels through a single connection. See MCP available tools. (Integrations & API)
- Admins can now set an incentive wallet low balance threshold and get email alerts when the available balance drops below it, so top-ups happen before studies stall. See Incentives 101. (Billing Subscriptions & Credits)
- The participant table for AI moderated studies now shows recording status badges and refreshes automatically while recordings process, so you can tell an import in progress from a failure. (Unmoderated Surveys & Tests)
Fixed
- Self-scheduling no longer creates a duplicate participation, so a stale No Show can’t linger next to a completed session. (Studies Participants & Screeners)
- Closing a study now refunds only the recruitment credits you were invoiced for, keeping your wallet balance accurate. (Billing Subscriptions & Credits)
- The interview room now disables Edit booking on sessions managed by external recruitment, with a tooltip explaining why. (Studies External Recruitment & Incentives)
- Transcript deep-links now open the session side panel even if you previously collapsed it. (Repository Search Tags & Highlights)
- Publicly shared sessions now play back recordings that previously appeared missing. (Interviews Livestreams & Observer Rooms)
- Rescheduling a session with a livestream no longer fails on a malformed stream URL. (Interviews Livestreams & Observer Rooms)
- Highlight reels that mix video and audio-only clips now process and play back reliably. See Reels. (Repository Search Tags & Highlights)
- A failed recording re-import no longer removes the existing recording; the original stays playable and the import retries. (Interviews Livestreams & Observer Rooms)
- Manually entered interview locations now apply correctly on studies that collect participant addresses. (Interviews Scheduling & Calendar)
- Candidates now stay in your chosen order when eligibility filters are applied. (CRM Candidates & Attributes)
- Creating a study from a team’s page now always assigns it to that team. (Account Users & Roles)
Multi-chat study workspace, multi-clip reels, and sharper AI reports
New
- You can now keep multiple AI chats on a single study and switch between them, or start a fresh one, from the top bar. Each conversation keeps its own history, so you can explore different questions without losing a thread. (AI Assistant)
- The study workspace now has dedicated Setup, Results, and Report tabs, and the report has its own URL. Reloads and shared links land on the right tab instead of resetting to the study. (Study Templates & Methods)
- Report highlight reels can now stitch multiple clips into a single video, so a reel built from several moments plays as one continuous asset. (Repository)
- The researcher chat can now read your study report, so you can ask follow-up questions about findings and evidence without leaving the conversation. (AI Assistant)
Improved
- Reports now place computed charts and highlight reels inline beside the findings they support, instead of collecting them in the appendix. (Repository)
- The report writer now draws on your study’s research plan and on expert researcher feedback, so findings are framed around your goals, research questions, and success criteria. (Repository)
- Reports are easier to scan: headings scale by level, finding headlines are numbered, inline citations render as numbered reference pills, and detailed evidence pages through a carousel instead of a long scroll. (Repository)
- AI-moderated sessions now resume after a dropped connection, so participants pick up where they left off instead of losing the moderator’s response. (Participant Experience)
- The navigation sidebar now remembers whether you collapsed it, even after a reload. (Platform & Integrations)
Fixed
- You can now remove sub-steps from a study’s workflow outline. (Study Templates & Methods)
- In AI-moderated prototype tests, moderation now waits until the prototype has finished loading before asking the participant to begin. (Participant Experience)
- Speech during device setup no longer appears in the session transcript. (Participant Experience)
- Background moderation hiccups no longer mark otherwise-successful sessions as no-shows. (Participant Experience)
- Voice responses now default to off for studies that aren’t AI-moderated. (Participant Experience)
- Clicking a theme’s evidence in a report now opens the slideout focused on that theme, with the question’s other themes behind a toggle. (Repository)
- New chats now show their generated title without a page refresh. (AI Assistant)
- Opening a teammate’s study no longer replays the research goal as the first chat message. (AI Assistant)
Auto-complete every new study by default
Auto-complete every new study by default
Auto-complete can now be turned on once for the whole workspace instead of study by study. Under Settings > Governance > Permissions, the Incentive Automation toggle applies auto-complete to studies created from then on.It applies going forward only: existing studies and past sessions are untouched, and you can still override the setting on any individual study from its Automation tab. Duplicated studies keep the setting from the study they were copied from, rather than taking the workspace default.Improvements
Improvements
- Auto-complete is now described consistently across workspace settings, study automation, and permissions: each one states that the 24-hour window starts at the booked interview time and that the incentive releases regardless of attendance.
