Qualitative analysis, reimagined for the AI era
Skimle helps you analyse and structure interviews, reports and other qualitative data to identify themes and synthesise findings.
Upload your data
Input your data in a format of your choice: PDF, DOCX, audio, video, CSV, and more. Everything is securely stored in the EU.
Explore the Skimle table
Automatic generation of themes and categorization of your insights with AI, using rigorous academic methodology and full two-way traceability.
Create fit-for-purpose reports
Structured data allows robust analysis and detailed reports in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more—optimized for your workflow and needs.
Skimle is made for...
Empowering knowledge workers across domains with AI-powered analysis
Academic researchers
Leverage AI to focus on creative theory building instead of manual coding. Skimle gives you full transparency and control to turn your research data into theoretical categories.
Business, marketing, and HR analysts
Rapidly turn open text responses, interviews, focus group videos, competitor reports and other data into clear themes and so-what's... while protecting sensitive data and avoiding AI hallucinations.
Consultants, lawyers, auditors, paralegals
Comprehensively map relevant insights in a large body of knowledge... without missing any insights or suffering from hallucinations.
Public services
Handle large volumes of documents or applications to beat the tight deadlines, while maintaining full control and accountability of critical decisions.
Companies wanting to get data right
Unlock the potential of AI by converting your document archives into structured datasets, ready for use by both humans and AI agents (via APIs or MCPs).
You
We are constantly developing features and workflows to serve the needs of knowledge professionals. Get in touch to tell us about your needs.
See Skimle in action
Watch a brief overview of how Skimle transforms qualitative data into structured insights
Features
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Broad support for data formats
Interview transcripts, audio, video, open text answers from HR and marketing surveys, customer calls and chat logs, articles, books, websites, data room contents, discovery material, patents, reports, contracts, and more.
Automatic metadata generation
Keep your documents in order through AI-generated metadata fields, and categories, allowing you to sort, filter, and analyze contents based on date, format, organizational units, customers, or any other relevant fields.
Everything is securely stored in the EU
Skimle is fully GDPR and EU AI Act compliant with the data stored in the cloud. We provide a Data Processing Agreement and offer single tenancy cloud option for businesses.
Automated AI analysis of themes
Skimle offer analyses with your preferred level of control. AI can suggest a structure, based on your interview questions, document headings, and an inductive analysis of your contents. Skimle forms subcategories automatically, but gives you control to adapt them as needed.
Full list of features
- Import text from .pdf, .docx, .txt, .rtf, websites, …
- Import video and audio for high-quality AI transcription
- Automated suggestions for inductive and thematic analysis
- Full control on knowledge to extract and categories to form
- Offline processing of larger data with email notifications
- Manage and share projects with your team
Explore and analyze the Skimle table
Social science methodology - on steroids
Automatic generation of categories based on analysing each document and creating a joint taxonomy. Workflow follows the same rigorous approach as academic researchers use, but automating it with thousands of atomic LLM micro-queries.
Intuitive and transparent document × category spreadsheet
Clear tabular view to examine insights in each document (e.g., interview) connected to meaningful categories (e.g., risks). Verified verbatim quotes for each theme, with full control on categories and coding of data. No black boxes, no hallucinations.
Control the analysis from your own perspective
Define your own viewpoint and have Skimle extract and categorize insights for you, manually add or remove insights, and then use our powerful user interface to easily reorganize your results.
Optimized AI chat to assist with analysis
Custom reasoning model with awereness of your metadata and categories allows you to Ask questions like "How do men and women differ in their answers?" or "What are the points of disagreement in this theme?" to gain deeper insights.
Full list of features
- Highlights in source documents provide two-way transparency: see how AI analyzed key documents.
- Tree view with useful summaries across different levels of abstraction.
- Trace quotes back to source texts verbatim.
- Chat interface with reasoning capabilities allows you to ask questions related to specific categories and metadata.
Create fit-for-purpose reports
Customizable reports in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint format
Instantly turn your insights into focused reports in formats making communication and storytelling of the results easy. Reports developed together with users to fit each domain.
Quickly revisit your source materials
All views provide direct quotes from your source materials and quickly take you to the context of the original documents with key insights highlighted automatically for you.
API and MCP access for agents
Allow agents to explore the data to understand your organizational context - coming soon!
Full list of features
- Word report with overall and by category summaries and selected quotes
- Tree view with expandable branches allowing exploration of the data
- Excel export of categories and comments
- PowerPoint report with executive summary, survey highlights and deepdives by theme with relevant quotes
- MCP and API access to the structured data allowing e.g., agents to understand your organisational context - coming soon!
Why choose Skimle?
Move faster to better insights
Skimle is designed ground-up for AI driven analysis, synthesis and reporting of data, reducing the time spent in manual coding and initial categorisation while ensuring they are done with high quality. Expert time can be focused on deeper insights and effective storytelling.
Take control of messy data
Skimle tables allow you to visualise large sets of data with full traceability back to source materials and quotes. You can work with the structured data together with a custom AI chatbot as well.
Two-way transparency
Hallucinations, AI slop, missed insights, are real risks with AI. Our pioneering two-way transparency means that you can trace what AI did from analyses to original documents and from documents to analysis. Skimle is a front-runner in responsible AI in a GDPR and EU AI Act compliant safe environment.
Proper analysis pays off
Expert level insights depend on analysing and structuring the data, not just trying to search embeddings at runtime. By rigorously digesting the content up front, it is possible to identify common patterns, conflicting views and changes over time.
Who we are
Skimle - Based in Finland and made in the EU
Henri Schildt
Co-founder, CEO & Product
Professor at Aalto University with 20 years of experience in qualitative research methods, strategy and most recently helping companies leverage AI for real business benefits.
Olli Salo
Co-founder, COO & Commercial
Former Partner at McKinsey & Company with 20 years of experience helping large companies transform their business and operating model.
Kalle Järvenpää
UX and product development
Award-winning designer with extensive experience in software development, UX and UI.
Ilia Bazanov
Senior software engineer
Experienced professional with 10+ years of shipping code and designing interfaces for fast-moving startups, like Smartly.io.
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