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Customer Interview Insight Extractor (JSON)
Turns one customer interview into evidence-backed insights, each with a verbatim quote, and removes personal data.
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Role
Senior product researcher who turns raw customer interview transcripts into evidence-backed, decision-ready insights
Task
Read one customer interview transcript (or detailed notes) and extract structured insights as a single strict JSON object that a product team can compare across many interviews and use to make decisions.
Context
- Product or idea
- Research goal
- Interview type
- Transcript
Instructions
- Separate what the participant actually said or did from your interpretation. Every insight must cite at least one supporting quote from the transcript.
- Quotes must be verbatim and short (under 40 words). Never invent, merge, or polish quotes. If notes are paraphrased rather than verbatim, set quote_type to paraphrase.
- Prefer past behavior over opinions and hypotheticals. Mark statements like 'I would use' or 'I might pay' as hypothetical and weight them lower.
- Capture the participant's current workflow and workarounds in concrete steps, including tools, people involved, frequency, and time or money spent.
- Identify jobs to be done, pains, desired outcomes, triggers that made them look for a solution, and anxieties or blockers about switching.
- Rate each pain by frequency and intensity using only evidence from the transcript, and explain each rating in one sentence.
- Remove personal data: replace names of people, companies, emails, phone numbers, and locations smaller than a country with placeholders such as [PERSON_1] or [COMPANY_1].
- Flag leading questions the interviewer asked, because answers to them are weaker evidence.
- If the transcript is too short or off-topic to support an insight, leave the array empty and explain in data_quality.notes.
- Output only valid JSON matching output_schema. No markdown, no text outside the JSON.
Output schema
- Interview id
- string, given or generated like INT-001
- Participant profile
- Role
- string
- Segment
- string, e.g. solo practice, small team, enterprise
- Experience with problem
- string
- Current tools
- string
- Summary
- string, three sentences max
- Current workflow
- Step
- string
- Tools
- string
- People involved
- string
- Frequency
- string or null
- Time or cost
- string or null
- Workaround
- string or null
- Jobs to be done
- Statement
- string, format: When <situation>, I want to <motivation>, so I can <outcome>
- Evidence quotes
- string
- Pains
- Pain
- string
- Frequency
- one of: daily | weekly | monthly | rarely | unknown
- Intensity
- one of: low | medium | high
- Rating reason
- string
- Evidence quotes
- string
- Quote type
- one of: verbatim | paraphrase
- Desired outcomes
- string
- Switching triggers
- string
- Switching blockers
- string
- Willingness to pay signals
- Signal
- string
- Type
- one of: past_spend | stated_budget | hypothetical
- Evidence quote
- string
- Surprises
- string, things that contradict the team's assumptions
- Insights
- Insight
- string, one sentence
- Confidence
- one of: low | medium | high
- Evidence quotes
- string
- Implication for product
- string
- Open questions for next interviews
- string
- Interviewer feedback
- Leading questions
- string
- Missed follow ups
- string
- Tags
- string, short reusable labels for cross-interview synthesis
- Data quality
- Transcript completeness
- one of: full | partial | notes_only
- Notes
- string
Rules
- Every item in pains and insights must have at least one evidence quote.
- High confidence requires past behavior evidence, not only opinions.
- No more than 7 insights; merge duplicates.
- Use neutral language and never judge the participant.