SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cookiy AI today launched a suite of user research tools (Cookiy Skill, CLI, and MCP Server) that enable any AI platform to reach real people directly and run qualitative and quantitative research, creating what it calls the "human layer," a new layer in the AI stack that gives software direct access to human opinions, experiences, and decision-making. Until now, AI could search the internet, read documents, and analyze datasets, but it could not ask people what they actually think. Cookiy changes that. For the first time, a user can type a question into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor and instantly turn it into a live research program, recruiting real participants, running AI-moderated interviews or surveys, and returning structured human insight in hours. Any AI. Any Human. Any Topic. Traditionally, only trained researchers with significant budgets could design studies, recruit participants, and analyze results. With Cookiy, anyone can start research, and AI agents can now access the equivalent of a professional research workflow through the tools they already use, wherever real human judgment is needed: A product team can validate a feature before launch A founder can validate a market before investing A consultant can understand how customers make decisions A vibe coder can quickly test ideas with real users while building An academic researcher can collect primary human data and validate hypotheses beyond traditional methods At the same time, people around the world can contribute their experiences, opinions, and decision-making, turning human knowledge into a shared and accessible resource. This turns user research from a niche function into an always-on "insight engine." "Google searches what people have published. Cookiy reaches what they haven't: their emotions, preferences, and real-time intent. Our goal is to make professional-quality user research available ... Full story available on Benzinga.com