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From rapid testing to continuous customer intelligence

Maze helps product teams run fast, unmoderated studies—prototype tests, surveys, card sorts, and interviews—and get usability signal in days. Dovetail is an AI-native customer intelligence platform built for what comes next: bringing interviews, support tickets, sales calls, NPS, and app reviews into one place, analyzed continuously, so every team can find and act on what customers say.

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Dovetail customer intelligence platform with continuous AI analysis

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Studies capture moments. Customer intelligence compounds.

Maze is genuinely good at running studies. Point it at a Figma prototype, recruit from its built-in panel, and your team has usability signal in days—no researcher required.

But studies only capture what happens inside them. Once a test wraps, the report gets shared and the evidence goes quiet—Maze’s own guidance is to embed reports in Confluence or Notion to build a repository. Meanwhile, customers keep talking in support tickets, sales calls, NPS responses, and app reviews that never pass through a study.

Dovetail captures all of it. Every interview, ticket, call, and review flows into one platform and gets analyzed continuously—no manual tagging—so any team can ask a question and get a cited, evidence-backed answer.

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Continuous AI analysis across customer channels in Dovetail
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.
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Marie-Andrée Turgeon

Senior Manager of Product Operations

Choose Dovetail when evidence needs to move beyond studies

Dovetail is built for teams that need more than study results. It turns every customer conversation—planned or not—into intelligence that product, CX, GTM, and leadership can use.

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Every customer signal lands in one place

Bring interviews, support tickets, sales calls, NPS, and app reviews into one platform—not just the studies you run.

Analysis runs continuously

Themes and sentiment surface across all your customer data as it arrives, without manual tagging or per-study setup.

Answers come with citations

Ask a question in plain language and get evidence-backed answers grounded in real customer data, with semantic search on every plan.

AI agents watch for what matters

Set agents to monitor incoming feedback for emerging issues and trigger actions in tools like Slack and Linear.

Docs draft themselves, with receipts

Generate PRDs and voice-of-customer reports with AI Docs, where every claim links back to its source evidence.

Evidence compounds across teams

Product, support, sales, and leadership work from the same searchable intelligence layer, so insights build on each other instead of expiring with each study.

How Dovetail compares to Maze

Maze is strong at rapid, unmoderated testing—prototypes, surveys, card sorts—with a built-in panel to recruit from. The bigger difference is where evidence lives afterward. Maze captures what happens inside the studies you run. Dovetail ingests every customer signal continuously and turns it into governed, AI-powered customer intelligence across teams, workflows, and decisions.

Dovetail
Maze
Prototype and usability testing
Built-in participant panel
AI-moderated interviews
AI transcripts and summaries
Automated theme detection
Within a single study
Research repository
Recommends embedding reports in other tools
Semantic search across all research
Not publicly listed
Ingest support tickets, sales calls, and NPS
Not offered
AI agents that monitor feedback and trigger actions
Not offered
AI-generated docs with citations (PRDs, VoC reports)
Not offered
SOC 2 Type II
SSO/SAML
Enterprise plan only

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SmartRecruiters uses Dovetail to make research easier to find, share, and build on

  • 7 tools down to 1
  • 100+ team members sharing customer intelligence
  • 100s of hours of customer data, all in Dovetail

“For us at SmartRecruiters, the big thing about Dovetail has really been about democratizing research,” says Danielle. “It used to be hard for people to find customer data, so they couldn’t build upon our existing insights.”

Danielle Reid, Senior Designer Manager
SmartRecruiters, an SAP company

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SmartRecruiters customer intelligence with Dovetail

Migrate your customer evidence to Dovetail

Moving from Maze doesn’t mean starting over. We’ll help you bring your research history—recordings, transcripts, reports, and findings—into a platform where it stays searchable and keeps informing decisions long after each study ends.

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Guided setup

Bring your research history and get support setting up a workspace your team can use right away.

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 every customer signal into intelligence

Start your 60-day free trial of Dovetail. Connect your channels, invite your team, and see how customer intelligence compounds when every signal lives in one place.

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