What people actually say
when no one is asking.
Candid mines raw social conversations — Reddit threads, forum rants, unfiltered comments — to surface unprompted complaints, workarounds and frustrations. No interviews. No bias. Just signal.
“I gave up after the third KYC screen — felt like applying for a mortgage.”
The illusion of traditional research.
Interviews, focus groups and surveys hand you an edited version of reality. In early 0→1 phases, that edit is expensive — and slow.
The wall of biases
Users want to be polite (social desirability bias) and rationalize their past actions (memory bias). You hear what they think you want to hear — not what they actually do.
Temporal & financial inertia
Recruiting, interviewing and synthesizing takes weeks. Teams skip generative research, lean on intuition, and jump straight to tactical design — before the strategy is validated.
Months of exploratory research compressed into a few days of supervised analysis — finally aligning research speed with the pace of the world you're building for.
One conductor, five specialists.
Flip on the AI Orchestrator and Candid runs the entire study autonomously — Hunter scouts, Synthesist clusters, Strategist plans. You walk away; results land in your library.
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Orchestrator
ConductorConducts the full research crewToggle it on at study launch — it dispatches every agent in sequence, passes outputs forward, retries failures and saves the final roadmap. Hands-off research from brief to plan.
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Hunter
Mines unprompted social conversationsExpands your topic into intent-shifted queries and combs Reddit, HN and forums for raw, unfiltered voices — not survey answers.
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Curator
Clusters evidence into 5–15 themesReads every snippet, dedupes near-duplicates, and groups them under canonical themes you can scan in a glance.
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Synthesist
Turns themes into LCC insightsBuilds Learning · Causes · Consequences insights backed by 3+ evidences, with priority levels so you know what matters most.
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Strategist
Plans Now · Next · Later opportunitiesTranslates insights into a concrete strategic timeline — what to ship now, build next, and explore later.
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Companion
Answers your questions, with sourcesChat inside any study to interrogate the evidence — every answer cites the [E1] / [I1] it drew from.
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You — in the loop
Always the editor in chiefEvery agent's output is reviewable, editable and exportable. Candid does the legwork; the strategic call stays yours.
Each agent passes its work to the next, so you go from raw signal to a strategic plan without losing the evidence trail.
Everything you need to go from question to clarity.
Reliable evidence gathering
Multi‑query search across Reddit and HN with intent expansion, comments and dedupe.
Smart theme clustering
Reuses themes across evidence, surfaces patterns instead of one‑off labels.
Cross‑theme insights
Finds cause‑effect chains, tensions and co‑occurrences supported by 3+ evidences.
Optional quantitative stats
Layer numbers and trends on top of qualitative evidence — your call per project.
Live AI activity log
Streamed, timestamped agent steps so you always know what’s happening.
Private by default
Your studies stay yours. Row‑level security, on a managed cloud backend.
Three steps. Hours of work, gone.
Describe your question in a quick chat. Pick qualitative or qualitative + stats.
Live activity log streams every search, fetch, dedupe and theme assignment.
Themes, quotes and synthesized insights — with sources, ready to share.
Simple. Honest.
- 3 studies / month
- Up to 50 evidences
- Theme clustering
- Unlimited studies
- Cross‑theme insights
- Quantitative stats
- Priority AI
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