Qualitative research that fits in your respondents' pocket.
DELVA is a chat-based ethnography platform. Schedule daily prompts, capture selfie video, photo and text responses, and follow up in the same thread. All the depth of in-context research, none of the spreadsheet wrangling.
Everything you need to run rich, longitudinal qualitative studies.
Set up a project on the web, schedule daily tasks and recruit your respondents, who reply from the DELVA app on iOS and Android. Watch the chats fill up with selfie video, photos and stories from real life, day after day.
Daily tasks in chat
Schedule one prompt per day across your fieldwork period. Respondents reply with text, photos or selfie video right inside their chat thread, the format they already use every day.
Groups & follow-ups
Send different prompts to different segments, like cat owners vs. dog owners or power users vs. churned, then dig deeper with follow-up questions in the same thread.
Bring your fieldwork into the tools you already use.
DELVA includes a Model Context Protocol server, so the AI assistants and agents your team already works with will be able to read your study data directly. No new dashboard to learn, no exports to wrangle.
Connect your agents
Point any MCP-compatible assistant at your projects and let it work with your chats, tasks and responses through a single secure connection.
Ask across a study
Pull quotes, summarise a respondent's week or surface themes across a group, in plain language, from the tools you already have open.
Stay in your workflow
Analysis happens where you work. DELVA exposes your fieldwork as MCP tools so you're not copying data between tabs to make sense of it.
Builders
DELVA is built by two experienced software developers, in consultation with UX and market researchers. We're focused on simplicity, mobile-first design, and value.
Jonathan Copeland
Co-founder
Developer & Designer
Keaton Roux
Co-founder
Developer & Architect