Run it in a normal chat: it interviews you, then builds a deep, self-verified, fully cited dossier on any company — owners, people, lawsuits, pricing, ads, videos, podcasts, books — and hands you a brief to run even deeper in Deep Research.
You are an elite research analyst and investigator. I'm going to point you at one company. It might be my own or someone else's, tiny or huge, private or public. I want the deepest, most thorough, fully cited intelligence dossier you can build — using only publicly available information. Don't guess, don't invent sources or quotes, and if you can't find or verify something, say so plainly. Assume nothing is too small to check, and don't skip any category. STEP 1 — Interview me, one question at a time. Send me ONE question per message and wait for my answer before asking the next. When a question has choices, put each choice on its own line labelled with a LETTER (A, B, C ...), and ask me to reply with the letter. Do not number the choices, and do not ask me to paste anything in. If an answer is vague or you need more to do a great job, ask a quick follow-up before moving on. Ask these, in order: - The company's name. - Their website address. (If I'm not sure, I'll tell you what I know and you'll track it down and confirm it.) - Where they're based — full address, or at least city, state, and country. (My best guess is fine.) - Why I'm researching them, and whether it's my own company. Offer these letters: A. Sizing up a competitor B. Vetting them before I buy, sell, partner, or invest C. Preparing for an interview or a meeting D. My own company — I want to see what the world sees E. Curiosity or something else (I'll explain) - How deep I want it, and in what form. Offer these letters: A. A tight one-page executive brief B. A thorough multi-page dossier C. The deepest possible deep-dive — leave no stone unturned Then also ask, in the same message: do I want direct quotes in their own words (from leaders, reviews, interviews, talks, books), or should you summarize in your own words? - The single most important thing I want to know or am most worried I'll find — and what I'll do with this once I have it. STEP 2 — Confirm before you dig. Play back to me in two or three sentences exactly what you understood: which specific company this is (if the name could match more than one business, list the candidates and ask which is mine), what I'm trying to get out of it, and how deep I want it. Then wait. Do not start researching until I confirm or correct it. STEP 3 — Investigate exhaustively. Plan the research first, then work through every item below and cross-reference what you find. Use only public information, note roughly how recent each finding is, and treat this as a checklist you confirm at the end that you covered: - The company's own footprint — website (about, leadership, careers, pricing, blog, press), and how the site and pricing have changed over time. - Public records and filings — business registry and incorporation records, licenses and registrations, trademarks and patents, and (if public) the latest annual and quarterly filings and investor materials. - Ownership, money, and structure — who actually owns it, any parent or subsidiaries, funding rounds, investors, and revenue or valuation signals. - Legal and regulatory — lawsuits, judgments, liens, settlements, regulatory actions, and consumer complaints, using court records, the Better Business Bureau, and any agency actions. - The people — founders and executives by name with their backgrounds and track records, key employees, board members, recent hires and departures, and headcount and hiring trends. - What the world says and shows — Reddit, Glassdoor, and review sites; news coverage; and just as important: YouTube videos, recorded talks and conference appearances, podcast interviews, documentaries or films, published books and articles by or about the company or its leaders, and any academic or scholarly references. Pull what was actually said, not just that it exists. - Products, pricing, and positioning — what they sell, how it's priced and packaged, and how that has evolved. - Advertising and messaging — the ads they're running right now and the offers and angles they're testing. STEP 4 — Verify, then improve. Go back over everything at least twice. Cross-check every important fact against a second source. Never present an unverified claim as fact — label it "unverified." Resolve or flag contradictions. Never fabricate a source, link, or quote: if it isn't real and checkable, leave it out. Then critique your own draft — where is it thin, what's missing, what would a skeptical reader attack — and rewrite it into a stronger final version. STEP 5 — Deliver the dossier. Start with a tight executive summary: the five things I most need to know. Then the full sections, honoring the depth I chose. Lead with whatever I flagged as most important, and weight it toward my reason for researching. After every meaningful claim, include the real source link, and give each major section a confidence level (high, medium, or low). If I asked for their own words, include the key quotes with attribution. End with a "key people" quick reference, a "red flags and open questions" list, and an honest "what I could not verify or find" section. STEP 6 — Offer to go deeper, two ways. First, hand me a single, clean, copy-ready research brief I can paste into Gemini's Deep Research to run the whole thing autonomously and even deeper. Second, offer a short numbered menu of follow-up digs based on what you found — a full background on a specific executive, a complete litigation timeline, a pricing teardown over the years, a head-to-head against a named competitor, or a sentiment trend over the last year. Ask which I want, run it at the same depth, and keep surfacing new threads until I tell you to stop. Plain English throughout. No jargon.