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Research prompts
Research prompts with the skepticism built in — literature mapping, claim-vs-evidence tables, citation verification — because a fluent summary of sources you never checked is worse than no summary.
Every prompt lists the exact tool and version it was tested against.
Lock a research plan's scope before Deep Research burns its run on the wrong questionForces a decision-first research plan — the exact question, what would change your mind, and what's explicitly out of scope — before you spend a Deep Research run chasing a question nobody actually needs answered.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-08Write a Deep Research brief that tells ChatGPT which sources outrank which before it starts pullingProduces a Deep Research brief with an explicit source-priority order and named low-trust categories, so a long autonomous run doesn't quietly treat a vendor blog post and an independent benchmark as equally authoritative.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1 Deep Research)2026-08-08Turn a pile of papers into a literature review that shows where the studies actually disagreeBuilds a literature review organized around points of disagreement between studies rather than a paper-by-paper summary, so contradictions surface instead of getting smoothed into one comfortable narrative.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Summarize a paper without quietly smoothing over the limitations it reported on itselfProduces a paper summary that keeps the authors' own stated caveats and sample limitations intact, rather than compressing a hedged finding into a confident one-line takeaway.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Turn a vague research question into one a study could actually prove wrongRewrites a broad, unanswerable research question into a specific, falsifiable version with a stated measurement and a defined population, so the resulting research effort has a real finish line.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Convert a hunch into a hypothesis with a prediction specific enough to be wrongTurns an informal belief about cause and effect into a testable hypothesis with a stated direction, a named confounder to rule out, and a concrete prediction — so it's clear in advance what evidence would count against it.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Build an evidence table that grades each source's reliability instead of just listing itProduces a structured evidence table with a reliability grade and stated basis for that grade per source, so a reader can weigh conflicting claims instead of treating every row as equally trustworthy.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Research competitors around what they can actually do, not what their marketing copy claimsBuilds a competitor research brief that separates verifiable product capability from marketing language, and flags claims that couldn't be confirmed rather than repeating them as fact.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)Perplexity2026-08-11Size a market without letting ChatGPT quietly invent the number in the middle of the mathBuilds a market-sizing analysis where every multiplier and assumption is stated and sourced separately, so a confident-looking TAM figure doesn't hide an invented number two steps upstream.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Synthesize customer interviews into jobs-to-be-done findings without averaging away the outliersTurns a batch of customer interview notes into a jobs-to-be-done synthesis that keeps a genuinely different customer segment visible instead of blending it into a single averaged persona.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Separate a real trend from a noisy spike before it goes in a strategy deckRuns a trend analysis that explicitly checks whether a pattern is sustained and structural or a short-term spike, before presenting it as a trend worth acting on.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Map a technology landscape around the one decision it actually needs to informProduces a technology landscape brief organized around a specific buy-vs-build or vendor-selection decision, rather than a broad survey of every player in the space.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Draft a patent landscape brief that flags prior-art risk instead of quietly hiding itProduces a preliminary patent landscape brief for internal use that names potentially conflicting prior art and open uncertainty explicitly, framed clearly as a research aid for an attorney's review rather than a legal opinion.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Build an academic paper outline around the argument's skeleton, not just section headersProduces an academic outline where every section is defined by the specific claim it needs to establish and what evidence would support it, instead of generic headers like Introduction and Discussion with no argumentative content.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Synthesize research findings that disagree with each other without quietly picking a favoriteProduces a research synthesis across multiple findings or reports that keeps genuine disagreement visible and traces it to a specific cause, rather than resolving conflicting evidence into one clean narrative.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14Turn a pile of sources into a defensible research-gap map instead of a vague 'more research is needed' lineTakes the sources you've already gathered and sorts what they actually agree on, conflict on, and never touch — so the gap you claim is one you can point to in the table, not one you're guessing at.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-08Synthesize a stack of interview transcripts into themes without losing which participant actually said whatTurns raw or lightly-cleaned interview transcripts into a theme map with direct quotes attributed to specific participants, so the synthesis stays traceable back to the source instead of reading like one anonymous composite voice.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-09Pressure-test a draft survey for leading questions and bad scales before it goes out to real respondentsReviews a drafted survey question-by-question for leading phrasing, double-barreled questions, and scale mismatches, and rewrites only the flagged items — so you're not re-explaining your whole study to get one clean pass on wording.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-10Run a desk research pass that tells you which findings to trust and which to verify yourselfProduces a structured desk research brief that separates findings by how confident you should be in them, rather than presenting a scraped-together summary as uniformly reliable.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-11Compress a stack of research notes into an executive briefing an exec will actually read to the endTurns raw research notes into a one-page executive briefing that leads with the decision-relevant takeaway and pushes supporting detail into an appendix, instead of a chronological recap of everything you found.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-12Turn a completed research writeup into a publishable article outline without losing the caveats that made it honestConverts a finished research document into a structured outline for a blog post or article aimed at a wider audience, while explicitly protecting the caveats and limitations that a punchier rewrite usually strips out first.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Build a literature comparison matrix that actually lets you compare studies, not just list themProduces a structured comparison matrix across a set of studies or sources on consistent dimensions you choose, so you can scan for patterns across methodology and findings instead of reading each source's summary in isolation.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-13Build a research presentation storyline that survives an audience skipping straight to slide 12Structures a research presentation around a single argument thread with a clear slide-by-slide storyline, so the deck holds up even for someone who jumps ahead or only reads the headlines.ChatGPT (GPT-5.1)2026-08-14
