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I’ve been building an open source tool for analysing user research interviews. It’s called Bristlenose. It’s a fishy codename.
You point Bristlenose at a folder of interview recordings — Zoom, Teams, Google Meet etc, and it transcribes , extracts tidy meaningful quotes, groups them by screen or section and theme, and sentiment-tags them.
The output is a browsable set of local webpages. You can click a timecode to watch the video. star and tag quotes, filter, export to .CSV (and paste to Miro!)
It runs on your laptop, transcription is local. the thematic analysis uses Claude, or ChatGPT or Gemini - you’ll need an account and an API key. You and your organisation should be ok sending the transcript of your videos to those AI providers.
Right now it’s launched as a command line tool and is very rough around the edges. A mac desktop app is coming.
Early feedback from user researchers – what works, what’s broken or missing, or simply confusing is much appreciated.
If you do interview-based research and want to try it:
Try https://github.com/cassiocassio/bristlenose
The short version, for Mac users with a bit of CLI and a Claude account:
brew install cassiocassio/bristlenose/bristlenose
bristlenose configure claude
bristlenose run /user-research-interviews-folder
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