Cited Research Pro

The problem

LLMs often hallucinate facts, invent URLs, or rely on outdated training data for market analysis. Developers and analysts waste hours manually verifying claims and hunting for primary sources to back up AI-generated reports.

What it does

• Generates structured research briefs with mandatory inline citations for every factual claim.
• Assigns a confidence flag (Confirmed, Inferred, or Uncertain) to every statement based on source strength.
• Builds comparison tables for competitors or products with specific source indexing.
• Produces a dated reference list categorizing sources as primary, secondary, or promotional.
• Cross-references conflicting data points and prioritizes findings by recency and authority.

Why this beats prompting it yourself

Standard prompts often result in single-article summaries or "hallucinated" links that lead to 404 errors. This skill enforces a strict verification protocol that requires quoting primary sources and labeling promotional bias, ensuring the output is audit-ready for decision-makers.

Use cases

• Conducting competitive analysis on pricing and technical specifications for new products.
• Performing due diligence on market trends using live web data rather than static memory.
• Creating technical comparison matrices for internal tool selection or vendor evaluation.
• Generating source-backed executive summaries for stakeholder reporting.

Known limitations

Restricted to cited web research and competitive briefs. It will not produce social media sentiment analysis or scrape private data behind login walls.