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What does SurveyMonkey do?

Tool: SurveyMonkey

The Tech: Survey Builder

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Their Pitch

AI-powered surveys that engage your audience. Insights that drive growth.

Our Take

It's a survey builder that lets you make questionnaires without touching code, then uses AI to analyze the responses so you don't have to read 500 comments manually.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Reading through 1000+ survey responses manually takes your team 15 hours per week** → AI categorizes themes and sentiment in 10 minutes, you actually see patterns
  • +**Your Google Forms surveys have 20% dropout rates because they're too long** → Skip logic shows only relevant questions, dropouts fall to 5%
  • +**You're typing survey questions from scratch every time** → Paste from Google Docs or use AI to build entire surveys in seconds
  • +Multilingual surveys in 100+ languages - handles translation and cultural context automatically
  • +Multi-survey dashboards that executives can actually read - no more Excel gymnastics

Best For

  • >Your team is drowning in manual feedback analysis from customer surveys
  • >You need skip logic and branching but Google Forms feels too basic
  • >Marketing teams running NPS surveys who want AI to spot sentiment trends automatically

Not For

  • -Teams doing fewer than 10 surveys per year — you'll hit the 40-response limit immediately and pay $39/month for occasional use
  • -Anyone expecting a truly free option — the free tier caps you at 10 questions and forces upgrades for basic features
  • -High-security industries needing HIPAA compliance out of the box — that's an expensive add-on

Pairs With

  • *Google Workspace (where you'll paste survey questions from Docs and sync responses to Drive)
  • *Mailchimp (to send survey invites to your email lists instead of manual outreach)
  • *Salesforce (to sync customer responses back to contact records and trigger follow-ups)
  • *Slack (where the team gets notifications about survey completion rates and argues about question wording)
  • *HubSpot (for lead qualification surveys that feed directly into your sales pipeline)
  • *Excel/Google Sheets (because you'll still export data for custom analysis the AI can't handle)

The Catch

  • !The AI analysis misses industry jargon and context - it once categorized 'API failures' as positive feedback
  • !Logic branching has mobile preview bugs that'll waste hours of debugging time
  • !Response panel costs add up fast at $1-4 per response if you need to buy survey participants

Bottom Line

Turns survey creation from hours of manual work into minutes, but the free version is basically a demo that forces you to upgrade.