AI Assist: AI-powered qualitative data analysis with MAXQDA
Meet AI Assist, MAXQDA’s virtual research assistant—an add-on to support your analytical efforts. Enhance your research while maintaining the highest standards of data protection and control over your analytical work.
Discover what is possible with AI Assist
AI Report (Beta)
Generate structured report drafts to support your qualitative analysis. AI Assist helps systematically organize and collate relevant content in a draft report format.
Interactive reference markers connect each section to the original source passages, enabling you to review, validate, and contextualize the content at any stage.
AI Coding
Automate your coding process with AI Coding while maintaining complete control over your analytical work. Analyze one or multiple documents and get coding recommendations for text segments matching your coding criteria.
AI Assist provides comments for each coded segment, explaining the reasoning behind its suggestions.
Receive code label support
Unlock enhanced coding capabilities with AI Assist’s two code label recommendation features.
You can get new code recommendations based on a selected text passage with AI New Code Suggestions. Decide for yourself, which recommendation you would like to apply.
Alternatively, generate data-based subcategory division recommendations with AI Subcode Suggestions.
Chat with your data
Pose questions about already-coded text segments or entire documents. Responses reference specific text sections for easy review. You can harness the transformative potential of dialogue to:
- Consider different angles to enrich your insights
- Reflect on decisions for a more self-aware approach
- Identify data gaps needing further exploration
- Maintain consistent coding and interpretations over time
Generate term explanations or translations
Quickly clarify unfamiliar terms or phrases without leaving MAXQDA.
Highlight the text, ask AI Assist to explain or translate it, and get an instant answer you can save as an in-document memo for convenient reference.
Summarize content
Generate summaries in your preferred language, length, and format. Clearly marked as AI-generated, AI Assist summaries are flexible and transparent. Among others, get summaries of:
- Entire PDF and text documents
- Specific text segments
- Text segments coded with a particular code
- Selected coded segments in a document
- All paraphrases in a document






