# How AI-Moderated Interviews Expand Customer Understanding Featuring Aaron Cannon

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Podcast: [Amazing Business Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/amazing-business-radio-46506)
Published: 2026-05-12T10:00:00+00:00
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AI-Powered, Human-Centric Customer Experiences Shep interviews Aaron Cannon, co-founder and CEO of Outset. He talks about how AI-moderated research moves beyond traditional surveys to deliver relevant, nuanced customer feedback and customer-centric experiences. This episode of Amazing Business Radio with Shep Hyken answers the following questions and more: How is AI-moderated research interviews are transforming customer feedback? What are the main differences between AI-moderated interviews and standard surveys? In what ways can AI provide a deeper understanding of customer motivations and experiences? How does "visual intelligence" add value to customer experience research? How can AI help companies reduce survey fatigue among customers? Top Takeaways: AI-moderated research gathers insights from customers through interviews that feel more like a conversation than a traditional survey. Traditional surveys usually ask participants to pick a number, an option from a multiple-choice question, or to rank something. AI-moderated research goes beyond this by digging deeper and asking follow-up questions, enabling customers to provide the full picture by explaining their choices in their own words. Trust is very important in collecting feedback. While opt-in participation should be the norm, make sure to let your customers know that their data privacy and security are a priority when they share their feedback. AI tools help marketing and CX teams expand their reach by making it possible to have in-depth conversations with thousands of individual customers without needing a large team. This means organizations can cover a wide range of backgrounds and opinions, including outliers, to understand their customers better. Context makes feedback more actionable. For example, if a…

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