flowres.io is a cloud-native platform for qualitative research. It handles your entire workflow: recruit participants, host live sessions, analyze data with AI, and export PowerPoint slides without downloading software or jumping between tools.
Work fully in the cloud from any browser on any device. There are no software downloads, license keys, or updates to manage.
Conduct live sessions on the video tools your participants already use. Enjoy built-in features like a hidden client backroom, private messaging, and HIPAA-compliant audio streams.
Find participants through Respondent.io, distribute rewards instantly via Tremendous, and book sessions using Calendly or MS Bookings, all without leaving the platform.
Analyze your sessions using chat or comparative grid views. Every insight generated by AI links directly to the exact quote and original session source for instant verification.
Turn your research analysis into a polished slide deck instantly. Use the SlideBuilder add-in to populate your own custom presentation template without manual copy-pasting.
Bring in unlimited teammates, moderators, translators, and clients at no extra charge. Choose between pay-as-you-go options ($70/credit) or monthly subscriptions starting at $1,100 with zero hidden fees.
Access around-the-clock support five days a week with a rapid 31-second average response time, complete with free onboarding and live session assistance.
Works effortlessly with Zoom, delivering substantial savings while ensuring premium observer experience with client chatrooms. End to end platform with accurate transcription, multiple language support, clipping and AI analysis abilities with dedicated client chatrooms
| flowres | Forsta | |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent pricing | Automatically available over email submission | No transparent pricing |
| Price | Pay as you go starting at $70 per credit. Subscription and credit packs available. | No Pay as you Go. Subscription/commitment for 1000 hours starting at 199 USD/ hour for IDI and 299 USD/ hour for FGDs |
| Video conferencing | Built on top of Zoom; a popular, reliable, efficient video conferencing platform. Makes it easy to adopt, for your teams, clients, participants. Teams & Meet integrations also available, for Enterprise clients | Own technology, involves learning curve for your teams, Clients and Participants |
| Automated transcription | 90% accuracy in English. Ability to add custom vocabulary | Accuracy Unspecified |
| Client backroom | With separate chatroom for Internal project teams. Audio only mode for Privacy compliance | Yes |
| Live moments bookmarking | Yes | No |
| Video clipping | Yes | Yes |
| Reel making | Yes | Yes |
| Analysis abilities | Specialized AI module with Grid format. Rated No. 1 by leading researcher in independent evaluation. | Yes |
| Security & Compliance | HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 certified, data never used for LLM training | HIPAA, GDPR and SOC2 Compliant |
Why should joining a research interview be so complicated that it needs dedicated technical support? flowres.io lets participants use familiar conferencing tools, reducing the learning curve and the need for technical handholding. Respondents can join with less friction, moderators focus on the conversation rather than troubleshooting. Of course, some sessions genuinely benefit from hands-on technical support. That's why flowres.io makes dedicated live assistance available when needed, rather than making every study dependent on it.
End-to-end should mean more than fieldwork and analysis. With flowres.io, recruitment comes with upfront, fixed rates: $40 per attended B2C participant or $80 per attended B2B participant, excluding incentives. Our Respondent.io integration gives you access to a panel of 4.3M+ verified participants, with Respondent.io reporting an average of just 15 minutes to the first qualified match. And the workflow doesn't stop at insights. Take your findings all the way into editable PowerPoint slides, using your own presentation template.
Why reinvent what specialist tools already do exceptionally well? We believe in bringing together proven tools for recruitment, conferencing, scheduling and incentives, rather than building everything into one proprietary system. flowres.io connects these services within a single research workspace, giving you the benefits of specialist technology without the complexity of managing disconnected tools. With modular, usage-based pricing, you pay for the capabilities your project needs, not unnecessary extras.
“Analysis was actually really great... the platform learned and understood the conversation flow pretty soon and accurately. So when I prompted, it accurately answered the questions and provided quotes that accurately reflected what I was trying to capture. The synthesis reflected what I was hoping for summarize, as a moderator and analyst.”
“We used specialized platforms only for a few projects when clients demanded it. When I realized how much we had spent on these platforms in 2022, I decided to search for a better option. I spent days looking at several platforms out there, and the platform that I found to be meeting all our needs was flowres.”
“I took the same questions from my interview guideline and asked them to that collective set of 20-plus interviews. I was able to catch nuances- see the thread and the corresponding quotes. Digging in, uncovering, discovering. A perfect example of human-centered AI: I'm in the driver's seat.”
“What I appreciate most is that the technology doesn’t replace the researcher. We’re still reading, questioning, checking themes against the transcripts, looking for contradictory evidence, and discussing where our interpretations differ. flowres.io helps us get closer to the data and makes it easier to explore patterns across a large body of qualitative work. And that is exactly how I want to use AI in research: not to hand over thinking, but to give researchers more capacity to think.”
“There's so many examples of how supported we felt and how we really appreciated ways of working that you guys demonstrated to us. There's several times the Tech team went over and above, to help work with the tool.”
ISO 27001 certification and GDPR-ready infrastructure for enterprise-grade compliance.
HIPAA-friendly features, including audio-only streams and PII redaction capabilities.
AWS-hosted, SSL-certified infrastructure for secure data handling and storage.
Moving from Forsta to flowres.io is simple. Upload existing audio, video, or transcripts directly into flowres.io for automatic transcription and instant AI analysis.
You can transition smoothly by running new research projects on flowres.io while keeping historical projects active in Forsta.