Moderator in the participants API
Moderator in the participants API
GET /v1/studies/:id/participants now returns a moderator object for each participant, so you can see who is running a session without a second lookup. The field is available to all API and MCP consumers.moderator is null when the participant has no moderator assigned. The user_id matches the user_id returned by GET /v1/interviews/:id/moderators, so you can join the two endpoints directly. See the API reference for the full participant schema.MCP Skills
Admins can now author reusable instructions, skills, that every AI tool connected through the Great Question MCP follows automatically. A skill captures how your team does something (screener conventions, incentive rules, grounding standards for insights), so agents follow your process instead of guessing at it.Each enabled skill is advertised to connected agents with its name and description, and the agent loads the full instructions for whichever ones are relevant. Skills can also be set as prerequisites for specific MCP tools: when an agent calls a gated tool without the required skill loaded, the call is denied with a message pointing at theget_skill tool to load it. Manage skills under Settings → AI & MCP.See MCP: Skills.Richer MCP context for agents
Agents connected via MCP can now pull a structured participation event log summarizing what each participant said and did in a session, giving them richer context for analysis and follow-up. See MCP available tools.Improvements
Improvements
- The incentives page now includes a sortable, filterable table with column header controls, making it faster to find and manage payouts across a large history. See incentives 101.
Autonomous MCP agents
Agents can now connect to Great Question on their own, give an agent a secure API token once, and it connects in the background whenever it needs to, without a human driving it. It only sees what that user is allowed to see, the same permissions and privacy as a normal login.Agents can also start from your saved study templates instead of rebuilding every screener question by hand, with new tools to list, search, read, and apply templates.
Improvements
Improvements
- Editing an account user’s role now surfaces the exact reason a change is blocked (seat limits, permissions), so you can resolve it without guessing.
- When Microsoft rejects a calendar event because the connected mailbox is over quota, the calendar owner and study owner now see a clear in-app warning naming the calendar, with a link to the interview.
Fixes
Fixes
- Adding interview moderators by email now works when the person is already an account member.
- Creating a study via MCP without a team now assigns your default team automatically.
Great Question MCP is here
Great Question now runs an MCP server, giving an AI agent, in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible tool, read and write access to your studies, sessions, transcripts, highlights, insights, and participant data. It can manage candidates, build studies, and handle recruitment and scheduling directly from a chat conversation.Connect at
https://greatquestion.co/api/mcp/v1. Every path uses OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, so you authenticate through your browser with your existing Great Question credentials, no API keys or secrets to manage. See MCP setup to connect, and what’s available for the full tool list.Improvements
Improvements
- Sessions are now transcribed with Deepgram’s Nova 3 model for faster, more accurate transcripts.
- A warning banner flags User Interviews participants who haven’t been paid within the required window.
- Highlights and insights are now exposed as read endpoints, so an agent can pull the findings you’ve already captured, not just raw responses.
Fixes
Fixes
- Fixed duplicate and orphaned meeting invites after moderator reassignment, calendars not refreshing after a reschedule, and Google Meet/livestream links stuck initializing.
- Fixed reprocessing for recordings over 2GB, sessions missing from the repository after completion, and searchable-but-unlisted recordings.
- Fixed MCP-created email templates rendering with an empty body.
In person studies
Participants can now provide an address for in-person interviews, so you can run studies that follow them into their own environment instead of a call.
Improvements
Improvements
- Google address fields now return the full address after a selection is made, so the zip code is always included.
- Observers can now view signed consent forms without seeing PII or downloading them.
- The Members page now shows user email addresses, a role breakdown, name/email search, and filtering by role and status.
- Eligibility rules now support “Any,” so a rule can match any filter instead of requiring all of them.
- Cards can be set as default for billing and incentives.
Fixes
Fixes
- Emails no longer get stuck or orphaned when a user’s connected account is removed.
- Screener changes and edits persist, and library search works as expected.
- Recordings now download as MP4 instead of FLV.
Shorter session timeout, for security
The “Remember me” login window was reduced from 30 days to 2 hours to meet security requirements.
Improvements
Improvements
- Custom consent forms now show a preview instead of a thumbnail.
