Deep Research Agents
A mode that spends minutes rather than seconds, running dozens of successive searches and following links several levels deep, before producing a long report comparable to professional due diligence.
Analogy Mental model
Ordinary search asks three people at the corner. This dispatches an investigator who spends a day in the library, follows the bibliography of the first book to the twentieth, and writes a twenty-page report.
In practice What you actually do
Procurement committees, investors, and buyers now run supplier due diligence this way. Because the agent follows links inward, a homepage and a press release will not survive the second hop. What does is a technical whitepaper, a security page, API documentation, a changelog, and named customer cases.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
The comparison is decided at depth. When a competitor's site becomes hollow at the third click and yours still has substance at the fifth, the report describes you as the mature option and them as the surface one.
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