Overview
What it is
A Claude Skill that ingests qualitative research artifacts (interview transcripts, open-ended survey answers, support tickets) and produces a structured readout: top themes, supporting quotes, sentiment, and recommended next questions.
When to use it
After 5+ user interviews or a survey with at least 30 open-ended responses, when you need to share findings with the team within 24 hours.
Who it’s for
Researchers, PMs, and designers running discovery work.
Expected output
A markdown readout with: 1) Executive summary (5 bullets), 2) 3–7 themes each with 2–3 verbatim quotes, 3) Surprises and contradictions, 4) Recommended follow-up questions.
Setup instructions
- Open Claude (claude.ai) and go to Skills.
- Click ‘Create new Skill’.
- Download research-synthesis.md from this page and paste its contents.
- Name the skill ‘Research Synthesis’.
- Save and pin to your sidebar.
Usage
Good inputs
- • Cleaned interview transcripts (one per file or concatenated).
- • Survey CSV exports with question text included.
- • A short context note: who you talked to and why.
Example prompts
- Synthesize these 8 transcripts from moderators about session prep pain points.
- Here are 42 open-ended responses to ‘what made you cancel?’ — pull themes.
Expected outputs
- • A 1-page exec summary plus themed quote bank, ready to drop into Notion.
Tips & limitations
- • Always include the research question at the top.
- • If you have more than ~15 transcripts, batch in groups of 10.
- • Ask Claude to flag low-confidence themes explicitly.
Tags
#research
#synthesis
#interviews