Research · Do this yourself

Researchers use agents to run analyses, simulations and literature reviews.

On X, 511 posts matched our search for this idea in the 7 days to 2026-10-15.

🔥 511 posts this week · 291 likes

Based on @BrendanFoody on X (opens in new tab)

Who it’s for

Anyone who has to read a lot and turn it into a clear answer: analysts, students, founders, scientists.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Real estate: compare neighborhoods using public data
  • Restaurant: summarize what reviews say about you and nearby competitors
  • Consultant: build a short brief on a client’s market before the first call

Step by step

  1. Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and start a new chat (turn on web search or “deep research” if your plan has it).
  2. Write down the exact question you need answered and what a good answer looks like (a table, a one-page memo, a list).
  3. Paste the prompt below and add your question.
  4. Ask it to list every source it used with links, then open 2–3 of them to check they say what it claims.
  5. Ask for the result in the format you need, for example a table you can paste into Google Sheets.
  6. Save the prompt so you can re-run the same research next week.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Design a small data analysis plan for this research question using public datasets: [question].

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Cost
$0–20/month (free tiers or one AI plan)Our estimate
Time
2–6 weeksOur estimate

Tech stack

Everything you need to build it, get customers and get paid. Prices are public list prices, checked Oct 15, 2026.

1. Build

2. Get customers

  • LinkedIn: share results and message people in your target job (free)
  • Cold email: a short, personal note to 20 people a day who clearly have the problem
  • X: post a short demo or before/after every day (free)
  • Apollo (find business emails) (opens in new tab) Free tier · Basic $65/mo

3. Make money

Model: Fixed price per research report

Suggested price: $150 per report

First 10 customers playbook

  1. Week 1: write down 30 people or businesses who clearly have the problem, and message 10 a day with a short demo.
  2. Offer the first 3 a free trial or a “founding” price in exchange for honest feedback and a testimonial.
  3. Post your demo and the first result on the channels above, every day for 2 weeks.
  4. Ask every happy customer for one introduction. Repeat until you have 10.
Monthly cost$0–$107/monthFree tiers → paid plans of the tools above. Card fees come out of each sale.
What you could earn · EstimateEstimate: 4 reports a month × $150 = $600/moOur estimate, not a fact or a promise. It’s simple math if you land these customers at this price.

How to make money from it

Pricing idea: Offer short research briefs at a fixed price per report (for example $100–500), or a monthly retainer for a weekly update.

Finding your first 10 customers

  • Make one free sample report on a topic your target customers care about and share it.
  • Send it directly to 20 people in that field with a one-line note.
  • Ask anyone who replies what they would pay for a monthly version.

Ideas, not promises. Results vary.

Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

Researchers use agents to run analyses, simulations and literature reviews. This is a pattern people are discussing on X right now; we grouped matching posts into one reusable idea. The posts below are examples, not endorsements.

How it went

On X, 511 posts matched our search for this idea in the 7 days to 2026-10-15. The 18 top matching posts we checked drew 291 likes, 49 reposts and 21 replies.

Worth knowing

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52.7 · 511 posts in 7 days291 likes, 49 reposts, 21 replies, 5 quotes on 18 top posts · fetched Oct 15, 2026 · query: ("AI scientist" OR "AI for science" OR (("AI agents" OR Claude) ("lab work" OR "literature review" OR "scientific discovery"))) -is:retweet lang:en

Posted · Added Oct 15, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • ChatGPT
  • Grok
  1. Pick one small, repeatable task.
  2. Paste the starter prompt into your AI tool and adapt it.
  3. Check every output before you rely on it.
  4. Repeat weekly and improve the prompt.

Tags

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