Askable, the all-in-one research platform alternative to Optimal Workshop

Optimal vs. Askable: Overview
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Why teams pick Askable over Optimal
When it comes to speed to insights, and participants, Askable is the researcher's choice. Optimal focuses on breadth, utilizing third-party providers to source participants.
AI-backed research on demand. Get insights not data points.
Optimal uses AI to summarise studies, it doesn’t help scale up the number of studies or how fast you can deliver the insights your team desperately needs. Askable’s AI works across the entire research lifecycle. AI Moderator runs interviews in 18+ native languages. AI Synthesis clusters themes and links every finding back to its source. Ask AI lets you understand every study you’ve ever run creating insights, not just data points.
A single source of truth. Participants you can trust.
AI speeds up the process but oftentimes AI systems are not built around trust-based protocols. Every Askable participant undergoes a triple-verification process ensuring each and every response is evidence based, not based on faith. Our engine scores, connects, and tracks every piece of evidence so nothing is taken on face value. Poor quality responses are automatically excluded from your study, so you only get real valuable insights.
Trust the data when you need it.
Teams are moving faster than ever before, making decisions in real-time not waiting days or weeks. Askable allows your team to access research on demand with 100% traceable evidence, you can trust the research your team is producing. Look up the data directly in Ask AI or in the tools your team already uses for a seamless research experience.
Insights your team can action. Not a pile of recordings.
Askable generates evidence-linked reports automatically. Themes are backed by quotes, clips and timestamps. With AI Synthesis, themes cluster across all sessions and every finding linking back to its source. Gain real insights your team can action, not a bunch of data you need to slice together yourself.
Where Askable goes further
Always on research. Delivered weekly. Accessible instantly.
Streams sees hundreds of interviews running continuously from a dedicated team surfacing industry level data. Weekly insights report with findings, video clips and themes, all delivered automatically to your inbox.
250+ interviews per week. 13,000+ interviews per year.
Don’t just rely on your team to be generating research, Askable delivers this industry leading research on top of your existing studies. Your team can access the most up to date research when its’ requested, not when the decision making period has already passed.
Enterprise-grade security. Enterprise-grade quality.
SOC 2 Type II certified. ISO 27001 since 2019, recertified under the 2022 standard. GDPR compliant. ISO 42001 certified. Data encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. AI subprocessors are contractually prohibited from training on your data.
Enterprise controls include SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, AI feature toggles, and custom data retention policies. Optimal holds SOC Type II and GDPR compliance, and relies on its Amazon hosting to be compliant with additional security certifications.
Getting started is simple.
Get your team up and running in under a week. Askable provides enterprise-grade research software which teams love.
Askable vs Optimal feature comparison
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