Dscout is a Chicago-based software company that provides an AI-powered UX and experience research platform for recruiting participants, running qualitative and quantitative studies, and analyzing feedback. Its product is used by product, design, research, and insights teams at enterprise and mid-market companies to collect in-context user input and turn it into actionable findings.

Products & services

Dscout Experience Research Platform A cloud-based platform for recruiting participants, running remote experience research, and analyzing user feedback across qualitative and quantitative studies.
Dscout AI Studio An AI-enabled research workspace for drafting studies, conducting AI-moderated interviews, and extracting patterns, summaries, and evidence from research data.
Dscout Participant Recruitment Participant recruitment services and tools that provide access to verified Dscout Scouts or enable researchers to recruit and invite their own users for studies.
Dscout Private Panels A panel-management solution for recruiting, organizing, communicating with, and administering an organization’s own research participants.
Remote Experience Research Studies Remote research execution across usability tests, website intercepts, field studies, diary studies, media-rich surveys, interviews, and card-sorting studies.
Dscout Model Context Protocol (MCP) An MCP integration that lets product teams create studies, collect customer feedback, and analyze research from compatible AI workspaces.

Leadership

Michael Winnick Founder, CEO
Dom Merritt CPO
Chip Hardt COO
Jonathan Fairman VP of Emerging Product

Seniority mix

Entry & junior 0%
Mid-level 45%
Senior 45%
Lead & principal 9%
Manager & above 0%

Based on 11 open roles

Brands & subsidiaries

Panelfox

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