For academics
Built for research you can stand behind
Data you can publish
Every participant is identity-verified and screened by AI before they reach your study, so your grant goes toward insight, not toward cleaning junk responses.
Identity, credential, and location verification
Attention and engagement monitoring
Bot and AI-generated answer detection
Reach the exact sample you need
Describe your population in plain language and screen for niche, hard-to-reach groups. B2B and B2C, students to specialists.
Natural-language audience targeting
Custom screeners and attestation filters
Set quotas and balance your sample
Fair pay, honest effort
Participants earn at least a fair minimum reward on every study, shown to them upfront. Ethical compensation keeps people motivated and your data trustworthy.
Minimum reward enforced on every study
Transparent pay before participants start
Supports your IRB and ethics requirements
Fits your existing tools
Connect surveys and experiments from Qualtrics, Gorilla, SoSci, or any tool with a single link. Or build Terac into your pipeline with our API.
Link-based studies with completion codes
REST API for automated workflows
Re-contact participants for multi-wave studies
Our panel
A verified pool, ready when you are
60,000+
Verified participants
25+
Languages spoken
20+
Countries represented
100+
Job titles & fields
How it works
From study design to clean data
Launch today and start seeing verified responses within hours.
Define your sample
Describe who you need in plain English and add screeners. We translate your requirements into targeting and verification criteria.
We verify and screen
Participants are identity-verified and screened by AI, so only people who genuinely match your criteria reach your study.
Collect and export
Responses come back in hours. Export clean data with completion codes reconciled to your survey tool, ready for analysis.
Built for academics
Designed for how research actually works
IRB and ethics ready
Fair guaranteed pay, informed-consent compatible flows, and participants who can withdraw at any time.
Participant anonymity
Participants stay pseudonymous. You decide exactly what data your study collects.
Longitudinal and multi-wave
Message and re-invite the same participants across waves without ever exposing identities.
Quotas and balanced samples
Set demographic quotas or balance across the groups your design depends on.
Transparent and reproducible
Report your screening, verification, and exclusion criteria openly for replication.
Data protection
SOC 2 Type II, a DPA for your records, and GDPR right-to-erasure honored on request.
Use cases
Research we support across every field
If your work needs human insight, Terac can source the people. From broad population samples to the most specialized professionals.
Pricing
Academic pricing, no setup cost
Pay each participant for their time, plus a platform fee that is discounted for academic research. No subscriptions, no minimums. Pay as you go and invoice against your grant.
FAQ
Question not answered? Email us at support@terac.com or book a meeting with our team.
Book a meetingYes. You can run studies pay-as-you-go without an institutional contract or long-term commitment. Recruit verified participants for surveys and experiments, screen for the exact sample your design needs, and export clean data the same day.
Every participant is identity-verified and screened by AI before they reach your study, with attention monitoring and bot and AI-generated answer detection running throughout. You pay for verified humans giving honest effort, not for low-quality responses you have to exclude later.
Yes. Participants clear identity, credential, and location verification plus behavioral and attention checks, so your samples hold up under peer review. You can report your recruitment source, screening, and exclusion criteria transparently for replication.
Yes. Connect any survey or experiment that runs from a link. Participants complete your study in your tool and return with a completion code that reconciles automatically. You can also integrate via our API for automated pipelines.
Every participant earns at least a fair minimum reward on every study, shown to them before they start, and can withdraw at any time. Ethical, transparent compensation keeps people motivated and supports your IRB and ethics requirements.
Participants stay pseudonymous and you decide exactly what data your study collects. Terac is SOC 2 Type II certified, provides a DPA for your records, and honors GDPR right-to-erasure requests.
Yes. Message and re-invite the same participants across waves without ever exposing their identities, so you can follow up, run panels, and collect repeated measures.
You pay each participant for their time plus a platform fee that is discounted for academic research. There are no subscriptions, setup costs, or minimums, and we can invoice against your grant.