Desk research
An AI assistant that answers a question with sources
A question in, a sourced answer out. Does the looking, keeps the links, and tells you which part it could not confirm rather than smoothing over it.
What you'd say
Who else does this, what do they charge, and how do you know?
When it runs
When you ask. Brief it in a sentence, any time.
What it uses
a browser
Wants a browser.
Where it stops and asks
It keeps the links and tells you which part it could not confirm rather than smoothing over it. A confident sentence with no source is not an answer.
How it goes
The running order.
Every step lands in the record with a time and a source, so you can read what it did instead of asking.
- Work out what would answer the question
- Look, in a real browser
- Keep the links
- Write the answer, and what it could not confirm
Questions
The ones that come up first.
How is this different from asking a chat window?
It does the looking in a real browser and keeps where it looked. The answer is a document with sources you can open, in your folder, and it says plainly what it could not find.
Can it compare competitors?
That is the usual ask: who else does this, what they charge, how it knows. Pair it with competitor watch to be told when the answer changes.
How long does it take?
Longer than a chat answer and shorter than your afternoon. Brief it and come back.
Who hands this over most
Popular with these businesses.
Write up Thursday's session from my notes in the format I use for Ardent.
One person cannot do the work and the work around the work. Two can.
Find every distressed commercial listing in South Brooklyn under $5M and put them in a sheet.
Nothing goes to a seller until you have read it.
Who has bought industrial in this submarket in the last two years?
Nothing goes to a client until you have read it.
Make it your first job.
Sign in, start a Hand, and paste the ask from the top of this page. Plans start at $20 a month, with work included.
