
Yazi Research is a Cape Town company, founded in 2022, that builds an AI market research platform running on WhatsApp. Brands, research agencies and development organisations use Yazi to run surveys, AI-moderated interviews and diary studies in the chat app consumers already use every day, with participants replying by text, voice note, photo or video. The platform handles moderation, follow-up probing, translation and analysis, so teams get qualitative depth at quantitative scale and see results as they come in. Studies can be run self-serve on the platform or with support from Yazi's research team. Yazi works across Africa and in other markets where WhatsApp is the main way people communicate.