Human Expert Interview Guide Template
Prepare a trained human moderator with neutral, decision-linked questions, approved probes, consent checks, sensitive-information stop rules, and an evidence handoff.
12
editable prompts
~45
minutes
New
preparation artifact
Create an editable preparation artifact in your workspace. A trained human still owns screening, outreach, moderation, consent, and evidence review.
Best for
Human moderators and note-takers interviewing screened specialists about a defined decision.
Decision output
Run a consistent human-led conversation and hand source-labeled evidence to a reviewer.
Method
Semi-structured human expert interview guide with neutral probes and governance checkpoints.
Before you use this template
- • Gotopico does not currently host, record, transcribe, or autonomously moderate this interview.
- • A trained human moderator owns pacing, clarification, distress response, redirection, and stop decisions.
- • Separate observed facts, respondent interpretation, moderator inference, contradiction, and unresolved uncertainty during synthesis.
Human expert interview bundle
Preparation boundary
This is an editable guide for a trained human moderator. Gotopico does not currently host, record, transcribe, or autonomously moderate the interview.
- Step 1
Interview Study Brief
Align the decision, evidence threshold, expert profile, exclusions, governance, and handoff before recruitment begins.
- Step 2
Qualification Screener
Collect recent, relevant experience plus consent, conflict, confidentiality, and availability signals for human review.
- Step 3
Interview Guide
Give a trained human moderator a decision-linked sequence, neutral probes, stop rules, and a consistent evidence handoff.
Good fit
- • A human moderator can adapt approved probes while preserving comparability.
- • The team needs depth, mechanisms, exceptions, and decision-relevant examples.
- • Consent, conflict, recording, and sensitive-information rules are settled before the session.
Bad fit
- • The team expects the template or an AI agent to run the interview autonomously.
- • The decision requires statistically representative estimates rather than specialist depth.
- • The topic lacks an escalation path for distress, restricted information, or withdrawn consent.
Governance modules
Informed consent
State the research purpose, voluntary nature, withdrawal path, intended use, and who will receive the output.
Conflict review
Screen employment, advisory, investment, competitive, and other interests before discussing the study topic.
Confidentiality boundary
Tell respondents not to disclose confidential, privileged, material non-public, patient, or customer-identifiable information.
Recording permission
Ask separately before any external recording or transcription and document the decision; this template does not record or transcribe.
Sensitive-information stop rule
Pause, redirect, and exclude content when a respondent begins sharing restricted or identifying information.
Handoff check
Moderator and note-taker confirm consent status, source labels, contradictions, caveats, and follow-up actions before synthesis.
Review the human-led workflowPreview Sections
Opening and permissions
Confirm identity context, voluntary participation, boundaries, and any external recording decision.
Decision evidence
Explore mechanisms, examples, trade-offs, exceptions, disagreement, and evidence that would change the view.
Close and handoff
Resolve caveats, permission for attribution or follow-up, and structured moderator notes.
Artifact Prompt Preview
1. Before we begin, what relevant role and experience should frame your answers about {expert_domain}?
2. Do you consent to this human-led research conversation and understand how the evidence will be used?
3. What conflict, confidentiality, attribution, or external recording boundary should we document now?
4. How does {decision} get made in practice today?
5. Walk me through a recent, non-confidential example from start to finish.
6. Which constraints or trade-offs most often change the outcome, and why?
7. Where do credible specialists disagree about this topic?
8. What exception or failure mode would make your guidance unsafe to generalize?
9. What evidence would cause you to revise your current view?
10. What have we misunderstood, omitted, or over-simplified?
11. May the team attribute this evidence, use it anonymously, or contact you for clarification?
12. Moderator handoff: label facts, interpretation, contradictions, caveats, restricted content, and follow-up actions.
Template FAQ
Who is the Human Expert Interview Guide template for?
It is designed for human moderators and note-takers interviewing screened specialists about a defined decision. and teams that need Run a consistent human-led conversation and hand source-labeled evidence to a reviewer..
How many prompts are included?
Human Expert Interview Guide includes 12 editable prompts across 3 sections and takes about 45 minutes to review and tailor.
Can I customize this template?
Yes. Copy the artifact into the builder, then tailor its wording and governance rules. A trained human remains responsible for screening, outreach, moderation, consent, and evidence review.