Prompts for reviewing literature, summarizing papers, sizing markets, planning interviews and analyzing data.
Research work is mostly careful handling of evidence: reading what others have found, gathering new information from customers or the market, and working out what a set of numbers does and does not show. The prompts in this category cover those jobs. Two deal with documents you already have (a literature review built from supplied papers, and a summary of a single paper or report). Two help you collect evidence (a desk-research brief on a market, and a discussion guide for user or customer interviews). One analyzes a table or dataset you paste in.
Choose by what you are holding. If you have source material, start with the summary or literature review prompt. If you have a question about a market and no data yet, use the market research prompt with a model that can search the web and link its sources. If you have numbers, use the data analysis prompt.
AI models are useful here for structure and speed: extracting the same fields from every paper, drafting a first synthesis, proposing interview questions, laying out an analysis plan. They are not a source of truth. A model can produce citations that do not exist, misread a table, or state a guess with confidence. Each prompt in this category is therefore written to keep the model tied to material you supplied or to sources you can open, to mark estimates and assumptions, and to say what cannot be concluded. Verify anything you intend to cite, publish or act on.
Summarizes a paper or report for a named reader: bottom line, method, key findings with exact figures, limits of the evidence, and what it means for them.
| If you need to… | Use |
|---|---|
| I have a set of papers or notes and need a synthesized review | Source-Bound Literature Review Prompt |
| I need to brief someone on one paper or report | Research Paper and Report Summary Prompt |
| I want to size a market and map competitors with linked sources | Desk Market Research Brief Prompt |
| I am about to interview users or customers | User Interview Discussion Guide Prompt |
| I have a spreadsheet or survey export and a question about it | Show-Your-Working Data Analysis Prompt |
Summarizes a paper or report for a named reader: bottom line, method, key findings with exact figures, limits of the evidence, and what it means for them.
Produces a desk-research brief on a market, with segments, a range-based size estimate, competitors and pricing, and every figure labeled as sourced, provided or estimated.
Writes a timed discussion guide for customer or user interviews: screener, opening script, behavior-based questions with probes, and a table tying each question to a learning goal.
Analyzes a pasted table or dataset step by step: data check, calculations with working shown, findings tied to those calculations, and what the data cannot support.
Turns the papers, abstracts and notes you paste in into an evidence table, themes and a synthesized draft, with every citation traceable to a source you supplied.
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A diagnostic approach to weak AI answers: name the fault, trace it to the gap in your prompt, then follow up precisely or rewrite and start again.
Technical guide
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Technical guide
How to split a large task into a sequence of focused prompts, design the handoffs between them, and debug the chain when a step goes wrong.