AskNicely vs. Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AskNicely
Score 10.0 out of 10
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AskNicely in New Zealand offers their software application as a means of collecting real-time feedback from customers, touting integration with the CRM and automated workflows, the ability to integrate interaction data from popular tools and channels (e.g. Slack, Intercom, etc.), and boasting a satisfactory survey response rate superior to other survey tools.N/A
Lighthouse Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Sawtooth Software headquartered in Provo offers the Lighthouse Studio survey research tool as an advanced platform for Conjoint Analysis and MaxDiff. With it, users can create balanced experimental designs hand-in-hand with traditional survey questions.N/A
Pricing
AskNicelySawtooth Lighthouse Studio
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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AskNicelyLighthouse Studio
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AskNicelySawtooth Lighthouse Studio
Features
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Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
8.2
Ratings
3% above category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
6.5
Ratings
20% below category average
Survey templates8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Themes7.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding8.30 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
8.7
Ratings
2% above category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Changes to live survey8.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Question design help8.70 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple question types8.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Survey Logic
Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
7.9
Ratings
4% below category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
10.0
Ratings
19% above category average
Survey logic flexibility7.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
8.4
Ratings
3% above category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
6.0
Ratings
30% below category average
Response tracking8.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Data export8.50 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Standard reports8.30 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Custom reports7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Analytics8.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
8.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
10.0
Ratings
14% above category average
Access controls8.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Compliance8.70 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Survey Distribution
Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
AskNicely
8.4
Ratings
2% above category average
Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
User Ratings
AskNicelySawtooth Lighthouse Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
AskNicelySawtooth Lighthouse Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
AskNicely is well suited for surveying customers about how they are feeling about your product. This can be their overall feeling or after they have taken a certain action. E.g. used a particular feature. It's not designed for getting through customer feedback, rather gauging satisfaction. You will need to follow up with other survey methods for detailed feedback.
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Anyone wanting to design and analyze advanced studies, particularly those that incorporate discrete choice modeling (such as MaxDiff and / or Conjoint) should be using Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. The capabilities and flexibility offered by this platform for these choices is far beyond any other platform I am aware of. It is less appropriate where you need the survey tool to 'play well with others.' Two examples: 1) pulling in live data streams so they can be cleaned and visualized. 2) Integrating into any service where an API call is appropriate such as adding / removing people from a mailing list, incentive management tool, or qualitative community tool.
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Pros
  • The workflows and level of automation to make managing an ongoing NPS programme easy are fantastic.
  • The AskNicely TV Dashboard is great for getting everyone in the office interested in customer feedback - it essentially brings the customer into the room for some people who don't have a lot of direct contact with customers.
  • The system is very easy to use and intuitive.
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  • Powerful programming capabilities
  • Advanced analysis
  • Fantastic customer and technical support
  • Good documentation
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Cons
  • Integrations could always be another but they do a nice job getting Asknicely and CRM’s talking nicely to one another
  • I’d like to see more resources on how to take small businesses to the next level of CX execution using NPS and AskNicely
  • More, not fewer plan options
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  • They could focus on integrating API type functionality
  • I would love if the data came out labeled
  • I am not a fan of the 'limited' time a study can stay up. This causes issues with longitudinal studies.
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Usability
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It is incredibly powerful, very rhobust and has fantastic support. The only reasons I'm not giving it a higher rating are 1) There is a very steep learning curve when it comes to designing more complex studies. 2) It is difficult to get Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio to 'talk' to other systems as the Perl upon which it is built is not really designed to work with API calls, etc.
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Support Rating
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I cannot explain how great the support team is. They are prompt and very thorough in their responses.
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Alternatives Considered
When we evaluated Delighted we found a product that *almost* met our needs. They provide great surveys with solid analytics at an unbeatable price point that includes all the integrations now matter what price you enter at. The thing that won us over to AskNicely was the "workflow" features. The ability to automatically reach out to customers based on the survey result is extremely powerful and saves a lot of time for multiple teams. Delighted does not offer that feature. Pendo lost out because of price, they are focused solely on enterprise customers and were literally thousands of dollars more a month than AskNicely. Now, to be fair, Pendo offers a much broader feature set than AskNicely, but as a straight NPS provider, AskNicely fit the bill perfectly.
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While QuestioPro has the capability to build surveys and even do some advanced analysis, it is less powerful (and less intuitive) than Sawtooth Lighthouse Studio. It cannot handle studies with the complexity we are used to designing. The CMNTY Platform was initially sold to us as a combined Quant / Qual platform, but we found very quickly that the quant side of it is extremely limited.
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Return on Investment
  • The first positive impact has been stressing the nearly urgent need for a NPS tracking system. Gathering the first few responses (both positive and negative) was eye-opening.
  • The second positive impact was being able to see a commonality among our detractors, which in turn enabled our management team to shift strategies on prioritizing resources and projects.
  • Lastly, this has filled a niche in customer satisfaction feedback that was not sustainable in the previous methods.
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  • Our business is survey data so we rely heavily on sawtooth
  • The advanced design and analytics are incredibly useful
  • Negative - I wish it would work natively with API calls
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