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A thousand traditional qualitative interviews takes months and is simply not feasible. So we settled for surveys, because a thousand of those is manageable. They give you numbers you can present, significance levels you can report. What they don't give you is why. AI-led interviews break that trade-off. Run a thousand of them and you get both: the numerical picture and the reasoning behind it. You understand what's happening across your sample AND why people behave the way they do. The context, the hesitation, the contradiction that a survey response reduces into a single score. It's a different category of research output. For decades, the methodology debate was 'qual' versus 'quant'. Depth versus scale. You had to pick your constraint. AI-led interviews are the first time that binary has genuinely collapsed. The question isn't whether 1,000 interviews is feasible anymore. It is. The question now is what you do with understanding at that scale and how to activate it.