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title: Research
description: Ask Mothership to research anything — it searches, reads, and synthesizes from the web.
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Ask Mothership to research anything and it figures out the best approach — searching the web, reading specific pages, crawling sites, looking up technical docs. Just describe what you want to know.

## Asking Questions

Ask anything — about a company, a competitor, a market, a technical question, or a specific URL:

- "What did Salesforce, HubSpot, and Gong each ship in the past 30 days? Summarize the key product updates."
- "What's Acme Corp's tech stack, recent hires, and open engineering roles?"
- "Find everything published about [competitor] in the past 90 days — press, product changes, job postings."
- "What are the current rate limits on the Anthropic API?"
- "Read [URL] and tell me what changed in this release"
- "What does Stripe's API say about handling webhooks with idempotency keys?"
- "Who are the main players in AI-powered revenue operations, and how do they differentiate?"

Mothership returns an answer directly in the chat. For anything that needs a longer written output, ask it to save the result as a file.

## Research Reports

When you need a structured, saved document rather than a chat answer, ask Mothership to write it up. It searches, reads, and cross-references multiple sources until it has enough to produce a full report. The output is saved as a file in your workspace and opened in the resource panel.

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- "Research the top 10 AI SDR tools — pricing, features, positioning, and what customers say. Save as a competitive analysis."
- "Do a full market landscape for AI in healthcare diagnostics — major players, funding, use cases, and regulatory environment."
- "Research how our top 5 competitors handle multi-tenant auth — pricing, architecture, and any known vulnerabilities. Write it up as a report."
- "Find every public case study on AI agents in financial compliance from the past 2 years. Summarize the key outcomes and save as a markdown file."
- "Build a battle card for [competitor] — their positioning, pricing, strengths, weaknesses, and how we win against them."

<FAQ items={[
  { question: "Does Mothership have access to real-time information?", answer: "Yes. Mothership queries live internet data. Results reflect current information, not a training cutoff." },
  { question: "Can Mothership read pages that require login?", answer: "No. Mothership can only read publicly accessible pages." },
  { question: "Where are research reports saved?", answer: "Reports are saved as files in your workspace and opened in the resource panel. You can find them in the Files section of the sidebar." },
]} />
