Panelists

A panelist is an external participant who takes part in your research — answering surveys and voting on or commenting on proposals in idea banks. Panelists are the people outside your organization, as opposed to workspace members, who run the research. Depending on the context, panelists are also called participants, respondents, or voters.

Key points:

• No account needed. Panelists take part through a shared link, without registering or signing in.
• Not workspace members. Panelists aren’t part of your team and have no access to your workspace, to research you haven’t shared with them, or to any management features.
• Privacy-preserving identity. Each participant is recognized through their browser, so the system can prevent duplicate votes and restore their previous activity without requiring a login. Clearing browser data or switching devices creates a new participant identity.
• Isolated per workspace. A single panelist may take part in research from many different organizations, but each workspace only ever sees its own data about that panelist — never what another workspace holds.

What panelists can do

What a panelist can do depends on how you’ve configured access. For idea banks, this is controlled by the access level — it determines whether participants can view proposals, submit ideas, vote, or comment.

See sharing your idea bank for how participants join, what they experience, and how their identity is kept private.