Method,
encoded

Your proprietary method, in code you own.

Running inside the tools you already use.

The ceiling

Give ChatGPT one interview, one document, one set of responses, and it gets you partway. Give it all forty and it drops your method between sessions, drifts the format, and hands back something that isn’t the report your clients pay for. So a senior person still reads every line.

All forty, not one: It holds one. Ask it to hold forty and it loses the thread before the second.
Your method, in your head: Every session starts from zero. Your framework never made it into the tool.
The deliverable drifts: The third output is shaped differently from the first, and someone rebuilds the table by hand.
Senior time, still: It's right often enough that a person has to read all of it to catch the times it isn't.

Proof

What I built for a research firm in that exact spot. Their analysts had been reading interview transcripts and coding them by hand. ChatGPT got them partway and then hit the wall above. I turned their method, all of it, into a pipeline: every step from raw transcript to finished report, in the structure they’d always used, checked against their own standard for what “right” looks like.

What it was

Who: Research firm
Before: Weeks per study, by hand
After: Hours per study, automated
Scale: Hundreds of transcripts at a time
The workload: A team of full-time analysts

How it was built

Steps: Thirteen, each one a checkpoint. An interrupted run resumes where it stopped.
Schema: The firm's own vocabulary as typed fields, so the format can't drift.
Clustering: Themes grouped by meaning, with the number of groups chosen per study rather than typed in.
Rubric: One written definition of right, versioned, with checks in code and a judge model that isn't the generator.
Test set: The client's own edits, about 130 themes across nine studies.
Delivery: Into their spreadsheet, on their cloud, with their manual steps mapped and kept.

Couldn't AI build this?

AI can write great code. I use it in my workflow. What it can’t do is learn the method from your team, judge whether a result is right, or stand behind it.

Getting the method out of your head: Sitting with your senior analysts until every step is written down, including the ones nobody thought to mention. A tool can't interview your team. On the research firm project it mattered as much as the code did, and it took a person in the room.
Deciding what right looks like: A tool hands you something that runs. Whether it matches what your best analyst would have produced is a different question, and answering it takes someone who knows your method and how these systems fail. On the research firm project that meant a separate judge model, calibrated against the client's own examples.
Someone who answers for it: Models change. Transcripts change shape. A prompt that worked in March drifts by June. Owned, tuned, and documented by a person you can call, not a session you closed.

What you get

Your method, encoded: Every step of your analysis, from raw transcript to coded findings to the report, written down and built as a pipeline. Not a generic tagger. The logic is yours.
Your deliverable, in its shape: Output lands in the format your clients already get, the spreadsheet, the deck, the report. Nobody on your team learns a new tool.
A checkpoint at every step: An analyst can open any stage, see what the system decided and why, and correct it. Senior judgment is still the last word. It just isn't the first pass.
Your data stays yours: It runs on your accounts. Your material never sits in someone else's product, which matters when the client has a data clause.
You own the code: No seats, no vendor holding your method. If we stop working together you keep everything, documented.
Measured before it ships: We agree what a correct result looks like on your real material before anything gets built, and the build is scored against it. On the research firm project, the client's own edits became the test set.

How it starts

01

A conversation

About where it stops working for you.
02

A paid week

If there's something there, I map one deliverable end to end and hand you a written spec and a fixed price.
03

The build

Your method, running.
04

Kept tuned

As your work changes.

Get in touch

Say where it stops working for you. That's the whole first conversation.