About us
empirio.ai is the German AI-powered survey tool. More than 100,000 surveys have already been created here by HR teams, students, association boards, and all kinds of other users in between.
Unsere Geschichte
Why do we exist?
Creating a survey these days shouldn’t be a mystery. Even so, it works the same everywhere: HR teams use tools that haven’t evolved in years. Students lose half their weekend wrestling with questionnaire logic instead of doing research. Board members of associations have to click through fifteen menus before “add question” shows up anywhere.
We’ve looked at most of the tools out there and come to the conclusion that they either are very powerful but look like they’re from 2010, or they look modern but fall short on what really matters: well-thought-out logic jumps, multilingual surveys, and flawless European data protection. And in between, there’s a lot of AI marketing that, in practice, is usually little more than a chatbot slapped on the front.
So we thought: there has to be a more elegant way to do this. So we built it.
empirio.ai brings together things that really shouldn’t be at odds: a modern interface, genuinely helpful AI throughout the entire workflow—from the first draft to the final analysis—and fair pricing. Students, small organizations, and school projects work with us for free. Companies get the feature set they need to run professional surveys, without having to wrestle with Enterprise contracts.
Werte
What drives us
Good surveys are underrated. They make strategy measurable, give employees a voice, support scientific work, and provide the data foundation for decisions that would otherwise be made on gut feeling. Bad surveys can achieve the opposite: low response rates, biased data, frustration all around. We are convinced that modern AI closes precisely this gap—not by replacing the people who conduct surveys, but by taking over the tasks where humans gain nothing: proposing methodologically sound questions, keeping logic consistent, analyzing responses in real time, and making visible the patterns that would be lost in raw data. The interesting part—asking the right question, understanding the answers, drawing the right conclusions—remains yours. Three principles guide us on this path:
AI as a copilot
Describe your survey in one sentence and we’ll create the questionnaire. But it doesn’t stop there. When you edit, AI optimizes entire sections at the click of a button; when you translate, it converts your questionnaire into other languages in seconds; and when you analyze, it summarizes open-ended responses and answers your questions about the results. You stay in control at all times: AI handles the heavy lifting. You’re still the one doing the thinking.
Modern optics
A survey is also a small business card for your company, your research, your association. Templates and designs with a modern look, not like ten years ago. That makes a measurable difference in response rates.
Data protection and security
Servers in the EU, compliant with data protection regulations and using encrypted transmission. We do not share data with third parties or train our models on your responses. If you ask about sensitive topics—salary, health, employee satisfaction—you need to be able to trust that the answers stay exactly where they are supposed to.
Reise
Our journey up to today
2018
The first survey
The empirio survey tool is launched. First mission: make life easier for students when it’s time to work on their bachelor’s thesis. From an idea between two founders, a free survey tool is born that soon makes its way into the academic world.
2020
10,000 surveys
Three years after its launch, empirio is no longer a well-kept secret at universities. Survey number 10,000 is created, a milestone we wouldn’t have even dared to dream of back in 2018.
2022
Hello, company
Suddenly, it’s no longer just students who are getting in touch. HR teams, schools, universities, and marketing departments are discovering empirio for their surveys. We’re opening the platform to everyone who wants to create questionnaires.
2024
GoThesis is already here
We have good news for everyone who uses empirio for academic research. We’re expanding our offering and launching GoThesis, a platform that supports academic papers from choosing a topic all the way to successful submission, with many very useful AI tools. A world of its own for everyone who is currently writing their term paper, bachelor’s thesis, or master’s thesis.
2025
100,000 surveys
WOW! The first six-figure milestone. With empirio, more than 100,000 surveys have been created: from school surveys and scientific research projects to employee satisfaction surveys in companies.
2026
From empirio to empirio.ai
We’re rebuilding the platform from the ground up, with AI that’s genuinely useful for creating, editing, translating, and analyzing. Not as a mere marketing claim, but as a tool that truly takes work off your plate. That’s how empirio becomes empirio.ai, now available in 9 countries.
The figures speak for themselves
Surveys created
EU data storage
Available languages
Ready for your first survey?
Describe in one sentence what kind of survey you need. AI will take care of the rest.