Conversational research platform

Customer and citizen research at institutional scale, in days

SurveyNode runs conversational, AI-led surveys over WhatsApp, SMS, email and the web, asks the follow-up questions a researcher would, and analyses every answer for you.

From the team that has served banks, mobile networks, insurers, clinic groups and public bodies across Southern, Central and West Africa since 2016.

Illustrative demo: post-visit feedback, retail bankingWhatsApp · English
SurveyNodeThanks for visiting our Riverside branch today. How would you rate the visit, from 1 to 10?
Customer6
SurveyNodeThanks. What would have made it an 8 or a 9?
CustomerThe queue for the consultant was 40 minutes. The consultant herself was great once I got there.
AI analysis, live: Wait-time complaints at this branch rose from 11% to 27% of responses this week. 68% mention no communication during the wait. Consultant quality remains positive (+0.4).
live responses · 3 languages1,284 responses today
Since 2016
ESJ Software (est. 2008) serving African banks, networks and public bodies
9 years
longest current customer relationship (Eswatini Mobile, 2017 to present)
In-region
Dedicated instances deployed wherever your regulator requires, on AWS or the cloud you choose
GDPR standard
Built to GDPR standards and aligned to local data protection law in every country we operate in. DPA on request.
ICO Registered, Ref ZA908334Registered with the UK Information Commissioner's OfficeESJ Software Limited · ZA908334 · valid to 19 April 2027Verify on ico.org.uk
Cyber Essentials CertifiedCyber Essentials certifiedUK Government-backed cyber security certificationVerify certificate

Customers

Eswatini Bank
Eswatini Bank
Bank · Eswatini · since 2024
Zambia Industrial Commercial Bank
Zambia Industrial Commercial Bank
Bank · Zambia · since 2025
Eswatini Mobile
Eswatini Mobile
Mobile network · Eswatini · since 2017
Lidwala Insurance
Lidwala Insurance
Insurer · Eswatini · since 2022
The Clinic Group
The Clinic Group
Healthcare · Eswatini · since 2022
Financial Ombudsman
Financial Ombudsman
Public body · Eswatini · since 2026

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Why institutions choose SurveyNode

Depth

Answers you would not have thought to ask for

SurveyNode's AI listens to each response and asks the clarifying question a researcher would. Respondents give more, complete more often, and the open-ended data is analysed for sentiment and themes as it arrives.

Reach

Meet people on the channel they already use

WhatsApp, SMS, email and web, in the respondent's language, at network or population scale, on the networks and handsets people actually have. Assisted WhatsApp onboarding is included with Professional and Enterprise.

Control

Results in days, in your systems

AI-generated summaries and full exports, an API, and an MCP server so your own AI assistants can design, launch and analyse research directly. Where required, your contact list never leaves your infrastructure and SurveyNode processes only the responses.

Integrations

Your AI assistants can run research directly

SurveyNode exposes an MCP server. Connect it to the assistant your teams already use and it can draft a survey, choose the audience, launch it on the right channel and summarise the results, with your permissions and audit trail intact.

Read about MCP and the API
# An analyst's assistant, connected over MCP
user: Run a 5-question churn survey to policyholders
      who lapsed in August, on WhatsApp, in English
      and Afrikaans. Summarise by reason after 500 replies.

assistant: Drafted 5 questions with adaptive follow-ups.
      Audience: 3,412 lapsed policyholders (consented).
      Channel: WhatsApp, template approved.
      Launch now?  [yes]  Launched 14:02.
      ... 512 replies at 09:40 next day.
      Top reasons: price at renewal 41%, claim
      experience 23%, moved provider via broker 18%.

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