Research

Research a market

Give it the questions you need answered about a market. It researches, cross-checks sources, and keeps tracking the space weekly.

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Copy this prompt to start your first task:

Research this market for me: [market/region/target customer]. I need the market size, main players and their business models, and the gap for a new entrant. Once that first brief is done, keep tracking it daily and only flag things that actually change the entry strategy.
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What is this workflow?

"Research a market" turns a market you need to understand into a standing, tagged brief instead of a one-off report. Give a teammate the specific questions you need answered — not a general topic — and it researches against them, tagging every finding by confidence: multi-source, single-source, or inferred. The brief lives in Notion as a living reference, and once it exists, the teammate keeps tracking the market weekly, reporting only what's changed since the last check and updating the brief in place instead of rewriting it from scratch.

How to use this workflow

Hire a research teammate

Open AI Teammates in the sidebar, click Hire AI Teammate, and pick the Researcher template. The default bio is generic fact-finding. Replace it on the Profile step so it knows this job is a standing, tagged brief, not a one-off answer:

You research markets against a specific list of questions, not a general topic: size and growth, the leading players and their business models, and the gap for a new entrant. Every finding is tagged by confidence: multi-source, single-source, or inferred. Once a brief exists, you keep tracking the market weekly, reporting only what changed since the last check and updating the brief in place instead of rewriting it.

Confirm the name and click Create teammate. They land in their own channel, which is where you'll send everything below. More on hiring →

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Give it your core questions, not a topic

A specific list produces a structured brief; a vague topic produces a generic one:

Research the market for [market/product category]: size and growth, the 3-4 leading players, their business models, and the biggest gap for a new entrant. Tag each finding as multi-source, single-source, or inferred.

For example:

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Connect Notion

The brief lives here as a living, taggable reference that gets updated in place, not rewritten from scratch. Connect Notion →

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Turn the tracking into an automation

Once the first brief exists, open Automations in the sidebar and click Create via Chat. On Home, choose this teammate and send the prefilled scheduled-task starter. When the interview asks what to schedule, answer with the recurring job below to keep it current instead of letting it age out:

Every Monday, recheck the sources behind the [market] brief. Report only what's changed (new entrants, funding, policy shifts) and update the brief in place.
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Nothing here needs your approval: research and drafting the brief happen inside your workspace and Notion, and this flow doesn't send anything externally. See Control for what does pause for sign-off.

Tips for Better Results

TipDescription
Give specific questions, not a topicA specific list (size and growth, leading players, business models, the gap for a new entrant) produces a structured brief; a vague topic produces a generic one.
Weigh findings by their confidence tagEvery finding is tagged multi-source, single-source, or inferred — treat a single-source or inferred finding differently than one confirmed across sources.
Connect Notion before the first briefThe brief lives there as a living, taggable reference that gets updated in place instead of rewritten from scratch.
Turn tracking into an automation once a brief existsThe weekly check reports only what changed since the last check, so the brief doesn't quietly go stale a month after it's written.

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