From the journal: Inside the Cipher engine

Make a survey. Hear from real people.
Find something worth knowing.

We imagine a world where data tells the truth about the people behind it. A home for every survey , and a clearer understanding of each other every day. That’s Surbee.

An animated prompt is typed out, and a survey assembles itself question by question underneath it.

Describe what you want to learn and Surbee drafts the whole survey. Branching, validation, and accessibility come built in, so you can stay on the research question.

A frosted lock glows over a night sky full of stars.

Survey answers and respondent IP addresses are encrypted before they are stored, and analytics on our site wait for your consent.

A stream of responses passes a checkpoint. Real ones line up on the other side, and fraudulent ones drop away.

Cipher flags bots, VPNs, AI-written text, and rushed or copy-pasted answers before they reach your data. Every decision is auditable.

A plain-language question sits above a bar chart, with the bar that answers it highlighted.

Ask what happened in plain English and get an answer that cites the responses behind it. Summaries, cross-tabs, and readouts come straight from your data.

  • Companies.

    Run customer, employee, and market surveys, and trust that every answer came from a real person.

  • Universities.

    Catch bots, AI-written answers, and duplicate submissions, so research and exam-style surveys stay honest.

  • Students.

    Build the survey for your class project or thesis, hit your response target, and get a readout in time for the deadline.

  • Developers.

    Add Surbee surveys and response checks to your own product with a few lines of the SDK.

What is Surbee?

Surbee is a research platform for the modern survey stack. We draft surveys from plain-language briefs, screen every response with Cipher, and let you ask questions about the resulting data in natural language. Our work sits at the intersection of methodology, ML, and data infrastructure.

How is Surbee different from Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, or Typeform?

Traditional survey platforms ship form builders. Surbee ships the research layer too. Where Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey hand you a UI, Surbee drafts the survey from a brief, screens every response through Cipher, and turns the data into findings you can query in plain English. It's the methodology, not just the form.

Can Surbee work with our existing panels and historical data?

Yes. Import historical responses, codebooks, and panel data in standard formats. Cipher can run retroactively across historical waves to flag and quarantine fraudulent records, so you can trust your time series again. Infer treats imported and native data the same way.

Is Surbee secure for enterprise use?

Surbee runs hosted, in your private cloud, or fully on-prem, so your respondents' data never has to leave your control. Responses can be encrypted at rest with customer-managed keys, PII is segregated by design, and every Cipher decision is auditable end to end. Built for healthcare, finance, and government workflows.

Who is Surbee built for?

Insights and CX teams running tracking studies, market research firms running panels at scale, academic and policy researchers running long-term studies, and product teams running continuous customer research. It fits any work where the quality of every response matters.

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