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Dovetail
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Dovetail, headquartered in Sydney, aims to enable the world to create better products and services through deep customer understanding. Dovetail states they empower 45,000+ people, from agencies to universities to Fortune 100 companies, to make sense of their customer research in one collaborative research platform.
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I've outlined this in the first question. This feels repetitive. Being able to extract relatively reliable topline insights from the tools chat interface. The fact that it allows you to zoom out to brand level or engage with individuals/ individual projects is particularly useful for baseline or specific insights analysis; it allows us and those in our organization to extract insights and run at pace. Less appropriate for running the tests. We were brought through the experience; the moderated "test" experience doesn't seem fit for UXR research, more for market research purposes.
I really like the User Interface, how easy it is to have all your research data in one project and how visual it is to understand where are things. It does have a good User Experience.
I like how nice and easy it is to create categories or use the ones auto generated as a starting point. It is very easy to create a color coded set of categories that help make sense of the data.
I like how easy it is to see the video snippet of a specific highlight.
I think one of Dovetail's biggest challenges is discoverability. They are constantly shipping new features and adding more functionality, but I find the help articles and videos do not go deep enough or even provide enough help to get started. I'm sure I'm not utilizing the platform to its full potential, and I think better training or onboarding across all tiers would help us get more out of Dovetail. Its hard to even know what you're not using or what you don't know.
On the Enterprise plan, you get a dedicated account manager who can handle your onboarding. That's the only plan with an account manager. And it's a little unfortunate. When you write into the help center, they direct you to a help article, which again does not go deep enough. I wish there were more opportunities for training and enablement for lower tiers.
I think Dovetail is amazing for qualitative research, but I find it very frustrating and lacking for quantitative research. I don't think it makes survey analysis very easy. I would be looking for something closer to a Sheets or Excel for quant analysis, but Dovetail is pretty crude in what it allows you to do with survey results.
Because we are really happy with the tool and it’s capabilities at the moment. The price increase is the main issue we can have but the features are getting better and better. It really saves a lot of time for our team and allow us to collaborate more efficiently with certain stakeholders that often did not réalise how much research we conduct. Now they can just have a look to it by themself!
it is relatively intuitive but it does take some practice to get used to the platform and understand the capabilities and limitations. There are also times that we have run into issues where the people we are sharing reports with either cannot view them or access is not provided. Additionally, the ability to export any of the video clips or snippets has created some frustration since we want to include the great findings that Dovetail helps put together, but need to bounce between screens or share after-the-fact rather than embedding it directly into a readout deck.
Regarding performance, I would say it’s satisfactory. Adding data and transcriptions is really fast and efficient, and can be done in the background, so I’m never hindered by these aspects. However, all the new AI-generated features are still somewhat slow to run. It’s nothing major, but it should improve in the future.
Support was good, especially when it comes to the capability of your support agents and engineers. But as i am located in Europe, the difference in the time zone made it hard to communicate with your offices and kept my work way back
The training went very well, and we co-built it to really address our needs. I also think it was beneficial to have feedback coming from someone other than myself (since I manage the tool), as it helped reinforce the points I wanted to highlight. The team’s feedback on the training was very positive.
The tag system is clearly the main reason why I chose Dovetail. It allows me to structure, categorize, and retrieve insights efficiently across different types of research. Tags make it much easier to connect data from various sources, identify patterns over time, and reuse insights in a meaningful and scalable way across teams.
Management is quite straightforward; it’s easy to change access if certain stakeholders need to use it. The repository features are accessible to all teams, making it a good entry point into the tool. The more people use it, the more powerful the tool becomes, so it seems truly scalable to me. The limits are more financial, in terms of accessing additional features.
Having a centralized research space is a game changer. Makes it so much easier to hand over research if working with new people and have system in place (using the templates). Saves so much time. We don't have hard numbers on the hours saved but we are much more efficient using Dovetail than without.
The tagging system in general is amazing and allows for consistency in topic marking. This was non-existent for our team before Dovetail and now we can do much more granule reports with exact # of times something was said with accuracy.
