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AI systems surface patterns at scale. Researchers surface meaning. The gap between those two things is not a technical problem. It is where professional judgment lives.
The most consequential decision in any research project happens before a single data point is collected. What are we actually trying to find out, and what would change our minds? No system answers that.
AI can process transcripts, surface patterns, and generate summaries faster than any researcher working alone. What it cannot do is accumulate the kind of knowledge that comes from running fifty projects inside the same organisation, understanding why the last set of findings was ignored, and knowing which stakeholder will kill a recommendation before it reaches the room. That knowledge is not a soft skill. It is the thing the work depends on.