> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.smartinterview.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Smartinterview: AI-Powered Qualitative Research

> Smartinterview helps you build smart surveys, classify open-ended responses with AI, and transcribe interviews at scale. Get started in minutes.

Smartinterview is an AI-powered qualitative research platform that turns unstructured data into structured insights. Whether you need to deploy surveys with adaptive follow-up questions, classify thousands of open-ended responses, or transcribe and analyze interviews, Smartinterview handles the heavy lifting so you can focus on the findings.

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  <Card title="Quick Start" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
    Create your account, set up your first project, and run your first analysis in minutes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Survey Builder" icon="pen-to-square" href="/survey-builder/overview">
    Build adaptive surveys with AI follow-up questions, skip logic, and quota controls.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Pulse Classifier" icon="tags" href="/pulse-classifier/overview">
    Upload open-ended survey responses and let AI automatically generate topics and classify them.
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  <Card title="Pulse Qualitative" icon="microphone" href="/pulse-qualitative/overview">
    Transcribe interviews and focus groups with speaker diarization, then chat with your data.
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## How Smartinterview works

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a project">
    Projects are your workspace for organizing surveys, data files, and transcriptions. Create one from the **Projects** dashboard to get started.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Build or import your data">
    Design a survey in the drag-and-drop builder, upload an Excel file of open-ended responses, or import audio and video interview recordings.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run AI analysis">
    Smartinterview's AI automatically generates relevant topic codes, classifies responses, and transcribes interviews with speaker identification.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Export and report">
    Download classified results as Excel, export charts to PowerPoint, or explore findings interactively in the report builder.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Explore by product area

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  <Card title="Account setup" icon="user" href="/account-setup">
    Sign up, choose a plan, and configure your team.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Question types" icon="list-check" href="/survey-builder/question-types">
    Text, multiple choice, vocal, image questions, and more.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Topic coding" icon="sitemap" href="/pulse-classifier/topics">
    Auto-generate or manually define L1 and L2 topic hierarchies.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Interview transcription" icon="waveform" href="/pulse-qualitative/transcription">
    Multi-speaker transcription with timestamped speaker turns.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Plans & tokens" icon="credit-card" href="/account/plans">
    Understand usage-based billing and choose the right plan.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Team management" icon="users" href="/account/team">
    Invite colleagues and manage access to your workspace.
  </Card>
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