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Ask richer questions in your research studies

Panel studies now support open-text, numeric and image-based questions — and your Activity feed tells you the moment results are ready.

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Written by Millan Lakhani

Multiple choice only gets you so far. Your panel studies can now ask real UK consumers open-text questions — first impressions in their own words — numeric questions for hard figures, pick-one-plus-why questions that capture a choice and the reasoning behind it, and image questions that show your packaging, ad or design and ask what stands out. Mix up to five of them in one study, and run the whole thing without leaving chat.

A drafted panel survey in chat showing open-text, numeric and image-based questions, each with its response type labelled


How it works

1. Describe your study in chat

Tell Boldstream what you want to learn and the kinds of questions you'd like — mix open text, numbers, a choice-with-reasons, images and multiple choice however you need.

Asking in chat for a draft panel survey with open-text, numeric and image questions

2. Review your draft questions

You get a draft questionnaire back with every question's response type labelled, ready to refine before anything goes near a respondent.

3. Approve the price before anything runs

When the draft is right, the Human Panel Expert puts a quote card in the thread: the study name, how many respondents, and a fixed price. Nothing is fielded until you press Confirm — and you're only ever charged the actual cost when the survey completes, never more than the quote.

The survey quote card in chat showing the study name, respondent count, a fixed price and a Confirm button

When results land, open-ended answers come back in your respondents' own words — a sample quoted right in the thread, with the complete set available to download.


Know the moment your results land

No more checking back. When your panel completes, Human Panel results ready appears under Notifications on your Activity page — and if browser notifications are switched on, you get a push too. Open it to jump straight to the thread with your results.

The Activity page's Notifications panel showing a Human Panel results ready alert at the top

💡 Tip: pick-one-plus-why questions are made for tagline and concept tests — you get the winner and the reasons in your respondents' own words.

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