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A closed survey can leave you with thousands of comments and no obvious place to start. Comment Copilot reads them and hands back a summary, so you can get to action planning instead of scrolling.
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Before you start
Comment Copilot is an optional feature that must be enabled by Perceptyx at the subscription level. If it needs to be enabled for your company, your Platform Administrator should contact the Perceptyx Customer Success Manager.
Comment Copilot leverages the power of OpenAI to help you quickly understand employee feedback by summarizing open-ended comments from closed Point-In-Time listening events. With a single click, Comment Copilot can analyze your comment data based on one of four predefined prompts, helping to fast-track your action planning process.
Comment Copilot is designed to analyze only the text of employee comments. It does not process or interpret quantitative survey data, such as ratings or scores. It is available with the use of standard theme detection.
Comment Copilot is currently available for closed Point-In-Time events only. If enabled for your company, it is potentially available for all closed Point-In-Time events you have access to. However, platform administrators can disable Comment Copilot for individual events or enable it for previous listening events.
What gets sent, and what does not
Comment Copilot uses generative AI, which leverages OpenAI. When data is sent to OpenAI for analysis, only the comment text itself is shared. No demographic details, client identifiers, or any other metadata are transmitted. Perceptyx does not train on customer data.
Before any data is sent to OpenAI, we apply our Named Entity Recognition model to automatically mask names found in open-ended comments. This is a critical privacy safeguard required for processing comment data. As a result, once Comment Copilot is enabled for an event, any detected names will appear masked in the interface and in comment dashboards.
For details about our approach to generative AI, see Perceptyx Perspective on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Generative AI.
If you would rather ask your own questions
For organizations that want to go beyond the four predefined prompts and prefer more interactive analysis, Perceptyx offers Narrative Analysis Agent, which enables users to ask natural-language questions to uncover key insights and then go deeper by asking follow-up questions or requesting verbatim examples. For more information, see Use Narrative Analysis Agent.
This article walks through
Comment Copilot overview
Comment Copilot summarizes employee comments using four predefined prompts:
- Overall Summary
- Top 5 victories
- Top 5 challenges
- Top 5 ways to improve

Each prompt transforms a large set of comments into a concise, easy-to-digest summary, helping you quickly identify patterns and prioritize action.
For more targeted insights, you can refine the comments being analyzed before generating a summary. You can:
- Apply a theme filter to focus on a specific topic
- Use demographic filters, from Advanced Reporting, to analyze specific groups
- Add a keyword search to narrow results to specific terms or phrases
These options allow you to explore feedback at both a high level and in more focused ways. For example, identifying top challenges within a specific department or summarizing feedback about a particular theme.
Important points to keep in mind
- You can use Comment Copilot only if it is enabled for the event and you have appropriate permissions.
- When you access Comment Copilot, any demographic filters in your Advanced Reporting will be applied.
- You cannot modify the demographic filters in Comment Copilot. To change them, return to Advanced Reporting to modify your demographic filter selections.
- Some filters are not currently supported in Comment Copilot, specifically manager hierarchy and response-based filters.
Access Comment Copilot
You access Comment Copilot in Advanced Reporting.
- In the navigation bar, click Analyze.
- Click View Report in the Recent section or in the All Reports table for the closed event you want to analyze.
Advanced Reporting opens.
From here, you can access Comment Copilot in one of two ways.
From the left navigation panel
- In the left navigation panel, click Comment Copilot.
Comment Copilot opens with the first comment question in the event selected for analysis.

From the Comments Report
- In the left navigation panel, click Comments Report.
- On the Summary tab, click Summarize for the question you want to analyze.
Comment Copilot opens with that question selected for analysis.

Who has access
All event administrators and creators have access to Comment Copilot in events where it is enabled.
Use Comment Copilot
You can use Comment Copilot with or without a theme filter, demographic filters, or keyword searches. Applying filters or keywords first helps you conduct deeper, more targeted analysis.
No filters or keywords
- Click an AI prompt.
The summary displays below the prompts.

- To view other available summaries, click the other AI prompts.
- If you want to analyze a different question, display the Selected Question dropdown, then select another question.
Summaries stack up
If you select additional prompts, the summaries display adjacent to each other. The summaries clear only if you select a different question or apply or edit filters.

Apply a theme filter
You can apply one theme filter at a time.
- If necessary, select the question you want to analyze.
- In the Filters section at the bottom left, display the Themes dropdown, then select a theme.
- Click Apply Filters.
The selected theme displays in the Including section, along with the number of comments.

- Click an AI prompt.
The summary displays below the prompts. - To view other available summaries, click the other AI prompts.
Removing a filter
Click X next to the filter in the Including section, or click Clear Filters at the top right.
Apply demographic filters
You can apply one or more demographic filters within Advanced Reporting and they will be reflected, but not editable, in Comment Copilot. Applied demographic filters display in the Filters section at the top of the screen. Any thematic filters you apply appear in the Filters section below the selected question.

You can use demographic filters to analyze comment data across your entire population or focus on specific groups. This allows you to uncover patterns, differences, or concerns unique to certain roles, locations, departments, and more.
For detailed information about applying demographic filters in Advanced Reporting, see Filter Your Data.
Apply a keyword search
You can apply a keyword search to your comments and then use Comment Copilot to view summaries for the returned comments.
- Select a question, and optionally apply a filter.
- In the Filters section, click the Comment Keyword box, type your keyword or phrase, then click Apply Filters.
The comments for the selected question are filtered by your search criteria, and the Including section displays the number of comments.

- Click an AI prompt.
The summary for the comments displays below the prompts. - To view other available summaries, click the other AI prompts.
Where to go next
The summaries you get out of Comment Copilot are only as good as the comments going in, and that comes down to how the open-ended questions were worded when the survey was built. Neutral phrasing, broader questions and bigger text boxes all give Comment Copilot more to work with.
Read this before your next survey
Designing Open-Ended Items for Comment Copilot walks through how to write open-ended questions that Comment Copilot can do something with, with before and after examples for wording, breadth, response length and audience.
Two others that come up alongside Comment Copilot:
- Use Narrative Analysis Agent covers the conversational option, where you ask your own questions of the comments instead of using the four prompts.
- Filter Your Data covers setting the demographic filters that Comment Copilot picks up from Advanced Reporting.
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