What's New at Fuel Cycle
Two new qualitative methods are in Early Access, Segments brings reusable views of your profiling data, and moderated sessions get more resilient.
AI-Moderator that you control
Run hundreds of AI-moderated sessions in parallel, each following the interview guide you designed.
Diary Research Made Easy
Follow participants across days or weeks to capture behavior in the moment, not in hindsight.
Save Your Audiences
Build reusable, filtered views of your Progressive Profiling data that your whole team can return to and refine.
AI Moderator: Qual at Scale
Scale moderated research without scaling your schedule (Early Access*)
- Qual at Scale: Field hundreds of AI moderated sessions in parallel across your community or Integrated 4M+ participants in Fuel Cycle platform.
- Researcher Control: The AI follows your interview guide and probes as much as you permit, within your rules.
- Instant Synthesis: Themes, pain points, and highlight reels are detected automatically, with no manual coding.
Diary Research Made Easy
Intuitive Diary Research platform now in Early Access
- Multi-Day Study Design: Schedule missions and tasks that unlock progressively across days or weeks.
- Asynchronous Participation: Participants complete missions on their own schedule, capturing behavior in the moment.
- Multimedia Submissions: Collect text, image, and video responses in one analysis workspace.
Segments: Save and Share Audiences
Saved, shareable views your whole team can reuse.
- Reusable Audience Views: Save the attributes and filters behind an audience and reopen it any time.
- Flexible Filtering: Filter from the panel or directly from column headers, then clear to reset.
- Export for Analysis: Download the columns and members currently in view to Excel.
Live Sessions That Stay on Track
Three updates that keep live sessions running when disruptions hit.
- Recording Recovery: Recover a failed recording yourself, automatically or with a manual trigger in FC Qual.
- Extended Reconnect Window: Rejoin a dropped session within 10 minutes without ending it.
- Improved Connectivity: Video quality auto-adjusts to keep conversations in sync on unstable connections.
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The Little Things Matter Too
Platform Enhancements You Asked For
- Redemption Visibility: Badges, Bonus Points, and Goods now appear directly on the Redemption page.
- Export Deletion: Remove outdated exports without leaving Research Engine.
- Activity Card Downloads: Download activity cards for offline sharing and reference.
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