What problem does it solve?
Customer interview transcripts often sit unused after research sessions, with manual synthesis being slow, inconsistent, and prone to missing key insights that could inform product decisions. This skill eliminates that bottleneck by automating the extraction of structured Jobs-to-be-Done insights from raw transcripts, ensuring no valuable customer signal is lost.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Two-Phase JTBD Synthesis: Combines AI-generated draft insights with human refinement to capture nuances the model might miss, ensuring high-quality, accurate output.
- Per-Transcript Insight Extraction: Automatically surfaces Forces of Progress (Push, Pull, Anxiety, Habit), verbatim validated quotes, workarounds, decision criteria, and job statement candidates from each interview transcript.
- Weekly Opportunity Aggregation: Generates candidate opportunities for the Opportunity Solution Tree by clustering insights across multiple transcripts, with configurable filters to exclude unrefined AI-only outputs by default.
- Use Case: For a pre-launch marketplace founder conducting regular customer discovery interviews, this skill automatically processes new transcripts, drafts structured insights for review, and surfaces recurring pain points to prioritize product roadmap work.
Quick Start
Use the vabene-discovery-synthesis skill to process all new customer interview transcripts in the watched directory and generate a draft of structured JTBD insights for your review.