---
title: "Synthesize Research"
type: skill
id: "knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/synthesize-research"
category: "Product"
publisher: "Anthropic"
license: "Apache-2.0"
source: "https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/synthesize-research"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fproduct-management%2Fsynthesize-research&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# Synthesize Research

Synthesize user research from interviews, surveys, and feedback into structured insights. Use when you have a pile of interview notes, survey responses, or support tickets to make sense of, need to extract themes and rank findings by frequency and impact, or want to turn raw feedback into roadmap recommendations.

Source: Anthropic (Apache 2.0), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Product management (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management.md).
Works best with a connected app (for example a CRM or a document store); without one it asks for the details instead.

## What it covers
- Usage
- Workflow
  - 1. Gather Research Inputs
  - 2. Process the Research
  - 3. Identify Themes and Patterns
  - 4. Generate the Synthesis
  - 5. Review and Extend
- Research Synthesis Methodology
  - Thematic Analysis
  - Affinity Mapping
  - Triangulation
- Interview Note Analysis
  - Extracting Insights from Interview Notes
  - Cross-Interview Analysis
- Survey Data Interpretation
  - Quantitative Survey Analysis
  - Open-Ended Survey Response Analysis
  - Common Survey Analysis Mistakes
- Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Insights
  - The Qual-Quant Feedback Loop

## Other skills in this set
- [Competitive Brief](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/competitive-brief.md): Create a competitive analysis brief for one or more competitors or a feature area. Use when informing product strategy or feature prioritization, building sales battle cards, prepping board or…
- [Metrics Review](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/metrics-review.md): Review and analyze product metrics with trend analysis and actionable insights. Use when running a weekly, monthly, or quarterly metrics review, investigating a sudden spike or drop, comparing…
- [Product Brainstorming Skill](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/product-brainstorming.md): Brainstorm product ideas, explore problem spaces, and challenge assumptions as a thinking partner. Use when exploring a new opportunity, generating solutions to a product problem, stress-testing an…
- [Roadmap Update](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/roadmap-update.md): Update, create, or reprioritize your product roadmap. Use when adding a new initiative and deciding what moves to make room, shifting priorities after new information comes in, moving timelines due…
- [Sprint planning](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/sprint-planning.md): Plan a sprint — scope work, estimate capacity, set goals, and draft a sprint plan. Use when kicking off a new sprint, sizing a backlog against team availability (accounting for PTO and meetings)…
- [Stakeholder Update](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/stakeholder-update.md): Generate a stakeholder update tailored to audience and cadence. Use when writing a weekly or monthly status for leadership, announcing a launch, escalating a risk or blocker, or translating the same…
- [Write Spec](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/write-spec.md): Write a feature spec or PRD from a problem statement or feature idea. Use when turning a vague idea or user request into a structured document, scoping a feature with goals and non-goals, defining…

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=knowledge-work-plugins%2Fproduct-management%2Fsynthesize-research&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/knowledge-work-plugins/product-management/skills/synthesize-research/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/d900840 (Apache 2.0).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json