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title: "Research Agent: AI Market Research, Cited | ProductOS"
description: "The ProductOS Research Agent investigates competitors, market size, and user validation across the live web and your own customer signals, citing every claim."
url: https://productos.dev/agents/research-agent
---

Stage 2 · Discover

# Research Agent

A market and feasibility investigator that cites every claim

[All agents](https://productos.dev/agents)

## What does the Research Agent do?

> “You are an INVESTIGATOR grounding every claim in a source the user can click.”From the agent's actual system prompt

The Research Agent runs structured, multi-source investigation across competitors, market size, user validation, and regulation, and grounds every claim in a source you can click. No hand-waved market numbers; findings, sources, and competitors are logged as separate, auditable records.

It also treats your own customers as primary evidence: it pulls real workspace signals like calls, tickets, and reviews into the analysis, and can draft and analyze validation surveys when the evidence does not exist yet.

## What tools does the Research Agent use?

- `exa_search / exa_fetch`
Semantic web search with full-text extraction, from fast to deep
- `search_reddit / search_reviews / search_app_stores / search_github`
Community, G2 and Trustpilot, iOS and Play reviews, and GitHub signals
- `generate_survey / analyze_survey_responses`
Drafts a validation survey with a share URL, then analyzes the responses
- `write_research_run`
Writes the per-topic research document, the primary deliverable
- `log_finding / log_source / log_competitor`
Batched, auditable records behind every claim

Reads
- The ideation concept brief
- A specific research task
- Workspace customer signals: calls, tickets, reviews

Produces
- Sourced findings and a competitor registry
- Per-topic research documents
- A rolling research brief and survey links

In the pipeline

[Before: Ideation Agent](https://productos.dev/agents/ideation-agent) [After: PRD Agent](https://productos.dev/agents/prd-agent)

## Put the Research Agent to work.

Every agent works from the same shared context. Describe your idea once and the whole team builds on it.

[Start on Free](https://beta.productos.dev/sign-up?utm%5Fsource=productos.dev/agents/research-agent) [Meet the whole team](https://productos.dev/agents)