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Meet First Findings: a completely revamped AI analysis experience across your entire playtest

PlaytestCloud Team
by PlaytestCloud Team
July 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM

 Header with text: First Findings: A new experience for our playtest Al analysis

Save hours of time viewing playtest recordings and manually categorizing insights.

Analyzing playtests shouldn’t feel like a never-ending quest. Yet, for many UX researchers, designers, developers and PMs, it often does. Hours spent reviewing video after video, manually tagging notes, trying to spot patterns across dozens of sessions…it’s exhausting. And it slows down decision making, collaboration, and the development process.

We’ve expanded and updated the way our AI analysis works to help you move from raw data to actionable insights faster, clearer, and with less overwhelm.

What’s new?

Building on our existing AI analysis, your First Findings summary will now look at all videos within a playtest order and creates a concise, theme-based summary, so you can see the bigger picture at a glance.

Key themes and points of friction are automatically categorized, with links right to the clips to make sure you'd draw the same conclusion.

You’ll find key insights neatly organized by themes that matter most for game development:

  • Usability
  • Game Design
  • Enjoyment
  • Monetization
  • Frustration

In each theme, links to clips across all players’ recordings support the preliminary analysis so you can quickly review and confirm the insights. Each summary highlights what’s working, what’s not, and recurring patterns across your player sessions.

Image shows a screenshot of the AI analysis with timestamps of the recordings that you can click. Underneath there's the screenshot of what would pop up when clicking on the timestamps: that piece of the recording where the player expressed that particular insight.

It’s like having a co-pilot for your analysis, connecting the dots so you don’t have to.

Researchers aren't replaced, they're enhanced (and accelerated).

How First Findings help you go further, faster:

  • Save hours of manual work.

No more endless rewatches, no more spreadsheets.

  • Simplify reporting.

Get ready-to-share summaries for your team or stakeholders.

  • Spot patterns, fast.

See emerging themes clearly, without getting lost in the weeds.

  • Make decisions with confidence.

Move forward faster with insights you can trust.

 

Subscription customers, this one's for you:

Check out First Findings on your most recently completed playtest, we’ve retroactively added the full playtest summary for you to see!

 

 

PlaytestCloud Team
Post by PlaytestCloud Team
July 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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