Sort your interviews by quality and skip the weak ones

A study with a few hundred completed interviews leaves you with a few hundred hours of footage. Somewhere in there are the sessions that will carry the report, and somewhere else is the participant who answered every question with three words, the one whose audio dropped out halfway, and the one who was clearly doing something else. Until now, telling them apart meant opening interviews one by one.

How it works

• Every completed interview gets a quality score. Conveo evaluates the finished session and shows an overall rating in the Interviews grid, alongside status, duration and any flags.

• Sort and filter by score. Rank the grid to start with the strongest sessions, or filter to the weakest to decide what to do with them.

• Hide weak sessions from the analysis. Hiding an interview takes it out of the completed-interview base for analysis and reports, while keeping it available to review or bring back.

• Report to your panel. For supported recruitment sources, report a participant from the same row. Conveo sends the report to the provider, flags the participant and hides the interview.

Research teams asked for it in four situations

These come from teams we work with in consumer goods, drinks, flavors and fragrance, design software, entertainment, travel, telecom and research agencies. We kept them anonymous.

• Cleaning the base before analysis. Teams wanted a per-interview score so they could decide which sessions to take out before the summaries and themes are built.

• Sending weak or suspect participants back to the panel. Teams asked for a way to flag low-effort or suspicious sessions to their provider and get them replaced while the study is still in field.

• Choosing what to watch. Teams with hundreds of interviews asked where to start when watching everything would take days.

• Showing stakeholders the data was checked. Agencies and insight teams wanted to explain to clients how a good interview is defined and what was excluded, and why.

What this means for your research

Quality scores turn "is this interview worth my time" into a column you can sort. You get to the sessions with the most to say faster, and you have a defensible record of what was left out.

Two limits to keep in mind. The score is an automated assessment: a low score is a reason to open the interview and check the recording, not proof of fraud or misconduct, so review before you hide or report. And scores can arrive after the interview completes, while processing finishes. An interview with no score yet has not scored zero.

Read the interview grid guide for filtering, hiding and reporting, or monitoring fieldwork for how to read quality signals during a live study.