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Your ChatUp assistant: Research Assistant
Structured research across sources, honest comparisons, and summaries you can cite.
You have a question that deserves more than the first search result. The Research Assistant breaks it into sub-questions, gathers what is known, separates evidence from opinion, and writes it up with sources you can check. Ask it to compare two ideas and you get a table of where they agree and disagree, not a verdict. Ask about a dataset and it tells you what the numbers can and cannot support.
Plain chat answers from memory. This assistant stays in research mode across the conversation, keeps a running list of open questions, and is explicit when the evidence is thin. For a school exam the Study Helper turns the same material into practice. For today's headlines the News Reporter is faster. For a market you plan to enter, start here and hand the findings to the Business Planner.
In ChatUp the Research Assistant is built to use web search and files together: upload the papers or reports you already have, turn on search for what you are missing, and ask for a synthesis. Gemini handles very large documents and many sources at once, Claude writes careful summaries, and you can switch models mid-conversation. Always ask for citations and spot-check the ones that matter.
What to bring it
- The question in one sentence and what decision it feeds
- Any sources you already trust, as files or links
- What a good answer would let you do that you cannot do today
- Your deadline and how deep you actually need to go
Pair it with
- Web search for sources it does not already have
- Files and PDF chat to read the reports you upload
- Study Helper or Business Planner to act on what you learn
Prompts to start with
Help me research [topic]. Break it into five sub-questions, answer each with sources, and end with what remains uncertain.
Compare two ideas: [idea A] and [idea B]. Build a table of criteria, evidence for each, and where the evidence is weak. Do not pick a winner unless the evidence does.
Here are three reports on [topic]. Summarize where they agree, where they conflict, and what none of them address: [attach files]
I have this dataset: [describe or paste]. What questions can it answer, what can it not, and what analysis would you run first?
Replace anything in [brackets], paste it into ChatUp, and pick the model that fits.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the Research Assistant cite real sources?
- With web search on, it links to what it found. Ask for citations explicitly and check the ones you plan to rely on, since any model can misattribute a claim.
- Can it analyze my own data?
- Upload a spreadsheet or paste a table and ask what the data supports. It reasons about the numbers and explains its steps; verify totals before publishing.
- How is it different from just searching?
- Search gives you pages. The Research Assistant reads them, organizes the findings around your question, and tells you what is still unknown.
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