This article introduces ResearchChatAI, a fully customizable platform that enables scholars to design, deploy, and analyze AI-chatbot experiments in five intuitive steps. Published in The Leadership Quarterly, the study outlines the platform’s architecture, reports validation results from pilot studies, and demonstrates its reliability, usability, and data quality.

As an open-source, web-based tool, ResearchChatAI empowers researchers to seamlessly integrate customized conversational AI agents into experimental designs. By combining technological accessibility with methodological rigor, the platform advances transparency, reproducibility, and innovation in leadership research.