See how real people use your product in everyday life
We recruit high-quality users who match your target audience. They document their everyday product experiences through videos, photos and structured feedback. Follow their experiences over days or weeks to uncover pain points and inform design decisions.
Used by leading brands and research agencies
Helping brands and agencies understand product experiences through research with real people in China.
From recruitment to insights. We handle the research.
We recruit your target users, manage their participation and analyse their product experiences over time. You receive clear insights and a research report, with findings linked to original participant feedback to inform your next design decisions.
Real users share their everyday product experiences.
We design activities around your research goals. Participants use the Recap mobile app to record videos, upload photos and answer questions about their first impressions, daily routines and frustrations over days or weeks.
- Activities tailored to your product and research questions
- Videos, photos, written feedback, ratings, rankings, and surveys in one app
- Daily check-ins and follow-up reflections throughout the study
- Participant onboarding and study progress managed by our team
See each participant’s experience in your dashboard.
As real users complete their tasks, their entries appear in your research dashboard. Review each response, understand its context, and save the moments you want to bring into your findings.
- Watch original submissions alongside transcripts and translations
- Get an overview of each entry with an AI summary
- Tag relevant passages to organize observations
- Create video clips to build highlight reels and share participants’ experiences
See patterns across participants. Explore the evidence behind them.
Move from individual responses to a wider view of the research. AI brings together feedback across participants and tasks, highlighting shared experiences, differences and emerging patterns. Each finding includes sources you can review in context.
- Bring together findings across participants and tasks
- See how many participants contributed to each finding
- Follow source links back to the original responses
- Explore where experiences align and where they differ
Bring your research into your AI workflow.
Connect a compatible AI assistant to selected Recap projects through MCP. Retrieve research material and explore saved findings while keeping control of project access.
Your global research. Connected to Claude and ChatGPT.
Bring your Global project responses and findings into Claude or ChatGPT. Ask questions, explore patterns and follow insights back to the original evidence.
Your China research. Connected to your AI tools.
Bring your China project responses and findings into Doubao, Tencent WorkBuddy or Cherry Studio. Explore your research in the AI workspace you already use.
Practical guidance for better product research.
Explore research methods, study design and ways to turn participant experiences into useful findings.
Questions about researching with Recap
Learn what you can research, how AI assists your analysis and how your team can work with the original evidence.
What kinds of research can I run with Recap?
Recap helps teams understand product experiences through multimedia tasks and feedback collected over time. Use it for product trials, in-home usage research, diary studies and other longitudinal research. Organize activities around your research questions, from first use to everyday routines.
What can participants submit?
Participants can share video, photos and written feedback, and complete structured tasks such as surveys, rankings and ratings. Combine response types to understand both what people report and the context behind their experiences.
How does AI assist research analysis?
AI-assisted summaries and findings help researchers explore participant experiences and patterns across responses. Source links let your team inspect supporting original passages and their context. Researchers remain responsible for assessing and interpreting findings.
Can I connect my AI assistant to Recap?
Yes. Compatible AI clients can connect through MCP to read selected Recap projects. They can search responses, retrieve transcripts and explore saved summaries and supporting evidence. Connections are read-only, and you control which projects they can access.
Can Recap support research in China?
Yes. Recap offers mainland China hosting and managed recruitment and fieldwork support. Our team can help with sourcing, screening, onboarding, communications and incentives. Transcription and translation help international teams review Chinese-language responses while retaining access to original submissions.
Can I work with responses in different languages?
Recap supports transcription and translation so your team can review responses across languages. Review available translations alongside original submissions and transcripts, and confirm the languages required for your study when you speak with our team.
How are participant privacy and research data managed?
Recap supports participant consent, project access controls and configurable privacy settings, including face blurring and voice distortion. Hosting, processing and any cross-border data requirements should be agreed for your study. Your team can also manage and revoke AI-client connections.
Understand what happens when people use your product.
See how Recap connects real users’ experiences, AI-assisted analysis and original research evidence.