of 5— Gather and prepare your exit interview notes

What you'll accomplish

You'll use Claude to analyze your accumulated exit interview notes and surface patterns in why employees leave — turning raw notes into retention insights you can bring to leadership with supporting evidence.

What you'll need

A free or Pro account at claude.ai
Exit interview notes from the past 6–12 months (typed notes, not recordings)
At least 5–6 exit interviews to analyze (fewer makes patterns hard to spot)
Time needed: 20–30 minutes
Cost: Free (Claude free tier is sufficient for most batches)

How-To Guide: Analyze Exit Interview Themes with Claude

Step 1: Gather and prepare your exit interview notes

Collect all your exit interview notes from the past 6–12 months. If they're in your HRIS or a folder, open them all.

For each exit interview, note: employee's role, department, tenure, and their free-text responses about why they left and what the company could do better
Remove employee names and any details that could identify individuals (department and tenure are fine to keep)
Number each interview

What you should see: A numbered list of anonymized exit interview summaries