CitedBrief
An asynchronous deep-research service for strategy consultants, equity analysts, and freelance journalists — submit a research question in the morning with a defined scope and get a 15-page cited brief by end of day, every claim tagged with source URL, retrieval date, and an AI confidence rating.
Management consultants, equity analysts, and investigative journalists who bill by the hour and lose too much of it to desk research
- Submit a research question plus scope (industry, geography, time window) and an agent browses, scrapes, and cross-checks 100+ sources
- Every claim tagged with primary-source URL, retrieval date, and a confidence rating — low-confidence claims route to a human review queue
- Export to Word, Notion, or directly into a Slack channel; supports team comments on specific claims
- Vertical templates for consulting (market sizing, competitor teardowns), finance (initiating coverage inputs), and journalism (background dossiers)
The AxisAgentic framework (97 stars) shows long-horizon research agent infrastructure is maturing — the bottleneck has shifted from 'can an agent research for hours?' to 'can a professional trust the output?', and no one owns the on-demand verified-research market yet.
Clear demand exists — OpenAI shipped Deep Research and expanded query limits (25/mo Plus, 250/mo Pro) in April 2025, and dedicated tools (Hebbia, AlphaSense) sell into the same professional research buyer.Introducing deep research - OpenAI ↗Best AI Research Tools for Consultants in 2026 — LaunchBoosts ↗
Market is already crowded: Hebbia (enterprise AI for finance/legal), AlphaSense ($10-20K/seat incumbents), and a direct namesake competitor — Cited Evidence (citedevidence.com) — already ships an AI research agent with auto-citations. No wide-open whitespace.AI Research Agent - Autonomous Research & Report Generation ↗AlphaSense vs Hebbia ↗
Strong willingness to pay — Hebbia deployments run $20K-$200K+ ARR, AlphaSense seats $10-20K, and outsourced equity research (Acuity) sells on 30-70% cost savings vs in-house. Hourly-billing professionals will pay premium for verified outputs.Hebbia Review 2026: Features, Pricing & Is It Worth It? ↗Buy-Side Equity Research Outsourcing Services | Acuity ↗
Research is a durable need, but foundation-model labs (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) are racing to bake deep research + citations directly into their products, making a standalone async-brief service vulnerable to commoditization within 1-2 years.Introducing deep research - OpenAI ↗
Technically hard — producing a 15-page brief in a day with per-claim source URL, retrieval date, and trustworthy AI confidence ratings requires near-zero hallucination across hours of agent work, which is not yet a solved problem even with long-horizon frameworks.Hebbia Review 2026: Features, Pricing & Is It Worth It? ↗