Cookbook
Synthesize interview transcripts into JTBD themes
Synthesize a batch of interview transcripts into JTBD statements and themes, every quote verbatim and sourced.
Productintermediate
What this does
- Reads every new transcript in the interviews folder since the last run
- Extracts JTBD statements and pains, one verbatim quote per finding
- Rolls the batch into themes, counted by supporting interview
- Flags contradictions against stored synthesis memory instead of overwriting it
Workflow
- Trigger
New batch or biweekly
Fires once transcripts cross the threshold, or on schedule.
- Prompt
Read the batch
Every new transcript in the interviews folder since last run.
- Prompt
Extract JTBD + themes
Jobs, pains, and quotes per interview, then rolled up.
- Prompt
Flag contradictions
Where this batch disagrees with stored synthesis memory.
- Result
Publish + post
Research-insights view updated, synthesis posted to
Recommended skills
Reusable skills the recipe pulls in, add them once, every agent can use them.
JTBD extractionPull job statements and pains from raw transcript text.
Verbatim-quote policyEvery quote is exact, with speaker, timestamp, and date; no paraphrase-as-quote.
Contradiction flaggingCompare new findings against stored synthesis memory and surface disagreements.
How to use this recipe
- 1Connect Drive, Notion, and Slack to the agent
- 2Set the trigger for a batch threshold, or a biweekly sweep
- 3Paste the prompt; on first run, set the folder, batch size, and contradiction policy
- 4Review the new themes and contradiction flags; the rest updates the view
Recipe files
interview-batch-synthesis/
recipe.mdskill.mdjobs-setup/
biweekly-interview-batch-synthesis.mdskills/
jtbd-extraction.mdverbatim-quote-policy.mdcontradiction-flagging.mdworkflow.jsonCopy the prompt
Install the "Synthesize interview transcripts into JTBD themes" recipe from the Eluu cookbook. 1. Fetch https://eluu.ai/cookbook/interview-batch-synthesis/skill.md and save it into your skills folder as "interview-batch-synthesis". 2. Ask me its first-run questions and store my answers in memory. 3. Offer to schedule the recurring jobs listed in the skill; only create the ones I approve. 4. Then run the skill once end to end so we can review the output together.
eluu.ai/cookbook/interview-batch-synthesis.md
Paste it into any agent. It fetches the recipe file and pulls in the skills and prompts on its own, the prompt stays short, the detail lives at the URL.
