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Build with AI, powered by the Azure OpenAI service and OpenAI, makes it easy and quick to create a survey.

To create a survey, type a prompt that includes your survey goals but excludes sensitive information. With a click of a button, we'll generate a survey for you. You can choose to use it and edit it, re-generate a new survey with an edited prompt, or start over with another survey creation method.

Build with AI uses the Azure OpenAI service and OpenAI to generate your survey. Your data isn't used to train the Azure OpenAI service or OpenAI models. Learn how this feature processes your data.

To create a survey with Build with AI:

  1. Select Create Survey.
  2. Select Build with AI.
  3. Enter a prompt. We recommend using one of the examples as a template, but you can also write your own prompt from scratch. 
    If you use the SurveyMonkey app, you can choose to use voice commands or type your survey prompt.
  4. Submit the prompt to generate a survey.
  5. Preview your survey. If you want to use it, select Continue to edit and customize the survey. Otherwise, you can Try another prompt or start over with another survey creation method.

Survey prompts can be up to 50,000 characters long.

You can submit up to 25 AI-generated survey prompts per hour. The number of prompts per hour may be lower before signing into SurveyMonkey.

AI-generated surveys may include any of the following question types:

  • Multiple choice
  • Checkbox
  • NPS
  • Name
  • Email
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Single Textbox
  • Matrix/Rating Scale
  • Ranking
  • Star Rating

Once you choose to use the survey and you're customizing it, you can add in other question types. If your survey includes paid question types, you can upgrade to keep them or remove them to send your survey for free.

Certain survey use cases are not permitted—for details, please see SurveyMonkey's Acceptable Uses Policy, as well as additional third-party provider usage policies, and acceptable use and conduct policies.

  • State your goal (e.g., we want to improve the employee experience).
  • Describe what you want to know (e.g., we need to survey our employees about pay, benefits, hours, workload, and culture).
  • Provide general context describing who is sending the survey (e.g., we're a large sporting goods manufacturer).
  • Specify what demographic or company information you want to know about your respondents (e.g., business industry and size, or age and gender).
  • Be specific and as detailed as possible about the desired context, outcome, length, or style. 
  • Be precise—avoid ambiguity or vagueness.
  • Iterate on your prompt until you get a survey draft you can work with.

When using Build with AI in the SurveyMonkey app, you can use voice commands to create your survey prompt rather than typing it out. The app uses native OS speech-to-text to capture your voice prompts. Voice prompts are not stored in SurveyMonkey – only the prompt’s text output is stored.

Once survey questions are proposed on the preview page, you can Continue to edit and customize your survey. Or, select Try another prompt to revise your prompt.