# Outset

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/outset/  
**Website:** https://outset.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Outset is an AI-powered qualitative research platform, operated by Parnassus Labs, Inc., that lets enterprise research and product teams run large-scale AI-moderated interviews across video, voice, and text in 85+ countries and many languages. Its AI moderators conduct conversational interviews, an AI-driven synthesis layer produces summaries, themes, quotes, and highlight reels, and a Visual Intelligence suite analyzes visual cues during sessions. The platform includes participant recruitment against a large panel plus an AI fraud-detection agent. Customers include Microsoft, HubSpot, Nestle, Glassdoor, Coinbase, and Indeed. Outset publishes SOC 2 Type II, ISO 42001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance posture but exposes no public developer API, documentation, or developer portal at this time.

## Kin Score — 17.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 53.9 |
| Access Clarity | 53.9 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Outset Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Outset Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type II, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR

## Tags

Company, Research, User Research, Qualitative Research, Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Market Research, Product Research, Software-as-a-Service

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/outset/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.