An AI research analyst
Every week there is a question that deserves a real answer and gets a guess instead: what a competitor charges, whether a supplier is solid, what the rules are in the next state, who the right people are at a prospect. This job does the digging and comes back with a short brief that says where each fact came from.
Concretely
- Researches companies, competitors, markets and suppliers.
- Checks facts against each other rather than trusting the first source.
- Writes short briefs with every source cited.
- Builds the comparison table or the shortlist you asked for.
- Keeps a library of past research so the same question is not redone.
Decisions get made on a guess because nobody had the afternoon
The research that would have changed a decision is usually not difficult, it is just a few hours that nobody has in the week the decision is being made. So the choice gets made on an impression, and the impression is rarely revisited. The value here is less about sophistication than about the work happening at all, in time to matter.
A brief without sources is an opinion
Research that cannot be checked is worth very little, particularly when it was assembled quickly. Every claim in a brief carries the source it came from, so a reader can follow the ones the decision hangs on. That also makes it obvious where the thin parts are, which is usually the most useful thing a brief can tell you.
It separates what it found from what it thinks
Findings and interpretation are kept apart, and where sources disagree or run out it says so instead of smoothing it over. It does not make the decision. Nothing it finds about a person is used beyond what was asked for, which is a line that matters more in research than in most jobs on the roster.
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