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Sentry by CloudResearch

The Gold Standard
for Data Quality
Protection in Online Surveys

Built to identify, prevent, and eliminate bad data before it enters your survey — combining real-time behavioral analysis, AI-assisted scoring, and advanced fingerprinting.

141,009 Passed
5,401 Dropped
63,287 Blocked
63.3K flagged
Yea-saying29.1%
Inattentive25.2%
Duplicate IP15.5%
Fraud15.1%
Bad Fingerprint6.4%
Translation4.8%
Location3.9%
Sentry Titanium+ Template selected
AI Content Blocked ChatGPT & bot detection
DigiPrint® Verified 200M+ evaluations
>50%
Fewer Reconciliations Reduced rejections & rework
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30%+ of respondents in online panels are inattentive, fraudulent, or bots

Why Sentry?

In today's digital research landscape, unreliable data is a major threat. Sentry is the industry's leading data quality solution, built to identify, prevent, and eliminate bad data before it enters your survey.

Unlike other tools, Sentry combines real-time behavioral analysis, advanced on-screen event recording, and AI-assisted scoring to deliver the highest level of data validity. Our patent-protected system proactively detects and removes fraudulent activity while filtering out low-quality respondents, ensuring your research remains accurate, reliable, and actionable.

Unmatched Data Quality — Proven Results

Reduced data reconciliations & rejections saving you time and money
Enhanced data quality, catching fraud & low-quality respondents often missed by other tools
Fewer false positives compared to traditional tech-only solutions
Less data noise from low-effort respondents (e.g., straight-lining, acquiescence bias, speeding)
Proven performance, consistently outperforming competitors in direct comparisons

How Sentry Works

Sentry screens every respondent in under 30 seconds using a multi-layered evaluation system — so only high-quality participants enter your survey.

1

Participants Enter the Sentry Environment

Every respondent is funneled through Sentry’s pre-survey screening module for a quick 15–30 second evaluation.

2

Advanced Behavioral & Technical Screening

Sentry’s multi-layered fraud detection system evaluates each respondent using real-time behavioral analysis, event tracking, AI & translation detection, geo-location tracking, and advanced fingerprinting via DigiPrint.

3

Low-Quality Respondents Automatically Filtered Out

Using behavioral fail flags and technical security blocks, Sentry removes inattentive, dishonest, and fraudulent respondents — including bots, AI-generated responses, and those using translation tools.

4

Only High-Quality Participants Reach Your Survey

Every respondent who enters your study meets predefined data integrity thresholds, providing a clean, representative, and fraud-free sample for your research.

Core Capabilities

Bot Detection with Behavioral + Device Analysis Combines behavioral signals and device analysis to catch automated and scripted responses
Advanced Fingerprinting via DigiPrint® Proprietary device fingerprinting technology with over 200 million evaluations
ChatGPT & AI Content Blocking Proactively identifies and blocks AI-generated survey responses
Open-Ended Quality Verification AI-powered verification ensures free-text responses are genuine and thoughtful
Real-Time Event Tracking Monitors respondent activity for copy-pasting, excessive highlighting, and suspicious navigation patterns
Attention & Honesty Verification Detects inattentive, dishonest, and low-effort response patterns across multiple constructs

Frequently Asked Questions

For all projects run in Sentry, users will see a detailed breakdown of respondent quality, starting with a basic overview of the traffic that came in. Users will see the overall rates of pass/fails, and the specific markers of low-quality that Sentry detected. In addition, data is also available from Sentry's event-streaming recorder, which allows users to see how respondents interacted with each Sentry question. Sentry also provides a detailed breakdown of traffic quality across all projects and studies. This gives users insight into the quality of the sample they are receiving, including how quality compares across multiple suppliers.

Sample Quality Tracking Monitor

Sentry Sample Quality Tracking Monitor dashboard showing respondent quality breakdown across projects and suppliers

Sentry can be added to any online survey with traditional URL redirects or via API integration. Sentry can be used with any sample source, survey platform, or respondent device.

