Leading UN organizations and research universities partnered with Evidano to rigorously validate AI-powered qualitative analysis against traditional human coding.
In a peer-reviewed paper, Arizona State University and Penn State researchers used Evidano to analyze 371 transcripts.
"The benefit of using Evidano was its capacity to generate explanations and justifications for coding decisions. This provided transparency that strengthened our human-in-the-loop process"
Use This AI Approach for:
Interview analysis • Transcript coding • Qualitative research • Thematic Analysis • Grounded Theory
The UN Evaluation Group used Evidano to analyze 298 evaluation reports using a realist evaluation approach.
"The AI tool achieved an accuracy of 92 per cent for coding the evaluation reports ... [with] a total of 132 CMO configurations were identified"
Use This AI Approach for:
Literature reviews • Meta-evaluations • Systematic reviews • Report synthesis • Document screening • Evidence mapping
UNICEF compared human and Evidano coding of 160 management responses.
"Overall, the Evidano platform did a very good job in identifying key themes in the data and also in summarizing these key themes in prose"
"provided a wide range of examples to illustrate the themes, pulling directly from recommendations and actions"
Use This Approach For:
Survey open-ends • Social media comment analysis • Feedback coding • Management response analysis • Thematic analysis at scale
Published studies that ran Evidano alongside their own manual coding and reported how the two compared.
Two researchers coded 11 interviews by hand with over 90% agreement, then ran the anonymised transcripts through Evidano and compared the results for triangulation and validation.
209 survey participants, a 97% response rate
Educational Psychology 46(1): 27–51 (Routledge / Taylor & Francis), open access
A peer-reviewed 2026 Education Sciences study used Evidano (previously AILYZE) as a thought partner after three rounds of human coding, surfacing a gender pattern the team had missed.
22 courses’ open-ended student evaluation comments analyzed
Education Sciences (MDPI), 16(3), 448, open access
Published in Frontiers in Education (2026): encrypted data, human-verified themes, and a transparent AI coding workflow across English and Arabic interviews.
9 Teachers interviewed
Frontiers in Education, 11:1690181 (Frontiers Media, 2026), open access
Full write-ups of these studies, interviews with the researchers behind them, and the wording their authors published when citing Evidano.
Peer-reviewed studies, UN evaluations and university research where teams used Evidano for AI-assisted qualitative analysis — with the methods, the numbers and the published source for each.
Interviews with researchers at leading universities and institutes about how they actually used Evidano in work they went on to publish.
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.
Practical guides to qualitative methods — thematic analysis, grounded theory, evidence synthesis and more — alongside the wider Evidano article library.
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