Survey Authority

Survey Authority is an online-only SaaS platform that sells self-serve survey licenses, enterprise subscription tiers, and à-la-carte audience-response panels. Plans run from a no-cost “Community” tier (max 50 responses) through mid-range Pro plans ($39–$199 per month) up to premium Enterprise contracts that scale into five figures for unlimited seats, white-label dashboards, and dedicated support. All products are delivered instantly via the web dashboard; no physical retail or reseller channel exists. The brand’s standout feature is its built-in “Authority Score,” a proprietary algorithm that auto-weights responses by respondent tenure and cross-survey consistency, giving clients a ready-made credibility metric. Positioned as the “anti-survey-spam” platform, it requires double-opt-in respondents and publishes real-time fraud maps that clients can embed in reports. Its best-known collection is the Policy & Advocacy Toolkit, used by several state-level agencies to validate public-comment periods. Typical buyers are UX researchers at mid-size tech firms, policy analysts in government affairs teams, and graduate-methodology instructors who need defensible data without hiring full-service firms. They value transparency, open-data ethics, and the ability to export raw, peer-review-ready datasets in R, SPSS, or CSV formats. Survey Authority competes in the crowded online-survey software space against freemium form builders and full-service market-research agencies. It differentiates by baking statistical credibility checks into every project, refusing to sell bot-prone river samples, and offering flat, publicly posted CPI pricing instead of auction-style bidding.