When you’re uploading your data in Summarize, you’ll see a box asking you to provide context.
Your context helps the AI understand the data it's analyzing. It's extremely important and will affect your Summarize output, so we encourage you to take the time to craft a detailed, targeted context.
Context should be written in paragraph form and can be up to 750 characters in length. It should include:
The type of long-form data you're uploading (e.g. interview transcript, survey, podcast transcript),
The topic of the data (e.g. skincare and beauty products), and
The purpose or intent of the data (e.g. the questions it's asking).
Some tips for writing a strong context:
Be as pointy as possible. Tell the AI exactly what your data is about so it knows exactly what it’s analyzing.
Use phrases like “The intent of the survey is to...," “The goal of the interview is to...," or "The interview asks questions such as..."
Use names wherever possible. If it’s an interview for Google, say that.
A few examples:
This is an interview done on behalf of the national postal service. It contains roughly 4 hours of content. The intent is to understand what’s going on in New Zealanders’ lives at the moment: what are the priorities, what’s not such a priority, and how people are feeling in general.
This is a survey about skincare and beauty products. The respondents are influencers in the beauty industry with 10,000 or more followers on TikTok or Instagram. The intent of the survey is to determine which beauty brands are most exciting to influencers right now, as well as the trends they think will become popular over the coming year.
This is an episode of a podcast with female investors. The goal of the podcast is to uncover how these investors are making decisions about where to invest their money. It’s also designed to find out what’s important to these investors, what they’re cautious of, and what ultimately drives their decision to invest in one institution over another.