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Move from AI research summaries to customer intelligence

Marvin helps research teams analyze interviews and turn transcripts into themes and research reports. Dovetail is an AI-native customer intelligence platform built for a broader job: turning research, support, sales, survey, and feedback data into trusted intelligence that teams can use to shape strategy, roadmaps, priorities, campaigns, and customer conversations.

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Connecting the world's leading teams to their customers

Breville
Atlassian
Deloitte
Notion
Okta
AWS
Toyota
Qantas

Research synthesis is table stakes. Customer intelligence turns evidence into action.

Transcription, tagging, and study-level synthesis are essential. But customer questions rarely stay inside one project. Product teams need to understand onboarding friction. Support sees recurring complaints. Leadership wants proof behind roadmap bets. Go-to-market teams need language grounded in what customers actually say.

Dovetail brings past and present customer evidence together, so teams can find grounded answers, track patterns over time, and use customer intelligence where decisions happen.

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Proven business impact

Dovetail customers have seen 2.3x ROI, 30 hours saved per user each week, and 66% faster shipping in a commissioned Forrester study.

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Ultimately, Dovetail’s AI has democratized access to insights across our business. It’s helping teams surface what matters most in far less time, and empowers more data-informed conversations at every level of our organization.
Achievers
Marie-Andrée Turgeon

Senior Manager of Product Operations

Choose Dovetail when evidence needs to move beyond research

Dovetail is built for teams that need more than fast synthesis. It helps research become a shared source of intelligence across product, CX, GTM, and leadership.

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Research shapes your roadmap

Connect customer evidence to prioritization, tradeoffs, and planning, so product teams can move forward with confidence.

Customer signals go in one place

Bring interviews, support tickets, sales calls, surveys, and feedback into one customer intelligence platform.

Stakeholders get answers on demand

Let teams ask questions and find cited evidence without waiting for another readout or research request.

Themes are continuously tracked

See how customer issues evolve across studies, channels, and segments, not just what showed up in the latest project.

Intelligence travels across teams

Make customer understanding visible to product, design, support, sales, marketing, and leadership, so evidence can inform decisions across the org.

Access and governance are balanced

Share customer signals broadly while maintaining permissions, taxonomy, and controls, so teams can access what they need without losing structure.

How Dovetail compares to Marvin

Both tools support core research workflows, such as transcription, tagging, synthesis, and interview analysis. The bigger difference is what happens after the research is done. Marvin helps research teams analyze studies. Dovetail turns customer evidence into governed, AI-powered customer intelligence across teams, workflows, and decisions.

Dovetail
Marvin
Transcription and tagging
Study-level synthesis
Interview and session analysis
AI answers grounded in customer evidence
Evidence from research, support, sales, surveys, and feedback
Research workflow focus
Dashboards for themes, sentiment, and metrics
Project summaries only
AI agents that monitor signals and trigger actions
No clear equivalent publicly listed
Slack, Jira, Linear, and Salesforce workflows
Some workflows supported
Unlimited stakeholder viewers
Plan-dependent
Enterprise security and AI governance
Plan-dependent
EU and APAC data residency
EU publicly listed; APAC unclear
Free migration from existing tools
Not publicly listed

Buyer's choice award

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Category Leader

GetApp's category leaders 2025

Top UX Research Product

Proddy awards by product school

Enterprise

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Tech Cares

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Momentum Leader

g2, spring 2026

Top Rated

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High Performer

g2, spring 2026

Best Relationship

g2, spring 2026

Users love us

g2, milestone

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Dovetail enables us to access all of Breville’s insights gathered from around the globe—all in one place. This is incredibly valuable and saves us from losing or repeating invaluable information about our customers.
Breville
Constance Docos

Senior UX Designer

Migrate your customer evidence to Dovetail

Moving from Marvin shouldn’t mean starting over. We help you bring your research history, tags, projects, and customer evidence into a system built for what comes next: connected customer intelligence across every team.

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Free migration

Migrate your research history with dedicated specialist support.

Searchable history

Make interviews, notes, findings, and feedback easy to query.

Unlimited viewers

Give every team access to intelligence without seat limits.

Connected workflows

Link customer evidence to the tools teams already use.

Turn evidence into roadmap, CX, and revenue decisions

Start your 60-day free trial of Dovetail. Bring your existing data, invite your team, and see how customer intelligence compounds when it lives in one place.

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  • 60 days full access, no feature limits
  • Onboarding support from a research specialist
  • Free migration from your current tool
  • Full export if you decide not to continue

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