How Spryng differs from AI summaries
Some teams collect open-text answers in a form, paste them into a general-purpose AI tool, and ask for the themes. This page explains how Spryng's approach differs, and where AI does and does not appear in Spryng.
What a summary does
A summary reflects the choices of whoever writes the prompt, and it can smooth over unusual accounts and dissent. When a summary is written for you, the meaning comes from the tool and the person prompting it, not from the person who lived the experience.
What Spryng does instead
In Spryng each storyteller shares a short story and places it on simple visual scales (triads and dyads) themselves. The structure comes from participants. Every pattern links back to the original stories behind it, so you can open the stories and check for yourself.
| Comparison | AI summary of open text | Spryng |
|---|---|---|
| Who interprets the meaning? | The tool, guided by the prompt. | The participant, who places their own story. |
| What do you work from? | A written summary of themes. | The stories, plus the participants' own placements. |
| Unusual accounts and dissent | Can be smoothed over in a summary. | Stay visible as individual stories you can open. |
| Traceability | Harder to see which words led to which theme. | Each pattern links back to the stories behind it. |
Where AI appears in Spryng
Spryng's AI-assisted features are transcription, translation and redaction of responses, and the optional AI Pattern Synthesis add-on. Each is optional. An account owner can ask us to turn any of them off for their organization by emailing privacy@spryng.io, and we confirm in writing when it is done. Turning off AI redaction does not turn off rule-based redaction.