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Narrative Analysis Agent

Turn Every Comment into Insight

The Narrative Analysis Agent reads every open-text employee response, detects themes, sentiment, and intent, and surfaces the verbatim quotes that anchor your action plan, in a conversational interface any HR practitioner can use.

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Overview

The Narrative Intelligence Layer

The Perceptyx Narrative Analysis Agent ingests open-text feedback from employee surveys and third-party platforms like Glassdoor and LinkedIn, and uses discriminative AI to detect sentiment, intent, and the subtext that surface-level word counts miss.

By the Numbers:
  • 70,000+ open-text comments at Nokia in a single annual survey cycle
  • 20-point gap between organizations sharing survey results and driving change
  • 11x more likely to achieve high engagement when listening connects to action
Use Cases

Where the Narrative Analysis Agent Makes the Biggest Difference

Save Thousands of Hours of Manual Analysis

Save Thousands of Hours of Manual Analysis

"We have 60,000 open-text responses and a team of two."

The Narrative Analysis Agent reads and synthesizes thousands of open-text comments in minutes, replacing the weeks of manual review that keep People Analytics teams stuck in data instead of driving action.

Detect Patterns Humans Miss

Detect Patterns Humans Miss

"The comments tell us ten different stories and we can't tell which ones to prioritize.”

Discriminative AI surfaces sentiment, intent, and subtext across your full comment dataset, catching the emotional weight and through-lines that manual review and keyword searches overlook.

Ground Every Action Plan in Employee Language

Ground Every Action Plan in Employee Language

"Leadership wants to see real examples of the issues we’re flagging, not a slide full of our paraphrasing."

The agent surfaces verbatim employee quotes representative of key themes, so leaders and HRBPs act in response to actual employee voice rather than analyst interpretation.

Put Insight in the Hands of Those Who Need It

Put Insight in the Hands of Those Who Need It

“I wish I could dig into my team’s feedback directly for additional context on things that aren’t clear.”

A conversational interface lets HRBPs and managers query their own population's feedback directly, with demographic filters and anonymization built in, so they can ask clarifying questions that help uncover nuance and enable more effective action.

How it Works

Plain-Language Questions, Sourced Answers

Narrative Analysis Agent

Plain-language questions of your comment data return synthesized, sourced responses. A query like "what barriers to performance do operations employees mention most?" returns themes, verbatim quotes, and demographic distribution, with no query language or data export required.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Discriminative AI detects sentiment, intent, and subtext beyond word frequency. A theme in 8% of comments with high emotional weight often outranks a theme in 30% with neutral sentiment, and the agent surfaces both. The priority signal is the combination of how often something is said and how much weight is behind it, which keyword counts cannot detect.

Read Every Word Your Employees Write

The Narrative Analysis Agent lives inside the Perceptyx People Activation System. Get a demo to see firsthand how it surfaces themes, sentiment, intent, and the verbatim quotes that anchor what comes next.

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