How Evidano fit the workflow
The report was authored by staff from the Illinois Community College Board, the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and Afton Partners. The publication describes Evidano mainly in its methodology. What it does show is a clear, disclosed, human-reviewed workflow.
- 1Gather raw qualitative data
Six quarters of input drawn from across the consortium.
- 2Anonymize before analysis
The data was anonymized prior to being entered into the platform.
- 3Identify themes with Evidano
Evidano was used to surface themes across the dataset.
- 4Researchers validate and pull quotes
Staff read through all raw data to confirm themes and select supporting examples.
“Qualitative data was anonymized and entered into an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, AILYZE, to identify themes. Afton staff subsequently read through all raw data to validate themes and identify specific quotes and examples.”
The use of Evidano is named in the report, an example of transparent AI use.
AI surfaced themes. People validated them. The tool supports judgment, not replaces it.
In this study, data was anonymized before any analysis took place.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
Evidano is AI-assisted qualitative data analysis software for interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents. It supports AI-assisted thematic analysis with your own or an AI-suggested codebook, transcription and translation in 100+ languages, clickable quotes and citations, and exportable visual reports. End-to-end encryption, no third-party data sharing, and your data is not used to train AI. From USD 50/month for unlimited analysis.
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More case studies
AcademiaResearchers at Oxford and Melbourne used AI to analyse their interview data
Evidano helped analyse interview transcripts in a peer-reviewed study, then was checked against manual coding.
AcademiaA Stanford-led study used AI to cross-check its qualitative coding
A published mixed-methods study uploaded deidentified transcripts into Evidano to cross-check themes. Every AI code was reviewed by the researcher.
AcademiaResearchers used AI for qualitative analysis. Human experts reached the same conclusions.
A published Cornell study used Evidano (previously AILYZE) for thematic analysis, and human experts reached the same conclusions.
Related published evidence
Researcher interviews and published citations covering comparable studies.
- Published research2026
A Journal of Experimental Criminology study triangulated its themes with Evidano
A peer-reviewed criminology study analysed its open-ended responses by hand, then used Evidano to triangulate the findings and surface oversights.
303 respondents in the conjoint survey
Journal of Experimental Criminology (Springer)
- Published research2026
A Braun & Clarke thematic analysis, AI-assisted and verified by researchers
Published in Frontiers in Education (2026): encrypted data, human-verified themes, and a transparent AI coding workflow.
9 Teachers interviewed
Frontiers in Education
- Published research2024
A William & Mary research team used Evidano (previously AILYZE) to analyze 3,443 participants’ open-ended responses
AI-assisted thematic analysis, verified by human researchers, in a published Mensa Foundation report.
3,443 participants in the study
Mensa Foundation report
Explore more evidence
Researcher interviews, the wording authors published when citing Evidano, and accuracy comparisons against manual coding.
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Research spotlights: researchers in their own words
Interviews with researchers at leading universities and institutes about how they actually used Evidano in work they went on to publish.
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How Evidano was used, in published methods sections
Verbatim excerpts from 20 published studies describing what Evidano did in their analysis — as a thought partner, a second coder, for initial coding, or for synthesis.
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Methodology guides and research writing
Practical guides to qualitative methods — thematic analysis, grounded theory, evidence synthesis and more — alongside the wider Evidano article library.
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Human vs AI: validated accuracy benchmarks
Three head-to-head comparisons against expert human analysis — 371 interview transcripts with Arizona State and Penn State, 298 evaluation reports for a UN evaluation group, and UNICEF’s manual-coding review.