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Producing a desk-research brief with a link on every line

A question is handed over — how drone spraying is regulated for contract farming, who supplies sub-ten-litre cold-chain boxes — and a retrieval system searches, reads what it finds and writes a short brief in which each sentence carries the link it came from. The analyst's job shifts from finding sources to confirming that each link says what the line claims.

Effort
Weeks of work
Skill level
Comfortable with software
Organisation size
Small business
Value
Time saved

Tools named for this

  • A retrieval-augmented research agent that must attach a source to each sentence
  • A date filter and a re-check pass, because the answer moves
  • A reviewer's checklist that opens a fixed sample of links on every brief

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  • Market briefs collect named people — founders, distributors, officials — alongside firms. Section 3 carries one narrow public-data carve-out: personal data made or caused to be made publicly available by the data principal herself, or by someone under a legal obligation to make it public. The carve-out turns on who published it, so a profile compiled about a person by a third party does not fall inside it and needs a lawful ground like anything else.
  • A question can be unanswerable as asked. The benchmark built for this reports that models regardless of size struggle both on fast-changing knowledge and on questions containing a false premise, and a research question written by someone with a hypothesis very often carries one.

Sources

Every claim on this page traces to one of these, on the date it was read.