Skimle for curious professionals
Turn scattered data into clear insights
You read widely, talk to people, and gather information from all directions — interviews, reports, emails, meeting notes, survey responses. The hard part is making sense of it all. Skimle is an easy to use platform supporting different data collection and analysis needs of knowledge workers. Upload your documents, describe what you are looking for, and Skimle handles the analysis — in any language, at any scale.
Skimle was created by two knowledge professionals: Olli with 18 years of experience at McKinsey & Company and Henri with 18 years of experience from academic research as a tool they wished they had all along. Meet the team →
Skimle is the Excel for text
Skimle does in hours what used to take weeks: turns interview transcripts, reports, customer feedback statements or any other text data into a structured, methodologically defensible analysis. Upload your documents, and Skimle automatically builds a category hierarchy linked to verbatim quotes — so you can explore and edit the analysis rather than start from a blank page.
- Take control of large sets of data with ease
- 3x faster: skip the manual drudgery and jump to insights
- Flexible tool not tied to specific domains or workflows
- Rigorous, fully transparent analysis with no hallucinations
- Data stored safely in the EU with full GDPR compliance
TAKE CONTROL OF LARGE SETS OF MESSY DATA
Synthesise documents across sources
Professionals accumulate transcripts, reports, emails, and meeting notes from everywhere — but reading them sequentially takes days, and spotting patterns manually lets the loudest voice win rather than the most common signal. Skimle reads every document systematically, surfaces recurring themes, and gives you a structured knowledge base linked to verbatim quotes, built in hours rather than weeks.
How it works
- 1. Upload your documents
Drag in PDFs, Word files, plain text, CSV exports, or audio files. Mix formats and sources freely.
- 2. Describe what you want to understand
Tell Skimle what you are looking for — in plain language. No codebook or methodology knowledge required.
- 3. Explore the data by category
Skimle reads every document and builds a multi-layer hierarchy of themes, each summarised and linking back to verbatim quotes.
- 4. Discover patterns
Understand how themes vary by source document, gender, industry, or any other metadata variable.
- 5. Export your report
Generate a structured report in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint — ready to share with colleagues or present to stakeholders.
COMBINE THE BREADTH OF SURVEYS WITH THE DEPTH OF INTERVIEWS
Gather opinions and insights from people with an AI-assisted interviewing tool
Collecting feedback and insights from people at scale used to mean weeks of scheduling, conducting, and transcribing interviews — a process too slow and expensive for most professionals to run at meaningful breadth. With Skimle Ask, you don't need to start a big research project, you can simply create AI-assisted interviews with smart follow-up questions. Send the link and allos respondents to answer with voice or text on their phones or computers. After getting the data, Skimle's core engine analyses responses automatically so you get qualitative insight at survey scale.
How it works
- 1. Design your interview
Let AI draft your interview guide and then finalise it yourself. Skimle Ask uses the guide as a basis for a natural conversation, probing for depth where it matters.
- 2. Share a link
Send the interview link by email, Slack, or easily embed it in a web page. Respondents complete it on their own schedule — no coordination of timing required.
- 3. AI conducts the conversations
Each respondent gets a personalised conversation. The AI asks follow-up questions, handles tangents gracefully, and keeps the interview on track.
- 4. Responses are analysed with Skimle
As responses arrive, Skimle structures them into themes. By the time your deadline arrives, the analysis is already done.
- 5. Present the findings
Export a synthesis report with representative quotes and theme breakdowns — ready for a presentation or document.
CONNECT YOUR AI TOOLS TO YOUR RESEARCH DATA
Connect with MCP and Agentic Chat
Once your data is structured in Skimle, you can work with it directly from your favourite AI tools. Use the in-app Agentic Chat to ask questions, merge categories, and explore patterns without leaving Skimle. Or connect Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or any other MCP-compatible tool via Skimle's MCP endpoint and get the same structured access from your own environment.
How it works
- 1. Analyse your documents first
Upload and run analysis as normal. The agent's power comes from the structured data Skimle has already built — insights, categories, memos, and metadata.
- 2. Open Agentic Chat in-app
Click the Chat tab in your project. Ask questions, compare themes across participant groups, or ask the agent to reorganise categories — all without leaving Skimle.
- 3. Or connect via MCP
Add
https://skimle.com/api/mcpto Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf. Authenticate with OAuth or an API key — and your project data is instantly available from inside your tool. - 4. Query, reorganise, and write back
Use 13 read tools to explore your data and 5 write tools to update categories, create notes, or tag insights — all traceable back to source quotes.
- 5. Available on all plans
MCP and Agentic Chat are included with every Skimle subscription. Credits are shared — no separate tier or add-on required.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need a research background to use Skimle?
- No. Skimle is designed to be used by anyone who works with qualitative information — consultants, strategists, HR professionals, policy analysts, journalists, and others. You describe what you are looking for in plain language, and Skimle handles the analysis. The methodology is built in; you do not need to know the terminology.
- What kinds of documents can I bring in?
- Skimle accepts PDF, Word (.docx), RTF, plain text, and CSV files, as well as audio and video recordings that are transcribed automatically. You can mix formats freely within a single project — upload interview transcripts alongside strategy documents, emails, or survey exports and Skimle analyses them together.
- How long does it take to get results?
- A typical project with 10 to 20 documents is usually processed in minutes. Larger datasets of of 100s of documents can take an hour to process. You upload, start the analysis, and come back to a structured theme view — no babysitting required.
- Can I use Skimle Ask to gather feedback from colleagues or customers?
- Yes. Skimle Ask lets you create an AI-powered interview that conducts conversations with respondents on your behalf. You write the questions, share a link, and Skimle handles the rest — including follow-up questions and automatic analysis of the responses. It works for internal feedback, customer research, and anything in between.
- How does Skimle handle documents in different languages?
- Skimle supports over 100 languages and analyses them natively — without translating first. Upload documents in different languages within the same project and Skimle produces a unified theme structure across all of them. This makes it straightforward to run genuinely comparable cross-country research.
- Is my data kept confidential?
- Yes. All data is stored on EU-based servers in compliance with GDPR. Your documents are never used to train AI models. Skimle provides Data Processing Agreements for organisations that need them, and single-tenant deployments are available for stricter data sovereignty requirements.
- How much does Skimle cost?
- Skimle offers a free trial with 500 credits — enough for around 350 to 600 pages of documents — with no credit card required. Paid plans start at €40 per month for individuals. Team and organisational plans are available for groups who want to share projects and a credit pool.
About Skimle
Built for professionals, by professionals
Skimle is based in Finland and developed by people who have spent careers doing qualitative analysis the hard way — hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of documents, weeks of manual coding. We built Skimle because we needed it ourselves.
We are trusted by Finnish government ministries, over 30 universities, dozens of consulting and market research firms, and large companies. All data is stored within the EU and processed according to our strict GDPR policy and terms of service.
Want to learn more? Explore our Signal & Noise blog, our FAQ, and use cases by sector. We are also happy to demo the product or explore how Skimle could fit your needs.