Research Studio

Free

Research Studio is a research tool for UX teams who have interviews to process. You drop in audio, video, PDFs, or spreadsheets. It turns them into personas, journey maps, and tagged findings you can move around.

The work sits in qualitative research. It is built for speed, not for deep statistical analysis. You still make the calls on what matters.

A two-person team from Romania runs it. The pricing is light: a free tier, then $8.99 to $12 a month depending on your plan.

Open it if you need fast structure from messy interview data. Skip it if you need rigorous statistical testing or fully automated insight you can trust blindly.

It fits when your job is turning raw talk into something your team can use.

• Freelance UX designers: You work alone and need outputs fast. You get persona cards and journey maps without building templates.
• User research agencies: You handle files in many languages. You get transcripts in 99+ languages and skip hiring translators.
• Product managers validating ideas: You need quick reads on interview data. You get sentiment-tagged statements to spot patterns.
• Marketing teams tracking competitors: You need structured competitor notes. You get side-by-side comparisons from your uploads.
• Small teams priced out of enterprise tools: You cannot pay Dovetail prices. You get unlimited researches at $8.99 a month.
• Researchers who need visuals for stakeholders: Your boss wants slides, not transcripts. You get branded exportable reports and diagrams.
• Students and educators: You have a verified status. You get 60% off the paid tier.

These are the parts you notice after a few sessions.

• No-prompt widgets: You drag a widget for personas, jobs-to-be-done, or sentiment. You skip writing the perfect prompt.
• Context-trained chat: You ask follow-up questions about your specific data set. You do not re-read everything to find the quote.
• Unlimited transcription: You upload long interviews without counting hours. You stop worrying about file length.
• Notion export: Your team lives in Notion. You move findings there without copy-paste.
• Custom-branded reports: You send work to clients. You keep your logo on the output.

The path feels like organizing a board.

1. Drag your files onto the canvas.
2. Pick widgets for the outputs you need.
3. Move and arrange the cards how you think.
4. Ask the chat anything you want to check.
5. Export to Notion or download the report.

Skip it when the limits block your work.

• Heavy editing needed: The AI misreads tone or context sometimes. You still verify the big claims.
• Free plan is tight: You get only two researches and small files. You cannot really test it without paying.
• No accuracy numbers: They do not show benchmarks for transcription or insight quality. You judge it yourself.
• New and quiet: Few people have talked about using it yet. You are early.