Replacing surveys with AI is not a tool swap — it is a research-method swap, and the teams that get it right run a structured 30-day migration instead of a big-bang cutover.

The thesis: replace surveys with AI — don't augment them. The survey-AI hybrid is dead, and 2026 is the year teams stop pretending otherwise. Three reasons: (1) bolting AI summarization onto SurveyMonkey, Typeform, or Qualtrics still front-loads the schema problem — you only get answers to the questions you thought to…