You have LimeSurvey running on your own server, and an AI agent sitting in the Open WebUI chat that can read its files, run commands, and query its database. That agent knows the survey structure — groups, questions, conditions, tokens — better than most admins do after a year. You describe the outcome in plain language, it does the clicking, and you keep approval at every step. Here are ten everyday jobs you can just hand over.

1. Build a Complete Survey From a Rough Brief

Give the agent your goal in plain words and let it do the tedious part: creating the survey, adding question groups, choosing the right question types, and setting the branching. It knows LimeSurvey’s type list — arrays, dual scales, rankings, yes/no, multiple choice with comments — and picks sensible ones for each question you describe. It also sets the details people forget: making the email question mandatory, adding a “prefer not to say” option, putting consent text first.

You review the preview and ask for tweaks instead of clicking through admin screens for two hours. Try: “Create a customer satisfaction survey for our bike shop with 12 questions, including an NPS question, and skip the delivery question for in-store customers.”

2. Fix Broken Skip Logic

Conditions are the first thing to rot in a big survey. Someone edits a question, a relevance equation stops matching, and suddenly respondents see questions that make no sense — or worse, miss questions they should answer. The agent can read the whole survey structure, trace every condition, and spot the ones that reference deleted or renamed questions. It fixes them in place and explains what was wrong in plain terms.

Ask: “Check the branching in my employee onboarding survey and fix any condition that points at a question that no longer exists.”

3. Import Participants and Chase Non-Responders

The token table is where invitations live, and it is fiddly: CSV import, attribute mapping, email templates, reminder batches. The agent can take a spreadsheet of attendees, create the token entries with the right attributes, send the invitation with your template, and then — this is the part everyone forgets — remind only the people who have not responded, not the whole list.

Try: “Import this attendee list, send them the event feedback survey, and send a reminder in 5 days to anyone who hasn’t answered.”

4. Set Response Quotas

Quotas close a survey (or block certain questions) once you have enough answers from a group — essential when you pay per interview or need a balanced sample. Setting them up means linking quota questions, limits, and actions across several screens, and getting one link wrong silently breaks the balance you were protecting. The agent gets it right in one pass and can add several quotas at once.

Say: “Add a quota so we stop collecting answers from people under 25 once we have 100 of them, and show them a friendly ‘thank you’ screen instead.”

5. Pull Answers Out as Reports and Exports

You do not need to click through the statistics page every time you want numbers. The agent can query the response tables directly and give you the counts, breakdowns, and cross-tabs you actually asked for, then export CSV or Excel for the people who want the raw file. It can also answer the follow-up question that always comes next: “and how does that compare to last month?”

Ask: “How many people rated support below 3, broken down by country, and export the full results to Excel for the management meeting.”

6. Translate a Survey Without Breaking Logic

Running the same survey in several languages means duplicating every question text, help text, and answer label — while keeping conditions and quotas pointing at the right things. It is mechanical, error-prone work, which makes it perfect for the agent. It can also flag the texts that need a human translator rather than guessing, like legal consent wording.

Ask: “Duplicate my product feedback survey into German and Spanish, translate all the question and answer texts, and make sure the skip logic still works in every language.”

7. Reuse Your Standard Question Blocks

Most organizations ask the same demographic block, the same consent text, and the same NPS question in every survey. The agent can copy those questions — with their validation rules and scales intact — from an old survey into a new one, instead of you rebuilding them by hand and introducing small differences each time. Consistent blocks mean comparable data across surveys.

Try: “Move the 8 demographic questions and the consent block from last year’s survey into the new one, keeping the same answer codes so my exports stay compatible.”

8. Test-Drive the Survey Like a Respondent

Before you send a survey to real people, you want someone to walk every path through it: the branches, the quotas, the mandatory questions, the end screens. The agent can generate test tokens, take the survey as different fake respondents, and report what actually appeared on each screen. It sees what a preview click-through often misses, because it checks every combination, not just the happy path.

Ask: “Take the survey as three different test people — one who says yes to the follow-up question, one who says no, and one under 18 — and tell me exactly which questions each of them saw.”

9. Turn a Survey Into a Scored Quiz

LimeSurvey’s assessment mode scores answers and shows different result pages depending on the total — the feature behind training quizzes, certification tests, and scored self-evaluations. Setting it up means defining points per answer and writing the assessment rules, a job the agent can do from a simple description and then verify with a test run.

Try: “Make the safety training quiz worth 2 points per correct answer, show a pass message above 80% and a retake message below that, and email me if anyone fails twice.”

10. Clean Up Last Year’s Surveys

Old surveys pile up: closed ones, test drafts, abandoned copies. Each one keeps its response table in the database and its uploaded files on disk, and the list in the admin panel gets harder to navigate every quarter. The agent can list what is there, export the results you must keep, deactivate and archive the rest, and tell you how much space you got back.

Try: “Show me all surveys from last year that are closed, export their results as CSV into the archive folder, and deactivate them.”

See it in action

Official walkthroughs from the LimeSurvey team:

Worth a watch next:

• LimeSurvey Tutorial – How to set up an account and a survey installation — covers the everyday basics of getting a survey and its installation ready.
• LimeSurvey Tutorial – Copy/Import Survey — shows how to reuse an existing survey structure instead of starting from scratch.

These are one-off jobs, but they share a pattern: describe the outcome, let the agent do the clicking. LimeSurvey on OpenSysLab