Change Log

Latest updates and improvements to our platform

Week ending July 31, 2026

Features

  • Social Media Listener
    • Monitor what people are saying about your brand, product, or topic across social media
    • Surface emerging themes and sentiment without running a formal study
  • Branching interviews that adapt to each participant
    • Interviews now follow different paths based on how participants answer
    • Tailor follow-up questions to each person for deeper, more relevant insight
  • Watch the moment behind every quote in Instant Analysis
    • Jump straight from a quote to the exact point in the video where it was said

Bug Fixes

  • More natural voice interviews with smoother turn-taking and fewer accidental interruptions
  • Fixed an issue where valid participant answers could be dropped from transcripts

Week ending June 30, 2026

Features

  • Research Assistant now works across any research domain
    • Synthesis is no longer tied to a single vertical — ask questions across any kind of study
    • Insight citations show verbatim participant quotes so you can trust every claim

Bug Fixes

  • More accurate analysis of uploaded transcripts — interviewer turns are no longer counted as participant responses

Week ending May 31, 2026

Features

  • Diary Studies
    • Run longitudinal studies where participants capture photos, videos, and reflections over several days
    • Sequential day-by-day gating keeps participants on track
    • Room-tour and in-context video is analyzed automatically
  • Image & video understanding
    • Convo now analyzes the photos and videos participants share
    • Visual evidence flows directly into your analysis and Research Assistant answers
  • A deeper, more helpful Research Assistant
    • Dynamic, per-study starter questions to help you dig in faster
    • Better understanding of what you're actually asking for
    • Pulls in images, video, and interview evidence alongside text
  • Instant Analysis: LLM-powered thematic coding
    • Richer, more accurate themes surfaced automatically from your responses
  • Move, Copy & Duplicate studies
    • Reorganize studies across projects
    • Duplicate an existing study as a starting point for a new one

Bug Fixes

  • Improved voice agent responsiveness and reduced lag
  • More reliable photo and video uploads in diary studies

Week ending April 30, 2026

Features

  • Redesigned study setup & discussion guide review
    • A cleaner, guided flow for setting up a study and reviewing your discussion guide before you launch
  • Searchable project picker when creating studies
    • Quickly find the right project when spinning up a new study

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed discussion guide editor issues on the questions page

Week ending March 31, 2026

Features

  • Chat (text) interviews
    • Run interviews over text chat in addition to voice
    • Reach participants who prefer typing or can't take a voice call
    • Optimized for mobile so participants can respond from anywhere
  • Refreshed product design
    • A new, consistent design system across the entire app
  • Dark mode
    • Switch between light and dark themes from your account menu
  • Real-time sentiment analysis
    • Understand how participants are feeling as the conversation unfolds

Bug Fixes

  • More accurate participant counts
  • Hardened completion handling for text-chat interviews

Week ending November 30, 2025

Features

  • Clip bank & clips creator
    • Build, group, and export highlight reels from your interviews
    • Download polished video clips to share with colleagues and stakeholders
  • Highlights on analyzed transcripts
    • Key moments are surfaced right on the transcript for faster review

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed videos not displaying in analysis
  • Faster exports when combining multiple sources

Week ending October 31, 2025

Features

  • Figma prototype embeds for stimulus testing
    • Add Figma prototypes as stimulus on a per-question basis for concept and prototype testing
  • Copy studies
    • Duplicate an existing study to reuse its setup as a starting point

Week ending September 30, 2025

Features

  • Multilingual participant experience and analysis
    • Added support for Arabic, Spanish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, and Dutch
    • Participants can interview in their language, and analysis follows
  • Research type picker
    • Guided setup that helps you choose the right kind of study
  • Better participant tracking
    • See completion rates and incomplete responses on the participants page
    • Deep link directly to a completed response
    • Pass participant IDs through completion redirect URLs for cleaner panel tracking
  • Larger uploads
    • File size cap raised from 500MB to 1GB

