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interview-synthesis
Turn a pile of interview notes into findings that survive scrutiny — the code-then-theme pass, the counting discipline (how many actually said it), the quote selection that illustrates instead of cherry-picks, and the confidence lines a small sample earns. Use when asked synthesize these user/customer/exit interviews, what did we actually learn from the calls, turn 12 transcripts into insights, or are these themes real. Produces the coded themes with counts, the divergences preserved, the illustrative quotes, and the claims sized to the sample.
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# Interview Synthesis Skill
Interview piles get "synthesized" two bad ways: the highlight reel (the quotes that confirmed what the team hoped) and the mush ("users want simplicity" — twelve hours of conversation flattened into a poster). Honest synthesis is mechanical before it's interpretive: code the notes (what did each person actually say, tagged), count the themes (a theme is something *multiple* people said — with the number attached), preserve the divergences (the two dissenters are data, not noise), and size every claim to the sample — twelve interviews support "we repeatedly heard," never "users want."
> **Not quite this?** Use `user-interview-synthesis` when the interviews are product-discovery research with users.
## What This Skill Produces
- **The coded pass** — each interview's statements tagged to emerging codes, traceable back to the speaker
- **The theme table** — themes with counts (7/12 raised unprompted; 3 more agreed when asked — the prompted/unprompted split matters)
- **The divergence report** — who disagreed with each theme and why; the outliers examined, not deleted
- **The claims, sample-sized** — findings phrased at what N interviews can carry, with the quotes that illustrate honestly
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