Qualitative research · v1.0.0

ThemeCite

Quote-linked Theme Coder

Code interviews with exact quotes you can trace back to the source.

For researchers and customer-experience analysts who want an auditable codebook workflow for consented interview text, rather than an unsupported summary.

Get ThemeCite · $12 All five · $49

One-time USD source-pack license. Manual delivery, not a web app or AI subscription.

What the tool actually does

Links each theme to original source IDs and exact Unicode character spans.
Checks quote text, offsets, duplicate spans, codebook labels and minimum distinct sources.
Supports a fixed codebook, or validation of provisional inductive agent output.

Bring: Source JSON containing ID/text pairs and a JSON codebook with codes, labels and keywords.
Get: Theme JSON containing verbatim quote evidence and notes. Source texts remain unchanged.
Without a model: Literal codebook-keyword sentence candidates. No inductive theme discovery without an agent.

Small, invented example—not a customer result

Synthetic source I-01
“The dashboard loads slowly.”
Code: PERF / Performance friction
Span: start 0, end 27 (Unicode characters)
Quote check: exact match, not proof of interpretation

Illustrative excerpt from the shipped synthetic fixtures. A successful example is not an accuracy benchmark.

See the CLI workflow

python3 scripts/themecite.py draft sources.json codebook.json --out themes.json
python3 scripts/themecite.py validate sources.json codebook.json --themes themes.json

Where ThemeCite stops

Exact quotes do not prove a sound interpretation, independent sampling or population prevalence. Only codebook mode was live-tested. No audio transcription; use consented/deidentified text.

Tested on Linux/Python with small synthetic inputs. Customer workloads, Windows/macOS, agent auto-install/discovery and every host version are untested.

In the download

Actual Skill recipe and deterministic Python engine/validator
English README, input fixtures, reference outputs and executable unit tests
Personal/internal commercial-use license; client outputs are allowed, source-pack redistribution is not

Python 3.10+ is required. SheetAudit also needs openpyxl. Text-PDF extraction in RedlineBrief optionally needs Poppler pdftotext. Models and third-party runtimes are not included. These are source tools, not one-click desktop installers.

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