Verbatim · Content-analysis method

Summative content analysis

Count manifest words and keywords in context, then read them for latent meaning.

Seminal reference: Hsieh & Shannon (2005)

Verbatim supports Summative content analysis as a declared approach: it shapes the guidance and the report while you code your corpus on a fluid canvas. A bounded, codebook-grounded AI may suggest codes in the margin, but the reliability engine measures inter-coder agreement and the researcher decides — every number is computed by golden-verified math kernels, never by a language model.