# Respondent

> Respondent connects research teams with verified consumers, professionals, and specialists for interviews, surveys, usability tests, and other paid studies. It combines a global participant marketplace with screening, scheduling, incentive payments, AI research features, and an API that embeds recruitment in other research platforms.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Jack Pratten (Co-founder and CEO), Harri Thomas (Co-founder; former executive), Pierrick Ganon (Co-founder; technical architect (historical))
- **Products:** Verified participant marketplace, Respondent API, AI Matching, Multiple Payments, AI Project Creation
- **Notable:** Passed four million verified participants in December 2025, according to its announcement., December 2025 company figures: more than $36 million in total participant incentives, 3,000+ studies published monthly, and 20,000+ participants paid monthly., Current website advertises 4.3M+ participants across 150+ countries.

## Products & services

- **Verified participant marketplace** — Recruit consumers, professionals, and specialists for qualitative and quantitative research; the company currently advertises 4.3M+ participants in 150+ countries.
- **Respondent API** — Embed recruitment, screeners, invitations, scheduling, and payouts in another research product.
- **AI Matching** — Semantic matching, progressive participant profiling, and recommendations based on prior qualification activity.
- **Multiple Payments** — Pay a participant up to five times in one project; recruitment fees apply to the first payment rather than payments two through five, according to the launch post.
- **AI Project Creation** — Draft study goals, titles, targeting, and screeners from a research brief.
- **AI Moderator** — AI-led interviews and synthesis alongside the verified panel.
- **Automated scheduling and incentives** — Calendar-based bookings and participant incentive payouts through Tremendous.
- **AI training and evaluation recruitment** — Source people with domain expertise for evaluation, preference data, annotation, and fine-tuning projects.

## Achievements

- Passed four million verified participants in December 2025, according to its announcement.
- December 2025 company figures: more than $36 million in total participant incentives, 3,000+ studies published monthly, and 20,000+ participants paid monthly.
- Current website advertises 4.3M+ participants across 150+ countries.
- Reports a fraud rate below 1%; this is a company metric, not an independently established guarantee.
- Security page states SOC 2 Type II compliance.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Multiple Payments launched, supporting up to five payouts per participant in one project.
- **2026-01** — AI Matching announcement described replacing literal keyword dependence with semantic and activity-informed matching.
- **2025-12** — Announced more than four million verified participants.
- **2025-11** — Announced API integration with Dscout.

## Links

- Website: https://www.respondent.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/respondent.io
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/respondent_io
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/respondent.io/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/respondent.io

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Last updated: 2026-10-26