Build your AI research assistant.

How to build your ai research assistant

1. 1

   Describe the job

   Keep research questions, source observations and unresolved claims together.

2. 2

   Review the first version

   Choose how the researcher records the research question and how the research lead reviews the next step.

3. 3

   Refine the views

   Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.

4. 4

   Test before sharing

   Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.

What to include in your ai research assistant

• Keep the research question in context

  Keep research question, source URL, observed date, claim, evidence confidence and report together so the next person can understand the request or record.

• When the next step needs a decision

  One source contradicts another on an event date. Preserve both and state the uncertainty instead of inventing a reconciled fact.

• Keep report visible

  Preserve both source dates and explain the unresolved difference in the report.

• Choose what each person needs

  Give the researcher a working view and the research lead a review view. Keep research question and source URL attached to the decision as the work moves between them.