# Evidano Docs

## Guide

- [Welcome to Evidano](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/readme.md): Learn what Evidano is, what you can do with it, and where to start — no technical skills needed.
- [Getting Started](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started.md): Set up your free Evidano account, learn your way around, and run your first analysis with a step-by-step quickstart.
- [Create Your Account](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/create-your-account.md): Sign up for a free Evidano account and get to know your account page — the home base where every project starts.
- [Choose Your Workflow](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/choose-your-workflow.md): A friendly guide to picking the right Evidano workflow, based on the data you have and the result you want.
- [Upload and Manage Files](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/upload-and-manage-files.md): Upload files from your computer or cloud storage, reuse them across projects, and manage everything in one shared file library.
- [Analyze Your First Transcript](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/analyze-your-first-transcript.md): Upload an interview transcript and get AI-generated themes, quotes, and a summary you can read, chat with, and download as a Word report.
- [Analyze Your First Survey Dataset](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/analyze-your-first-survey-dataset.md): Turn a spreadsheet of survey responses into themes, charts, and segment comparisons, plus a dashboard that summarizes your whole survey.
- [Translate Your First Document](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/translate-your-first-document.md): Translate a document into another language while keeping its formatting, and download the result in the same file format as the original.
- [Create Your First AI Avatar Interviewer](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/getting-started/create-your-first-ai-avatar-interviewer.md): Set up an AI avatar that interviews participants for you and collects survey answers, recordings, and transcripts on one dashboard.
- [Common Research Workflows](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows.md): Step-by-step guides for the most common research jobs — interviews, focus groups, surveys, customer and employee feedback, reviews, and more.
- [Analyze Interview Transcripts](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-interview-transcripts.md): A step-by-step guide to turning your interview transcripts into clear themes, quotes, and charts you can share.
- [Analyze Focus Groups](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-focus-groups.md): Analyze focus-group discussions where several people speak per session, and get themes and quotes that account for the group, with optional comparison across groups.
- [Analyze Open-Ended Survey Responses](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-open-ended-survey-responses.md): Turn free-text survey answers in a spreadsheet into coded themes, charts for every question, and comparisons across respondent groups.
- [Analyze Customer Feedback](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-customer-feedback.md): Turn customer reviews, support tickets, and survey comments into ranked themes, quotes, and a summary your team can act on.
- [Analyze Employee Feedback](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-employee-feedback.md): Understand engagement surveys, exit interviews, and pulse feedback, and compare results across departments and tenure.
- [Analyze Product Reviews](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-product-reviews.md): Turn app-store, marketplace, and website reviews into ranked themes, feature requests, and complaints, with quotes ready for product planning.
- [Analyze Social Media Discussions](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-social-media-discussions.md): Collect comments, posts, and threads from social platforms, then turn them into themes, quotes, and a shareable summary.
- [Analyze Multilingual Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/common-research-workflows/analyze-multilingual-data.md): Analyze interviews and surveys in any language, and get your themes, quotes, and report in the language you need.
- [Collect Research Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data.md): Gather new research data without leaving Evidano — run AI avatar interviews, build surveys, and collect social media and web data.
- [Create an AI Avatar Interviewer](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data/create-an-ai-avatar-interviewer.md): Set up an AI avatar to interview your participants over video, then collect their survey answers, recordings, and transcripts in one place.
- [Create a Survey](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data/create-a-survey.md): Build a standalone survey with an editor or AI help, share it with a link, and collect responses you can analyze later.
- [Collect Social Media & Web Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/collect-research-data/collect-social-media-and-web-data.md): Collect posts, comments, reviews, and web page content from social media and websites into files you can analyze.
- [Prepare Research Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/prepare-research-data.md): Get your data ready for analysis — transcribe audio and video recordings, and translate files into the language you work in.
- [Transcribe Audio & Video](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/prepare-research-data/transcribe-audio-and-video.md): Turn audio and video recordings into editable, speaker-labeled transcripts you can download or send straight into analysis.
- [Translate Files](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/prepare-research-data/translate-files.md): Translate whole documents, spreadsheets, and slides into another language while keeping their original layout and formatting.
