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Condens

Centralize customer research, analyze with AI, and share evidence-backed insights.

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Condens at a glance
25KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits145Ranking keywordsPublic search sample97/100Technical health15 pages checked1.5KReferring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

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Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Condens is a user research platform that centralizes customer knowledge from interviews, usability tests, surveys, and feedback into one searchable repository S9. It is used by UX researchers, product managers, and designers to analyze qualitative data, build evidence-backed insights, and share findings with stakeholders S9. The platform's practical value lies in its AI-powered search and analysis, which surfaces relevant quotes and themes with direct citations, ensuring insights are grounded in actual customer data S9.

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Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Condens is a user research repository and AI analysis platform S37.
  • Core purpose: It solves the problem of scattered customer insights by centralizing research data and keeping every insight backed by evidence S37.
  • Intended users: UX researchers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders who conduct or use user research S9.
  • Product scope: A web-based platform with features for data import, transcription, analysis, synthesis, and sharing S9.
  • Positioning: Condens positions itself as a tool that helps teams get insights in front of decision-makers with practical steps S1.
  • Claimed distinction: It claims to offer AI features with safeguards that general-purpose AI lacks, grounding answers in evidence S37.
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Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
UX researchersCentralize and analyze qualitative data from interviews and usability tests to build evidence-backed insights S9.
Product managersSearch across all research to inform product decisions and avoid starting from scratch S37.
DesignersUse split-screen mode to tag raw data and connect it to findings during analysis S37.
StakeholdersAccess shared artifacts with security settings to review research outcomes S9.
Students and educatorsUse Condens for free to learn and teach user research skills S109.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
Centralized repositoryBrings all customer knowledge into one place, including transcripts, usability tests, surveys, and feedback S9.
AI-powered searchSearches across the entire repository and surfaces relevant quotes and themes with direct citations S9.
Transcription and anonymizationTranscribes audio/video and anonymizes sensitive data, including PII redaction and face blurring S9 S97.
Highlighting and analysisUsers can create highlights as evidence pieces and analyze data in split-screen mode S9.
Synthesis with ArtifactsCreate notes or whiteboards (e.g., affinity maps, personas) and bring in highlights, charts, and tags S9.
Collaboration and sharingInvite users with access permissions and share artifacts via links with security settings S9.
Data retention controlsSet automated data deletion rules and control access down to the group level S37 S97.
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Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
Zoom, Google Drive, TypeformIntegrationAutomatically import research data from these sources S37.
Figma, Miro, SlackIntegrationSend insights directly to these tools for team collaboration S37.
ChatGPT and AI modelAI interfaceConnect Condens to AI agents so their outputs are grounded in customer data S37 S97.
Custom MCPAPIConnect Condens with a company's LLM via custom MCP S97.
Condens APIAPIPush, pull, and sync data between Condens and existing systems S37.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
LiteFrom 15€ per month, billed monthly, or 165€ per year (1 month free) S97Unlimited transcription and projects S971 contributor; extra contributors 15€ a month; 1 folder; 25 participant profiles; no viewers S97
BusinessFrom 500€ per month, paid yearly (6.000€ per year) S97Unlimited transcription; AI search and analysis; unlimited viewers; 3 insights repositories S975 contributors; extra 85€ a month; SSO and HIPAA add-on S97
EnterpriseContact us S97API, custom MCP, SSO and HIPAA included S97Minimum 5 contributors S97
Free trial15 days free, no credit card required S97 S104All features S104Not established
EducationalFree for teachers and students S109Not establishedNot established
Non-profit10% discount on Business and Enterprise plans S109Not establishedNot established

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
youtube.com212condens
uiuxtrend.com111ux conferences
reddit.com112ux conferences
dev.events113ux conferences
uxpin.com114ux conferences
skimle.com115condens
bigevent.io115ux conferences
eventbrite.com116ux conferences
sourceforge.net117condens
blog.adobe.com117ux conferences

