Turn user interviews into actionable insights
Log interview notes, track sentiment, tag insights, and let AI surface themes across sessions. The lightweight interview tool for teams that ship. Free forever.
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What are Discovery Interviews?
The foundation of great product decisions
Discovery interviews are one-on-one conversations with users where you listen more than you talk. The goal isn't to validate your ideas — it's to understand how people actually think, what frustrates them, and what they need. Great products are built on patterns that emerge across interviews, not on hunches from a single conversation.
Uncover Pain Points
Hear directly from users about what frustrates them. Real quotes beat assumptions every time.
Spot Opportunities
Users reveal unmet needs and workarounds that point to your next feature or product pivot.
Detect Patterns
Individual interviews are interesting. Themes across 5-8 interviews are actionable and defensible.
Features
Everything you need to run user interviews
Interview Logging
Log notes with participant name and date. Capture key quotes, observations, and follow-up questions in one place.
Sentiment Tracking
Mark each session as positive, neutral, or negative. Quickly see the emotional landscape across all your interviews.
AI Theme Detection
Let AI surface recurring themes across sessions. Spot patterns you'd miss reading notes one by one. Available on Pro.
Insight Tagging
Tag findings as Pain Point, Opportunity, Insight, or Risk. Filter and group across interviews to build your case.
Findings Workspace
Synthesize insights across all interviews in a dedicated workspace. Connect the dots and share with stakeholders.
Research Reports
Turn interview findings into shareable stakeholder reports. Export key themes, quotes, and recommendations.
How It Works
From conversation to insight in three steps
Log interview sessions
After each interview, log the participant name, date, and your notes. Tag key moments as pain points, opportunities, insights, or risks as you go.
Track sentiment & tag insights
Mark each session's overall sentiment. Tag specific findings to build a structured repository of qualitative data across all your conversations.
Synthesize themes
Review AI-detected themes across interviews or manually synthesize in the findings workspace. Share patterns with your team to drive decisions.
Analysis Dashboard
See patterns emerge across interviews
As you log more sessions, ValidateThat surfaces the themes that matter. Filter by sentiment, tag type, or participant to find the insights that drive decisions. AI theme detection highlights what you might miss.
- AI-detected themes across all sessions
- Filter by sentiment, tag, or participant
- Findings workspace for synthesis
- Shareable stakeholder reports (Pro)
Interviews + Card Sorts + Tree Tests
One platform for your entire research workflow
Interviews are where research begins. Discover what users need, then validate your solutions with card sorts, tree tests, and surveys — all in a single ValidateThat project. Your findings workspace connects insights across every method.
- Interviews, card sorts, tree tests & surveys in one project
- Findings workspace synthesizes across all methods
- AI theme detection spans interviews and survey responses
- Share a unified stakeholder report
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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