Research & market intelligence
Competitor, market and search research with sources you can cite.
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Need Stack 07
I need fast, cited research on competitors and my market
Draft · pending editorial review Verified Oct 16, 2026 Review by Apr 14, 2027 3 sources
Short answer
Use an answer engine or research agent that searches the live web and returns sources, rather than a model answering from memory. Give it a fixed brief (competitors, questions, date range), require citations and dates, and check the key claims yourself before they reach a deck.
What it is
Market research with AI has two failure modes: an AI that confidently answers from stale training data, and hours lost to manual searching. The need is current, sourced answers in minutes.
How it works
- Use live search. Answer engines such as Perplexity cite their sources. Google’s Gemini Deep Research agent plans and runs multi-step research and returns a detailed, cited report. xAI’s models can search the web and X when those tools are switched on.
- Write a fixed brief: the named competitors, the questions to answer and the date range.
- Require citations and dates for every claim.
- Store the results in your research workspace (see the Research & intelligence stack).
Benefits
- Current. Live search avoids the knowledge cutoff problem.
- Auditable. Every claim has a link you can check.
Limits and risks
- Citations aren’t verification. Sources can be wrong or misread, so open the important ones.
- Preview tools. Google says its Deep Research agent is in preview (both versions carry preview model IDs). Expect it to change.
Best-fit stacks
Agent compatibility
| Tool in this entry | How agents connect |
|---|---|
| Perplexity | MCPAPI/CLIBulk import |
| Gemini (Google) | Agent platform API/CLIBulk import |
| Grok | Agent platform API/CLI Bulk import? |
| ChatGPT | Agent platform API/CLIBulk import |
| Notion | MCPAPI/CLIBulk import |
Levels come from each tool's recorded, sourced compatibility. How the levels work.
Related entries
Sources
- Gemini API models · Google, 2026-10-13official accessed Oct 16, 2026
- Models and pricing · xAIofficial accessed Oct 16, 2026
- Gemini Deep Research agent · Googleofficial accessed Oct 16, 2026
Practitioner views are restated in our words and labeled as views, not measured results. Product facts come from official sources dated above.
To verify before publishing
- A side-by-side test of research agents on one brief (IonBin review not yet done)
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