# Brifo for Researchers

Brifo captures user research interviews on macOS without a bot. Verbatim quotes, themed insights, structured for synthesis.

## What Researchers struggle with
- 30+ minute interviews need deep listening, not note-taking
- Verbatim customer quotes get paraphrased and lose impact
- Cross-interview themes (3 users mentioned the same pain) hard to identify
- Synthesis takes 2 to 3 hours per interview after the call
- Stakeholder readouts need polished quote evidence
- Bot in research interview damages rapport with sensitive participants

## How Brifo helps
### Listen deeply, not type
Brifo captures the interview. You focus on the participant. Better questions, better follow-ups, richer data.

### Verbatim quotes preserved
Customer language captured exactly. Usable as direct quotes in research reports without paraphrasing loss.

### Cross-interview theme detection
Search across every interview in a study for common pain points, requested features, mental models.

### No bot, better rapport
Sensitive research topics (career struggles, financial stress, personal health adjacent) need participants to feel private. Bot in the call breaks that.

### Synthesis-ready structured notes
Interview outputs are structured for affinity mapping: observations, quotes, hypotheses ready for synthesis tools.

### Free during beta for solo researchers
Independent UX researchers and academic researchers get zero-cost capture.

## A day in your week
- **9:00 AM**: Generative research interview (Brifo: Captures interview while you focus on listening)
- **11:00 AM**: Concept test with prospective user (Brifo: Verbatim reactions captured for design team review)
- **1:00 PM**: Cross-study theme synthesis (Brifo: Brifo Q&A across every interview: 'how many mentioned X?')
- **3:00 PM**: Stakeholder readout prep (Brifo: Pulls best quotes from each session for the deck)

## TL;DR
Researchers need to listen, not type. Brifo captures every interview on macOS with verbatim quotes. No bot, structured for synthesis, free during beta.

User research is listening work. The more cognitive load you spend on note-taking, the worse your follow-up questions get. The best researchers we've watched all want the same thing: structured capture that lets them listen fully, then high-fidelity output (especially verbatim quotes) for the synthesis phase. Brifo provides exactly this. The bot-free model also matters more for research than for most jobs. Participants in sensitive interviews (career, finance, health-adjacent topics) need to feel the conversation is private, and a visible 'Otter.ai' attendee can quietly suppress what they say. For solo UX researchers, academic researchers, and small research teams, the combination of better-quality interview data and dramatically faster synthesis turns Brifo into core infrastructure.

## FAQ
**Does Brifo preserve verbatim customer language?**

Yes. Transcripts capture the participant's exact words, usable as direct quotes in research reports.

**Can Brifo identify themes across interviews?**

Yes. Meeting Q&A chat lets you search across every session in a study for common themes.

**Is Brifo confidential enough for sensitive research?**

Yes. Audio captured locally on macOS, never uploaded. Appropriate for research involving sensitive topics.

**Does Brifo integrate with research tools like Dovetail?**

Not natively today. You'd export Brifo notes and import to Dovetail, Reduct, or EnjoyHQ. Native research-tool integrations are on the roadmap.

**Will Brifo work for moderated remote interviews?**

Yes. Zoom, Meet, Teams, anywhere participants join. Brifo captures the system audio of the meeting.

**Is Brifo free for independent researchers?**

Yes. Free during public beta on macOS.