- Sorting by participant rating always places unrated participants at the bottom, regardless of sort order.
Fixes
Fixes
- Creators can request funding approval without the modal disappearing and incentives toggling off.
- Studies funded by a Team wallet can now be closed when the refund exceeds the Team’s available funds.
- Duplicating a study no longer errors if a former collaborator no longer has access.
Study Synthesis
A new AI Synthesis tab replaces the manual highlight board, auto-generating a structured summary once a study reaches 3 or more completed interviews, an overview, key insights, and major themes. Major themes carry inline citation badges that show supporting verbatim quotes in your session recordings, with chapter cards so you can scrub to individual moments.The legacy highlight board is still available under a “Highlights” sub-tab.
Improvements
Improvements
- Unsaved-changes detection was added for eligibility rule edits.
- Improved study duplication and sorting on the Repository table.
Fixes
Fixes
- Corrected the URL used for the Databricks integration.
SCIM provisioning
EnterpriseEnterprise IT teams can now manage Great Question users directly from their identity provider through SCIM 2.0, automating provisioning, deprovisioning, and role management. Users are provisioned and deprovisioned automatically as your IdP changes, with name and email synced in real time. Push IdP groups to map to Great Question roles and Teams, with three sync modes (off, initial only, full sync). Configure it all at Settings → Governance → Provisioning, including bearer tokens, default roles, and IdP-managed roles and teams.Data Retention v1.5
EnterpriseTake full control of your data retention policy with named rules for Recordings or Candidates, a preset or custom timeframe, and a deletion type. Rules run daily, with a validation step that shows exactly what will be deleted before activation and a 24-hour buffer before anything irreversible happens. Every rule creation, edit, status change, and deletion is recorded in a full audit trail, and rules can be paused or retired without losing that history.Route approvals to specific admins
A new governance setting lets you route all approval requests to the account owner or a set of individual admins. When enabled, the approver dropdown is locked to that list across every request type, study publish, study funding, feature requests, and team requests.Livestream status, visible everywhere
Livestream and observer bot status now shows up wherever you need it — the Interview room, participant table, slideout, and dashboard, so most issues no longer require a support ticket. You can resend the bot on demand from the Interview room, and pre-flight checks validate the URL, platform support, and meeting settings for Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex ahead of time, with proactive email notifications if something’s wrong.Improvements
Improvements
- Pagination now supports jumping to the first or last page from a clickable “Page X of Y” menu, across Candidates, Studies, Incentives, Repository, and in-study views.
- A dedicated Ask AI tab was added to the Repository page.
- Ad hoc messaging is now disabled for User Interviews participants, to prevent messaging conflicts.
Fixes
Fixes
- Recordings now download with useful filenames (e.g. “Interview with Victoria.mp4”) instead of quality-based names.
Optional device permissions for unmoderated tests
Camera, microphone, and screen recording permissions can now be set to optional instead of required. When a permission is optional, participants are prompted to enable it but can skip and continue if they’d rather not, so you can collect richer data without blocking participants who can’t or won’t grant access. Available for all unmoderated studies; not available for AI-moderated studies.
Fixes
Fixes
- Skip logic now works correctly in User Interviews studies.
- Multi-select questions with “any of these” ideal answers now qualify correctly when a participant selects just one of them.
- Auto-disqualification now works in User Interviews, matching how it behaves in Great Question.
User Interviews for external recruitment
We’ve partnered with User Interviews to bring you higher-quality participants: access to 6M+ verified participants (2x our previous panel size), a first match in under an hour, and industry-leading fraud detection, with 98.3% of sessions rated positive by research teams. You’ll continue to recruit through Great Question as usual, now with better quality, broader reach, and more consistent pricing.AI Moderated Interviews
Conduct in-depth research at scale with AI that adapts in real time, probes for detail, and captures nuance, across time zones and hundreds of participants. Participants respond via video on their own schedule, and sessions flow directly into your repository. Available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese. Interested in pricing? Reach out to sales@greatquestion.co.Improvements
Improvements
- Recruitment reach estimates and an estimated cost breakdown now appear for external recruitment requests.
- Candidates can now be assigned an affiliation, a specific Team, the workspace, or no one, and the Study List has a new Affiliation column.
- Snowflake now supports Key Pair authentication (Snowflake OAuth integrations are no longer supported).
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