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.8%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
featuresCondens centralizes your customer research and keeps every insight backed by evidence, so your team and AI agents can act on it with confidence.https://condens.io/
featuresUX Research Repository and AI Analysis Platformhttps://condens.io/
featuresBring all your customer knowledge together, analyze it fast, and surface evidence-backed insights your team and AI agents can both act on.https://condens.io/
featuresMake research insights available to anyone, anytime. Surfaced through Condens’ search, shared in Slack or Teams, or accessed directly through Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants.https://condens.io/
featuresResearch AI grounded in everything you know about your customershttps://condens.io/
featuresPurpose-built for research, Condens AI generates evidence-backed answers from your data, not assumptions, with safeguards general-purpose AI lacks. You have the final say on every output.https://condens.io/
featuresGive AI assistants and agents direct access to your research, plug Condens into your existing tools, and extend it into any custom workflow or system your team relies on.https://condens.io/
featuresConnect Condens directly with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents so their outputs are grounded in what your customers actually said, not what AI assumes they did.https://condens.io/
featuresKeep your team aligned on the "why" behind every product decision with evidence-backed insights straight from the source. Quickly share video snippets or AI-generated summaries and stop spending hours on reporting.https://condens.io/product-managers/
featuresAI Search via Slack and Teamshttps://condens.io/product-managers/
featuresGive your AI assistants access to everything your team has learned about your users, right where you're already working.https://condens.io/product-updates/
featuresLearn about latest Condens AI-powered updates: generate bookmarks for your recordings, craft concise summaries for Artifacts or Highlights, and use smart Highlights recommendations for Tags.https://condens.io/product-updates/
featuresWith Magazine AI Search directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams, anyone can get instant, trusted answers based on your published research findings. Let's dive into the Condens June product updates!https://condens.io/product-updates/ask-your-repository-in-slack-and-teams/
featuresThis is exactly where Magazine AI Search in Slack and Teams comes in. By extending the Condens Insights Magazine directly into the places where collaboration naturally happens, we're helping researchers bring validated insights to every conversation. This makes it easier for stakeholders to ask questions, find answers, and seamlessly integrate research into their everyday work, without the digging or delays.https://condens.io/product-updates/ask-your-repository-in-slack-and-teams/
featuresMagazine AI Search will then return an answer based on the validated, published findings from your Insights Magazine. Crucially, every answer always includes a link to the original source for full context and transparency.https://condens.io/product-updates/ask-your-repository-in-slack-and-teams/
featuresUX Research Repository and AI Analysis Platformhttps://condens.io/
featuresBring all your customer knowledge together, analyze it fast, and surface evidence-backed insights your team and AI agents can both act on.https://condens.io/
featuresRecordings, notes, and feedback come in transcribed and ready to structure, with AI to speed up the analysis and anonymize anything sensitive so it’s safe to share.https://condens.io/
featuresMake research insights available to anyone, anytime. Surfaced through Condens’ search, shared in Slack or Teams, or accessed directly through Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants.https://condens.io/
featuresWork across projects in a split view, pulling raw data into findings with AI speeding up the heavy lifting. Every insight stays connected to its source, preventing guesswork, hallucination, or misrepresentation.https://condens.io/

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where youtube.com appears.2 first-page appearances across condens

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
G2Compare Condens and Productboard Social Share OptionsGrounded web searchCondens(82)4.8 out of 5Condens By Condens Insights GmbH Productboard(251)4.3 out of 5Productboard By productboard At a Glance Condens Star Rating (82) 4.8 out of 5 ... yet offers everything a UX research, design, and product team needs to manage a
ToolradarCondens Reviews, Pricing & Alternatives (2026) - 4.9/5Grounded web search## Ratings Across the Web 4.9(116 reviews) Condens holds an aggregate rating of 4.9 out of 5 from 116 reviews across G2 and Capterra, last checked September 17, 2026. G2 109 reviews 4.8/5 Capterra 7 reviews 5/5 Ratings aggregated from independent
ShouldIUse.ioCondens Review 2026: Pricing, Pros & Cons / Should I Use ItGrounded web searchCondens' ease of learning, affordability, and unusually responsive customer support. > “Condens is very easy to learn and master” Capterra review > “The customer service is outstanding” G2 review > “Condens user here! I'm a huge fan.” Reddit,
TrustRadiusCondens Overview, Reviews, Pricing 2026 / TrustRadiusGrounded web search- Automatic interview uploading from an integration with google drive. - In-call tagging or probe recommendations based on existing projects and tags. - Code recommendations based on larger research goals
GetAppCondens Reviews, Cost & Features / GetApp Australia 2026Grounded web search#### Pros Condens does not feel feature-bloated like some ... tools. Overall it's pretty intuitive and building reports and putting data ... fit much more in line with what our small team can handle, and they took our requirements for privacy and
condens.ioCompanies successfully using CondensGrounded web search## Condens is the most popular User Research Repository based on customer reviews 4.8 / 5 g2.com 5 / 5 capterra.com ... started looking around to see what other people have been using and you won me over

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Case studyHarvardcustomer case study — Finding a tool that offered the core functionality we needed proved harder than expected. (A case study on building the infrastructure for a UX research repository to support user research at Harvard.)
Case studyBank of Montrealcustomer case study — - It checked all the boxes of their requirements list - The team liked the layout as it is “clean, simple and has lots of whitespace; not too much popping at you,” as Ayesha describes it - They knew Condens could hand… (Condens Customers - Bank of Montreal)

Independent mentions

  • Condens / UX Research Repository and AI Analysis Platform — I’m just writing you to say how impressed I am with ... . It’s precise, neutral, and as a feature, it is non-intrusive to my workflow, just as it should be. ... I don’t know how you tuned your model parameters but keep it the way it is. It’s excellent!

