With the new year already in full swing, we are rolling out a set of meaningful upgrades to Recollective Ask AI that improve performance, answer quality and day-to-day usability. A new Predictive Mode is the headline feature and combines with an expanded data set and improved AI model to move you from question to insight with less friction, even in large, complex or long-running studies.
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- Ask AI Performance Upgrades
- Ask AI Experience Enhancements
- Why this matters
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What’s new in Recollective Ask AI
Predictive Mode: answer “What if?” questions with data-backed foresight
Ask AI by Recollective has always been a powerful tool to interrogate what participants have said. Predictive Mode adds a new dimension: it lets you explore forward-looking and hypothetical questions using the established foundation of your existing qualitative data.
Instead of stopping at “What did participants say?” you can now ask, “What might happen if…?”
With Predictive Mode, you can:
- See what’s coming, before it happens by anticipating likely sentiment, behaviors and preferences based on patterns identified in your study data
- Move from insight to action faster by testing scenarios without waiting for additional follow-up work
- Rely on predictions backed by real evidence with transparent verbatims and relevance indicators that help you validate what is driving the output
- Shift from retrospective analysis to strategic foresight by connecting what you already learned to what might come next
Whether you are pressure-testing a new message, exploring feature reactions, or looking for signals of change across segments, Predictive Mode gives you a practical way to move forward with confidence.
Expanded data coverage: Recollective Ask AI for Discussions is here
Communities are where some of the richest insights live, especially in Discussion Topics where participants share unprompted reactions, debate ideas and build on each other’s experiences over time.
Now, Recollective Ask AI includes Discussion Topic data, which means you can unlock insights from those long threads without spending hours combing through every post.
This upgrade helps you:
- Analyze a larger portion of your study data including unstructured conversation
- Surface organic participant thoughts for clearer, more grounded insights
- Save time reviewing long threads, especially in ongoing or longitudinal studies
If your team runs sustained communities or multi-week programs, this is a significant step toward faster synthesis without sacrificing any nuance.
Performance upgrades: faster answers, better output, stronger evidence
We have made behind-the-scenes improvements that show up in the moments that matter most. The Recollective team rebuilt key components of the Ask AI engine to handle more data, respond faster and produce clearer outputs across the board.
Bigger data capacity, faster answers
Ask AI can process more data at once and deliver quicker responses without sacrificing quality.
Upgraded AI models for better answers
Responses are clearer, more accurate and easier to read, making it simpler to share findings with stakeholders.
Improved accuracy in verbatims
Ask AI now pulls from a broader set of participant verbatims so quotes feel more relevant and more trustworthy.
Stronger time-aware insights
Ask AI handles time-based questions more reliably, including recent feedback, changes over time and trends across weeks or months. This makes longitudinal analysis easier to interpret and defend.
Participant-attributed quotes for easier validation
Ask AI can now directly quote participants in its answers, helping you identify sources, validate insights and collect reporting-ready quotes with less effort.
Experience enhancements: a cleaner, more intuitive Ask AI from Recollective
Recollective Ask AI should feel like a natural extension of how researchers think: ask, follow up, refine, share. We have improved the interface to support that flow with less clutter.
Cleaner, more focused interface
We simplified question asking in single-study contexts and redesigned key areas to eliminate friction so you can stay focused on insights.
Smarter filtering and search
Filtering and selection menus for studies, activities, tasks, categories and topics are now more visible and easier to manage.
Improved navigation and readability
The interface has been refined for consistency and accessibility, creating a more intuitive experience as you explore answers and follow-ups.
Why this matters right now
As research teams face tighter timelines and bigger expectations, the value of Ask AI is not just speed. It is giving more people on your team a clearer path from raw qualitative data to decisions you can stand behind.
With these updates, Ask AI becomes:
- more comprehensive, with better coverage of discussions and long-running work
- more dependable, with improved evidence, attribution and time-aware reasoning
- more usable, with an experience that stays out of your way while you explore
And with Predictive Mode, it becomes forward-looking too.
Ready to try the new Ask AI?
Rapidly building on the momentum of the new AI Conversation Task, these exciting enhancements are available now! If you want to see Predictive Mode in action, explore discussion insights in seconds, or understand how the new attribution and time-aware answers support your reporting workflows, we would love to show you.
Reach out to your Recollective contact or request a demo and we will show you the new Ask AI with your real studies and real questions.
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