Executive Summary

Many people chasing paid focus-group gigs waste hours filling screener surveys with low and inconsistent success rates, turning potentially lucrative side-income into an inefficient grind. This pain affects gig-economy workers and side-income seekers who need better time-to-payoff and market-research recruiters who struggle to find reliable, qualified participants. Build a privacy-first automation platform (browser extension + mobile app + backend) that ingests online screeners, uses an LLM tuned to interpret natural-language open-text questions and craft context-aware answers, auto-applies across panels, and manages identities, calendars, and payout tracking. Include human-in-the-loop validation, A/B testing to optimize pass rates, and safeguards for consent, anti-fraud detection, and platform-TOS compliance. The market is large and timely: the $80B global market-research industry implies roughly $8.0B addressable spend on participant recruitment and incentives, and analysts rate the opportunity highly (market score 90/100) as research shifts online and demand for qualified participants grows. Gig-economy growth and improved LLM capabilities make this a viable product with attractive commercial options (revenue potential 78/100), such as subscriptions, success fees, or B2B partnerships. You can differentiate by delivering demonstrably higher, verified pass rates through domain-tuned models, continuous learning, persona management, and trusted reputation systems or panel partnerships. Expect realistic challenges—medium competition, platform anti-bot policies, privacy and regulatory risks, and ongoing model maintenance—which are solvable but require early investment in legal, security, and trust-building.

Market Opportunity

Automate applying to paid focus-group screener surveys to win more gigs targets a $8.0B = $80B global market-research industry × 10% allocated to participant recruitment and incentives total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 6% YoY (online market-research and recruitment growth; source: ESOMAR / MarketsandMarkets blended estimate).

Key trends driving demand: Greater online-first research — more studies and screeners are administered online, so automating applicant workflows captures more opportunity.; AI comprehension of natural-language screeners — LLMs can interpret open-text screeners and craft plausible, context-aware answers, improving pass rates.; Gig economy growth — more consumers seek flexible side-income and are receptive to tools that increase efficiency and ROI of time spent applying.; Research buyer emphasis on speed — researchers value faster participant yield; tools that increase qualified applicants can command partnership or licensing fees..

Key competitors include Respondent.io, Prolific, PhantomBuster.

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Automate applying to paid focus-group screener surveys to win more gigs

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