Bug Fixes

  • Improved multilingual analysis
  • Fixed screener background color styling

Week ending August 31, 2025

Features

  • Live transcript during interviews
    • Participants can see Convo's questions and speech on screen as the interview happens
  • Upload text transcripts into the Research Assistant
    • Bring your existing text transcripts into Convo and analyze them alongside your interviews
  • Original transcripts in the video clip player
    • Accurate, synced transcripts now accompany your video clips

Bug Fixes

  • Cleaned up transcript formatting, including spacing around punctuation

Week ending August 4, 2025

Features

  • Stack ranking questions for priority and preference research
    • New interactive question type that lets participants rank items by priority or preference
    • Intuitive drag-and-drop interface for easy ranking on any device
    • Advanced analysis with consensus scoring to identify top-ranked items across participants
    • Visual ranking distribution charts showing how participants prioritized different options
    • Perfect for feature prioritization, concept testing, and preference research
  • Enhanced research quality with comprehensive testing
    • New integration testing framework ensures reliable data collection
    • 85% test coverage requirement for all critical features
    • Automated regression testing prevents issues when adding new features
    • Improved stability and performance for better participant experience
  • Research assistant improvements
    • Faster insight discovery with automated transcript embeddings
    • Enhanced search capabilities through your interview data
    • More accurate video clip timing for better highlight creation
    • Improved quote extraction for sharing key participant insights

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed stack ranking questions not appearing in the question editor
  • Improved video synchronization for more accurate research clips
  • Enhanced data integrity with improved database validation
  • Better handling of concurrent participant responses

Week ending July 4, 2025

Features

  • Convo's research assistant (beta)
    • You now have a research partner to collaborate with. Talk to our assistant like you would a colleague to develop and dig for insights within your data that you hadn't thought of before.
  • Upload existing interviews
    • You want to just use our analytics engine? Feel free to upload your data to Convo and analyze the data with our research assistant
  • Video clip creation
    • Easily create highlight reels to share with colleagues

Bug Fixes

  • Cleaning up the analysis panel on the research assistant
  • Fixing invalid video file locations for uploading

Week ending June 27, 2025

Features

  • Automatically ending interviews after all questions have been asked
    • Participants don't need to click on 'end interview' button, the interview automatically finishes
  • Flag fully completed interviews
    • Users can better understand completion rates for incentivization purposes
  • Figma embed for stimulus testing
    • Add Figma prototypes as stimulus for concept or prototype testing
  • Redirect URLs after interview is completed
    • Participants are automatically redirected after completing their interview to a URL specified by user
  • Ability to delete studies as an account owner
    • Users can delete test studies made previously
  • Preview mode
    • Users no longer need to create test studies anymore, preview will show users how their study works before sending to participants
  • Interview count limits
    • Users can set a maximum number of completed interviews, once maximum has been reached, study automatically closes
  • Participant analytics
    • Simple analytics to understand completion rates on the participants page
  • Draggable questions
    • Users can move questions around on question page to suit their needs
  • Custom sorting on the Participants page
    • Users can now sort participants based on response dates
  • Enable video recording with video stream displayed during interview
    • Participants can now see their video during the interview
  • Anonymous interviews
    • Users can set studies to be anonymous, participants can enter participation IDs to start the interview
  • Screener questions
    • Users can pre-screen participants before starting the voice interview
  • Custom thank you messages on ending screen
    • Users can create their own thank you message on the ending screen
  • Dutch language support
    • Dutch participant and analyses support

Bug Fixes

  • Redirect error after studies are created
  • Preserve question order when editing questions
  • Keep the same question order on the setup screen as the interview
  • UI Fixes across the entire app
    • Details screen, no more overflowing pages
    • Analysis screen, no more infinite scroll
    • Questions screen, maintain column sizing, fill the entire screen
    • Responses screen, equal column size, no more infinite scroll, cards don't overflow to other columns
    • Left nav, added 'Settings' page for studies, removed 'Guide' label from questions, renamed Team settings to Team
    • Date formatting on participants page
  • Better error handling on our transcription service
  • Breadcrumbs are now all human readable

Deprecated

  • Legacy V1 Interviews, if you need these please contact us at info@getconvo.ai