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Browser Extension

PanelPilot

A Manifest V3 browser extension that helps people discover legitimate paid-survey panels and autofill only their own factual details — designed from the ground up as an assistant, not a bot.

PanelPilot
The brief

Where's the line?

The ask was simple — make earning from research panels less tedious. The hard part was the boundary: a fully automated survey bot would be fraud. So we designed the honest half of the problem — help a real person find vetted panels fast and remove repetitive data entry, while every real answer and submission stays in human hands.

What we did
  • A Manifest V3 extension with a curated directory of 36 vetted panels behind a domain allowlist
  • On-demand autofill of only factual demographic fields — never opinions, free-text, or attention checks
  • A hard ethics boundary in code and docs: no auto-submit, no faked answers, no multi-account or CAPTCHA evasion
  • A privacy-first architecture: no backend, zero network egress, profile stored only in local browser storage
  • An offline voice-control layer for hands-free use, backed by 93 automated tests
The outcome

A defensible product line.

A working, fully offline extension covering the whole find-open-assist loop, backed by 93 green tests and documented ethics, security, and accessibility specs — a case study in shipping the honest half of a problem instead of a risky bot.

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