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    Dovetail

    Score8.8 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.

    $0

    for a single individual, channel, and research project

    productboard

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/Aproductboard, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a product management system designed to help product managers understand what users need, prioritize what to build, and rally everyone around a roadmap.

    $25

    per month

    Pricing
    Dovetailproductboard
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    for a single individual, channel, and research project
    Professional
    $15
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Essential
    $25.00
    per month
    Pro
    $60.00
    per month
    Scale
    $120.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Dovetailproductboard
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing on the Professional plan.—
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    Community Pulse
    Dovetailproductboard
    Considered Both Products
    Dovetail
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    55 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    55 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
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    User Ratings
    Dovetailproductboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (60 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    6.9
    (59 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    5.9
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    5.2
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    User Testimonials
    Dovetailproductboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dovetail
    Very good for a research repository where researchers need to go back and reference or search for studies. Especially helpful for a large team with many sub-teams and many stakeholders. Maybe less helpful for a smaller team, but really, I think anyone seeking a research repository and easy video transcription and transcription tagging would find it helpful
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    productboard
    productboard is a fantastic piece of software for capturing product insights. I use it frequently very week to update suggestions for the product for new features. I also use it for enhancement suggestions. When speaking to customers or prospects, if it comes to light that there are features or changes that they would like to see within our software, I log and record these through Insights. Its a great place to capture this information. It provides me a platform to ensure that this information is accurately captured and I can be confident that it will be addressed in an appropriate manner and not get ignored.
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    Pros
    Dovetail
    • Chat to docs is a powerful feature for validating stakeholder ideas and providing real user insights, next to a summary and doc I can send along in as little as 5 min.
    • The flexibility of the database works for multiple types of org cultures (e.g,. one that is more eng. centric likes things organized by feature, whereas more user centric orgs can easily tag and adjust for user themes and needs)
    • Dynamic highlighting and auto suggest has improves and saves a lot of time manually tagging user quotes and interviews.
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    productboard
    • Roadmap Management - Add/update the existing roadmap
    • Progress Tracking - Track development progress of various features on the roadmap
    • Gathering insights - Connect different sources to gather insights into a feature on the roadmap.
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    Cons
    Dovetail
    • Dovetail tends to suggest themes based on what 1 user has said. As a UX Researcher, I cannot use this data because there isn't enough evidence to justify it. I need to see larger patterns across more users.
    • I find the channels incredibly hard to identify themes - the UI is super confusing, and I've never managed to get my head around it, so I just ignore it.
    • I wish the 'published' button would come back in Docs. Right now, Docs show up in search results while we are still drafting them and don't want them visible to the organization yet.
    • On the Contacts page, I need to be able to search by any of the fields (and not just the name).
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    productboard
    • Far too expensive per seat
    • No way to track/manage projects
    • No way to abstract sets of features into larger buckets for high-level presentations
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dovetail
    We are currently evaluating this tool and it would depend on the "usage credit" model that Dovetail is moving toward. Depending on our current usage and the cost change that might occur with that, I would assume there is a likelihood that we may not renew. I would like for us to renew, however it is up to our product financial decision makers
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Dovetail
    It takes a lot of getting used to in order to effectively navigate the folder structure, project tabs, project views, etc. It's why I haven't been able to just hand over access to a project manager or leader and trust that they will be able to find value quickly. Because of this, usage and value has been restricted mostly to the UX team.
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Dovetail
    I’ve never had any access issues with Dovetail, so I don’t see any problems in that area.
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Dovetail
    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.
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Dovetail
    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
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    productboard
    Support is awesome and very responsive
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    Online Training
    Dovetail
    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.
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    productboard
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dovetail
    We currently have access to both of the listed programs through our company, but they were lacking in the ability to either accurately transcribe the interviews (which would lead to extra effort and time going in to correct the transcription errors) or would not analyze interviews at all and could only handle text which, again, would rely on accurate transcriptions to get insights and analysis. Having it all-in-one was the much better option.
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    productboard
    Productboard is leaner, easier to use, and cleaner than Aha! I switched from Aha! to productboard and did not regret the decision. Aha! may be better suited to larger operations or teams, but productboard is perfect for smaller teams and solo product managers.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Dovetail
    It’s very expensive, and we use a lot of features in beta. I think we could also be rewarded for our usage and frequent feedback on the tool.
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Dovetail
    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.
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    productboard
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Dovetail
    • Time saving. As I mentioned before, I save a lot of time by using Dovetail. What could take me 5 hours takes me now 2. (Aprox)
    • AI helping with the insights. Using the chat to ask to to extract certain highlights is very helpful when generating my report. Saving me time.
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    productboard
    • Handle better the needs/request of big customers
    • Identify quick wins and big bets to positive impact the business
    • Win time to report faster on roadmap to other stakeholders of the company
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    ScreenShots

    Dovetail Screenshots

    Screenshot of an automate workflow with AI: Agents track every customer signal and act on what’s important before they turn into problems.Screenshot of an example of an automated transcript with structured note-taking that anchors insights in the voice of the customer. This uses AI-powered Chat and Search to offer instant answers grounded in data—whether it is in Dovetail, Slack, or Teams.Screenshot of the AI Dashboards that help spot risks before they escalate, act on new opportunities.Screenshot of the dashboard to connect Dovetail to an existing tech stack, including Slack, Linear, and various meeting recording tools.Screenshot of where to automatically clustering customer issues into prioritized themes and trends. Useful for surfacing actionable product opportunities from high-volume ticket data.Screenshot of real-time dashboards that aggregate sentiment, NPS, and app reviews into a unified view of the customer experience.