Ipsos | What the Future: Intelligence | How AI can make qualitative research faster and smarter
Ipsos | What the Future: Intelligence | How AI can make qualitative research faster and smarter

How AI can make qualitative research faster and smarter

Transforming data into insights can feel like looking for a needle in a haystack. Yadin Soffer, CEO of Xperiti, explains how Orra AI can distill qualitative data into actionable intelligence faster.
Download the full What the Future: Intelligence issue
Download the full What the Future: Intelligence issue

One of the stubborn challenges of qualitative research is summarizing interview transcripts into usable insights. It’s an issue we face too when we’re editing What the Future: How to take a 9,000-word transcript and pull out the best parts from our interviews.

Turns out, AI can help here, also. We used Orra AI, a new tool from Xperiti for that. Ipsos acquired the startup specializing in business-to-business research in 2023. We fed the entire catalog of 200-plus What the Future expert interviews into the AI’s closed beta. Then Orra AI distilled the insights and preformed a horizontal analysis across the summaries.

It quickly drew out key trends and future outlooks and summarized them into a few pages. It identified patterns and insights across diverse sectors that we’ve covered, including the challenges and potential of plant-based proteins, the potential of the metaverse and luxury brands’ role in it, and AR as an engaging and immediate marketing tool.

With this kind of AI, researchers can organize and share their collective knowledge faster, says Yadin Soffer, CEO of Xperiti. 

“By changing how teams access their qual data, AI can improve how companies track and design new research, identify patterns and see opportunities for new areas of study.”

← Read previous
Why AI ad testing needs a human perspective

 

Read next →
What it will take to help people trust AI for democracy


For further reading

Orra AI

Ipsos Top Topics: Artificial Intelligence

The author(s)