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Interview Template

Copy this file into discovery/interviews/YYYY-MM-DD-org-or-role.md for each interview. Fill in the metadata and synthesis sections; keep the raw transcript separate (link it, don't paste the whole thing here) per the human + AI workflow.

---
title: <Org / Role — one-line topic>
---

# <Interviewee role> at <Organization>

## Metadata

- **Date:**
- **Interviewer:**
- **Interviewee(s):** (name/role — remove or anonymize if sensitive)
- **Organization:**
- **Stakeholder type:** landowner | municipality | forestry expert | contractor | funder | public institution | researcher
- **Transcript / recording:** <link, if kept elsewhere>
- **Confidence in notes:** Low | Medium | High (verbatim transcript vs. paraphrased memory)

## Context

Why this interview happened, how the contact was sourced, anything relevant about their role.

## Key findings

- Finding 1 — tie back to a [hypothesis](../hypotheses.md#h1--operational-orchestration-is-the-bottleneck-not-measurement) where relevant.
- Finding 2
- Finding 3

## Direct quotes

> "..." — attributed, only if the interviewee is OK being quoted.

## Pain points mentioned (ranked as stated, not as we'd like them)

1.
2.
3.

## Contradictions with existing knowledge

Does anything here conflict with an existing claim in [hypotheses.md](../hypotheses.md) or another interview? Note it explicitly rather than silently resolving it.

## Follow-ups

- Open questions raised
- People/orgs referenced worth reaching out to