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Remesh
Live AI-moderated conversations with hundreds of participants at once, analysed in real time
As of 31 August 2026, Remesh's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Runs a structured live conversation with several hundred people simultaneously, using AI to cluster answers and let participants vote on each other. Softwr lists it under Research. Remesh is made by Remesh, Inc., available on Web, API.
Overview
What Remesh does
Remesh runs live research sessions in which a moderator poses open questions to as many as several hundred participants at once. Participants answer in their own words; the system clusters responses by meaning in real time and shows other participants those clusters to agree or disagree with. The output is qualitative language with a quantitative measure of how widely each view is held, which is the specific gap between a focus group of eight and a survey of two thousand. The platform has expanded beyond live sessions to include Flex for asynchronous studies, video research, an AI assistant called Remy that helps write discussion guides and analyse results, and an On-Demand Recruit service delivering participant panels in around 24 hours. The design premise is that you can get a defensible read on a message, a concept or an employee issue in a single afternoon rather than over three weeks of fieldwork. Buyers are enterprise insights teams and employee-listening functions, with Nestle, Barclays, Mercedes-Benz, YUM Brands and the research firms Ipsos and C Space cited as customers. Two things a buyer should weigh: pricing is not published and third-party estimates place annual contracts in the tens of thousands of dollars, and the funding trajectory has slowed markedly, with a 25 million USD round in 2021 followed by only a 4.25 million USD round at the end of 2022. Public review signal is also strikingly split, with a strong G2 profile on a thin review base alongside a poor Trustpilot rating driven largely by participant-side complaints rather than buyer complaints.
What people use it for
- A brand team that needs to test three positioning statements with 400 target customers and know by the end of the day which one lands and with whom
- An HR function running an employee listening session across several thousand staff where anonymity and volume both matter
- A public affairs team needing rapid citizen consultation on a policy option with evidence of how widely each objection is held
- An insights team that has to replace six focus groups with one session because fieldwork time has been cut and the decision cannot wait
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Remesh.
- Pricing is not published and third-party estimates put annual contracts in the tens of thousands of dollars, which puts it out of reach for teams that only run occasional qualitative studies and cannot commit to an annual platform fee.
- The public review picture is inconsistent in a way worth investigating: a small number of positive buyer reviews on G2 sit alongside a poor Trustpilot rating driven mostly by participant complaints, so ask directly how participants are recruited and compensated before running a study on your own customers.
- Funding has slowed sharply, from a 25 million USD round in 2021 to a 4.25 million USD round in late 2022, so procurement teams at large organisations should expect to run a vendor viability review.
- The collective dialogue mechanic rewards views that many participants recognise and vote for, which systematically under-weights genuinely novel minority insight, so it is a poor fit for exploratory discovery work where the outlier is the point.
- The discussion guide builder, especially spreadsheet import, is reported as unreliable, and because sessions are live with recruited participants a tooling failure during setup is expensive rather than merely annoying.
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Pricing
What Remesh costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Remesh
On request
- Live moderated sessions
- Flex asynchronous studies
- Video research
- Remy AI assistant
- On-Demand Recruit participant sourcing
- Annual contract, quoted by session volume
Capabilities
Features
Live moderated sessions
Runs a real-time conversation with hundreds of participants simultaneously
Collective dialogue
Clusters open-text answers by meaning and shows them back for agreement voting
Flex asynchronous studies
Collects responses over days rather than in a single live session
Video research
Captures participant video responses alongside text
Remy AI assistant
Drafts discussion guides, assists moderation and summarises findings
On-Demand Recruit
Sources participant panels, typically within about 24 hours
Real-time theme analysis
Surfaces emergent themes during the session rather than after it
Practice sessions
Lets a moderator rehearse a guide against simulated participants before going live
Segment comparison
Breaks agreement scores down by participant attribute
Remesh MCP
Exposes study data to AI agents and external tooling
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How many people can join one session?
Sessions are designed for several hundred participants at once, which is the core reason to choose it over a conventional focus group.
Does it publish pricing?
No. Contracts are quoted annually, typically scoped by session volume, and third-party estimates place them in the tens of thousands of dollars per year.
Can it replace a survey?
Not entirely. It produces open-ended language with agreement percentages, which is stronger than a survey for understanding reasoning but weaker for precise population estimates.
Does Remesh recruit participants for me?
Yes, through On-Demand Recruit, typically delivering a panel within about 24 hours, or you can bring your own list.
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