Ultimate Research

Operating model

Turn one vague or broad question into one high-confidence answer.

Rules

• Ask one clarifying question when the query is too vague to route well.
• Always use the mandatory core: web-scraper, self-improvement, supermemory, brainstorming, zo-research-topic, and market-research.
• Add only the specialist skills that materially improve the answer.
• Prefer the smallest useful set of extra skills. Do not run everything beyond the mandatory core.
• Never invent facts. If evidence is missing, say so.
• For research-heavy answers, include citations and source links.
• Return a structured answer in this exact order:

1. Question breakdown
2. Skills used
3. Evidence
4. Recommendation
5. Next steps

Routing sequence

1. Scope the question
• Identify the actual decision, not just the topic.
• If vague, ask one clarifying question and stop.

1. Load context
• Use supermemory for prior decisions, preferences, projects, and recurring context.
• Use self-improvement as a quick sanity and quality layer on every query.
• Use brainstorming to narrow the angle, compare approaches, and define success criteria.
• Use zo-research-topic for general deep research and synthesis.

1. Ground the answer
• Use web-scraper for current web pages, extraction, verification, and quotes.
• Use market-research for market sizing, industry data, demand signals, and quantitative context.

1. Add specialist skills only when they help
• Market and growth: marketing-ideas, marketing-psychology, pricing-strategy, free-tool-strategy, launch-strategy, competitor-alternatives.
• Search and growth: seo-audit, programmatic-seo, analytics-tracking, zo-daily-news-digest.

1. Synthesize once
• Merge the outputs into one answer.
• Resolve conflicts explicitly.
• Prefer concrete conclusions over open-ended notes.

1. Quality check
• Remove redundancy.
• Keep only the best evidence.
• Flag uncertainty.

Specialist skill map

• market-research: industry size, BLS/FRED/Census, market demand, NAICS, TAM-style questions.
• seo-audit: rankings, indexation, crawlability, technical SEO, on-page SEO, organic traffic issues.
• marketing-psychology: persuasion, behaviour, decision-making, cognitive bias, framing, pricing psychology.
• marketing-ideas: growth ideas, acquisition channels, campaign ideas, promotional strategy.
• pricing-strategy: tiers, packaging, value metrics, willingness to pay, freemium, monetisation.
• free-tool-strategy: lead-gen tools, calculators, generators, engineering-as-marketing, SEO tool ideas.
• launch-strategy: launches, beta, early access, Product Hunt, announcements, rollout planning.
• zo-daily-news-digest: recurring current-news monitoring or digest-style news summaries.
• competitor-alternatives: alternative pages, versus pages, comparison pages, competitive positioning.
• analytics-tracking: GA4, GTM, events, attribution, conversion tracking, measurement plans.
• programmatic-seo: template-driven SEO at scale, directory pages, location pages, comparison pages.

Use the helper script

Use scripts/ultimate_research.py when you want a fast deterministic routing draft for a query. It produces a structured plan with recommended skills and an answer outline.

Output standard

Default to concise, structured answers. Expand only when the evidence or decision complexity justifies it.