MillerKnoll AI
Surveys / Insights

MK Comment Signal

ProductionAISE

Turns thousands of open-text engagement-survey comments into ranked themes with real verbatim evidence — PII removed, ready for a leadership deck.

Executive Summary

The story, in brief.

Open-text survey comments are the richest — and most unread — part of an engagement survey, because reading and coding thousands of them by hand isn’t realistic. MK Comment Signal turns them into ranked themes with real verbatim evidence, PII removed, ready to inform an organizational decision.

4–5 themes
Per survey question, frequency-ranked
≥ 12 quotes
Verbatim evidence per theme
PII-redacted
Names, emails, IDs removed automatically
Jan 20, 2026
In production for HR / People
Architecture

How it’s built.

Upload the Perceptyx survey-comment PDF; a topic flow extracts the text for four survey questions; a series of analysis steps identify 4–5 recurring themes per question ranked by comment frequency, each backed by at least 12 verbatim quotes — with names, emails, and IDs auto-redacted. An optional Power Automate flow exports a formatted Word document to OneDrive.

AI Leverage

What AI actually does here.

Thousands of comments
4–5 themes / question

Reading the unreadable

Coding thousands of open-text responses by hand isn’t realistic for a People team — the agent reads the whole set and returns ranked themes with evidence, turning volume into insight.

Verbatim evidence
≥ 12 quotes / theme

Verifiable, not vibes

Each theme is backed by at least twelve real quotes ordered by frequency, so the finding can be checked against the source rather than trusted blind.

Automatic PII redaction
names · emails · IDs

Privacy as a feature

Redaction is built into the pipeline, making it safe to analyze and circulate sensitive feedback — the guardrail that lets the analysis happen at all.

Collaborators

Built with the business, not for it.

Michael Pietrangelo
Director, AI Enablement & Knowledge — AISE engineer.
HR / People Analytics
The team that runs the engagement survey and consumes the themed output.