SurdaticsSURDATICS
For research teams, NGOs, government and AI teams

Honest answers from real people, anywhere, in their own language.

Surdatics finds the people you need, confirms each one is a real, unique person, pays them where they live, and seals the data so anyone can check it.

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Free to start. No card needed.

A results card: verified people 98.8%. 329 of 333 answered from an account that passed the Proof of Personhood facial liveness check.
On the phone, a study question, “How many years have you been growing yams as a smallholder farmer in Enugu State?”, is shown in turn in Igbo, French, Arabic, Swahili, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish, Yoruba and Hausa. A study question in 12 languages, each exactly as the platform’s machine translation wrote it: the research team can check and correct every line. Beside it, a figure from the results of a real study of 333 responses.
One platform, three ways in

What do you need?

  • Run a study

    Ask the people you need, in their language, online or offline. Watch the answers arrive, then get a report you can prove.

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  • Quick Feedback

    A minute of feedback from guests, attendees, trainees or staff, by QR card or link. Hear at once when someone is unhappy.

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  • Buy verified data

    Datasets collected on Surdatics from verified people, each with its provenance seal. Prices on request.

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Here to answer studies? Get paid for each approved answer, in your own language, and earn again when the data is resold.

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Why Surdatics

Answers worth acting on, from people worth hearing.

A form tool gives you a form. Surdatics also finds the people, checks they are real, pays them and proves the data.

  • Real, unique people. No bots.

    Rewards go only to verified people. New respondents verify with the Proof of Personhood facial liveness check: a short head turn that confirms one real person with one account. No ID card needed, and no photo is kept.

    Your results show how many answers came from verified people.How the check works

  • Reach people others can’t.

    Studies in 27 languages, from Igbo, Hausa and Swahili to Arabic, Hindi and Chinese, and launch waits until your team has checked the translation line by line. Field teams collect offline with ODK Collect or KoboCollect.

    Offline, the people answering need no signal and no phone of their own.

  • Paid where PayPal doesn’t work.

    Each approved answer is paid straight into the person’s Surdatics wallet, so nobody needs PayPal or a bank account to be paid. People earn again when a dataset they answered is resold.

    You set the reward: 75% of it goes to the person who answers.

  • Proof anyone can check.

    When a study is finished, its dataset is sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint and recorded on a public ledger, and every figure in a Proof Report opens the table behind it. Anyone can check a dataset, with no account.

    Changed by one character, a dataset no longer matches its seal.Verify a dataset
How it works

From a question to proof, in three steps.

  1. Step 1: Say what you want to find out.

    Describe your question in a sentence or two. Surda AI drafts the study and flags leading or confusing wording. You edit every word.

    • Write in your language; people answer in theirs
    • Your team checks every translated line before launch
    • Or start from scratch, a template, or questions you already have
    The study builder asks “What do you want to find out?”: describe it in a sentence or two and Surda AI drafts the questions, written in the language you choose.
    The study builder.

  2. Step 2: Reach the right people.

    Choose who you need by place, age, gender, profession or education, and see how many verified people match before you pay. Or send the study to your own people by link.

    • Rewards go only to verified people, after you approve each answer
    • Online, on video, or offline with ODK Collect and KoboCollect
    • Screening questions and quotas get you the mix of people you need
    The Proof of Personhood facial liveness check. It reads the structure of a face and asks the person to turn their head, to confirm one real person with only one account. No ID card, no name; the camera picture is never shown or kept.
    The Proof of Personhood facial liveness check, as a new respondent sees it.

  3. Step 3: Watch the answers arrive. Get proof.

    Results update as answers are approved, with margins of error and significance tests. The report is written from the data: every figure in it is computed from the answers.

    • Ask your data questions in plain words
    • In a Proof Report, each finding is graded Strong, Indicative or Weak
    • Export to CSV, Stata or SPSS, or list the dataset for sale
    The cover of a finished report, “Addressing Food Waste Through Improved Supply Chain Infrastructure”: its headline finding, the study it comes from, 333 approved responses, and when the answers were collected.
    A finished report from a real study of 333 responses.
Proof

Don’t take our word for it.

Live figures from the platform’s own records, a word from someone who used it, and a verifier you can try on a real dataset.

Live

The platform today, read from its own records.

Researcher

The new AI feature is very nice — I just gave the description and it generated all the questions, very similar to what I had already created. I commend you and your team for the good work.

Jude OzinegbeFounder, Cyberchain

Check a dataset yourself.

Paste the SHA-256 fingerprint from any Surdatics dataset. The verifier tells you when it was sealed, how many responses it holds, and whether anything has changed since. No account needed.

No fingerprint to hand? (a226ecbf29…9ef0bd)

Who it’s for

One engine, built for the teams who need evidence from people.

Enterprise, white label and API
Pricing

Start free. Pay as your research grows.

A monthly plan pays for the tools. The reward for the people who answer is a separate budget you set: 75% of it goes to them, and Surdatics’ 20% share sits inside it, never on top.

  • Free$0a month100 responses a month
  • Researcher$39a month2,000 responses a month
  • Team$149a month15,000 responses a month
  • Scale$499a month75,000 responses a month
  • EnterpriseCustomResponses, AI reports and AI images set in your contract
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Questions

What teams ask before they start.

Something else? Ask us, or use the Ask Surda AI button in the corner of the screen: it is an AI assistant, and says so.

What does it cost?
Two parts. A monthly plan for the tools, from free. And, when Surdatics respondents answer your study, a reward budget you set: 75% goes to the people who answer, 5% to the reviewers who settle any disputes about answers, and 20% to Surdatics, inside that budget and never on top. The builder shows the full total before you pay anything. See plans and prices.
How do you know each person is real?
Only verified people are paid. New respondents verify once with the Proof of Personhood facial liveness check: it asks them to turn their head and reads the structure of their face, to confirm one real person with only one account. No ID card is needed. The camera picture is never shown or kept: only a set of numbers that describes the face, which is never shown to researchers. Your results show how many answers came from verified people.
Which languages can people answer in?
Anyone answering can switch a study into any of 27 languages, from Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili and Amharic to French, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Japanese, and a study can be written for readers of more, such as Korean. You write the study in your own language, Surdatics translates it into the language your respondents read, and launch waits until your team has checked every line.
Can we collect where there is no internet?
Yes. Your field team collects offline on Android phones with ODK Collect or KoboCollect, and the answers come into your study when the phone is back in signal. The people answering need no phone or internet of their own. Offline collection comes with the Researcher plan and above.
How are respondents paid?
In SURDA, the platform’s token for paying respondents, straight into their Surdatics wallet once your team approves their answer. Nobody needs PayPal or a bank account to be paid. They cash out by the methods open where they live, and earn a share when a dataset they answered is resold.
Who owns the data, and what do we see about people?
You own the dataset your study produces. Before answering online, each person agrees to a consent statement, recorded with the time they agreed. Your team sees each person only as a wallet address, never a name, email or phone number, and exports use anonymous row IDs. Our data ethics.
How quickly can we start?
Today. Sign up, describe what you want to find out, and Surda AI drafts the study in minutes. It goes live the moment you launch it, and you watch the answers arrive. How fast it fills depends on who you need and the reward you set.

Hear from the people your work is about.

Start free today. If you would rather have a study run for you, or need a contract for your organisation, talk to us.

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