How Evidano fit the workflow
The publication describes a clear, traceable workflow from raw qualitative data to analysed themes.
- 1Transcribe.
Interview and focus group recordings were transcribed before analysis.
- 2Run exploratory theme analysis with Evidano.
Transcribed data was run for exploratory theme analysis.
- 3Add to the codebook.
Output was added to the codebook for comparative analysis, searching for emerging patterns, trends and divergence across informants.
- 4Cross-validate.
The evaluator relied on recordings, transcripts and notes to check theme accuracy, iterating and correcting where needed.
From bottleneck to workflow
Hand-coding hundreds of pages. Slow comparison across sources. Patterns easy to miss at scale. Hard to revisit and iterate.
Exploratory themes surfaced quickly. Comparative analysis across informants. Emerging patterns and divergence flagged. Researcher reviews, iterates, corrects.
Evidano use is named in the methods of a UNITAR evaluation, not a vendor case study.
Tool use was openly disclosed, with the evaluator cross-validating every theme.
Interviews, focus groups and 150+ documents across diverse stakeholder groups.
Evidano supported exploratory theme analysis while the researcher kept interpretive control.
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.
Run the first pass in days, not weeks
Keep the judgment with you. Let Evidano do the heavy lifting on your interviews, focus groups, open-ended responses, and documents.
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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.