Start with a specific research question
Include the decision you are making, the region or date range, and the sources you prefer. For a product comparison, specify your budget and requirements. For a technical question, ask for original documentation or papers.
A research harness built to keep investigating
Search is the starting point. Meriq opens relevant source pages, extracts their content, and follows up with further searches when evidence is thin. Its retrieval pipeline can try alternate fetch paths when a page fails to load. Accessible page content supports the report; unavailable sources remain a limitation, not evidence that was read.
Review the evidence and its limits
A citation lets you check a claim; it does not guarantee the claim is correct. Sources can disagree, be inaccessible, or omit important details. Ask for uncertainty and unresolved questions to be stated explicitly, and verify consequential findings.
Choose Research or Agent
Use Deep Research when the deliverable is a sourced explanation or comparison. Use Agent when you need code execution, file transformations, or a working output alongside the investigation.
A brief to try
Compare three residential heat pumps for a cold climate. Use manufacturer specifications, state the temperature conditions behind efficiency claims, and list any missing evidence. Deliver a comparison table with source links.
A useful report should separate the comparison, supporting evidence, uncertainties, and next questions. This is an example brief, not a published benchmark or a guarantee of results.