Prolific

What it does

Prolific is a platform designed to connect researchers with a diverse pool of participants for online studies, AI training and evaluation tasks, surveys, and more. It emphasizes high-quality data collection by ensuring participants are verified, engaged, and fairly compensated. Prolific aims to facilitate efficient and reliable data gathering for academic, AI development, and other research purposes.

How to use: Researchers can sign up, set up tasks or studies on the self-serve platform, define their target audience from a pool of 200k+ active participants, and launch their research. Participants can sign up to take part in interesting tasks and earn cash.

Core features

• ✦Access to a verified and engaged participant pool
• ✦Self-serve platform for easy task setup and launch
• ✦Tools for AI training and evaluation
• ✦Fair compensation for participants
• ✦Audience checker

Use cases

• →Academic research
• →AI training and evaluation
• →Market research
• →User research & testing
• →Data annotation
• →Training & alignment
• →Evaluation & safety