Creating an interview
The dashboard splits authoring from distribution:
- Interview — the reusable template: questions, branching, voice settings, welcome/closing messages.
- Deployment — a specific live instance of that interview, scoped to a distribution channel (Web, Prolific, etc.). One interview can have multiple deployments.
You author an interview first, then walk through the Deployment
Wizard to publish it. The wizard’s output is a Deployment ID
(looks like cm…) — that’s what the SDK calls interviewId and
what you pass to <Ear3Interview interviewId=… /> or
ear3.sessions.create({ interviewId }).
There are three ways to author one:
- Interview Maker — build questions, sections, and branching logic by hand in the structured editor.
- ThirdAI — describe your study in a sentence and let Ear3 generate a full draft you can edit.
- Upload Template — import a Qualtrics
.qsffile or an Ear3-normalized.jsonfile.
After you save and click Deploy, choose a response mode (voice / text / both) and Ear3 mints the deployment id you’ll embed.
For the full step-by-step walkthrough — screenshots, branching logic, preview mode, and best practices — see the dashboard guide:
→ ear3.ai/docs/creating-an-interview
Once you have a deployment id, jump into the Quickstart to wire it up.