Sales and customer understanding

Bring recurring customer needs into product and service decisions.

AutoQC offers a structured analysis of what customers describe in recorded conversations. Scope a theme report around your business questions, inspect supporting examples and compare the customer groups represented in your data.

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When feedback is scattered across conversations

Support calls, onboarding discussions and customer follow-ups contain requests that never reach a survey. Your CX or product team needs to see which concerns recur, what customers actually mean and where a closer investigation would be useful.

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The inputs that make the analysis useful

Customer conversations

Recordings or transcripts with record IDs and the reporting period. Customer identifiers help distinguish repeated contacts from separate customers.

Questions and context

Your product context, theme definitions and supplied attributes such as product, region or journey stage. Explain the decisions the report should inform.

Start with a business question

Ask which delivery explanations confuse customers, what onboarding steps create friction or which product capabilities people request. These questions shape the taxonomy and the evidence to extract. Keep customer-stated needs, agent explanations and analyst interpretations distinguishable so your team can see where each conclusion comes from.

Pair themes with source examples

Scope a report containing theme definitions, counts and representative passages. Include an unclear category where the conversation cannot support a more precise label. A theme should lead back to its source, allowing a product owner to inspect wording and context before deciding what action to take.

Count the right unit

Decide whether frequency means calls, customers or cases, and state the analyzed denominator. One conversation may mention several themes; one customer may contact you repeatedly. Explain overlaps and duplicates rather than presenting theme counts as mutually exclusive shares or assuming they represent your entire customer population.

Compare groups your data actually describes

Use supplied product, region or journey-stage fields to examine differences. A delivery question concentrated in onboarding calls can suggest where to investigate communication. The report should also show coverage limitations: a group with few recordings offers less evidence, and call frequency alone does not establish a verified product defect.

Move from themes to a review agenda

Separate product requests, service complaints and unresolved questions according to your definitions. Review missed themes and misleading matches on a sample, then choose the questions worth taking to product, operations or research. Customer comments provide a starting point for investigation; the team still determines the operational cause and response.

Illustrative example

Delivery themes in a fictional call corpus

Delivery themes in a fictional call corpus
ThemeCalls mentioning itExample of customer-stated concern
Delivery-date uncertainty36 of 200Customer asks when the order will arrive.
Conflicting delivery advice14 of 200Customer reports receiving two different dates.
Change delivery address9 of 200Customer asks to update the destination.

Fictional counts. All 14 conflicting-advice calls also mention date uncertainty; rows overlap and describe analyzed calls, not population prevalence.

Agree a report built around your decisions

We define theme rules, counting units and report fields with your team. Customer or case deduplication, metadata joins and custom reporting views can be scoped when your questions require them.

Questions about this workflow

Can we include feature requests?

Yes. Define how feature requests differ from current-product questions and reported problems, with examples for reviewers.

Is this a sentiment report?

The focus is the needs, concerns and feedback supported by conversations. Additional tags should serve a defined question and be reviewed on your sample.

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Ask a better question of your conversations

Tell us what your CX, product or research team wants to learn and which conversations are available. We will propose a theme structure and a sample review that makes the findings useful.

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