Using AI for Industry Research? Here's the Only Framework You Need
How to go from zero to industry expert in 30 minutes, without hallucinations, without subscriptions.
Last week, a senior research analyst reached out with a problem I didn’t expect.
He covers multiple sectors. Has done this for 20 years. The kind of analyst who’s seen enough cycles to smell trouble before it shows up in the numbers.
Yet here he was, stuck.
He wanted to initiate coverage on a new sector, one he’d never touched before. Not a hot sector with abundant sell-side research. Not something Bloomberg or Refinitiv had neatly packaged. A niche industry where the information was scattered across regulatory filings, trade body reports, and consultant PDFs buried three pages deep in Google searches.
“I need to initiate coverage on a sector I’ve never touched. The information is everywhere and nowhere. I don’t have three weeks.”
He wanted an AI system that could help. But not the usual kind.
Not one that confidently invents numbers. Not one that hallucinates trends. He wanted something he could actually trust, something that would cite its sources, admit when it didn’t know, and let him v…
