Survey Agent is an autonomous AI agent built into QuestionPro that plans, builds, and configures surveys on your behalf. You describe your research objective in plain language and the agent selects question types, structures blocks, and applies all logic without waiting for step-by-step input.
Survey Agent works on both new and existing surveys. You can ask it to add or update questions, apply or modify logic rules, import questions from a Word or PDF document, or explain your current survey structure back to you in plain language. Unlike tools that suggest improvements and leave the build to you, Survey Agent takes on the work entirely.
Consider a full-service market research agency on the East Coast managing 10 to 15 active client projects at any given time. Most studies start from a client-supplied Word document: a screener, a questionnaire brief, or a set of questions inherited from a prior round. Getting that document into a configured survey used to mean re-entering every question manually, selecting question types one by one, and rebuilding all described logic from scratch. With Survey Agent, the team uploads the document directly into the chat window, describes what they need, and the agent structures the questions into a complete survey with question types assigned, skip logic applied, and blocks organized. Junior staff complete builds that previously required senior oversight, and the agency reaches fielding faster on every engagement.
The uses of Survey Agent are:
Enterprise insights teams: Use Survey Agent to scale survey output without adding headcount. When a research operations team runs continuous tracking studies across multiple business units, configuration work compounds into a backlog. Survey Agent handles the full build so researchers stay focused on analysis, not setup.
CX and VoC program owners: Use it to keep transactional feedback programs up to date without routing every update through a dedicated research team. Describe the respondent flow once, specifying deeper follow-up questions for low scores and lighter questions for positive ones, and Survey Agent configures the conditional branching accurately.
Research agencies and consultancies: Use it to go directly from a client brief to a configured survey. The document import capability accepts .docx and .pdf files, reads the content, and builds the survey from it with no manual re-entry.
Product and strategy teams: Use it for fast research pulses without creating a dependency on the insights function. Describe the branching logic in plain language and Survey Agent builds both paths without any manual rule-building.
The advantages of Survey Agent are:
Full build execution, not just questions: Survey Agent handles question selection, block structure, page organization, and all logic types: skip logic, criteria, show/hide questions, show/hide answer options, and compound branching. The output is a survey ready to review and launch, not a starting point.
Logic errors eliminated before fielding: Complex branching is where survey quality breaks down under time pressure. Survey Agent configures all logic accurately and consistently, reducing the risk of misfired conditions and broken paths that compromise data quality after launch.
Anyone can build a production-quality survey: You do not need platform training or research expertise to run a study. QuestionPro supports over 5.3 million users worldwide, and Survey Agent means any of them can go from a research question to a live, logic-configured survey without prior platform experience.
Document import removes the re-entry bottleneck: Most research projects start from a document in someone's inbox. Survey Agent accepts .docx and .pdf uploads, reads the content, and structures the questions into a configured survey with no copy-pasting, no manual question type selection, and no logic rebuilding.
Survey intelligence on demand: Ask Survey Agent to summarize any existing survey and it maps the question flow, identifies key topics, and explains the logic structure in plain language so you can review or share a clear picture before fielding.
To use Survey Agent in your research studies, read our help file on how to set up survey agent.