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Survey Creation

Get stronger insights by scripting, hosting, and launching questionnaires that follow the gold standards of market research.

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A great questionnaire can be the difference between garden-variety responses and game-changing revelations.

Key benefits

Design surveys with expert guidance.

MEANINGFUL INSIGHTS

Get your targets talking.

Potloc helps you perfect the science of survey design and ensure you get engaged, authentic responses that add to your competitive advantage. 

We leverage deep research know-how and AI to suggest survey logic, flow, and structural optimizations that increase engagement, bake in fraud checks, and speed up fieldwork.

On tight consulting & PE timelines, there’s no room for do-overs. 

Potloc’s AI and expertise help you ask the right questions right out of the gate.

RICH DATA

Capture ready-to-analyze responses.

Upload a draft on Potloc’s Survey Builder, and our AI parses through it to create structured, transcribed, and translated surveys that you can iterate on with your dedicated Potloc experts. Review and refine their recommendations live, directly in the platform. 

The result of an optimized survey is data ready for analyses, such as Conjoint, Van Westendorp, segmentation, and more, without tedious setup in Excel.

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TAILORED DESIGN

Catered for consulting & PE missions.

Obtain data that steers well-informed decisions. Our Survey Builder and team of research experts customize your surveys to yield precise data for your mandates, from  due diligence to strategy missions to thought leadership reports.
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SERVICES

Survey success, by design.

Work with Potloc’s research experts to design respondent-ready surveys, accelerated by AI behind the scenes.
Your dedicated Potloc team gets your survey created, optimized, translated into any language, within 48 hours. Our experts use AI workflows that help you move quickly without cutting corners on best practices.

Our survey optimization phase involves expert tweaks that set you up for more reliable insights.

  • Include all questions needed to measure eligibility criteria and quotas.
  • Write questionnaires that answer all your research goals, straight and clear.
  • Weed out fraud and disengaged respondents with questions that check for attention and consistency of answers.

To improve survey completion rates and curb costs per interview, our market researchers use AI workflows and best-in-class respondent experience techniques that optimize your questionnaire.

  • Restrict interview length, eliminating repetitive questions that lead to disengagement or dropout.

  • Eliminate vague or complex questions, preventing confusion or irrelevant answers.

  • Optimize the flow of questions and provide context, prompting clearer, more engaged answers.

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It was a pleasure working with Potloc. We worked closely with them in drafting the study design. The data collection was efficient and the delivery of the results was quick.
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In-house experts

White-glove research support.

Make surveys the smoothest part of your projects with the rigor of our research experts and the speed of our AI-enabled tech.

Navigate our intuitive platform with ease as your dedicated Potloc team project-manages and problem-solves from start to finish.

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Frequently asked questions

Get the facts straight from our experts.

Potloc’s Survey Builder combines AI-powered structuring with expert-led optimization to ensure your survey is built for the speed and rigor that consulting and private equity firms need. 

You can instantly turn a draft into a structured survey on the platform, then start viewing and approving live recommendations from Potloc’s research experts that help perfect it before launch. 

These survey optimizations are aimed at:

  • Quality: Removing vague or biased questions, embedding “traps” for fraud and inattentiveness, aligning with sampling and quotas, and more.

  • Engagement: Improving survey content, logic, flow, and length to reduce dropouts and low-effort responses due to tedious or confusing questions.

  • Analysis-readiness: improving question formatting to yield rich, structured results that are easier to cross, filter, and act on.

Survey optimization is the process of designing and structuring a questionnaire to maximize response quality, reduce bias, and improve completion rates. This includes refining question wording, flow, logic, and length to ensure respondents stay engaged and provide reliable answers.
Survey creation is a science, and a poorly designed questionnaire can lead to a host of problems: introduce formulation bias, reduce respondent engagement, cause survey dropouts and fieldwork delays, leave the door open for fraud, affect the structure of your data outputs, and skew your conclusions. 

Potloc’s expert-led survey optimization process protects your insights by:

  • Removing vague, repetitive, or overly complex questions to enrich engagement
  • Structuring logical and intuitive survey flows to sustain engagement
  • Optimizing question formatting to capture rich, well-structured data 
  • Removing formulation bias, such as from leading or suggestive questions
  • Ensuring all eligibility criteria and quota questions are captured in the survey
  • Baking in fraud checks (e.g., attention and consistency “traps”)
Our collaborative recommendations improve both respondent engagement, fieldwork speed, data outputs, and overall quality of insights.
Yes. Despite an upfront time investment, better-designed surveys can lead to higher completion rates and fewer dropouts, which helps reach target sample sizes faster — without compromising quality and minimizing the risk of refielding.
Optimized surveys are easier to understand and quicker to complete. By improving clarity, flow, and relevance, respondents are more likely to stay engaged and provide thoughtful, accurate answers.

Clear, concise, and well-structured surveys are easier to complete, increase participation, and reduce dropouts. Poor design, such as confusing wording or long, repetitive questionnaires, leads to disengagement and incomplete or low-quality responses.
Potloc’s expert-led survey optimization directly reduces formulation bias by:
  • Using neutral, non-leading language
  • Applying balanced answer scales
  • Randomizing question and answer order to reduce order effects

These optimizations help ensure responses reflect real opinions rather than the survey structure.

Our survey optimization process also indirectly reduces response bias by improving engagement and minimizing inattentive, inconsistent, or insincere responses.