February 28, 2026
Moderate interviews without a panel
Run AI-moderated interviews with participants you already have. No recruiting agency, no $30/session fees.
You can now run interviews at scale without owning a participant panel. Share the study link with the people you already have access to — your existing customers, your beta users, your Slack community, your internal colleagues, the waitlist that's been sitting in a spreadsheet for months. Honne's AI moderator handles the rest.
Here's what happens in a session. The participant opens the link, accepts the consent, and starts. The moderator reads each answer as it comes in and asks the follow-up a thoughtful human researcher would ask — "you said it was confusing, can you tell me what part?" — instead of moving to the next scripted question. You get a transcript, cited quotes, and clustered themes back, all for sessions you paid nothing to source.
One honest note on scope. We are not a replacement for panel recruitment. If your research needs strangers — people who match a demographic profile but have no relationship to your product — you still need a recruiter. Honne replaces the "I need to talk to 20 of our actual users this week and nobody has time to moderate" case, which no panel can help with because the panel doesn't know your users.
Works on any study type: interviews, prototype tests, concept tests, pricing reactions. Bring your own participants.