Glaut vs. Traditional Trackers

What’s driving your brand equity: survey grids or consumer narratives?

Traditional brand trackers rely on 10-40 rating questions to monitor KPIs. Glaut rethinks tracking with one open-ended AIMI plus follow-ups: a short, conversational interview that produces the same KPIs, but with narratives, drivers, and authentic context at scale.

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At a glance

This comparison looks at a traditional brand tracker with 10-40 closed questions versus Glaut, which uses up to 3 open-ended AIMIs or a hybrid design combining qual with quant.
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Traditional Trackers
Brand health KPIs
Awareness, consideration, loyalty tracked as numbers only.
Same KPIs plus drivers and motivations behind each shift.
Data richness
Predefined grids; thin or ignored open-ends.
Consumer spontaneous language creates the codebook for richer associations and emotions.
Competitive intelligence
Benchmarks competitors on numeric scores.
Spontaneous competitor mentions and category entry points emerge naturally.
Respondent experience
Long, repetitive, risk of fatigue.
Conversational, voice or type, shorter and more engaging.
Analysis and ROI
Manual coding delays insight; harder to link to ROI.
Automated clustering + verbatims linked to KPIs, easier ROI storytelling.
Storytelling power
Charts dominate; little narrative for execs.
Quotes and verbatim illustrate drivers, compelling for leadership and teams.
Design flexibility
Fully survey-based; closed scales only.
Hybrid: keep ratings or replace blocks with 1 open-ended AIMI + adaptive probes.

When to use each

Traditional brand trackers when

Continuity of numeric KPIs is the only requirement
Competitor benchmarking relies on survey-based norms
Stakeholders expect dashboards of % shifts without qualitative depth
Budget or design constraints call for fixed questionnaires
Choose Glaut when
You need to understand how and why KPIs change, not just track the what
Engagement matters and respondents prefer short, conversational feedback
Authentic consumer language is needed for competitive intelligence
Quotes, themes, and ROI-linked drivers are required to persuade stakeholders

When to use Glaut inside existing surveys

Keep your tracker exactly where it lives today and embed Glaut in via an iframe: respondents stay in the same flow while answering an AI-moderated open end (voice or type). You preserve the structure and continuity of your quant program while unlocking richer, contextual qual in-line.

No  disruption: keep your existing tech stack
Seamless flow: no redirects, full context preserved
Preserve structure and continuity while collecting richer, contextual qual data
Richer data: replace grids with 1 open-ended AIMI
Embed glaut AIMI into a survey

A first comparative study

In early 2024, we ran our first comparative study: "Enhancing Qualitative Market Research with Conversational AI-agents: Comparative Study of AI-Moderated Interviews (aka “AIMIs”) and Traditional Static Surveys".

The aim was to test whether an AI-moderated interviewer could capture richer, more insightful qualitative data than traditional web-based surveys.

+129% avg. words per response with AIMIs vs. surveys
-53.6% gibberish interactions using AIMI
+94.1% performance gain: AIMIs rated higher in quality in 66% of cases.
+56.4% higher completion rate with AIMIs (61%) vs. static surveys (38%).
Comparative study AIMI vs. Surveys
Faq

Get answers to the most commonly asked questions

Can one AIMI really replace 10 rating questions?

Yes. AIMIs extract the same brand dimensions measured by rating grids - awareness, preference, loyalty, TOM - while adding emotions, associations, and motivations that fixed scales can’t capture.

Can Glaut still deliver numeric KPIs like a survey?

Yes. Glaut extract the same brand health metrics -awareness, consideration, loyalty, NPS - while linking them to the narratives and drivers behind each number. You don’t lose trendlines, you gain context.

Are AIMIs suitable for global or multi-language tracking?

Yes. AIMIs run 24/7 in 50+ languages, making it easy to scale brand tracking across markets while maintaining consistent depth and fraud prevention.

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