Are we becoming better researchers, or just faster ones?
Speed is easy to measure. Quality is harder. What are we optimising for?
Name the checker for one week
For one week, every piece of AI work your squad uses gets a named person who checked it. What changes?
Plain English in, meaning kept
Can AI make your product copy easier to read without changing what it promises?
The quote audit: does AI invent what people said?
Ask AI for quotes from a transcript, then check every one. How many did people actually say?
Stress-test a recruitment screener
Use AI to find the holes in your screener before a panel does.
Pre-mortem your next feature
Imagine it’s six months from now and your feature has failed. Ask AI to tell you why.
Make AI critique your discussion guide
Don’t ask AI to write your interview guide. Ask it to pull yours apart.
Blind synthesis: you vs. the machine
Same transcripts, two synthesis passes. Where do you agree, and what does each of you miss?