Qualitative material · Shared understanding
Your questions.
Your data.
A deeper understanding.
QualiWorks helps you explore unstructured data, develop answers grounded in evidence, and refine the interpretation with your expertise.
Possible applications
Different questions.
A shared need to understand.
RESEARCH
Explore your research questions
What patterns emerge from your interviews and documents—and how do they help answer your research questions?
MONITORING, EVALUATION & LEARNING
Understand change and experience
What does the evidence tell you about change, whose experiences are represented, and what can you learn for future action?
QUESTIONS WORTH EXPLORING
Make sense of any text-based material
From websites and media coverage to feedback and more—what matters, what patterns emerge, and how does it all help answer your questions?
A familiar starting point
So much information.
So little time.
01 / MATERIALInterviews
02 / MATERIALReports
03 / MATERIALWebsites
Reading, comparing, asking questions—and making sense of it all takes time.
QualiWorks · What does it offer?
Rapid. Rigorous. Yours.
01 / RAPIDReach insights
Reach insights
faster.
AI helps with time-consuming analysis, giving you more room to interpret findings and learn from them.
02 / RIGOROUSGrounded.
Grounded.
Traceable.
Established qualitative methods, technical checks, and expert review help keep findings grounded in the evidence.
03 / YOURSYour expertise.
Your expertise.
Your say.
You review, guide, and approve the analysis. Your knowledge of the context shapes the findings.
Faster analysis. Grounded insights. Guided by you.
How does it work?
QualiWorks.
Turn your material into
meaningful insights.
QUALIWORKS · SHARED ANALYSIS
FocusClarify questions and context
PrepareProtect sensitive information
CodeLabel relevant passages
Develop themesExplore patterns and differences
WriteBring the findings together
AI-assisted analysis
Review and refine together at key stages.
01 / Frame the inquiry together
Start with your questions.
Put AI to work.
Focus
What do you want to understand?
Your context
Whose experiences matter, and how might they differ?
Keep an open mind
What might you be missing?
How do women experience speaking up in meetings with local decision-makers—and what helps or gets in their way?
A fictional example from development research and MEL.
02 / Prepare material safely
Data protection starts
before analysis.
We review together
You give the go-ahead
AI analysis begins
03 / Systematic coding
Make sense of the details.
I learned that in the practice circle, saying it to the group before saying it outside.Women's focus group · W1 · Mbezaicvp000601
Members consistently describe it as the point where practice became real.Partner quarterly report · WCI · Katariicvp000304
Do not write that I lack courage; write that the meeting time does not respect us.Women's focus group · W3 · Mbezaicvp000603
Code systematically, while staying open to unexpected findings. Shown here: selected original codes from the demo.
Develop themes
See the patterns.
Keep the nuances.
Bring together
BASIC THEME
Confidence to engage decision-makers grows through a two-step mechanism: rehearsal in practice circles, then accompanied first engagements in real meetings.
Bring together
COMPANION BASIC THEME
Structural filters — meeting logistics, gatekeeping, and household economics — decide whether new confidence can become participation.
Build themes across sources, without losing sight of differences and exceptions.
Keep the evidence in view
From themes to findings—and
back to the evidence.
DRAFT FINDINGS
Findings
2
Turn themes into clear findings, with links back to the sources.
PART 2 · EVIDENCE TRAILDemo ↗
Support cards
Basic theme
Key evidence
Supporting evidence
Coded segment
Do not write that I lack courage; write that the meeting time does not respect us.
Supporting
Scope notes
The corpus lacks decision-makers' own accounts; gatekeeping is documented from the participant side only.
Human-in-the-Loop · at key checkpoints
You guide the analysis.
Review the draft. Ask:
- Is it supported by the evidence?
- Does it help answer your questions?
- Is what you study represented fairly and with care?
Dr Bernhard Ortmann is available to discuss questions and reflect on the findings with you.
Review the evidence. Add your perspective.
HOW THIS PART IS SUPPORTED
Consistent negative cases from three stakeholder groups.
Share findings. Deepen understanding.
Decide what’s next.
Share findings
What does the evidence tell us?
Bring the findings together in a paper, report, or briefing.
Deepen understanding
What have we learned?
Compare perspectives. Explore differences and unanswered questions.
Look ahead
Where do we go from here?
Revisit assumptions and identify new questions or practical next steps.
Learning happens throughout, as you review and refine findings and bring in your knowledge and experience.
QualiWorks
What could your data
help you understand?
What questions matter to you?What material do you have?Where would you like to start?
Let’s explore how QualiWorks could help you answer your questions.
Explore the demo ↗Rapid. Rigorous. Yours.