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USER-RESEARCH5 MIN READ

Run an Affinity Synthesis Pass

Run a structured affinity pass from note cleanup to theme prioritization.

Mei must synthesize 98 onboarding notes into useful findings without forcing the team's expected categories onto the data. Affinity pass: clean notes -> group by similarity -> label themes -> prioritize next steps The common trap is starting with preset product categories. That makes the board neat, but it can hide user jobs, contradictions, and small high-stakes clusters. Clean notes Rewrite each sticky as one observation, preserving user language and removing researcher conclusions. Clean notes prevent inference from masquerading as data. Group silently first Cluster notes that describe similar behaviors or pressures before naming the clusters. Grouping before labeling helps…

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