RESEARCH REPORT

Insight Community Best Practices

Based on research-on-research across 39,501 participants and 584 conversational surveys - real benchmarks, not guesswork.

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Growing a community is easy - growing the right one is harder

icon Hard-to-reach groups

Recruiting the right mix of members, including Gen Z and other hard-to-reach groups, takes more than a signup form.

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Completion and response rates drop fast when community engagement isn't actively managed.

icon Slow speed to insight

Manual processes make it hard to turn community feedback into insight fast enough to matter.

icon Underused rich data

Quant, qual and video feedback often goes underused instead of strengthening the story you tell.

Benchmarks and techniques from a year of real community data

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Recruitment That Works

Improve recruitment to get the right people in your community, including hard-to-reach groups like Gen Z.

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Engagement That Sticks

Maximize engagement and boost completion and response rates with modern management techniques.

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AI-Accelerated Analysis

Use AI to move from raw responses to deep insight faster, so your team spends time on action, not coding data.

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Speed & Storytelling

Use AI and mobile-first tech to speed up insights, then turn quant, qual and video feedback into a stronger story.

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