Research rarely stays in one place. The useful source might be a company site, a report, a database, or an internal doc from three years ago. The hard part is keeping the question, the sources, and the argument connected as it grows.

Strawberry can search the web, work through sites you already have access to, and compare what it finds against your own files. Instead of a pile of links, you get a sourced shortlist, a market map, a briefing, or an updated spreadsheet.

What Strawberry can help you do

Not sure where to begin? Your companion can look at the question, sources, or unfinished research in front of you and suggest a useful skill to try first.

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Investigate a question

Start with something you genuinely need to know: why a category is changing, whether a competitor's claim holds up, which companies fit a thesis, or what an unfamiliar topic means for a decision. Strawberry can do the investigation across current sources and return a concise view of what seems true, what is contested, why it matters, and what still needs evidence.

Start withGet back
A broad or unfamiliar questionA concise cited brief with the strongest answer, implications, and open questions
Several sources that disagreeA clear comparison of what is supported, disputed, stale, or still missing
A decision with too much material around itThe few findings that should change the decision, with links back to the evidence

When the question centers on one company, Strawberry can build a current, source-linked brief around what you actually need to understand rather than filling a generic profile.

The useful result may be a brief, comparison, evidence-backed recommendation, or a clear conclusion that the available research does not support a confident answer. If a map or dataset would make the evidence easier to use, the same work can continue into those formats without beginning again.

Map a market or ecosystem

A market map is more than a list of companies. It should explain which categories matter, how the important entities relate, what the current research covers, and what the landscape means for the decision in front of you. Strawberry can test a proposed taxonomy on a varied first set, then expand the accepted definition across current sources.

Map the broader landscape

Build a sourced view of the categories, entities, relationships, signals, coverage, uncertainty, and implications shaping a market.

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Map a startup ecosystem

Focus the map on startups, investors, associations, experts, and the relationships around an investment question.

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Build structured evidence

When the same fields appear across many pages, a dataset is more useful than another summary. Strawberry can move through directories, search results, product pages, public records, PDFs, and approved signed-in tools, validate a representative first set, and then complete the full scope without hiding missing values or failed matches.

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The result keeps source links beside the rows, makes coverage and gaps explicit, and can continue into a spreadsheet or approved connected destination after review.

Explain the findings

The final artifact should make the evidence easier to understand, not merely move it into a prettier file. Strawberry can turn the reviewed work into a cited brief, comparison, spreadsheet, or recommendation while keeping the sources and open questions close.

When the audience needs a presentation, the research and deck remain separate jobs. First settle the evidence and argument; then turn them into a visual story without reopening the investigation or losing the source trail.

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Keep important research current

Once the team trusts the source set, definitions, taxonomy, schema, and review points, save the method instead of rebuilding it from the final artifact. A Routine can check for meaningful changes on a useful cadence and stop when a source, scope, access condition, or definition no longer matches the accepted setup.

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Getting Started with Research and Analysis in Strawberry

Help the user see the larger research system, then begin with the piece of work that matters now. Do not force every request through one methodology or make setup a prerequisite for a useful result.

Paint the research system

Show five connected kinds of work:

  • Investigate a question: turn an open question into current, source-linked findings for a real decision.
  • Map a landscape: define the categories, entities, relationships, coverage, and patterns that make a market or ecosystem legible.
  • Build structured evidence: collect repeated fields from approved sources into a clean, validated dataset.
  • Explain the findings: shape the reviewed evidence into the brief, comparison, spreadsheet, or deck the audience can use.
  • Keep it current: preserve trusted sources and definitions, then monitor meaningful changes once the method is stable.

These jobs can connect, but they are not a fixed sequence. Begin with the question, source set, dataset, map, or artifact already in front of the user.

Choose a useful first result

Understand the decision, audience, freshness, scope, acceptable sources, exclusions, depth, and useful output. Reuse relevant approved tabs, files, connected apps, prior research, and accepted definitions before asking the user to reconstruct them.

If the starting point is unclear, suggest a small situational set, such as:

  • investigate one decision-critical question and return a cited brief;
  • map a market or ecosystem before choosing where to focus;
  • extract a representative dataset from a defined set of websites; or
  • research one company into a concise, source-linked brief.

Explain the breadth, depth, freshness, and cost tradeoffs that materially affect the work. Calibrate with a varied first set when the taxonomy, schema, or research judgment is new and correction before scale would save time or credits.

Route to the canonical owner

  • Map a market or broad ecosystem: use strawberry/research-analysis/map-a-market.
  • Map a startup ecosystem: use strawberry/venture-capital/map-startup-ecosystem when startups, investors, and their relationships are the primary object.
  • Compare marketing competitors: use strawberry/marketing/run-competitor-analysis when the specialist result is a competitor comparison for a marketing decision.
  • Extract repeated web data: use strawberry/research-analysis/extract-web-data.
  • Research one company for a general decision: use strawberry/research-analysis/research-a-company for a source-linked company brief without a sales, marketing, or investment lens.
  • Research a company for sales: use strawberry/sales/research-an-account when the specialist result is an account and relationship brief for a sales decision.
  • Research an investment opportunity: use strawberry/venture-capital/research-an-investment-opportunity when the specialist result is an investment view.
  • Turn accepted findings into a deck: use strawberry/research-analysis/create-beautiful-slide-deck when the research already exists and the remaining job is presentation production.

For open-ended research without a focused owner, complete the work normally. Keep source facts, claims, transformations, inference, contradictions, uncertainty, and missing evidence distinct.

Make the next run better

Deliver the artifact at the depth and format the audience needs, with links and dates beside the claims that matter. Preserve accepted source priorities, definitions, rubrics, schemas, formats, and review points after the user trusts a real result.

Share the reviewed artifact when that is enough. Save a team method when colleagues should repeat the same process. Offer a Routine only when the source set, trigger or cadence, change threshold, audience, destination, review behavior, and stop conditions are stable.