Open-End Coding
Free-text answers turned into a structured, countable dataset — coded by your morning.
From raw verbatims to coded themes.
A looping look at our coding pass — the model reads each open-ended response, assigns a theme and sentiment, and an experienced coder reviews every wave before delivery.
Make sense of what people actually said
Every study leaves a pile of open-ended responses that has to be read, themed, and coded before it can be reported. We build a codeframe from your data or work to one you provide, tag every response — multi-coded where needed — and add sentiment.
We pair AI-assisted coding for speed and consistency with experienced human review on every wave. You get a clean coded dataset plus a summary of themes, counts, and key findings, delivery-ready in Excel.
Built around your time zone
Send a batch at the end of your day and receive coded data by your next morning — at a fraction of the cost of in-house coding.
What you get
- ✓A codeframe, built or aligned to yours
- ✓Every response coded, with sentiment
- ✓Theme counts, percentages, summary
- ✓Human QA on every wave
- ✓Overnight turnaround
AI for speed and consistency. People for judgement.
Coding thousands of verbatims by hand is slow and drifts over time. We use AI to do the first pass in seconds with machine consistency — then experienced coders make sure it is actually right.
How a coding job runs
- 1Prepare. Open-ends are extracted and personal identifiers stripped before anything is processed.
- 2AI-assisted coding. A large language model reads each response and assigns a theme — multi-coded where needed — plus sentiment, fast and consistently across the whole dataset.
- 3Human QA. Our coders review the output, handle edge cases, and refine the codeframe before sign-off.
- 4Deliver. A coded dataset plus a theme-and-sentiment summary, ready in Excel.
How your data is handled
- ✓Commercial AI, via secure API — not free consumer tools.
- ✓Never used for training — your data does not train any AI model.
- ✓Identifiers removed — only the response text is processed.
- ✓Briefly retained, then deleted — no long-term storage.
- ✓Human-reviewed — AI never has the final word; a coder signs off.
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