Skimle analyses and structures interviews and documents with speed and rigour
Skimle collects, analyses and categorises interviews, survey responses, reports and other qualitative data automatically. Our modern qualitative analysis software combines a rigorous and transparent workflow with the speed of AI.
Upload text and audio, have Skimle automatically create categories and sub-categories, explore the data across documents and export the data to seamlessly fit your workflow. Built by professionals for professionals, with full privacy and GDPR compliance.
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“Skimle did 4 months of analysis work with a click of the mouse. This allows us to spend more time on insights and interaction. We tried other AI tools and RAG models, but could not trust them.”
— Policy analyst at a ministry
How it works
Skimle's end-to-end workflow
Upload and collect data
Upload transcripts, audio and other documents, or use Skimle Ask AI-interviews to collect data. Everything securely stored in the EU.
Analyse and explore
Skimle's rigorous AI workflow automatically identifies themes and creates categories. Explore your data and discover patterns.
Integrate with your workflow
Skimle's structured data can be exported to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, REFI-QDA formats, or integrated with other applications.
Collect data with AI-assisted interviews
Skimle Ask
In the past, researchers had to choose between the convenience of qualitative research versus the richness of insights from qualitative research. AI changes the equation: with Skimle Ask, you can let AI handle the burden of conducting interviews at scale and analysing the emerging themes so you can focus on what the data actually means for your decisions.
Simply describe your research objective and our AI will draft the interview guide for you to finalise. Share the interview link and allow respondents to chat with Skimle Ask's intuitive and smart AI interviewer at a time of their choosing. Find insights and discover themes instantly with Skimle's sophisticated AI analysis.
Example Asks:
Conduct rich employee survey to get insights beyond “happiness is 8.7”, gather feedback on the transformation project, get ideas from customers for features to add, collect course feedback, poll for quick ideas for the summer party, research opinions and ideas from an online community or your company, …
Create smart interview guide
Collect insights
Share the link and let the respondents answer at their convenience with mobile or desktop. Smart follow-up questions and time management to maximise insights.
Analyse in Skimle
Discover themes and insights instantly with AI-powered analysis, refine the analysis manually and produce reports
Analyse
Analyse and structure qualitative data
Skimle automatically identifies and structures insights so you can understand themes, discover trends and summarise large sets of data.
Upload documents in any format—PDF, Word, Excel, or audio/video files. Skimle transcribes media automatically and processes text in over 100 languages. Your data stays secure in EU-based servers with enterprise-grade encryption.
Define your own analysis categories or let Skimle suggest them based on your research questions. Skimle's AI workflow extracts relevant quotes, summarises findings, and organises everything into a structured spreadsheet view.
Examples:
Interview transcripts, audio recordings, public consultation statements, open text responses, research reports, due diligence data room contents, legal discovery documents, patents, call logs, websites, ...
Upload your data
Drag and drop files here, or click to browse
PDF, DOCX, TXT, MP3, MP4 and more
All files securely stored and processed in the EU
Automatic qualitative analysis to find themes
Skimle's AI-assisted qualitative analysis workflow identifies themes and sub-themes across the documents and categorises all insights to fit the taxonomy automatically
Explore the data and export reports
View category summaries, discover patterns, manually edit categories and coding, export to Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more
Explore
Dig deeper to find insights
You define the lenses you want to take to your data and Skimle's AI-assisted workflow identifies categories and sub-categories. You can browse the Skimle table and have full two-way transparency from summary to quote and quote to summary.
- ✓Automatic category generation and coding using AI
- ✓Ability to manually edit categories and coding
- ✓Discover themes and analyse by metadata / variables
- ✓AI-assisted deep dives and chat
- ✓Summaries by category
- ✓Smart navigation as table, tree or individual documents
Integrate with your workflow
Skimle connects with the tools you use
After analysing and editing the data, you can take it to the format of your choice. Create PowerPoint presentations, Word reports, detailed Excel tables or export to REFI-QDA for processing in Nvivo, Atlas.TI, MAXQDA and other legacy QDA tools.
