tl;dr Spine Research searches through over 3x more sources 5x faster than ChatGPT Deep Research while keeping you in control. With a built-in full-text editor, you can iteratively guide the research, dive deeper into topics, and build and share reports that are actually useful.

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❌ The Problem

“Deep research” with AI often isn’t comprehensive, collaborative or controlled. If you’re relying on research for critical decisions, you’ve probably run up against the limitations of current tools:

• Superficial Overviews: Most AI tools deliver surface-level summaries. While a starting point, they rarely deliver the nuanced, comprehensive understanding needed for a true competitive edge or complex problem-solving.
• Static Reports, Not Evolving Understanding: Real insight comes from asking new questions based on what you're learning, and using that to inform where you need to go next. What if the initial research misses the mark, or you want to explore a specific avenue further? You're often stuck waiting 10-15+ minutes for a complete do-over, losing valuable context and any useful initial findings. Current UX isn't built for the way human understanding evolves – through continuous refinement and building upon prior knowledge.
• Lack of Meaningful Control: Struggling to direct AI to your trusted websites, specific authors, or crucial internal documents? Or to exclude irrelevant noise? You end up sifting through low-quality information, wasting time and effort, because you can't effectively steer the research. It's hard to restrict research to just research papers, recent news or local government websites.

For critical decision-making and professional analysis, today's AI "deep research" often feels frustratingly superficial, rigid, and disconnected from your own expertise.

💡 Our Solution

Spine AI rapidly generates comprehensive research reports by synthesizing insights from hundreds of websites, academic papers, news articles, and private documents—delivering deeper, more accurate understanding in a fraction of the time taken by ChatGPT's Deep Research.

You're in full control to iteratively define the scope, depth, and breadth of analysis to perfectly suit your needs.

1. Guide your process from the start:
   Start with your prompt and guide the research process immediately. Spine AI generates an initial outline you can quickly edit. Refine its scope, focus, or sources in minutes, ensuring precise alignment before full report generation, so you don’t have to wait 15 minutes to realize you forgot to include a key detail about scope.

   

2. Control the process and build your understanding iteratively:

   • Breadth of sources: When searching the open web, Spine AI accesses over 3x more sources than ChatGPT’s deep research, giving you a more comprehensive view with detailed citations out of the box. You can also exclude irrelevant domains, keeping unreliable sources out of your reports.
   • Focused discovery: Direct Spine AI to focus on particular types of sources (like news, financial reports, or research papers), specific websites, and set publication timeframes, to ensure the most relevant information.
   • Leverage your own sources: Upload and research your own private documents—proprietary reports, project files, spreadsheets, slide decks—integrating your internal knowledge with external discovery.
   • Model Agnostic: Maintain flexibility by choosing the LLM (including OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models) that best suits your current needs or preferences. Your core research workflow remains stable, even as individual model capabilities evolve.

   

3. Directly add your expertise:
   Spine AI isn't just about AI-generated content; it's a dynamic working document. You can type directly into your research, add your own notes, edit the generated text, and incorporate your unique context and analysis alongside the AI's findings. Close the gap between just another research doc to organize, and actually creating a usable report, or project doc.

🤝 The Ask

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