Research

Deep literature research — raw full text reading and targeted PDF queries for rigorous analysis

Quick landscape scan — discover papers on a topic without full-text reading

Apply life's principles as design constraints. Orchestrates ecosystem-pattern-extraction → evolution-mechanism-transfer → abstraction-to-design.

Determine appropriate levels for each experimental factor

Determine patent legal status — active, expired, pending, lapsed, or revoked

Systematically collect performance data from platforms and papers

Analyze leaderboard score distributions, compression, selective reporting

Lateral Thinking Campaign — escape logical thinking tracks via PO/movement, random entry, concept fan, challenge, and six hats (de Bono)

Synthesize all lateral thinking intermediate outputs into a structured idea report.

de Bono lateral escape sequence — identify dominant idea, generate provocations (escape/reversal/exaggeration/distortion), follow consequences to extract new framings. Breaks paradigm lock-in.

Evaluate each candidate research field on maturity, competition, entry barrier, and publication opportunity. Synthesizes broad-web-search results into a structured FieldPanorama. Must consider both niche approaches AND direct frontal competition in hot fields.

Patent landscape full-scan — maps technology domain via assignee ranking, IPC/CPC classification, filing trends. Budget: 200 patent families, 0 claim parses, 80 web searches.

Broad, shallow exploration of candidate research fields. Understand what's out there before narrowing. Use when the user needs to discover which fields are available to them — especially in cold-start and warm-start scenarios.

Proofs and Refutations method: generate counterexamples, attempt monster-barring, incorporate surviving counterexamples as lemma refinements.

Military ACT: systematically enumerate all assumptions, classify by type, and evaluate evidence strength supporting each.

Collect independent judgments from all perspectives on a given question.

Render an impartial verdict on advocate case vs critic attacks with explicit reasoning.

Map stakeholder Jobs-to-be-Done — functional, emotional, and social jobs for each affected party. Identifies unserved jobs as opportunity signals.

Execute one full Delphi round — collect judgments, distribute anonymous feedback, measure consensus, decide whether to continue.

Decompose problems into 6M categories (Methodology, Data, Theory, Measurement, Researchers, Environment) via fishbone diagram analysis.

Reverse statements → extract insights → build constructive alternatives. Systematic inversion pipeline from negation to innovation.

Extract constructive insights from worst solutions. Transform failure analysis into innovation directions.

Evaluate exploration status of each cell in a method×problem matrix, annotating as explored, partial, or unexplored.

Design intermediate objectives to overcome each identified obstacle