Sector · Market Research

CATI fieldwork
without the floor.

Research institutes run on fieldwork, and fieldwork runs on people who are hard to hire, train and keep. AI telephone interviewing with Sonalyx runs the questionnaire exactly as designed, probes open answers, respects quotas and delivers coded data while the wave is still in the field.

National samplesQuotas & rotationOpen-ended probingCoded datasets

Fieldwork trace — omnibus wave 34

09:00Wave launched · n=800 · 5 languages · 2,400 lines
09:14First 120 completes · quota cells balanced
10:30Q7 producing 31% “don’t know” · Architect suggests rewrite
10:35Rewrite approved · applied to remaining sample
13:20512 completes · open answers coded in 14 categories
16:45Wave closed · dataset exported to SPSS

What fieldwork costs an institute today

Interviewer capacity

Hiring, training and keeping a floor of interviewers is the constraint on every proposal you write.

Weeks between question and answer

A national wave is three weeks in the field. The client’s decision has moved on by then.

Open answers that go to waste

Probing takes time interviewers don’t have. Coding takes days analysts don’t have.

What the AI interviewer does

Everything a well-trained interviewer does, on every call, with the data structured as it lands.

Runs complex questionnairesFilters, rotation, randomisation, grids and skip logic, as designed in the script.
Probes and clarifiesVague answers get a follow-up. Answers get transcribed, classified and coded live.
Manages the sampleQuotas by cell, screening, callbacks, retries and call windows, per country.
Speaks the study’s languagesOne study, one dataset, all the languages and accents of the sample.
Keeps methodology visibleEvery interview recorded and transcribed. Dispositions, response rates and refusal reasons per wave.
Exports where you workSPSS, CSV, dashboards or API, while the wave is running.
Hear it for yourself

Talk to the agent.

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Nuria

Research Interviewer · Spanish — neutral
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“I’m Nuria. I run telephone interviews — I read the script faithfully, probe open answers and never lead the respondent.”

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Demo calls last up to 3 minutes. Your number is used once for this call and is not stored.

Runs scripted questionnaires with rotation
Probes open-ended answers naturally
Respects quotas, screening and consent
Delivers coded, structured data as calls land

A minute in the field

AgentThinking about the last time you used public transport in your city, how satisfied were you overall, on a scale from 1 to 5?
CustomerA three. It depends on the line.
AgentWhich line were you thinking of?
CustomerThe 27 bus. It’s always late in the morning.
AgentThank you — the 27, mornings. Next question…

What changes

12kinterviews completed in a single wave
5languages running in the same campaign
48 hto close fieldwork that took three weeks
Live in 7 days

Your pilot, live in 7 days.

01

Understand

We map the process you want to automate, call by call, with the people who make those calls today.

02

Connect

Connect Sonalyx to your knowledge base and your business systems, with scoped permissions.

03

Build

Configure agent behaviour, voice, languages and the actions it is allowed to execute.

04

Test

Evaluate real scenarios and edge cases against a scored test suite before a single customer hears it.

05

Deploy & improve

Launch, analyse the transcripts and keep tuning — most gains come after the first two weeks live.

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Frequently asked questions

Can AI interviewers run a complex CATI questionnaire?

Yes. Filters, rotation, randomisation, grids and skip logic run exactly as scripted, and open answers are probed, transcribed and coded live.

How does it manage quotas and the sample?

Quota cells, screening, callbacks, retries and call windows per country are tracked in real time, and a cell stops being called the moment it fills.

How fast can a wave close?

Fieldwork that took three weeks of a call-centre floor closes in under 48 hours, with 10,000+ simultaneous interviews per campaign and the dataset exported to SPSS or CSV as calls land.

What could a Sonalyx agent do for you?

Tell us what your team does by phone today. We’ll come back with a working demo agent built on your own content, usually within one working day.

Or write to javier@sonalyx.com