For Masters & PhD students

Fix the question
before it's
asked.

Methea sharpens your research question with Socratic gates, then builds the framework and methodology around it — so your research survives interrogation, before two years are sunk into the wrong question. You bring the thinking. Methea asks the right questions.

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Based on your brief

Your question asks how policies get translated — do you want to interpret the meaning, or trace the changes over time?

Meaning & logic

→ interpretive methods · discourse analysis

Trace the changes

→ historical-comparative · document analysis

Both mechanisms and meaning

→ mixed design · documents + elite interviews

Methea surfaces the question. You decide — and stay the author.

The Socratic gate

The tool that asks instead of answers

Methea never hands you an answer. At key moments it asks a sharp question drawn from your own brief — with reasoned options, each tied to a method. You choose, and you stay the author. This is the engine competitors can't copy.

Methea does

  • Suggests theories from a curated library
  • Builds your conceptual framework
  • Recommends a methodology chain with reasoning
  • Generates interview questions anchored to your framework
  • Codes transcripts and surfaces themes
  • Exports an annotated research scaffold

You write

  • Your discussion chapter
  • Your conclusion
  • Your final report
  • Your interpretation of findings
  • Your argument and voice

This distinction is what makes Methea a tool universities recommend instead of ban.

How it works

Three layers, one research thread

Every block builds on what came before. Change a theory and your methodology updates. Change a framework concept and your interview questions update.

01

Plan

Upload your brief. Methea suggests theories, builds your conceptual framework, and derives a complete methodology chain — each step with a plain-English "why."

  • Theory discovery (40-theory library)
  • Framework builder
  • Methodology chain
  • Socratic clarification gate
02

Collect

Generate an interview guide anchored to your exact framework concepts. Every question is tagged to the theory it probes.

  • 10–15 interview questions
  • Each question tagged to framework
  • Export to Word
03

Analyse

Upload transcripts. Methea codes them against your framework, surfaces themes, and gives you a structured findings scaffold — you interpret, not the AI.

  • Deductive + inductive coding
  • Theme synthesis
  • Verbatim quote evidence
  • Student validates themes (Gate 3)

For supervisors & institutions

Built to complement your teaching,
not replace your student's thinking

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Citation-verified only

Every theory in Methea's library is from a curated, verified set. The AI never invents authors, titles, or DOIs — OpenAlex verification runs on every citation before the student sees it.

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Scaffolds, never ghostwrites

Methea exports annotated scaffolds with placeholder prompts, not polished prose. The student fills in the analysis, interpretation, and argument — that's non-negotiable.

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Every step stays connected

Framework concepts drive interview questions drive coding categories drive findings. The thread from brief to analysis is visible and traceable — useful for supervision conversations.

Pricing

Students think in projects, not subscriptions

Free

$0

Always free

  • 1 project
  • Full framework builder
  • Methodology chain
  • Education layer (all glossary + reasoning)
  • View everything in-app
  • Export
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Project

$49

One-time · valid until you're done

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited exports
  • 5 transcript analyses
  • Interview guide export
  • Full findings scaffold
  • Valid for one project
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Researcher

$19/mo

Unlimited projects

  • Everything in Project
  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited transcripts
  • Priority support
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Your research, methodically.

Start with your brief. Methea handles the rest of the structure.

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