A few people have asked how Mira actually works in practice, so wanted to write this up.
The full flow from start to finish:
1. Set up your study (5 minutes)
Choose a template Customer Discovery, Concept Testing, UX, Brand Perception, NPS follow-up, and more. Or build your own discussion guide. Mira generates contextual follow-up questions automatically, so you do not need to script every question.
2. Recruit participants (built in)
Access 100M+ participants across 120 countries directly from the platform. Set demographic filters, screener questions, and Mira handles recruitment. No third-party panel needed.
3. Run the AI moderated interview
Participants join via link no app download. Mira moderates the conversation, asks follow-up questions intelligently, and reads facial expressions, voice emotion, and eye gaze in real time during the session. Works on a standard webcam.
4. Get your report (minutes, not days)
Automatic transcript with speaker separation. AI themes, tags, summaries, and key quotes extracted automatically. Emotional signal overlaid on each moment. Full research report generated executive summary, findings, evidence, recommendations.
5. Share and store
AI highlight reels for stakeholders no one watches 40-minute recordings. Everything stored in a searchable research repository. Cross-study intelligence lets you compare findings across multiple projects over time.
The part most people ask about:
The emotional layer runs during the interview not after. So when a participant says "I like it" but their face shows hesitation, Mira catches it and probes deeper in the same conversation. That is the core difference from transcript-only tools.
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What type of research are you running? Happy to walk through how Mira would work for your specific use case.
The facial coding and emotion AI pieces genuinely surprised me, that kind of read on participants usually takes a trained researcher. Watched it pull themes from a test interview in minutes.
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@cal_turkan32795 "That kind of read usually takes a trained researcher" is the most accurate description of what we were trying to automate. The themes in minutes is the time compression — the depth of signal you are working from stays the same.
the facial coding during interviews genuinely caught me off guard, you can actually see the moment a respondent's expression shifts on a tricky question and it ties back to the insight automatically.
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@vedat205337 The "ties back to the insight automatically" is the AI Copilot connecting the emotional moment to the theme it contributed to. You are not just seeing a flag; you are seeing why it mattered in the context of the full study.
Reading how people feel vs what they say is where most user research dies. If the emotion detection is even directionally right, that's a big unlock for solo founders who can't afford research teams.
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@medal411 "Even directionally right" is an honest way to frame it, and that is genuinely where the value sits for a solo founder. You are not running a clinical study. You are trying to know whether the hesitation you sensed in three conversations is real or in your head.
Mira gives you a signal to pressure-test that instinct, faster than you could manually review recordings. First study is free this month if you want to try it on something live.
Tried it on a small concept test and the emotional read from facial coding picked up hesitations I would have totally missed in a regular interview. Insane that it handles recruiting and synthesis in one pass.
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@poyraz853752 The recruiting + synthesis in one pass is one of the things we are most proud of — most tools make you stitch together three or four platforms to get from question to insight. The hesitation catch is exactly where the emotional layer earns its place. That pause before the polished answer is usually the most honest signal in the whole session. Glad it surfaced something useful for your concept test.
The facial coding and emotion layer actually feels different from typical survey tools — I ran a quick concept test and the sentiment data picked up nuances I usually miss in write-ups.
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@gllfevp Thank you for testing it on a real concept. The hesitation read is the whole point. People rarely say "I'm unsure" out loud, but the face shows it, and that gap between what's said and what's felt is exactly what Decode is built to surface
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Hi all,
Marketing lead at Decode here.
I have spent the last few months working closely with this product to build the launch. The thing that struck me most: most AI interview tools stop at the transcript. Mira treats that as the starting point.
A few capabilities people miss: AI follow-up probing that automatically asks "why?" and "tell me more" mid-interview based on what the participant actually said. AI highlight reels that automatically pull emotional moments, so you do not have to share 40-minute recordings with stakeholders. Cross-study intelligence that finds recurring themes across multiple research projects over time.
The multimodal layer — emotion AI on top of the interview — makes findings more defensible. You are not just quoting a participant. You are showing what they felt when they said it.
Happy to answer questions about the product or how we built the launch.
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Product Manger at Decode here
One thing that always fascinated me about qualitative research: researchers don't just analyze what people say. They spend hours replaying interviews to understand how they said it.
A micro-expression of disgust at the pricing slide, a long pause before "I'd probably use it," hands that stopped moving the moment they said they were "comfortable."
That's the invisible layer of qual research. The part that turns a quote into an actual insight.
Mira is built around that gap, it conducts interviews in 75+ languages, probes emotionally in real time, and simultaneously captures vocal hesitation, facial emotion, and where attention went. So researchers stop losing those moments to memory and manual replay.
The goal isn't to replace researchers.
It's to give them superpowers, so they can spend more time discovering why people behave the way they do, instead of manually reviewing hours of recordings.
Happy to answer any questions about how any of this works.