Primary Research Solutions · Respondent Recruitment

You run the research.
We fill it with the right people.

Recruitment-only engagements for teams with their own methodology — verified B2B and consumer respondents sourced to your exact specification, screened, scheduled into your calendar, and replaced if they don't show.

Your guide, your moderators, your method
Interviews, groups, surveys, UX tests

Great research with the wrong respondents is worthless. If your team owns the method, the only thing you should outsource is the part that breaks studies — finding and landing the right people.

Diverse panel of recruited research respondents

Free

No-show replacement

Your Research, Our Recruits

You run the study. We fill the calendar.

Recruitment-only support: verified B2B and consumer respondents sourced to your screener and scheduled into your sessions — with no-shows replaced at no cost.

  • Screeners applied with verification, not self-claims
  • Scheduling handled into your calendar
  • No-shows replaced free of charge
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Who Uses It

Teams with their own method, missing the people

In-house insight & strategy teams

Your researchers run the interviews; we deliver verified participants matching specs your panel provider keeps failing on — especially senior and niche B2B profiles.

Research agencies & consultancies

White-label recruitment muscle for your client studies — hard quotas, tight timelines, and audiences your usual sources can't reach. Your client never needs to know we exist.

UX & product research teams

Usability sessions, prototype tests, and discovery interviews filled with genuine target users — real buyers and real workflow owners, not professional testers.

Specialised & expert-adjacent studies

Physicians, engineers, compliance officers, channel partners — audiences where recruitment is really sourcing, and where our expert-network engine outperforms any panel.

What You Get

Recruitment treated as the craft it is

The same sourcing and verification engine behind our expert calls and research programmes — pointed at your study instead of ours.

Scoped per study

Priced per completed, verified respondent — by audience difficulty and volume. Quoted before recruitment begins.

01

Recruitment against your screener, exactly

Your screening criteria applied without creative interpretation — and where a spec is genuinely unfillable, we tell you before recruitment starts, not after your sessions collapse.

02

Verification, not self-claims

Professional identity and screening answers verified before a respondent reaches your study — the difference between "says they're an IT director" and is one.

03

Scheduling and incentives handled

Sessions booked into your calendar, confirmations and reminders sent, incentives administered and documented — your researchers just show up and research.

04

Show-rate management

Over-recruitment and standby backups built into the plan — and when a no-show happens anyway, the slot is refilled at no charge.

05

Confidentiality both ways

Your study purpose and client identity protected from respondents; respondent data handled under strict confidentiality and shared only as the engagement requires.

The Process

From screener to filled calendar

Standard B2C and accessible B2B audiences typically fill within one to two weeks; senior and niche specs are quoted honestly at scoping.

1

Share the spec

Your screener, session format, volumes, and field dates — we confirm feasibility and price per verified respondent.

2

Source and verify

Candidates recruited through our network and targeted outreach, screened against your criteria, identities verified.

3

Schedule into your study

Confirmed respondents booked to your calendar with reminders, joining details, and backups on standby.

4

Field support and close-out

No-shows replaced, incentives administered, and a clean participation record delivered at the end of fieldwork.

Rather Hand Over the Whole Study?

We also run the research end to end

If your team's capacity changes mid-project, the same engagement can scale from recruitment-only to full service — moderation, fielding, and reporting included, with no re-procurement.

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FAQ

Respondent recruitment — common questions

Something specific? Write to sales@astuteconnect.com — we respond within one business day.

Panels invite whoever is already signed up and matches loosely. We recruit fresh against your specific screener — through our expert network and targeted outreach — and verify identity before anyone reaches your study. Slower than a panel blast for easy audiences; decisively better for hard ones.

Yes — agencies and consultancies routinely use us as quiet recruitment capacity. Your client relationship stays yours; confidentiality terms cover our invisibility.

Consumer segments by demographics and behaviour, and B2B audiences from mainstream professionals to senior decision-makers and niche specialists. The harder the B2B spec, the more our expert-network sourcing differentiates.

We do — incentive levels are agreed at scoping (we advise on what the audience requires), then administered and documented by us as part of the per-respondent price.

You don't pay for them, and we replace them — same as a no-show. Verification before fieldwork makes this rare; the guarantee makes it painless when it isn't.

Send the screener. Get a filled calendar.

Share your spec and field dates — we'll confirm feasibility, quote per verified respondent, and start recruiting.

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