Attentcha is the in-survey Sentry tool that allows researchers to automatically identify participants who are not paying attention in survey, by automatically adding attention and yea-say check questions, scoring, and quarantining low-quality participants who exhibit bad in-survey behavior.

To get early access to the tool, book a meeting here.

Device Fingerprinting alone is not sufficient to ensure high-quality data. In addition to leveraging IP-duplication blocking, Sentry uses an advanced fingerprinting technology called DigiPrint®. DigiPrint® is our proprietary device fingerprinting solution which assesses and identifies online survey respondents' unique fingerprints to manage participants and prevent duplication and fraud. Critically, Sentry also engages respondents directly with questions proven to ensure respondent quality on key domains including attention, honesty, and effortful responding.

Yes. Sentry's pre-survey solution was designed specifically to improve in-survey quality, by targeting and removing all different kinds of low-quality respondents. The result is significantly better in-survey open ended quality. When tested against competitors, Sentry significantly outperforms other solutions on the market, and usually reduces bad open ends by >50%. In addition, with Sentry protection, you will see higher in-survey response consistency, fewer attention check fails, and more accurate participant responses.

Sentry has thousands of questions across multiple Libraries. Each library has different types of questions which were developed by our team of Behavioral Scientists to ensure participant quality on a different construct. For example, there are specific libraries with questions that measure dishonesty, and others that measure basic attention, and others that measure whether participants are from a specific B2B groups they claim to be from (e.g. Nurses). Sentry automatically pulls different questions from different libraries in order to get the fullest picture of participant quality.

While participants see these questions, Sentry is using technology to track respondent behavior via mouse movements and keyboard strokes, to provide additional behavioral assessment. We are happy to provide specific examples of question types. Just reach out.

Yes. We realize that objectives vary from project to project, that's why Sentry has multiple levels and configurations that are easy to customize based on your research needs.

Any and all platforms! All Sentry needs to work is a survey-redirect link.

Yes. Sentry is ideally suited for such projects, as it can prevent duplicate traffic from coming in across suppliers. In addition, you will be able to track the same quality of all the different suppliers you use, in any project, and on all the traffic they send to your research, using the Sentry Sample Quality Tracking Monitor.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Sentry eliminated over 20% of low-quality sample that persisted even after other quality control tools were applied.
Using this prescreening method 90% of this sample would have been valid.

Benefits of Using Sentry

Which of the following best describes you?

Reduce overall reconciliation rates by >50%
Specialized Sentry levels to keep supply high and only remove worst respondents
Give your clients data they can trust, and increase confidence in supply quality with a Sentry Quality Certification
Integration within your current data quality solutions to improve internal panel health
Quality control and tracking of external sample contracted from 3rd party suppliers
Reduce time-consuming data cleaning hours by >50%
Give your clients data they can trust, and increase confidence in insights quality with a Sentry Quality Certification
Less time returning to field to fill in hard to reach groups, due to removing bad respondents pre-survey
In-depth Data Quality Tracker monitors data quality across all your projects and suppliers
Know that you can trust the data you receive
Reduce time-consuming data cleaning hours by >50%
More accurate insights for your key decisions
Standardized Quality Protections across all your projects
Quicker collection speeds
In-depth Data Quality Tracker monitors data quality across all your projects and suppliers

Seamless Integration & Implementation

Compatible with All Major Platforms

Works seamlessly with Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, Confirmit, and all other major survey platforms.

Real-Time Monitoring Dashboard

Track sample quality, pass/fail rates, and supplier performance with an easy-to-use web dashboard.

Comprehensive API Access

Full API access for advanced automation, custom integrations, and programmatic project management.

Customizable Protection Levels

Balance data quality and sample flow with configurable protection levels tailored to each project’s needs.

See Sentry in Action

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