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipFounder at The Spark Workshopssource
Contact and supportWe take your right for privacy very seriously and are fully aware that user research data is sensitive and valuable. That’s why we take extra care and prioritize security, confidentiality, and availability. We’ve workedsource
Legal and privacyFull compliance with SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA, backed by SSO, 2FA, encrypted transmissions, and daily backups, so procurement and legal never become a blocker.source
Security and complianceFull compliance with SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA, backed by SSO, 2FA, encrypted transmissions, and daily backups, so procurement and legal never become a blocker.source
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—

Not found on the collected pages: uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

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Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
How to Create a Practical User Research PlanGuideLearn about the essential elements of a user research plan that serves as the foundation for a new project. Gain insight into how researchers effectively use research plans in practice, and get expert tips and a ready-to-use template for creating your next user research plan. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

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Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Condens is a web-based platform, accessed via app.condens.io S104.S104
Platforms and appsWeb platform S104.S104
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Offers an API and custom MCP for integrations S97.S97
Data ownership and exportFull project export is available S97.S97
Performance and reliability claimsNot published on the collected pages.—
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
First archived2019-08-20 — web archive
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-12-14
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
Headers not servedX-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerHeroku
Mail handled bycondens-io.mail.protection.outlook.com
Nameserversdns1.registrar-servers.com, dns2.registrar-servers.com

Not measurable: rdap: no RDAP server published for .io; rdap: exceeded the overall budget; wayback: exceeded the overall budget; tls: exceeded the overall budget; dns: exceeded the overall budget; headers: exceeded the overall budget. A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 97/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 6
  • Notices: 10

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeImages are missing alt text2https://condens.io/
warningTitle length should be reviewed79https://condens.io/events/why-insights-fail-to-reach-the-right-people/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed227https://condens.io/events/why-insights-fail-to-reach-the-right-people/
warningPage should have one primary H10https://condens.io/events/why-insights-fail-to-reach-the-right-people/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed216https://condens.io/analysis/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed173https://condens.io/research-repository/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed213https://condens.io/stakeholder-experience/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed292https://condens.io/automated-transcription/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed196https://condens.io/whiteboard/
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed173https://condens.io/integrations/
noticeImages are missing alt text4https://condens.io/customers/
warningSlow HTML response3595https://condens.io/customers/
warningSlow HTML response2121https://condens.io/blog/
warningSlow HTML response4662https://condens.io/guides/
noticeImages are missing alt text1https://condens.io/events/
warningSlow HTML response7525https://condens.io/events/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Condens \UX Research Repository and AI Analysis Platform11391650 ms
200Why Insights Fail to Reach the Right People: And How a Research Engine Fixes It0445263 mshttps://condens.io/events/why-insights-fail-to-reach-the-right-people/
200Customer Data Analysis - Condens11276614 mshttps://condens.io/analysis/
200AI - Condens11278519 mshttps://condens.io/ai/
200Research Repository - Condens11394784 mshttps://condens.io/research-repository/
200Stakeholder Experience - Condens11317189 mshttps://condens.io/stakeholder-experience/
200Automated Transcription - Condens1726191 mshttps://condens.io/automated-transcription/
200Whiteboard - Condens1587160 mshttps://condens.io/whiteboard/
200Integrations - Condens11002247 mshttps://condens.io/integrations/
200Scale Enterprise UX Research with Condens11375571 mshttps://condens.io/enterprise/
200Customer Insights Hub for Product Managers \Condens11177177 ms
200Companies successfully using Condens116903,595 mshttps://condens.io/customers/
200Condens Magazine14042,121 mshttps://condens.io/blog/
200Condens Guides16274,662 mshttps://condens.io/guides/
200Condens Events112037,525 mshttps://condens.io/events/

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

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Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct76.8%
search12.2%
search organic11.1%
search paid1.1%
social6.1%
social organic6.1%
social paid0.0%
referrals1.7%
paid referrals0.5%
mail1.0%
gen ai1.8%
affiliate0.0%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention specific competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed pricing for Enterprise, no explicit uptime or performance metrics, and no information on data export formats beyond 'Full Project Export'. Open questions remain about the specifics of the API and custom MCP capabilities.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from condens.io, including the homepage, about page, pricing page, help center articles, and a blog post. The evidence catalog includes 180 items from these pages. External proof search was enabled but only one request was made, and no external review profiles were scraped. Limitations include potential recency of pricing information and lack of third-party verification of claims.

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