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 | Recollective | |
|---|---|---|
| Asynchronous studies (diaries, bulletin boards) | Built around IDIs, focus groups and ethnographic studies | Core strength; 12+ research methods |
| AI analysis | Top-rated by independent experts.
Choose from 2 formats – Chat and Grid. Unlimited passes, mention counts, one click citations available. |
Chat format |
| Automated transcription | 99+ languages, custom vocabulary, Human proofreading available | Multimedia transcription and automatic translation available |
| Clips and reels | Cut from transcript or video citations | Cut from transcript or video citations |
| How to get started | Free trial, free onboarding | Tailored demo on request |
| Participant recruitment | Respondent.io panel inside the platform | Participant onboarding and managed services |
| Pricing | Public. From $30 per credit | Public. From $475 per month + $2 per video minute |
| Security & Compliance | HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001 certified, data never used for LLM training | HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA and SOC2 Compliant |
| Team access | Unlimited users on every plan | Licences tiered by usage type and number of users |
| Security and Compliance | GDPR and HIPAA Compliant, ISO 27001:2022 certified | 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 Recollective 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 Recollective.
flowres.io is built for live moderated research with recruitment, backroom, transcription, AI analysis and PowerPoint reporting in one workspace; Recollective is built for asynchronous studies and long running insight communities, with live sessions as one of its methods.
Yes for teams whose work is mainly live IDIs and focus groups; less so for teams running multi week diaries or long-running communities.
flowres.io is built around IDIs, focus groups and ethnographic studies rather than long running communities or bulletin boards.
No; they join through Zoom by default, with Teams and Meet available for enterprise clients.
flowres.io publishes pay-as-you-go pricing from $70 per credit and subscriptions from $1,100 per month; Recollective pricing is tiered by site duration and participant numbers.
Yes; chat and grid analysis to run multiple passes across transcripts, with mention counts and one click citations back to source quotes.
A PowerPoint add in that builds slides from analysed flowres.io data, in the user-chosen template.
Yes; through the Respondent.io panel, with incentives via Tremendous and scheduling via Calendly or MS Bookings.
