Askli methodology
Research judgment should be visible, revisable, and grounded in evidence.
Askli combines adaptive interviews with explicit evidence boundaries, next-action recommendations, and an integrity review. It supports research decisions; it does not replace expert judgment or make qualitative evidence statistically representative.
1. Decision-first research planning
Askli begins with the product decision and the evidence it would require. It clarifies the audience, recent behavior, meaningful segments, and what the chosen method can and cannot establish before a study runs.
2. Adaptive interviewing
A research plan defines objectives rather than a rigid questionnaire. During an interview, Askli can follow participant-raised signals while retaining the objective, question rationale, and research trajectory.
3. Durable participant evidence
Participant-level evidence is stored separately from study-level synthesis. Claims can retain participant, message, segment, temporal, and evidence-type context so later interpretations remain inspectable.
4. Corrections and contradictions
The evidence model can preserve corrections, retractions, contradictions, and negative cases rather than flattening every account into a consensus. These signals can change what Askli recommends next.
5. Evidence sufficiency
Askli asks whether the current evidence is enough for the original question. It considers theme stability, new information in recent interviews, important disagreements, missing segments, and the limits of the method.
6. Sample-size guidance
Qualitative starting ranges are reasoned from information power, question breadth, audience specificity, heterogeneity, dialogue quality, and decision risk. They are not presented as statistically powered. Quantitative questions require quantitative design assumptions.
7. The next research action
After each batch, Askli may recommend stopping, adding a focused set of participants, targeting a specific segment, using quantitative validation, or refining the research question. The goal is minimum valid evidence—not maximum research.
8. Integrity Check
Askli’s Integrity Check reviews the research process and resulting claims against recorded evidence. It can examine objective and methodology adherence, leading-question risk, evidence provenance, preserved contradictions, synthesis support, and judge agreement. A flag means the result needs review; a pass is not a guarantee that the research is error-free.
9. Responsible boundaries
Qualitative recurrence does not estimate population prevalence. Attitudes and hypothetical intent are not the same as observed behavior. Participant selection, missing stakeholders, context, and implementation quality can all limit what a study supports.
Selected references
Askli exposes methodology references where they inform sample guidance. These sources support specific principles; they do not validate every product decision automatically.
What Askli is designed to answer
“Should I trust what I’m seeing enough to make this product decision, or is another piece of evidence worth gathering?”
Start with your decision