Transcript to markdown

Turns a session transcript into clean markdown you can drop into a repo, a wiki or your notes, without paraphrasing a word.

Workflow 3 of 12SynthesisSeptember 30, 2026

Get the workflow

Enter your details and the prompt appears here, ready to copy.

How do I convert an interview transcript to markdown?

Ask an AI tool connected to Great Question to export the session transcript as markdown: a heading with the study and date, speaker-attributed dialogue, and timestamps every few turns. Tell it to strip filler words but never paraphrase. The result drops straight into a repo, a wiki or Obsidian with the participant's exact wording intact.

Who runs it
Anyone who writes somewhere other than a document editor.
Where you sign off · Read only
Nothing. Read only.
Schedule it · By hand
No. Run it when you need it.

How to run it in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot

The prompt is the same in every tool. What changes is where you connect Great Question and where you paste it.

Run it in Claude

  1. 1

    Connect Great Question to Claude

    In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector. Name it Great Question, paste https://greatquestion.co/api/mcp/v1, then Save and Connect and sign in with your Great Question account. Restart Claude so the tools load.

  2. 2

    Paste the prompt

    Start a new chat and paste the prompt. Claude asks before it uses each Great Question tool; allow the read tools, and read anything it proposes to write before you allow it.

Your admin has to switch the MCP on in Great Question first. The MCP guide covers every tool, the security model and a team rollout.

The tools it calls

Named so you can see exactly what the agent touches before you let it near anything.

  • get_transcript

What we never automate

Four rules sit under every workflow here, and they matter more than the workflows.

  • Nothing reaches a participant without a person

    No workflow sends an invitation, an email or a reminder. The MCP can do those things. They are left out on purpose, because a scheduled job that contacts your customers is a different category of risk from one that reads a transcript.

  • Nothing launches a study without a person

    An agent can build the screener and draft the messages. Someone still presses go.

  • Nothing reaches a stakeholder unchecked

    The synthesis workflows hand you quotes with links attached so you can check them in one click. Use the click. A misattributed quote in a board deck costs more than the hour it saved.

  • Nothing sees more than the person who connected it

    Permissions follow the individual, so an agent connected by a PM reaches exactly what that PM reaches. Your admin decides whether it is available at all.

Questions

Will the AI change what participants said?

Not if you tell it not to. The prompt says to keep the exact wording and only remove filler words. Spot-check a few lines against the session the first time you run it.

Why markdown rather than a document?

Markdown works where technical teams already write: git repos, wikis, Obsidian, Notion imports. It also keeps a transcript small enough to hand to another AI tool as context later.

Can I convert a whole study at once?

Yes. Ask for every session in the study, one markdown block per session. For more than a handful, the transcript vault workflow is the better fit.

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