Causal Map app | feature overview

Causal Map features

Everything you need to code, filter, and report causal claims across qualitative data.

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Human first, AI next

Start by hand on a small sample to build your understanding. Then turn on AI coding to scale to hundreds of documents, with human review and edit at every step.

AI features need a separate subscription.

Getting started

Free example project

Getting started

Every new account gets a personal copy of an anonymised tutorial project to practise manual coding on real data.

In-app Guide

Getting started

A built-in help drawer plus a standalone Guide. Searchable, with contextual help buttons on every panel.

Bookmarks!

Getting started

Save any view as a URL bookmark. The same URL always returns to the same map or table.

Projects and sources

Multiple projects with tags

Projects and sources

Organise many projects with tags. Each project holds its own sources, links, and bookmarks.

Upload PDFs and Word files

Projects and sources

Drop PDF or DOCX files straight into a project. Use section separators to split a long document into multiple sources.

Custom columns per source

Projects and sources

Add fields like gender, location or role to every source and edit them spreadsheet-style.

Source groups

Projects and sources

Group sources by stakeholder, theme or any custom column. Compare what each group says causes what.

Sample check

Projects and sources

See how your sample breaks down by demographic before you start coding.

Manual coding

Highlight causal claims

Manual coding

Read your source text and highlight phrases. Each highlight becomes a causal link between two factors.

Bulk edit labels

Manual coding

Rename, merge or search-and-replace factor labels across all links at once.

AI coding

One-click coding

AI coding

Run the full pipeline (auto-code, revise codebook, recode) in one go from a single set-up modal.

Auto-code by paragraph

AI coding

AI reads each source and extracts causal links. Choose a sample size (1, 5, 20%, 50%, 100%) and skip already-coded sources.

Holistic first pass

AI coding

Ask the model to draft a whole-network diagram first, then convert it to links. Reduces fragmentation on complex texts.

Revise codebook

AI coding

Consolidate raw factor labels into a cleaner codebook, optionally with embedding-based pre-clustering.

Recode

AI coding

Map raw labels onto your codebook by AI index matching or embedding similarity.

Per-source prompts

AI coding

Add an extra prompt to individual sources when different documents need different framing.

Filter and analyse

Filter pipeline

Filter and analyse

Stack over twenty filter types in a pipeline. Reorder, repeat or toggle individual steps.

Frequency filters

Filter and analyse

Keep only the most-cited links and factors. Count by citations, sources or other measures.

Path tracing

Filter and analyse

Trace paths from any cause to any effect and see which intermediate factors connect them.

Compare groups

Filter and analyse

Split links by stakeholder group and compare. Who says what?

Animate over time

Filter and analyse

Watch your map build up by source, time period or any custom column.

Semantic clustering

Filter and analyse

Cluster similar labels with embeddings. Soft Recode Plus, Auto Recode, Optimized Cluster and Tribes give different angles.

Maps, tables and charts

Interactive map

Maps, tables and charts

A live causal network. Click any link to see the underlying quotes. Drag, zoom or arrange on a grid.

Map formatting

Maps, tables and charts

Style nodes and edges by colour, size and shape from any factor or link column.

AI map vignettes

Maps, tables and charts

AI writes a short evidence-based summary of the current map, with quotes.

Factors table

Maps, tables and charts

Editable list of every factor with citation counts, demographic breakdowns and statistical significance testing.

Pivot tables and heatmaps

Maps, tables and charts

Drag and drop to cross-tabulate any link or factor field. Heatmaps, charts, significance testing, export.

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Reports from bookmarks

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Bundle bookmarked maps and tables into a multi-page report. Every finding links back to the source text.

AI answers

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Ask plain-language questions of your project. Answers grounded in your sources, links and factors.

Share projects

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Invite collaborators by email with view or edit permissions. Public projects viewable by anyone logged in.

Real-time collaboration

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Live updates when teammates add or edit links. Useful for workshops and demonstrations.

Requires Team subscription.

Versioning

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Restore any earlier state of a project. Roll back accidental bulk edits.

Two-factor authentication

Reports, sharing and collaboration

Optional 2FA per account. Admins can enforce it organisation-wide.

Try it

App (free for core functionality)
app.causalmap.app

Knowledge garden
garden.causalmap.app

Features page
causalmap.app/features

Sign up free and open the built-in example project.

Step-by-step guidance for every panel in the Causal Map Guide.

Sister site for AI interviews: qualiainterviews.com

Questions, please.

hello@causalmap.app

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