# Focaldata AI

> Documentation for Focaldata AI — the platform for AI-led research with real participants.

## Docs

- [Overview](https://docs.focaldata.com/account-billing/overview.md): Manage your organisation, team, and access
- [Cost & timelines](https://docs.focaldata.com/audience-sampling/cost-and-timelines.md): Understand how cost and fieldwork timing are derived
- [Defining your audience](https://docs.focaldata.com/audience-sampling/defining-your-audience.md): Define who to recruit and assess whether they can be reached
- [Before you start](https://docs.focaldata.com/before-you-start.md): Check your project is a good fit in under 10 minutes
- [Automated reports](https://docs.focaldata.com/data-analysis/automated-reports.md): Generate structured, evidence-backed reports shaped by a Report Plan
- [Interactive analysis](https://docs.focaldata.com/data-analysis/interactive-analysis.md): Explore transcripts through respondent-attributed, chat-based analysis
- [Overview](https://docs.focaldata.com/exports-integrations/overview.md): Export data and connect Focaldata to your workflow
- [How it works](https://docs.focaldata.com/how-it-works.md): The end-to-end journey from scoping a project to reporting
- [What is Focaldata AI?](https://docs.focaldata.com/index.md): An end-to-end platform for AI-led qualitative research with real participants
- [Approve & launch](https://docs.focaldata.com/launch-fieldwork/approve-and-launch.md): Confirm the study is coherent and ready to go live
- [Data collection](https://docs.focaldata.com/launch-fieldwork/data-collection.md): Conduct AI-moderated interviews following the approved guide
- [Data quality](https://docs.focaldata.com/launch-fieldwork/data-quality.md): Layered safeguards that keep low-quality responses out of the dataset
- [Creating a brief](https://docs.focaldata.com/project-setup/creating-a-brief.md): Turn your context and objectives into a structured brief
- [Discussion guides](https://docs.focaldata.com/project-setup/discussion-guides.md): Translate the brief into a structured, repeatable interview
- [Scoping a project](https://docs.focaldata.com/project-setup/scoping.md): Start from the decision the research needs to inform
- [Data safety & privacy](https://docs.focaldata.com/trust-governance/data-safety.md): How project data is processed, and how to handle access and sharing
- [Guardrails](https://docs.focaldata.com/trust-governance/guardrails.md): The three layers of safeguards: system, agentic, and human
- [Rigor, bias & defensibility](https://docs.focaldata.com/trust-governance/rigor-bias-defensibility.md): How the platform supports rigor, where bias enters, and how to manage it

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://docs.focaldata.com/api-reference/openapi.json)