An AI research assistant that writes briefs with sources

What kind of research can it do?

• Company and people briefs. Before a call: what the company does, recent news, who you’re meeting, open questions to ask.
• Market scans. A table of competitors with pricing, positioning and links, refreshed monthly.
• Reading for you. Send a 60-page report and ask for the five findings that matter to your project, with page numbers.
• Fact checks. Paste a claim and it looks for primary sources, saying where it couldn’t confirm something.
• Ongoing watches. A routine that checks a topic every Monday and reports only what changed.

Where does it look?

The AI agents AppuBot runs, like Claude Code and Codex, can search and read the web. On top of that the bot can read files you send it in the chat or on Telegram, documents in Google Drive or Notion when connected, and pages behind a login through computer use, using the browser on your computer where you’re already signed in. It can return the result as text, a document, or a visual reply in the chat with tables and charts.

How do you set it up?

1. Install AppuBot and pick the AI. A model with strong reasoning helps; you can raise the bot’s reasoning effort in its model picker.
2. Make a bot called "Research" with the job "Briefs from the web and my files".
3. Paste instructions, for example: “Write briefs of one page at most. Lead with the answer, then the evidence. Every claim gets a link. Prefer primary sources (company sites, filings, official docs) over blogs. Say clearly when sources disagree or when you couldn’t verify something. Save key facts about recurring companies to memory.”
4. Connect the apps it should read, such as Drive or Notion, and turn on only those for this bot.
5. Add a routine if you want a regular watch: “Every Monday 9:00, check news on our three main competitors and tell me what changed since last week.”
6. Connect Telegram so you can ask "brief me on Northwind before my 3pm" from anywhere.

What does it ask before doing?

Research is mostly reading, which runs without interruptions on "Approve for me". It stops to ask before it acts in your accounts, for example saving a page into Notion or emailing a brief, and before anything important on your computer. If you want every brief reviewed before it lands somewhere shared, write that into its instructions.

A sample week

Limits worth knowing

AI research can be wrong in confident ways: a misread number, an outdated page, a source that doesn’t say what the summary says. Asking for links on every claim makes that easy to catch. Paywalled sites and pages that block automated reading may be out of reach. And memory helps only if it’s right, so skim what it saved in memory now and then and fix anything stale.