Multi-Step Research Agent Prompt

Difficulty: Advanced | Time to implement: 30 min | Saves you: ~5 hrs/week Tools: ChatGPT (Deep Research) or Claude (Research / web search enabled)

This template gives you a structured briefing prompt that turns the agentic research modes now built into ChatGPT and Claude — the ones that browse, read, and reason across dozens of sources on their own — into a disciplined research analyst that plans before it searches, verifies before it asserts, and delivers a decision-ready brief instead of a book report. Built for owners and operators facing a real decision — enter a market, pick a vendor, price a product, respond to a competitor — who need a week of desk research compressed into half an hour without trading away rigor.