You can access Skimle's data and AI workflow also using Model Context Protocol. This allows connecting Skimle with your agentic AI workflow e.g., Claude Code, Cowork, OpenClaw or any other MCP-enabled tool.. Coming soon! Agents — read here for how to set it up
See Skimle in action
See how Skimle collects, analyses and structures data
Why Skimle
Why choose Skimle?
Faster end-to-end analysis
Let AI do transcribing and manual coding so you get faster to insights and end products.
User control and two-way transparency
Skimle suggests categorisation, then you can trace, view and edit every insight and quote.
Higher quality and deeper analysis
With Skimle you can dig deeper, spot gaps, and digest larger datasets.
Made for professional work
Your data never leaves EU and is fully GDPR compliant. Private clouds and LLMs possible.
Skimle is not a “chat with documents” wrapper on top of AI. Skimle is not a legacy tool like NVivo with some AI sprinkled on top. Skimle is a new way to do high quality rigorous analysis with the speed of AI. See full comparison here.
All features
Full set of features
Upload and collect data
Bring together data across sources
Skimle can analyse interview transcripts, audio, video, open text answers, customer calls and chat logs, articles, books, websites, data room contents, discovery material, patents, reports, contracts, and more... all in one combined project
1000+ documents in 100+ languages
Skimle supports large sets of qualitative data. Source documents can be in different languages making working in multi-lingual setups easy.
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 options for businesses.
Smart AI interviewer: Skimle Ask
Write an interview guide together with our AI assistant, share the link and let participants be interviewed with our smart AI assistant knowing when to dig deeper and when to press on. Analyse responses with Skimle's core analysis tools.
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.
- ✓Import text from .pdf, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .csv, websites, and more
- ✓Import video and audio for high-quality AI transcription with multi-speaker support
- ✓100+ languages supported for multilingual analysis
- ✓Handle 1,000+ documents per project
- ✓Automatic AI-generated metadata fields for sorting, filtering and analysis
- ✓Automated suggestions for inductive and thematic analysis
- ✓Full control on categories and knowledge to extract
- ✓Background processing of large datasets with email notifications
- ✓Manage and share projects with your team
Analyse and explore
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.
You are in full control of the analysis
Define your own viewpoint and have Skimle extract and categorise insights for you, manually add or remove insights, and then use our powerful user interface to easily reorganise your results.
Smart 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.
- ✓Paragraph-by-paragraph analysis ensures systematic, comprehensive coverage of every document
- ✓Two-way transparency: trace from summary to quote to source document and back
- ✓Highlights in source documents show exactly how AI analysed each passage
- ✓Category view with summaries across different levels of abstraction
- ✓User-controlled editing: accept, modify or reject any AI suggestion
- ✓Rename, merge or split categories as your understanding evolves
- ✓Filter and cross-tabulate by demographics, date, source type or custom metadata
- ✓AI chat with reasoning capabilities — ask cross-category and metadata questions
- ✓Zero hallucinations: every insight linked to a verified, verbatim quote
Integrate with your workflow
Customisable 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.
Export REFI-QDA open source file to Nvivo, MAXQDA, Atlas.TI, ...
You can export the AI-coded documents into an open source format supported by most legacy qualitative analysis software tools. Coding, category summaries and codebooks exported.
MCP access for agents
Give your Claude Code, Cowork or other agent tools the superpower of analysing and structuring qualitative data with Skimle. Full upload, edit and download skills available via MCP server.
- ✓Word report with overall and by-category summaries and selected quotes
- ✓PowerPoint report with executive summary and deepdives by theme with relevant quotes
- ✓Excel export of categories, comments and structured data
- ✓REFI-QDA export for use in NVivo, Atlas.TI, MAXQDA and other legacy QDA tools
- ✓Category view with expandable branches for interactive data exploration
- ✓Every report item links back to verbatim source quotes
- ✓Enterprise: single-tenancy cloud, own database, admin controls and SSO
- ✓MCP access for agents like Claude Code, Cowork and OpenClaw for custom integrations