synthesize-researchlisted

# Synthesize Research Raw research is a pile of quotes; synthesis is a ranked set of decisions. This skill turns interview notes, survey responses, support tickets, and reviews into a structured synthesis: themes counted by frequency and weighted by impact, insights that each cite evidence, and recommendations a team can act on. The discipline here is resisting the two failure modes of synthesis — cherry-picking the quote that confirms what you already believed, and over-generalizing from three loud users. **Grounded in:** *Continuous Discovery Habits* — Teresa Torres: turn interview snapshots into opportunities, separating observation from interpretation. **Go deeper (The Product Channel):** [How Do You Learn from Users](https://sidsaladi.substack.com/p/week-7-how-do-you-learn-from-users) ## When to use this - You have a stack of interview notes, survey free-text, support tickets, app-store reviews, or sales-call transcripts and need to find the signal. - You need themes ranked by how *often* they came up AND how *much they matter*, not just a wall of quotes. - You're turning qualitative feedback into prioritized roadmap or backlog recommendations. - You need to separate "what users said and did" (observations) from "what we think it means" (interpretations) before a decision. - You want a defensible artifact stakeholders can challenge — every claim traceable to a quote. ## Before you start (gather these) - **The raw material** — interview notes, survey responses, suppor