Research Skills for AI agents

Investigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings.

Talent Sourcing

Source technical and professional talent by combining LinkedIn profiles, GitHub contributions, and company intelligence. Identifies candidates with specific skills, assesses expertise depth, and provides outreach context for recruiting teams.

Competitor Ad Research

Research competitor advertising strategies through Facebook Ad Library, Google SERP ads, and social media sponsored content. Covers creative analysis, messaging patterns, targeting signals, and campaign frequency for competitive marketing intelligence.

Reddit Customer Insights

Discover evidence-backed customer language, pain points, objections, and buying triggers from relevant Reddit communities. Use when asked for Reddit research, voice-of-customer analysis, audience pain points, product feedback, or community-led content opportunities.

Competitor Monitor

Monitor competitor websites, content changes, social activity, and market positioning through SandBase. Use when asked for competitive intelligence, competitor tracking, market positioning research, or competitive content monitoring.

Academic Research

Search academic papers, scholarly articles, and research publications through SandBase. Use when asked for literature review, academic citations, scholarly research, paper discovery, or scientific evidence gathering.

Academic Trend Research

Research emerging academic trends by combining scholarly databases, web sources, and news to identify rising research areas, breakthrough papers, and shifting scientific consensus. Ideal for R&D teams tracking frontier science.

Event Tracker

Track real-time events, announcements, and breaking developments across Twitter, Reddit, news outlets, and web search. Monitors event progression, public reaction, key moments, and aftermath coverage for crisis response and opportunity detection.

Exa Deep Search

Search, extract, and compare high-quality public sources with Exa through SandBase. Use when asked for deep web research, source discovery, current evidence, topic investigation, company research, or citation-ready findings.

Exa Similar Finder

Find web pages and content similar to a given URL using Exa's neural similarity search. Ideal for competitor discovery, alternative source finding, related content research, and expanding research beyond known sources.

Google News Research

Search and monitor news articles across Google News through SandBase. Use when asked for news monitoring, current events research, news coverage analysis, or media tracking.

Last 30 Days Research

Research any topic across the last 30 days using Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Hacker News, web search, and news sources through SandBase. Use when asked for recent trends, launch reactions, competitor activity, person/company profiles, or current event analysis.

Market Research

Conduct comprehensive market research combining web search, academic sources, news coverage, and industry data. Produces market sizing signals, competitive landscape overviews, trend analysis, and evidence-backed market opportunity assessments.

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THE FIELD GUIDE

A working guide to research Skills.

Investigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings.

Choose a workflow by its inputs and deliverables. The detail page tells you what to prepare and how to run it.

Connect your task to a workflow.

Start with a task, then explore the possibilities.

Presentations

Pitch, plan and board decks your agent writes from a brief: one offline HTML deck that edits in the browser and exports editable PowerPoint.

Explore Presentations

Video

Films, motion graphics and photo effects your agent renders from a brief, a photo or a script, with every step already planned.

Explore Video
FIND YOUR FIT

Choose your research workflow.

Compare the inputs and deliverables before you begin.

What you haveWhat to look forNext step
A clear briefInvestigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings.Browse this collection
Source materialCheck the chosen Skill’s required inputs and which details it can preserve.Read the Skills guide
A different outputTranslate evidence and findings into diagrams, data stories and presentations.Researcher
PUT IT TO WORK

From a brief to a usable result.

  1. Choose a workflow

    Compare the example, inputs and deliverables against your brief.

  2. Prepare the inputs

    Investigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings.

  3. Run and review

    Follow the Skill’s instructions and check the output in its intended context.

FAQ

Research Skills: common questions.

A few things to know before you start.

How do I choose a research Skill?

Investigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings. Compare the actual example and deliverables with your intended result.

What should I prepare?

Investigate markets and evidence, and communicate research findings.

Can I edit the result?

This depends on the Skill. Check whether it delivers source files, rendered media or an interactive artifact, and which tools are needed to edit it.

Can I use the result commercially?

Review the Skill license, the model’s terms and the rights to your input media. A public example is not a blanket commercial license.