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# Create a Survey

This page shows you how to build a standalone survey — no AI interview attached — and collect responses you can analyze later.

{% hint style="info" %}
**What you need:** An Evidano account and an idea of the questions you want to ask.

**What you will have at the end:** A shareable survey and a place to view the responses.
{% endhint %}

## When to use this

| You want…                                       | Use                                                                                                                  |
| ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Just a survey (ratings, choices, open text)     | **Create Survey** (this guide)                                                                                       |
| A survey **plus** an AI avatar interview        | [Create an AI Avatar Interviewer](/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data/create-an-ai-avatar-interviewer.md)             |
| To analyze survey answers you already collected | [Analyze open-ended survey responses](/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-open-ended-survey-responses.md) |

## Step 1: Start a survey

From your account page, click **"Create Survey"**. (To find surveys you've already made, click **"View previous"** instead.) Give your survey a **"Name of Project"**.

<figure><img src="/files/d49aB0Iov3UeSS2zDB4c" alt="Starting a new survey and giving it a name"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Step 2: Build your questions

You have two ways to build:

* **"Survey Editor & AI Chat"** — describe the survey you want in the AI Chat panel ("a 6-question post-event feedback survey with a rating and two open-ended questions") and it generates the questions; refine them in the editor.
* **"Paste Survey & Let AI Format"** — paste your draft questions as text and click **"Use AI to Format into Survey"**.

<figure><img src="/files/WmZQCMO940bMl0t8TF3V" alt="Building survey questions with the editor and AI chat panel"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Supported question types include single choice, multiple choice, dropdown, rating, text (email, number, date, and more), and yes/no — with skip logic (later questions that appear based on earlier answers) and "other" options. You can add multiple languages and auto-translate between them.

## Step 3: Preview and create

Click **"Create Survey"**, review the **"Preview Survey"** dialog, then either go **"Back to Edit"** or click **"Confirm and Create"**. Your survey appears in your surveys list.

<figure><img src="/files/T7sFwl1P5L9LsTinj6Pa" alt="Previewing the survey before confirming and creating it"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Step 4: Collect and review responses

Open a survey from your surveys list to share it with participants and review responses as they arrive. For a deeper look at the results — especially open-ended answers — export the responses and run them through [Analyze xlsx/csv files](/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-open-ended-survey-responses.md), where you can find [themes](/ailyze-docs/reference/glossary.md#theme) in the free-text fields and compare across [segments](/ailyze-docs/reference/glossary.md#segment).

## A realistic example

> **Scenario:** A post-webinar feedback survey. Use the AI Chat panel to generate a rating question, two multiple-choice questions, and one open-ended question ("What should we cover next?"). Share it, then export and analyze the open-ended answers to find the topics people requested.

## Next steps

* [Create an AI Avatar Interviewer](/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data/create-an-ai-avatar-interviewer.md)
* [Analyze open-ended survey responses](/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-open-ended-survey-responses.md)
* [Survey research best practices](/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices/survey-research-best-practices.md)


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