One brief from months of interviews

Synthesize months of interview transcripts, articles, and research notes into a structured, sourced brief with citations back to the source file.

For: researchers, analysts, and product managers synthesizing many interviews or sources

If you’re a researcher, journalist, analyst, or product manager sitting on dozens of interview transcripts, PDFs, and notes — this is for you.

Conducting deep research leaves you with a mess of raw material: hour-long interview transcripts, downloaded PDF reports, web clips, and quick voice memos. Synthesizing all of this into a clear research brief traditionally requires re-reading dozens of documents, copy-pasting quotes by hand, and risking missing key evidence buried in old files — re-reading a dozen interview transcripts alone can eat the better part of a day.

How the synthesis works

Dori connects all your research material inside a single Markdown project folder (projects/{research_topic}/). Rather than treating files as isolated documents, Dori indexes the full text across transcripts and notes — allowing you to query recurring themes, compare viewpoints across sources, and draft a synthesis brief backed by source citations.

What’s actually driving this, and what it costs

File indexing, full-text searching, and vault source linking run locally on Dori’s background engine, at zero API cost. Thematic clustering, multi-document synthesis, and prose drafting is the part that uses your connected AI provider.

Questions you can ask across your research

Once your research material is inside a Dori Project, you can ask deep synthesis questions:

• “What were the top 3 recurring pain points mentioned across all 12 user interviews?”
• “Summarize everything interviewees said about onboarding friction, with quotes.”
• “Compare how Expert A and Expert B view market expansion in Europe.”
• “Which research notes mention security compliance risks?”
• “Draft a 2-page research synthesis summarizing key findings and recommendations.”

See Ask anything and Projects for more examples.

Quick setup (one time, about two minutes)

A real-world walkthrough: Synthesizing 15 customer interviews

Imagine you’re conducting a 2-month customer research project:

1. Capturing Interviews: As interviews take place, meeting recordings and transcriptions are automatically saved under projects/customer-discovery/.
2. Asking Dori to Synthesize: At the end of the research phase, you ask Dori: “Draft a research brief summarizing key user needs, feature requests, and workflow blockers across all 15 interview notes.”
3. The Sourced Output: Dori generates a structured Markdown brief featuring:
   • Executive summary of core takeaways.
   • Categorized findings with verbatim quotes.
   • Citations: Every insight includes a link back to the exact interview transcript file in your vault (e.g. [Interview #4 - Marcus](file:///path/to/note)).

Why this changes research workflows

• Traceable Evidence: Every claim in Dori’s research brief is tied to a specific note or transcript, making it easy to verify source material.
• Never Forget B-Side Findings: Insights mentioned in passing during early interviews aren’t lost — Dori cross-references the entire corpus regardless of when notes were added.
• Continuous Updating: As you conduct 5 more interviews next month, add them to the Project folder — Dori updates its synthesis without requiring you to start over.

Go further

• Have incoming research papers or PDFs? Set up Keep your local folders in sync to auto-file new documents into your research project.
• Want to stress-test your research conclusions? Use Council to run your synthesis past an advisor persona.
• Need to draft a formal presentation from your brief? Use Create & share to format your research into a executive slide deck or memo.