Evolute evolute

Understand your users. Before your competition does.

Evolute combines AI-powered research with Europe's largest tradesperson panel — so product decisions are based on real feedback, not gut feeling.

Evolute·Survey results > Q3 product feedback

Most important finding

78% of decision-makers prefer AI-supported survey creation to traditional methods.

Recommendation

  • Prioritize AI-supported processes in the next version
  • Conduct a follow-up survey on preferred UX patterns
  • Share summary with product and technical management

Demography

Product 35%Technology 25%Design 25%Other 15%

Profession

12%
28%
35%
18%
7%
18–24: 12%25–34: 28%35–44: 35%45–54: 18%55+: 7%

Age group

EMEA 45%Americas 30%APAC 25%

Region

Over 150 product teams trust Evolute

One platform. Three paths to better products.

Industry & Manufacturing

Your products end up in the hands of professionals. We bring their feedback to you. Access 6,000+ verified tradespeople from electrical, plumbing, metalwork, and construction — for product feedback that accelerates your development.

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Digital & SaaS

User research without a research department. AI-powered and in hours instead of weeks. The AI Survey Coach formulates your questions, finds the right participants, and delivers decision-ready insights — all in one platform.

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Market Research

Need tradespeople for your studies? We have the panel. You have the methodology. Access specialized trade audiences that are otherwise nearly impossible to reach — pre-recruited, verified, and ready for your projects.

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Evolute optimizes decisions.
Not Research.

The problem

Every product manager needs customer insights but no one likes the hustle to get them — research design, recruiting, you name it. Time-consuming and error-prone activities if you lack the knowledge.

The solution

With Evolute, you ask product questions and receive answers from real users within hours. Evolute guides you through survey creation, interprets responses with AI, and even recruits panels.

Without Evolute vs. with Evolute

Without Evolute

  • Research projects take weeks or months
  • Recruiting is manual and low response
  • Raw data in spreadsheets, no interpretation
  • Decisions wait for data

With Evolute

  • Decision-ready insights in hours
  • Automated recruiting with 50%+ response rate
  • AI-powered analysis with actionable recommendations
  • Faster, customer-centric product decisions

Everything research needs. Nothing it doesn't.

From AI-powered survey design to automated panel recruiting and actionable insights — all in one platform.

Your panel - centrally organized

Manage your community members with a CRM specially developed for panel management. All contacts, segments and activities at a glance - so you always know who you are talking to.

  • Contact profiles with complete interaction history
  • User-defined fields and tags
  • Automatic engagement scores per panelist
  • GDPR-compliant consent management
CRM

Panelists

847 Contacts
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LM

Lisa Müller

Product Manager

2h ago
TS

Thomas Schmidt

Electrical Installer

1 day ago
SW

Sarah Wagner

UX Designer

3h ago
MF

Max Fischer

Master Craftsman

5 min ago
AK

Anna Krause

Construction Manager

30 min ago

Ready to truly understand your users?

Whether you build industrial products, software, or run studies — we'll show you in 30 minutes how Evolute transforms your research.

Anselm Zebner

Anselm Zebner

Co-Founder & CEO, Evolute CX GmbH

How it works

From a question to a decision-ready insight — in hours, not weeks.

Formulate your question

Describe your hypothesis or decision in your own words. The AI Survey Coach turns it into a methodically sound survey — in minutes, not days.

Evolute - New survey

What would you like to find out?

What features do installers appreciate most about our new controller series?

AI-optimizedGenerated unbiased, non-directive questions
Which controller features do you use most in a typical work week?
Walk me through the last time a controller slowed you down on a job.
What workaround have you built for a missing controller feature?

Define your audience

Choose from our panel or bring your own users. Evolute automatically recruits the right participants.

Evolute - Participant matching

Assigned participants

47 found
MW

M. Weber

Electrician

94%
KF

K. Fischer

HVAC installer

91%
SB

S. Brown

Plumber

87%
TM

T. Müller

Electrician

85%

Collect feedback

Your survey goes out. Thanks to optimized mobile experience and a motivated panel, response rates exceed 50%.

