3 easy steps to sample your survey
Step 1
Envision Your Survey & Submit a Project Starter
This step ensures projects begin with clear expectations around sampling, feasibility, and cost—before programming or piloting begins.
- Use a transparent cost calculator to estimate project expenses up front.
- Browse the Survey Question Library, which includes validated political, social, demographic, and consumer measures; standard batteries; and experimental templates.
- Use the Project Starter to choose sampling options or specify custom requirements, with optional add-ons for survey programming and custom reporting.
Step 2
Collaboratively Confirm Design & Pilot Your Survey
Piloting reveals common issues that fully DIY platforms often leave undetected—from underpowered designs and unattainable quotas to logic and randomization errors.
- A Forthright research specialist follows up to review project details, answer questions, and offer experience-based guidance.
- Once you are satisfied, Forthright pilots your survey and evaluates the results.
- Forthright can sample surveys programmed externally (e.g., Qualtrics) or provide fully in-house programming services.
Step 3
Hard Launch with Real-time Dashboard & Balancing
This step gives researchers full visibility without taking on full responsibility to manage complex sampling decisions or troubleshoot problems with a survey in the field.
- After launch, researchers monitor live progress through a real-time project dashboard.
- Quality checks are performed continuously to spot and resolve issues as they arise.
- Automated rebalancing corrects over- and under-filled quotas to ensure the final sample is representative.
