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We’re happy to announce the latest update to MAXQDA Tailwind. This release brings a range of new features and improvements to help you unlock deeper insights from your data. The highlight of the update is the new AI-powered Reports feature, which allows you to generate a report based on a question and selected documents. Whether it’s interview transcripts, customer feedback, survey responses, or other documents you want to analyze – this new feature automates report generation, helping you make data-driven decisions quickly.

For anyone new to MAXQDA Tailwind: it’s our browser-based software, built to help you explore, structure, and understand complex qualitative data – anytime, anywhere, and completely independent of MAXQDA or AI Assist.

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AI-powered Reports – Create Professional Reports in Seconds

You’ve put in the work to collect valuable qualitative data – now it’s time to derive its insights. Our AI-powered reporting tool transforms your raw data (like interview transcripts, survey responses, and customer feedback) into clear, concise reports – instantly. Simply select your source documents, ask a question, and receive a fully-formatted, professional report complete with references to original text segments. Unlike time-consuming manual report writing, MAXQDA Tailwind accelerates your decision-making and research process without sacrificing the quality and depth you expect from your analysis.

You can further guide the report generation with additional instructions, such as defining a structure for the report, adding methodological considerations, etc. And if you are unsure about your question, looking for inspiration, or want to explore new perspectives, you can generate alternative questions and use them for report generation.

Key Features & Benefits

Report in Seconds: Reduce analysis time from days to minutes with our AI-powered reports that are based on your question.

Make Data-Driven Insights: The reports are based on documents you select, making them an excellent basis for data-driven decisions.

Explore Further: Not sure what to ask? The tool suggests relevant questions to help you uncover hidden insights. You can also guide the AI by adding instructions to shape the report’s focus and depth.

Complete Transparency: Every insight in the report is linked back to the original source material, so you can easily verify the findings and understand the context.

Easy to Revisit: Previously created reports are stored in a searchable table together with additional information making it easy to find and revisit your work and track your analysis over time.

How to Create Your First AI-Powered Report

1. Select Your Data Sources: Open the Report feature via the sidebar then click on “Create Report” to create a new AI-generated report. Choose which documents will form the foundation of your report. A character counter helps you track your selection limits.
2. Define Your Question: Upon selecting documents, the question text field appears where users can enter their question. For example,:
   • Market Research: “What are customers saying about our competitor’s product?”
   • User Experience (UX) Research: “What are the biggest usability issues users are facing with our website?”
   • Employee Feedback: “What are the main reasons employees are leaving the company?”
   • Academic Research: “What are the key themes emerging from these interview transcripts regarding the impact of social media on teenagers?”
   • Customer Support: “What are the most common complaints customers have about our product?”
   Instead of manually reviewing each document, our platform lets you directly ask a question. The AI will then analyze all selected documents to provide a focused report, saving you valuable time and effort in identifying key themes and patterns.

3. Suggest Alternative Questions (optional): If you are unsure with your question or want to explore new research angles, you can use the optional feature Suggest Alternative Questions. This feature analyzes your data and your question and suggests up to three alternative questions that can be adequately answered by the selected documents and are related to your original question. By hovering over one of the keywords, you will see an explanation on how the alternative question differs from your original idea. Clicking on a keyword inserts the alternative into the question text field. Via an undo icon located below the question text field, users can return to their original question.
   In the example below, we want to investigate 10 interviews about work-life balance. We started by using a relatively unspecific question, namely “What do the interviewees say about work-life balance?” and generated alternative questions. In this example, the suggested questions specify the initial question by focusing the analysis on certain aspects. For example, the suggestion “Definitions and Experiences” refers to how the interviewees define and experience work-life balance, whereas the suggestion “Factors and Strategies” focuses the analysis on the influencing factors and the strategies used to achieve a balanced work-life balance.

4. Add Custom Instructions (optional): Users can add additional instructions to steer the report creation, for example define a structure for the report, add methodological considerations, and so on.

The Final Report

Click ‘Create Report’ to start the report generation. The final report presents your findings in a structured format, including the original research question, a concise abstract summarizing key insights, and the main text body. Interactive references allow you to instantly view the corresponding text segments in a slideover, ensuring complete transparency and traceability of the AI’s analysis. You’ll also find helpful metadata – such as source documents used, creation date, word count, and estimated reading time – for easy reference. Customize the report title to reflect your key takeaways and easily share your insights by copying to your clipboard or exporting a polished PDF with a single click. All AI Reports are automatically saved in a searchable table, complete with full metadata.

Further Improvements

Topic-Document Summaries: Quickly grasp how a topic is handled in your data

Quickly understand how a topic is addressed within a document. The document slideover now includes topic-document summaries in addition to the original text and document summary. Select a topic to see a summary of how it’s discussed in this document. Clicking a reference displays the corresponding text segment.

Search in Dropdowns: Dropdown menus now include a search bar, making it faster and easier to find the right document or topic.