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Helm Express vs Remesh
Remesh runs AI-assisted conversations with real people, live or at their own pace, in which participants vote on each other's answers to show where a group agrees. Helm Express asks simulated twins of a US place. One hears from people in their own words, the other gives a direction without recruiting anyone.
As of September 2026, from each company’s public site and documentation.
| Remesh | Helm Express | |
|---|---|---|
| Who answers | Real people: your own customers or employees, or participants that Remesh recruits for you. | In a reading, simulated twins of a place’s residents or businesses; no real person is contacted for a reading. Interviews and short studies with the public and credential-checked experts are run by arrangement, labelled as real people and kept separate. |
| Where | Wherever your participants are, with conversations in over 40 languages, translated in-platform. Its on-demand recruiting covers US and UK audiences, and its full-service recruiting covers the US and other markets. | Any of 12,759 US places — cities, counties, metros and states — with a neighbourhood map for most of them. US only. |
| Questions you can ask | Open-ended questions that participants then vote on, plus polls, rankings, branching and stimuli. Live sessions take up to 1,000 people, self-paced Flex conversations up to 5,000, and there are 1:1 or group video interviews. | Yes/no, a pick among up to 12 options, or a belief question; an A/B of two messages or two pieces of news; an interview with up to five twins from a reading. |
| What comes back | Participants' own words with themes, sentiment, coding and summaries, cuts by segment, and a percent-agreement score for each response based on how people voted, all visible while the session runs. | Which way the place leans, breakdowns by group and neighbourhood, and an interval and a read-quality grade on every poll result. |
| How you start | Request a demo or scope a first project; you can buy a single project or a software subscription. No platform pricing is published. On-demand recruiting (US and UK) is listed at $1.00 per participant per minute for Flex and $1.25 for Live. | Book a call, or sign in. Planning a question and previewing its cost come before anything runs. |
| Best when | You want to hear real customers or employees explain why, and see which ideas a large group agrees on, in a session you can steer as it happens. | You need a fast, low-cost direction on a local question, with its cost shown before it runs — which way the simulated place leans, and among whom — before spending on real fieldwork. |
Choose Remesh when
You need real people's own words and want to follow up on them live.
You are listening to your own employees or customers, not to a place.
You want to see which of many open-ended ideas a group agrees on, through voting.
You want moderation, recruiting or the whole study handled by a research team.
Choose Helm Express when
Your question is about one specific US place or a neighbourhood within it.
You want a direction before recruiting or scheduling anyone.
You want breakdowns by neighbourhood, age, education or whether people own or rent, or the businesses of a place, on a map.
What we say about Remesh is taken from its own public site and documentation. Check the current version at remesh.ai, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
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