About Themescape
Software for thematic analysis, built in Christchurch by a researcher who needed it.
Why Themescape exists
I built Themescape because I wanted to see my whole analysis at once, without handing my data to anyone.
Themescape began in my own practice. Alongside clinical work I was doing research and supervising students, and the thematic analysis happened in spreadsheets. The coding was careful, but the picture of how the themes connected lived in my head and nowhere else. I wanted to see the whole analysis on one screen, move through it, and show it to a supervisor or a room, without sending a single transcript to a server I did not control.
Today Themescape is a viewer that reads a coded spreadsheet in your browser and shows the themes, codes and quotes as a map you can refine and present. It does not code for you, and there is no AI in the analysis. The thinking is the researcher's. The software shows it.
What we believe
Three principles behind the product. They are the reasons it works the way it does, and the reasons some things are left out. Each one is a decision you can hold us to.
- Your data stays with youThe viewer reads your file in the browser. Transcripts and quotes are read locally and never leave the machine, and no file submission or permanent storage is required. Google Sheets mode is opt in, for non-sensitive data only.Read the data pledge
- You do the thinking, Themescape shows itThere is no AI in the analysis. The software draws what you have coded and lets you refine it, so every theme on the map is one you made and can defend.See how it works
- Built for the way reflexive thematic analysis actually worksThemes change as you read. The viewer is made for merging, splitting, renaming and defining, with verbatim quotes never altered and a separate refined column for presentation wording.See the features
The people
A psychologist who built the thing she needed, and the designer who builds the site and runs the business with her.
Charlotte Price
Co-founder
I am an organisational psychology practitioner and consultant completing a PhD at the University of Canterbury. My research examines how people make career decisions and sustain their health in demanding professional contexts. Themescape grew out of that doctoral work and generalises the interactive thematic maps I built to present my own coded data. My practice pairs psychological insight with practical structure, and Themescape applies the same principle to qualitative analysis, helping researchers see and share their themes clearly while their data stays on their own machine.
Levi Wilson
Co-founder
Levi Wilson is a co-founder of Themescape and runs its marketing and business side. He designed the Themescape brand and built this website, drawing on his work as Managing Director of Revamp Digital, a Christchurch web design and development agency.
Part of the Integration Lab group
Themescape is one of the Integration Lab streams, a Christchurch group led by Charlotte Price and positioned as psychology-led innovation for high performing people. Find out about the group, the practice behind it and what else is being built.
The group site is on its way.
See your own themes come to life
Try the live demo or start a 7 day free trial. Your data is read in your browser and never leaves your computer.