Academic researchers spend hours converting questionnaire documents into survey platforms — time that belongs to the research itself. Pirai AI automates that conversion, turning Word, PDF, and Excel instruments into validated platform files in minutes.
Trusted by researchers at 331 universities across 31 countries, Pirai AI supports Qualtrics, REDCap, QuestionPro, SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, and 22+ more platforms across 16 languages. It is the only AI-powered survey conversion tool designed specifically for research workflows.
What Research Workflows Actually Need
General AI form builders generate surveys from prompts. That is useful for quick feedback forms. But academic research starts with a validated instrument — an existing Word or PDF document developed through literature review, expert consultation, and ethics approval. The challenge is not creating questions from scratch. It is getting a validated instrument into a platform accurately, without transcription errors, and without losing the structure the researcher designed.
Pirai AI reads the existing document and converts it directly. REDCap data dictionaries are generated from Word or PDF instruments — no manual field re-entry required. Qualtrics QSF files preserve all question types and answer options. The AI Survey Advisor then reviews the instrument for methodology issues — leading questions, scale inconsistencies, age bracket granularity — and produces exact edit instructions before fieldwork begins.
Data Privacy for Research Documents
Research documents often contain sensitive instrument designs, proprietary scales, or confidential client questionnaires. Pirai AI processes all documents 100% client-side in the browser. Nothing is uploaded to an external server. Your instruments are never used to train AI models — a critical distinction from general-purpose AI tools. For a practical example of the researcher workflow, see the ChatGPT to Qualtrics guide.
Key Capabilities
- Convert validated instruments from Word or PDF directly — no reformatting required
- REDCap data dictionary generation for clinical and health sciences research
- AI Survey Advisor reviews methodology and flags wording issues before fieldwork
- Your documents are never used to train AI models
- Supports 16 languages for international and multilingual research programmes
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Pirai AI converts validated instruments from Word or PDF directly, preserving all approved question wording, answer options, and instrument structure exactly as in the source document. This is critical for IRB-approved instruments where any change to the approved text requires a protocol amendment.
Yes. Pirai AI processes all documents 100% client-side in your browser. Your instruments never leave your device and are never used to train AI models. This is an important data protection commitment for researchers working with sensitive or confidential questionnaire content.
Yes. Pirai AI generates REDCap Data Dictionary CSV files from Word, PDF, or Excel instruments. This covers the most time-consuming part of REDCap setup: entering every field manually in the Online Designer or building the Data Dictionary from scratch.
After IRB approval, Pirai AI converts the approved instrument to the deployment platform without altering any approved content. The AI Survey Advisor is designed to be used before IRB submission, during the instrument design phase, to catch methodology issues before the approval process begins.
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