What you can do in Research Desk
- Centralize sample sourcing — Manage manual suppliers, automated marketplace allocations, and internal test traffic from one dashboard.
- Control quality — Route all respondents through Research Defender fraud checks before they enter your survey.
- Configure targeting — Define qualifications, quotas, incidence, length of interview, and device compatibility per survey.
- Monitor fieldwork — Track starts, completes, quota fills, and source performance while surveys are live.
- Reconcile and close projects — Review completes, dispute invalid sessions, and export cost summaries for billing.
Who Research Desk is for
Research Desk is designed for research teams that want direct control over sample procurement without managing multiple supplier logins. It supports nearly all commercially available survey platforms, including Qualtrics, Decipher, Confirmit, SightX, and Alchemer.Typical workflow
1
Create a project
Open a project for a specific research initiative. Assign a project manager and keep the project scoped to a defined fielding window (typically 1–2 months).
2
Create and configure surveys
Add one or more surveys to the project. Each survey targets one country-language combination with its own quotas and sample specifications.
3
Add sources
Click Buy Sample to create Internal sources with qualifications and quotas, or add Manual/Automated sources for other traffic channels.
4
Launch and monitor
Move surveys to Live, run a soft launch (~10% of target), and monitor traffic until quotas are met.
5
Reconcile and close
Review completes during the reconciliation window, accept or reject IDs, and export project cost summaries.
Source types at a glance
Next steps
Account Access
Sign in and manage your account.
Core Concepts
Learn how projects, surveys, and sources relate to each other.