# Instapanel

> Instapanel is a market research platform: video-first questionnaires answered by real, verified people, with AI-moderated interviews, screening and quotas, and human-reviewed results — typically fielded in hours, not weeks.

## Documentation

- [Communications](https://instapanel.com/docs/communications.md): How Instapanel communicates — the emails panelists and clients receive, unsubscribe behavior, platform announcements, feedback, and the 56 languages the platform speaks.
- [Panels & Studies](https://instapanel.com/docs/panels.md): How Instapanel panels (studies) work — creating and configuring a panel, choosing a methodology, sharing results and managing permissions, signing the Statement of Work, and the fieldwork lifecycle.
- [Questionnaires & Screening Reference](https://instapanel.com/docs/questionnaires.md): How Instapanel questionnaires work — question types and their settings, screening and audience quotas, hide/shuffle/draw branching rules, AI moderation and probing, the in-app questionnaire agent, and translations.
- [Recruitment & Panelist Management](https://instapanel.com/docs/recruitment.md): How Instapanel recruits panelists — invitations, shareable links, campaigns and refer-a-friend recruiting, the panelist invite lifecycle, screening and quotas, payouts, fraud detection, and the panelist profiles that carry across studies.
- [Responses & Analysis](https://instapanel.com/docs/responses.md): How Instapanel collects, reviews, and delivers panelist responses — video answers and transcripts, translations, quality review, Excel/CSV data export, crosstab statistics, word clouds, photo galleries, and sharing results with your team.
- [Accounts, Billing & Rewards](https://instapanel.com/docs/users.md): How Instapanel accounts work — client and strategist roles, panel access and sharing, transcript quotes, invoicing and payment, and panelist rewards and balances.
- [Background Processing & AI Review](https://instapanel.com/docs/worker.md): How Instapanel processes study data behind the scenes — the stages every response moves through (transcoding, transcription, translation, AI coding, review), where AI assists and where humans decide, and what to expect while a study is in flight.