- [Analyze Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data.md): Make sense of your analysis results and go deeper — read results, discover themes, categorize responses, compare groups, and chat with your data.
- [How to Read Your Results](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/how-to-read-your-results.md): A plain-language map of your Evidano results page, so you know what everything means and what to click next.
- [Discover Themes & Patterns](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/discover-themes-and-patterns.md): Let Evidano find the main ideas and themes in your text data, then refine them into a clear, defensible set.
- [Categorize Responses](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/categorize-responses.md): Sort thousands of short answers into consistent categories, count them, and export the coded data.
- [Compare Groups (Segments)](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/compare-groups-segments.md): See how answers differ across groups like department, region, or plan, so you can point to exactly who differs and how.
- [Build a Codebook](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/build-a-codebook.md): Create, refine, and validate the set of themes and codes Evidano uses to label your data, then check how reliably it was applied.
- [Chat With Your Data](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/analyze-data/chat-with-your-data.md): Ask questions about your files and analyses in plain language, and get quick summaries, quotes, and charts you can paste into your report.
- [Create Deliverables](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/create-deliverables.md): Turn your finished analysis into shareable outputs: research reports, executive summaries, and exports for documents and spreadsheets.
- [Generate a Research Report](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/create-deliverables/generate-a-research-report.md): Turn a finished analysis into a polished Word report you can hand to stakeholders or add to a paper.
- [Create an Executive Summary](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/create-deliverables/create-an-executive-summary.md): Turn a full analysis into a short, one-page summary that gives leaders the key findings and what to do about them.
- [Export & Share Findings](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/create-deliverables/export-and-share-findings.md): Save your analysis as files, or share it with a public link that people can open without an Evidano account.
- [Methods & Best Practices](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices.md): Get better results — pick the right analysis approach and follow proven practices for qualitative research, surveys, and reporting.
- [Choosing the Right Analysis Approach](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices/choosing-the-right-analysis-approach.md): Six quick decisions that help you pick the right workflow and settings for your data.
- [Qualitative Research Best Practices](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices/qualitative-research-best-practices.md): Get credible, defensible qualitative findings from Evidano that hold up in a paper, a stakeholder review, or a board meeting.
- [Survey Research Best Practices](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices/survey-research-best-practices.md): Get reliable results from survey data in Evidano — especially the open-ended answers — with clean inputs and sensible segments.
- [Reporting Findings](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/methods-and-best-practices/reporting-findings.md): How to turn your findings into a clear, honest report or summary that your audience will trust and act on.
- [Troubleshooting](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting.md): Something not working? Find your problem here and fix it in a few steps.
- [Upload Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/upload-issues.md): Fixes for common problems when adding files to a project in Evidano.
- [Analysis Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/analysis-issues.md): Fixes for problems running or reading document and spreadsheet analysis.
- [Transcription Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/transcription-issues.md): Fixes for transcription problems, plus tips to improve accuracy.
- [Translation Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/translation-issues.md): Fixes for problems translating files, and how to resolve them.
- [AI Avatar Interviewer Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/ai-interviewer-issues.md): Fixes for problems creating, sharing, or running an AI Avatar Interviewer.
- [Social Media & Web Data Issues](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/troubleshooting/social-media-web-data-issues.md): Fixes for problems collecting social media and web data, and how to resolve them.
- [Reference](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/reference.md): Quick facts you'll come back to — plans and pricing, supported file types, supported languages, and a glossary of research terms.
- [Plans, Limits & Credits](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/reference/plans-limits-and-credits.md): What's free, what costs money, and every limit in one place — plans, wallet credits, and per-project limits.
- [Supported File Types](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/reference/supported-file-types.md): What each Evidano workflow accepts as input and produces as output.
- [Supported Languages](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/reference/supported-languages.md): Which languages you can transcribe, translate, and analyze, with the full lists shown in the app's dropdowns.
- [Glossary](https://ailyze.gitbook.io/ailyze-docs/reference/glossary.md): Plain-language definitions of the terms you'll meet across Evidano.


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