Evolute - Response recording

Live answers

Last 4 hours
67%

32 / 47 answered

Response rate: 67%

2 min ago·App connectivity is a must for me.
8 min ago·Compact form factor preferred, wall mounting.
15 min ago·Biggest problem: no remote diagnosis.

Receive insights

Evolute's AI analyzes results and delivers a dashboard with key findings, segmentations, and concrete recommendations.

Evolute - AI analysis

Most important finding

App connectivity and remote diagnostics are the most requested features across all installer segments.

Feature priority

App connectivity
82%
Remote diagnosis
74%
Compact design
68%
Energy monitoring
55%

✦ Recommendation

Prioritize app connectivity and remote diagnostics in the next product iteration.

Success Stories

How leading companies make better product decisions with Evolute.

Schneider Electric

Weekly surveys with over 50% response rate. Product managers actively validate hypotheses instead of relying on assumptions.

  • Weekly surveys in the community
  • Active hypothesis validation instead of assumptions
  • Feature backlog sharpened and prioritized
Katharina Pergande

Katharina Pergande

Data Manager, Schneider Electric

OBO Bettermann

In some projects, development was accelerated by 10–20% and pre-development costs were reduced through variant reduction.

  • Development accelerated by 10–20%
  • Pre-development costs reduced
  • Satisfaction scale: 9 out of 10
Marvin Kuhn

Marvin Kuhn

Market Development, OBO Bettermann

WAGO

Within just a few weeks, 40 opinions from tradespeople were collected on 32 different questions, decisively advancing the development process.

  • Accelerated feedback collection
  • 32 questions in different formats
  • 40 opinions in 4 weeks
Sebastian Heemeier

Sebastian Heemeier

Head of Product Management, WAGO

FLEX

For a new product development, FLEX needed tradespeople willing to share their requirements. Evolute recruited field testers via social media.

  • Field tester recruiting via social media
  • Pre-qualification through screening questions
  • Foundation for long-term collaboration
Michel Konrad

Michel Konrad

Head of Product Management, FLEX

Grundfos

Surveyed 43 landscapers in 4 weeks and built an own community – in a target group that was previously inaccessible.

  • 43 respondents in 4 weeks
  • Own community built
  • Previously inaccessible target group reached
Dirk Schmitz

Dirk Schmitz

Head of Marketing DBS D-A-CH, Grundfos

Roto

Roto transformed its analog tradespeople community into a digital advisory board and achieves impressive 60% response rates.

  • Digital advisory board built
  • 60% response rate achieved
  • Non-customers also provide feedback
Frank Wendel

Frank Wendel

Head of Product Management, Roto

Schneider Electric

Weekly surveys with over 50% response rate. Product managers actively validate hypotheses instead of relying on assumptions.

  • Weekly surveys in the community
  • Active hypothesis validation instead of assumptions
  • Feature backlog sharpened and prioritized
Katharina Pergande

Katharina Pergande

Data Manager, Schneider Electric

OBO Bettermann

In some projects, development was accelerated by 10–20% and pre-development costs were reduced through variant reduction.

  • Development accelerated by 10–20%
  • Pre-development costs reduced
  • Satisfaction scale: 9 out of 10
Marvin Kuhn

Marvin Kuhn

Market Development, OBO Bettermann

WAGO

Within just a few weeks, 40 opinions from tradespeople were collected on 32 different questions, decisively advancing the development process.

  • Accelerated feedback collection
  • 32 questions in different formats
  • 40 opinions in 4 weeks
Sebastian Heemeier

Sebastian Heemeier

Head of Product Management, WAGO

FLEX

For a new product development, FLEX needed tradespeople willing to share their requirements. Evolute recruited field testers via social media.

  • Field tester recruiting via social media
  • Pre-qualification through screening questions
  • Foundation for long-term collaboration
Michel Konrad

Michel Konrad

Head of Product Management, FLEX

Grundfos

Surveyed 43 landscapers in 4 weeks and built an own community – in a target group that was previously inaccessible.

