Participant Pool Screening for Unmoderated Studies

Screening is now built directly into Participant Pool recruitment for unmoderated studies, helping you reach participants who match the audience your research actually needs even easier. Add your own screening criteria beyond general participant attributes, qualify the right people upfront, and move them straight into the study. The result is more relevant research, fewer mismatched participants, and less wasted time and budget, all within one continuous recruitment flow.

Reach Better-Fit Participants From The Start

Our newest recruitment update adds screening directly to our Participant Pool powered by Prolific. You can combine general participant attributes with your own study-specific criteria, helping you reach people whose experience, behavior, or background more closely matches the audience you actually need. Qualified participants continue straight into the study automatically, removing the need to run a separate screener study, wait for results, and retarget everyone who passed.

That means:

• Better-fit participants, leading to more relevant and reliable study results

• More precise targeting beyond general participant attributes

• Less wasted time and budget on participants who do not match your criteria

• A smoother recruitment journey, without a separate pre-screening study or retargeting step

And because screening happens inside the unmoderated recruitment flow, you can go beyond general attribute filters and screen for real-world criteria that actually matters to your study.

Screen For Any Unmoderated Study

Once you have qualified the right participants, you can move them straight into the unmoderated study that fits your research goal. Useberry supports Single Task, First Click, Preference Tests, Card Sorting, Tree Testing, Surveys, and more, giving you plenty of ways to test usability, navigation, first impressions, preferences, and more.

Whether you are validating a prototype, checking your information architecture, testing messaging, or collecting structured feedback, screening helps make sure the responses come from participants who actually match the audience you need

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Running Moderated Research Too?

Screening is already part of Useberry Interviews, helping you qualify participants before live sessions. You can invite your own audience or recruit best-fit B2B and B2C participants for moderated research through our Participant Pool powered by Respondent.

Already Recruiting Your Own Participants?

Screeners are also available when you recruit participants yourself using our share link feature. Add screening questions before your unmoderated study to make sure invited participants meet your criteria before continuing.

Protect Your Study Quality Upfront

Screeners are not busywork. They are what makes your research defensible. When screening is done right, you can combine broader participant attributes with your own study-specific criteria, helping you reach a more precise audience, reduce wasted sessions, and avoid making decisions based on data from people who are not a good fit.

It also makes studies easier to plan. Since screening happens as part of the same recruitment flow, you can see cost and time requirements upfront and plan recruitment with fewer surprises.

Participant Pool Screening follows a simple logic:

1. You create your screening questions based on the audience you want to reach.

2. Participants recruited for your unmoderated study answer the screener first.

3. If they qualify, they continue straight into the main study automatically.

4. If they do not qualify, they exit the flow and are compensated for their time according to the recruitment policies.

This way, your study stays focused, and participants are handled fairly and transparently.

Start Using Participant Screening in Unmoderated Studies

Better research starts with participants who actually match the audience you want to understand. Participant Pool Screening gives you more control over who reaches your unmoderated study, helping you improve targeting, protect research quality, and avoid wasting time and budget on mismatched participants.

And because qualification happens inside the same recruitment flow, the right participants can move straight from screening into your study.

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Launch your next Participant Pool study with built-in screening and keep momentum from recruit to results.

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