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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Synthesize once
   • Merge the outputs into one answer.
   • Resolve conflicts explicitly.
   • Prefer concrete conclusions over open-ended notes.
6. 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.