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Build a survey with Aria

To build a survey with Aria, open the Agent tab from the sidebar (or the Create with AI card on the dashboard), describe what you want to learn in plain language, review the draft Aria generates, and apply it. The whole flow takes about a minute.

Step 1: Open Aria​

You have three entry points and they all land on the same builder.

  • Click Agent in the left sidebar.
  • Click Create with AI on the dashboard "Get started" grid.
  • Inside an existing survey, click the Agent tab on the right panel.

The first two open the full-screen view at /agent. The third opens Aria as a side panel so you can keep your survey visible while you talk to it.

Step 2: Pick a project (chat view only)​

When you build a brand new survey from /agent, Aria asks which project the survey should belong to. The project dropdown sits to the left of the composer. If you don't pick one, Aria saves the survey into a project called My Surveys.

You can skip this step if you opened Aria from inside an existing survey, since the survey already lives in a project.

Step 3: Write a brief​

Type what you want to learn into the composer. Aria reads:

  • The brief itself.
  • Your workspace organization context (set on Account, AI Control).
  • Any surveys you tag with @.

A good brief covers four things. You don't need a paragraph for each, one line is fine.

  • Audience. Who fills this out, in one short phrase.
  • Goal. What you want to learn or decide from the responses.
  • Length and tone. How many questions, how the survey should sound.
  • Anything you definitely want included or avoided.

Two examples​

Post-purchase NPS for a D2C skincare brand. Audience is women 25 to 40 in India who bought in the last 14 days. Max 6 questions, casual tone. Ask about delivery experience and one open question about what almost made them not buy.

Onboarding feedback for a B2B SaaS analytics tool. Audience is admins who finished setup in the last week. Goal is to find the step that confuses people the most. 7 to 9 questions, professional tone. Include a question that captures their team size.

Use suggestion badges or slash commands​

If you're not sure how to start, the home screen shows suggestion badges generated from your organization context. Click one to drop it into the composer as a starting point.

You can also type / to open the slash menu. On the chat page these commands are available:

  • /create to start a new survey.
  • /dashboard to build a dashboard for surveys you mention.
  • /analyze to summarize responses on a survey you mention.
  • /help to see what Aria can do here.

Step 4: Review the draft​

Aria streams its thinking and then returns a draft survey. The draft shows up as a preview card inside the chat with:

  • A welcome screen.
  • The list of questions, in order.
  • A thank-you screen.
  • Suggested settings like progress bar, question numbers, branding theme.

Two buttons sit at the bottom of the preview.

  • Apply writes the draft into a real survey under the project you picked and opens it in the builder.
  • Discard drops the draft so you can ask for something different.

You can also keep talking to Aria with the draft on screen. Anything you ask next replaces or refines the pending draft. Useful follow-ups:

  • "Cut it to 5 questions, the open one stays."
  • "Make question 3 a 1-to-10 scale, not stars."
  • "Move the demographic question to the end."
  • "Rewrite the welcome screen in Hindi."

Step 5: Edit a survey you already have​

If you opened Aria from inside the survey builder (the Agent right-panel tab, or /agent while a survey is open), Aria knows which survey you're editing and which question is selected. Ask things like:

  • "Add a rating question about pricing right after question 4."
  • "Improve the choices on this question."
  • "Score the quality of this survey." (/score)
  • "Turn on a progress bar and randomize the choices on every multiple-choice question."

Aria proposes the change as a pending update. Hit Apply to write it into the survey and Discard to skip it. The first updated or newly added question auto-selects so you can see exactly what Aria touched.

Step 6: Publish​

Applying a survey draft drops you into the regular PollPe builder. From there:

  • Open Preview to test on mobile and desktop.
  • Tweak anything you want by hand.
  • Click Publish when you're happy.

After publishing you can share it via link, QR, WhatsApp, SMS, email, or an embedded widget, the same as any other PollPe survey. See Creating your first survey for the share step.

Tips​

  • Set your organization context first. Aria writes better questions when it knows what your company does and who you sell to. See Organization context.
  • Be specific about the decision. "I want to know if delivery delays hurt repeat purchase" works better than "Get feedback on delivery".
  • Cap the length. If you don't say a number, Aria will sometimes draft 10 questions when 5 was enough.
  • Iterate, don't rewrite. It's faster to say "change question 4 to a yes/no" than to ask for a brand new draft.
  • Use thinking mode for hard asks. For long surveys, complex logic, or analysis across several surveys, switch the model toggle to Thinking.

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