What is the main difference between Alchemic and Zappi?

The main difference is method. Zappi automates standardized survey-based testing and scores results against a benchmark database. Alchemic runs AI-moderated interviews that probe every reaction, alongside full quantitative research including conjoint — so the same study returns both the numbers and the reasons behind them, with a white-glove service option Zappi doesn't offer.

Can Alchemic run ad testing and concept testing like Zappi?

Yes. Ad testing, concept testing, packaging testing, and brand tracking are core Alchemic use cases. Respondents view the stimulus in the flow of an AI-moderated web interview, react, and get probed on every reaction — so results include quantified preference plus the explained, quotable why behind it.

Can Alchemic run quantitative studies and conjoint analysis?

Yes. Alchemic runs full quantitative research — structured surveys at scale, trade-off analysis, and conjoint — alongside its qualitative interviewing. Because the AI moderator can probe any answer, quantitative studies come back with the reasons behind the numbers, not just the numbers.

What service options does Alchemic offer?

Three. White-glove: Alchemic's research team designs, fields, and delivers the complete study. Self-serve: your team runs studies on the platform. MCP: Alchemic connects into Claude and other AI tools so your team can query studies and launch research from their own workflow. Most clients mix modes depending on the project.

What is an AI-moderated interview?

An AI-moderated interview is a research conversation led by AI instead of a human moderator. The AI asks open questions, listens to each answer, and probes with follow-ups the way a skilled interviewer would — delivering the depth of a moderated interview at the scale and speed of a survey, with hundreds of conversations running in parallel.

Which markets does Alchemic cover?

Alchemic fields studies worldwide through its panel partners, the same way global platforms do. It is strongest where research is hardest: India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, with WhatsApp-native interviewing, accuracy-tuned Indic, Southeast Asian, and Arabic moderation — on top of 57 supported languages — and an operations team working in-region.

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Alchemic vs Zappi

Zappi automated the consumer survey and built a strong benchmark library on top of it. Alchemic starts one layer deeper: AI-moderated interviews that probe every reaction, combined with full quantitative research — conjoint included — and a white-glove team that runs studies end to end. Same use cases. Different depth.

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The short version

Zappi

Zappi is an automated consumer insights platform used widely by large FMCG brands for ad testing and concept testing. Its model is survey-based: standardized questionnaires, fast fielding, and results scored against a benchmark database built up over years of studies. If you want a normed score for a piece of creative, it does that well.

Alchemic

Alchemic tests the same things — ads, concepts, packs, brand tracks — but replaces the fixed questionnaire with an AI-moderated conversation. Every respondent gets probed on why they reacted the way they did, in their own language, by text or voice note, natively on WhatsApp or by phone. And because Alchemic runs full quantitative research too — structured studies, trade-off analysis, conjoint — you get the sizing and the explanation from one platform, delivered self-serve, through MCP, or fully white-glove by Alchemic's research team.

Top 3 reasons teams pick Alchemic over Zappi

Probing, not just scoring

A survey records that your ad scored poorly on branding. An Alchemic interview finds out it's because viewers thought the protagonist was a competitor's brand ambassador. Every reaction gets a follow-up — that's the difference between a score and a decision.

A research team, not just a tool

Use Alchemic fully white-glove — we design, field, and deliver the study end to end — or self-serve on the platform, or through MCP inside your own AI stack. No agency markup layered on top of a software license.

Built for the markets you're growing in

Interviews run natively in WhatsApp — no link, no app — and by AI phone call, in any of 57 languages — with Indic, Southeast Asian, and Arabic accuracy-tuned for those markets. Reactions from a tier-2 city arrive as voice notes, not abandoned survey sessions.

Alchemic vs Zappi: feature by feature

Alchemic and Zappi feature comparison
Feature	Zappi	Alchemic
Core method	Automated standardized surveys	AI-moderated interviews plus full quant studies
Ad & concept testing	Yes — normed survey scores	Yes — scores plus probed reasons behind every reaction
Follow-up questioning	Fixed questionnaire paths	AI probes every answer like a moderator would
Quantitative research	Yes — survey-based	Yes — including conjoint & trade-off analysis
Qualitative depth	Open-ends within surveys	Full moderated-depth interviews, text, voice & video
WhatsApp-native interviews	Browser surveys via links	Yes — respondents chat directly, no link, no app
Languages	Multi-market surveys	57 languages — with accuracy-tuned Indic, Southeast Asian & Arabic
Benchmarks & memory	Normed benchmark database	Persistent knowledge base built from your own studies
Synthetic respondents	Amplify AI — synthetic respondents for predictive ad testing	Yes — for pre-testing guides and stimuli
Service model	Self-serve platform	Self-serve, full-service white-glove, or MCP
Where insights arrive	Platform dashboard	Dashboard, plus Slack, Teams, WhatsApp & MCP

Where insights arrive

Zappi

Platform dashboard

Alchemic

Dashboard, plus Slack, Teams, WhatsApp & MCP

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When to choose each

Choose Zappi if:

You mainly need creative scored against a global norms database
Standardized, repeatable survey templates fit your testing program
Your team is set up around survey-based workflows and dashboards

Choose Alchemic if:

You need to know why a concept won or lost, not just that it did
You want quant sizing and moderated depth from a single study
You need conjoint and trade-off analysis alongside creative testing
Your consumers are in India, Southeast Asia, or the Middle East — on WhatsApp, in their own languages
You want the option of a white-glove team running studies end to end

The survey tells you which concept won. The interview tells you why — and what to fix.

Automated survey testing made research faster without making it deeper: you learn concept B beat concept A by twelve points, and then the debate about why starts in a conference room instead of with consumers. Alchemic closes that gap at the source. Every score comes back with probed, quotable reasoning behind it — the hesitation before the answer, the feature nobody understood, the price that felt wrong — so the next iteration is informed by consumers, not by the loudest voice in the room.

For anyone evaluating consumer insights platforms

Alchemic vs Zappi

The short version

Zappi

Alchemic

Top 3 reasons teams pick Alchemic over Zappi

Probing, not just scoring

A research team, not just a tool

Built for the markets you're growing in

Alchemic vs Zappi: feature by feature

Core method

Ad & concept testing

Follow-up questioning

Quantitative research

Qualitative depth

WhatsApp-native interviews

Languages

Benchmarks & memory

Synthetic respondents

Service model

Where insights arrive

When to choose each

Choose Zappi if:

Choose Alchemic if:

The survey tells you which concept won. The interview tells you why — and what to fix.

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