Editorial recipe — not benchmarked — reviewed September 1, 2026
Synthesize customer interviews into a decision brief
For researchers with consented interviews, a written research question, and authority to handle the data.
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Procedure
- Pseudonymize each transcript as interviews/I01.md, I02.md, and so on; keep the identity key outside the working folder and write the research question in research-question.md.
- Hand the sanitized interviews and research-question.md to Claude Code; request themes.md with quote references such as I03:L88-L92, counterexamples, and the interview count behind each theme.
- Hand themes.md and the same transcripts to Codex; request synthesis-audit.md listing untraceable quotes, unsupported generalizations, omitted counterevidence, and unanswered questions.
- Have the researcher open every cited passage, correct the theme table, and distinguish observed interview evidence from interpretation and proposed action.
- Publish an Obsidian decision note containing the research question, supported themes, tensions, unknowns, candidate actions, and links to the final audit.
Acceptance artifact
A traceable decision brief, theme table, quote ledger, and second-model audit tied back to pseudonymous transcript lines
Do not use it blindly
Do not upload personal or contract-restricted data, infer population prevalence from a small qualitative sample, or present model-generated themes as customer facts.