Causal Map
Your stories, visualised
Struggling to make sense of complex, interconnected narratives in interviews, reports, surveys?
Causal Map helps you map out what causes what, through they eyes of your stakeholders.
Code your own data
- Get a subscription or try it out for free.
- Use the Causal Map app online.
- Import your documents or transcripts
- Highlight causal connections.
- Watch as maps appear.
- Answer your research questions
- Follow our extensive documentation or get training.
We do it for you
We process your data for you using Causal Map AI.
- We help you develop your research questions.
- You send us your data.
- We deliver a visual report answering your questions.
Get a quote for our AI consultancy service and start your causal mapping journey with us.
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A web-based app to help you collect causal stories from your stakeholders.
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See what our customers say
Christoph Jaschek
"I chose the tool Causal Map because of its appealing visualisation of the maps and the variety of tools that make a comprehensive analysis of the maps possible. The application allows to directly link the transcripts of the interviews with the creation of the cognitive and causal maps and their systemic analysis.
I also highly appreciated the personal and user-oriented support from Steve and his team that took place via e-mail, several video calls and Slack."
"I chose the tool Causal Map because of its appealing visualisation of the maps and the variety of tools that make a comprehensive analysis of the maps possible. The application allows to directly link the transcripts of the interviews with the creation of the cognitive and causal maps and their systemic analysis.
I also highly appreciated the personal and user-oriented support from Steve and his team that took place via e-mail, several video calls and Slack."
Michelle James
”Overall, I found the Causal Map app to be particularly helpful in combining a diverse range of data sources into one place, and the simple interface allowed for effective induction analysis by breaking up a substantial dataset into small manageable pieces of text that could be considered independently. Following helpful training by the Causal Map and Bath SDR team, I was able to interrogate the data to create helpful visualisations to answer each of my main research questions.”
”Overall, I found the Causal Map app to be particularly helpful in combining a diverse range of data sources into one place, and the simple interface allowed for effective induction analysis by breaking up a substantial dataset into small manageable pieces of text that could be considered independently. Following helpful training by the Causal Map and Bath SDR team, I was able to interrogate the data to create helpful visualisations to answer each of my main research questions.”
What we are up to in 2025
Causal Map continues to be our flagship app for identifying and synthesising causal claims within text. Users can analyse and filter coded files for free, for ever. To do new coding, you can create up to 50 links for free and after that you’ll need a subscription.
Causal Map Workflows is a new app, an AI workhorse to make sense of texts at scale in a way which avoids the notorious "AI black box" and is rigorous, verifiable and repeatable. We believe there isn’t anything quite like it. We can combine causal mapping and other approaches in parallel. At the moment external users can only use Workflows on invitation.
QualiaInterviews.com is our AI interviewer for easily collecting narrative data at scale: “SurveyMonkey, but for stories”. Respondents can type or speak any major language. Anyone can set up an interview at Qualia in just a few minutes, the first 25-50 interviews are free. Top-line summaries are included.
Consulting. Mostly we provide consultancy services on an hourly or daily basis, helping clients conduct interviews with Qualia, making sense of hundreds of reports or interviews …
Some recent projects
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Strengthening OH with causal mapping
Tree Aid: Empowering Communities Through Forest Management in Burkina Faso
Using QuIP and Causal Map in an Evaluation, a WFP interview with DeftEdge
Our seamless stories workflow in practice
Using AI to facilitate feedback on the learning experiences of doctoral students
Creative Home Delivery Service, PSU
Thinking together within and beyond Communities of Practice
An M&E time machine
Comparing a Fine-Tuned Model to an Engineered Prompt in the Context of Causal Connections in a Passage of Text
Partner Ring, ACI, Australia
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