What is Research?
Research is a structured investigation tool for digging into a specific entity — a person, a company, a product, or an institution. Turn it on from the toolbar below the chat input, then ask Wysor to research the entity you care about. You'll get back a cited, structured report pulled from multiple web sources.
How it works
Step 1: Disambiguation
When you ask Wysor to research something, it first searches the web for candidates. If there's only one clear match (e.g. "OpenAI"), it moves on. If there are multiple ("John Smith", "Acme Corp"), it presents the candidates to you and asks which one you meant. Each candidate comes with a favicon, snippet, and confidence score so you can pick the right one without guessing.
Step 2: Deep dive
Once the target entity is locked in, Research runs a deeper search across multiple sources — news outlets, company websites, industry publications, LinkedIn, and more. It pulls roughly 10 results per query by default and returns structured findings the model can cite inline.
Step 3: Cited report
The final output is a structured report with citations. Every claim is backed by a source, and the report summarizes the entity's context, history, recent moves, and anything else relevant to your question.
When to use Research vs. just asking
Wysor already runs a quick web search automatically whenever your question needs fresh information. You don't need to enable Research for that — just ask.
Turn on Research when you need a comprehensive, structured investigation of a specific named entity:
- Prospect research before a sales call
- Competitive intelligence on a specific company
- Due diligence on a vendor, partner, or acquisition target
- Background research on a person before a meeting
- Investigating a product or technology in depth
What it won't do
Research is optimized for entity investigation — specific, named things. For broad conceptual questions ("how does fusion energy work?"), a regular chat with the model will serve you better. For legal or medical research across authoritative databases, use the Databank instead.