# How A1Base uses Listen

**half the time**: “the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap”

As published on [listenlabs.ai](https://listenlabs.ai/case-studies/a1base). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-02.

- Company: [A1Base](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/a1base.md)
- Tool: [Listen](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/listen.md)

## What the story says

A1Base, the parent company of the student social app A1Zap, runs user studies on Listen Labs every night to test new product versions with real users. The findings guide what the small team builds next, for A1Zap and for its newer product StudyArena.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Listen and A1Base, not ours.

> Using that approach, the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap.

- **two to three**: “running two to three tests every day”
- **10–20**: “Nightly testing equivalent to a 10–20 person research workforce”

> Being able to verify real behaviors and real emotional reactions and real themes across multiple videos allows us to build deeper confidence and deeper conviction in our product,
>
> Pasha Rayan, Co-founder

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-03.

- Checked: the figure half the time is printed word for word on the page, near the name of A1Base.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of A1Base.
- Checked: each number in our summary is printed on the page.
- Checked: A1Base uses Listen. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-02.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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