■ My Communites (CRM)

Survey your own audience. No external panel required.

You’ve already built the most valuable research asset you have — a list of real customers, employees, or community members who know your brand firsthand. 

My Communities lets you upload that list, segment it precisely, and deploy surveys directly to your proprietary audience — without paying external panel costs, without exporting to a third-party tool, and without losing the respondent relationships you’ve invested in building. 

Available on Enterprise licence.

Managing proprietary research panels and member segmentation within the Standard Insights CRM.
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The most valuable research panel you have is the one you already own.

External panels give you verified strangers. Your proprietary audience gives you something different — people who have already interacted with your brand, used your product, worked in your organisation, or opted into your research community.

Their responses carry context that a general consumer panel cannot replicate. A current customer answering a brand perception question knows something a recruited stranger doesn’t. An employee responding to an internal pulse check knows something no external respondent can approximate.

 

My Communities is where you manage that audience — segment it, survey it, and build a longitudinal research relationship with the people who matter most to your brand.

Run pulse checks on demand. At zero external panel cost.

The standard research workflow charges you for panel access every time you survey external consumers. When you survey your own community through My Communities, there is no external panel fee — you own the audience, so you only pay the AI Service Fee for the study itself.

This makes high-frequency research economically viable in a way that external panel recruitment is not.

Run a monthly NPS pulse with your customer community. Deploy a weekly internal sentiment check with your employee panel. Survey your research community before every major product or campaign decision. Each study costs a fraction of what an equivalent external panel study would.

What changes with proprietary panel access:

Speed — no recruitment cycle. Your audience is already there. Deploy a survey and responses start arriving immediately.

Cost — no external panel fees. The AI Service Fee covers the study. Your audience covers the fieldwork.

Relevance — your community knows your brand. Their responses carry context and history that a recruited stranger cannot provide.

 

Continuity — survey the same people repeatedly. Track how attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours change over time within a consistent respondent base.

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Upload, segment, and target with precision.

Import your existing respondent lists — customer databases, employee directories, community opt-ins, or any proprietary audience you’ve built — directly into your My Communities workspace.

Once imported, segment your audience with custom tags and attributes — as many as your research requires.

Examples of how clients segment their communities:

Customer lists — Loyalists · Lapsed customers · High-value buyers · Recent converters · Churn-risk segments

Employee panels — Department · Seniority level · Location · Tenure · Role type

Research communities — Frequent participants · Category-specific cohorts · Demographic segments · Opt-in interest groups

Apply any combination of tags to target a specific sub-segment for a specific study — without exporting the list, without rebuilding the segment in a separate tool, and without losing your tagging structure between studies.

 

What My Communities includes

■ List import and management

Upload proprietary respondent lists from any source. CSV import, direct integration, or manual entry. All lists managed in one secure workspace.

■ Custom tagging and segmentation

Apply unlimited custom attributes to any member. Build deep behavioural profiles over time as each respondent completes more studies.

■ Targeted study deployment

Select any segment of your community as the audience for a study. Deploy directly — no export, no third-party routing, no manual fieldwork management.

■ Privacy and access control

All community data is siloed within your workspace. Role-based access control determines who can view, manage, or deploy to your proprietary lists. Your respondent data is never used to train shared AI models or exposed to other workspaces.

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My Communities: Frequently Asked Questions

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Is My Communities available to all Standard Insights users?
No. My Communities — including the ability to deploy studies to proprietary audiences — is available to Enterprise licence holders only. All users can access the global panel. Contact sales about Enterprise pricing and access.
What types of audiences can I import?
Customer lists, employee directories, opt-in research communities, loyalty programme members, beta user groups, or any proprietary respondent list you own. The audience must consist of people who have consented to being contacted for research purposes.
How do I import my existing lists?
Via CSV upload, direct integration with your CRM or data system, or manual entry. Your Enterprise account manager will guide you through the import process and data mapping during onboarding.
Is there an external panel cost when I survey my own community?
No. Studies deployed to your proprietary community through My Communities do not incur external panel fees. You pay the AI Service Fee for the study. Your audience provides the responses.
Can I survey the same community members repeatedly?
Yes. My Communities is designed for longitudinal research — surveying the same respondents across multiple studies to track how attitudes, perceptions, and behaviours change over time. Each study a respondent completes adds to their profile within your community workspace.
Can I share research results back with my community members?
Yes. You can share interactive boards and study summaries directly with community members — keeping your panel engaged and informed between studies.
Is my community data kept separate from other workspaces?
Yes. All community data is siloed within your workspace. It is never shared between workspaces, never used to train shared AI models, and never accessible to other Standard Insights users or clients.
What happens to my community data if I end my Enterprise licence?
Your data export rights and data retention terms are defined in your Enterprise licence agreement. Contact your account manager for specifics before any licence change.

Your audience is already built. Now put it to work.

Stop paying external panel costs to reach consumers you already own. Deploy your first proprietary study today.

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