Great Question GTM brain

Great Question sells a user research platform for product, design and research teams to recruit participants, run studies and share insights.

category

UX research platform

market profile

  • text: Research teams often manage recruiting, scheduling, studies and repositories across separate tools and workflows.
  • text: Enterprise research programs need to balance self-service research with participant governance and security.

personas

  • title: Research operations manager
    pains:
    • Recruiting and scheduling participants consumes research team capacity
    • Participant records, consent and incentives are scattered across tools
  • title: Head of UX research
    pains:
    • Scaling reliable research to more teams without losing governance
    • Findings are hard to find and reuse across projects
  • title: Product manager or product designer
    pains:
    • Slow access to customers delays product decisions
    • Setting up interviews and synthesizing findings requires specialist support

icp

  • text: Mid-market and enterprise product organizations with recurring customer research and multiple product teams.
  • text: Teams seeking to use their own customer panel or an external participant pool across interviews, surveys and prototype tests.

message pillars

  • text: Talk to customers sooner.
  • text: Make research accessible across teams.
  • text: Combine studies, participant management and findings.
  • text: Scale research with enterprise governance.

objections

  • objection: Will sensitive customer research be protected?
    response: Review security, consent, access controls and any HIPAA needs against the enterprise plan and required add-ons.
  • objection: Is it worth replacing our existing research tools?
    response: Map recruiting, scheduling and insight sharing costs and compare a scoped trial with current workflows.

competitors

  • name: UserTesting
    why: Offers customer feedback and usability testing, including a participant network.
  • name: Maze
    why: Research and prototype testing platform for product teams.
  • name: Dovetail
    why: Research insight repository and analysis software.
  • name: User Interviews
    why: Participant recruiting alternative and also an enterprise panel integration.

influencers

  • name: Ned Dwyer
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddwyer
    why: Co-founder shares research and AI product perspectives.

keywords

  • user research platform
  • UX research recruitment
  • research participant management
  • AI moderated user interviews
  • UX research repository
  • prototype testing software
  • research operations platform

voice

  • Customer-centered and inclusive
  • Direct and action-oriented

signals

  • text: A growing product organization is democratizing research beyond a central UX research team.
  • text: Research operations wants to consolidate recruiting, scheduling and repositories.

stack

  • Salesforce
  • Snowflake
  • Slack
  • Figma
  • Qualtrics
  • Databricks

pricing

model: seat
starting price: $129 per seat per month; 14-day trial

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • LinkedIn
  • webinars
  • case studies

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Ned Dwyer
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: Founder of Great Question - the customer research platform to streamline interviews, surveys and prototype tests with your own customers. Previously built Elto (acquired by GoDaddy). Australian living in Oakland.
  • name: PJ Murray
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: CTO & Founder of Great Question. Previously founded & sold Elto (with Ned) Software development for 10 years. Primarily working with early start startups. Mostly Rails. South African born Kiwi living in Australia.

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