  • 43 respondents in 4 weeks
  • Own community built
  • Previously inaccessible target group reached
Dirk Schmitz

Dirk Schmitz

Head of Marketing DBS D-A-CH, Grundfos

Roto

Roto transformed its analog tradespeople community into a digital advisory board and achieves impressive 60% response rates.

  • Digital advisory board built
  • 60% response rate achieved
  • Non-customers also provide feedback
Frank Wendel

Frank Wendel

Head of Product Management, Roto

Schneider Electric

Weekly surveys with over 50% response rate. Product managers actively validate hypotheses instead of relying on assumptions.

  • Weekly surveys in the community
  • Active hypothesis validation instead of assumptions
  • Feature backlog sharpened and prioritized
Katharina Pergande

Katharina Pergande

Data Manager, Schneider Electric

OBO Bettermann

In some projects, development was accelerated by 10–20% and pre-development costs were reduced through variant reduction.

  • Development accelerated by 10–20%
  • Pre-development costs reduced
  • Satisfaction scale: 9 out of 10
Marvin Kuhn

Marvin Kuhn

Market Development, OBO Bettermann

WAGO

Within just a few weeks, 40 opinions from tradespeople were collected on 32 different questions, decisively advancing the development process.

  • Accelerated feedback collection
  • 32 questions in different formats
  • 40 opinions in 4 weeks
Sebastian Heemeier

Sebastian Heemeier

Head of Product Management, WAGO

FLEX

For a new product development, FLEX needed tradespeople willing to share their requirements. Evolute recruited field testers via social media.

  • Field tester recruiting via social media
  • Pre-qualification through screening questions
  • Foundation for long-term collaboration
Michel Konrad

Michel Konrad

Head of Product Management, FLEX

Grundfos

Surveyed 43 landscapers in 4 weeks and built an own community – in a target group that was previously inaccessible.

  • 43 respondents in 4 weeks
  • Own community built
  • Previously inaccessible target group reached
Dirk Schmitz

Dirk Schmitz

Head of Marketing DBS D-A-CH, Grundfos

Roto

Roto transformed its analog tradespeople community into a digital advisory board and achieves impressive 60% response rates.

  • Digital advisory board built
  • 60% response rate achieved
  • Non-customers also provide feedback
Frank Wendel

Frank Wendel

Head of Product Management, Roto

Customer testimonials

Product managers and CEOs are enthusiastic about Evolute

This is the first product feedback app that enables product managers, for example, to send specific questions to users.
Michel Konrad

Michel Konrad

Head of Product Management

Flex power tools

We were initially unsure about what questions we could ask the craftsmen. However, the excellent support from Evolute and the training materials helped us to overcome our initial uncertainties.
Steffen Weinreich

Steffen Weinreich

Head of Research & Development

KAISER GmbH & Co. KG

Thanks to Evolute, we are now much closer to our customers!
Dr. Christian Neuner

Dr. Christian Neuner

CEO

Flex power tools

As we are currently still working with a classic survey tool outside Germany, I have a direct comparison. The response rate in Evolute is many times better!
Elias Rieger

Elias Rieger

Product Manager and Project Manager Evolute

Roto Frank roof system technology

Thanks to Evolute, we were able to increase the decision-making speed in our project and significantly reduce the time and effort required to make decisions.
Sebastian Heemeier

Sebastian Heemeier

Head of Product Management Building Installation

WAGO contact technology

The Evolute team understands the industry! Customer centricity and regularly asking customers is more of an attitude issue, so I'm thrilled with how Evolute is helping us with the rollout.
Willi Mattolat

Willi Mattolat

Head of Product Management Building Services

FRÄNKISCHE Rohrwerke Gebr. Kirchner GmbH & Co. KG

6,000+

verified tradespeople in the panel

50%+

average response rate

72h

from briefing to results

150+

product teams use Evolute

Frequently asked questions

Data Security & Compliance

GDPR-Compliant

Fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Your data and your respondents' data are protected.

CCPA

Committed to CCPA compliance, including the right to be forgotten for all respondents.

EU Hosting

All data is stored and processed on servers within the European Union.

No AI Training

Customer data is never used to train AI models. Your data remains yours — always.