The Deep Researcher
Hunts down the primary sources and checks whether the evidence is actually real.
What does The Deep Researcher do?
The Deep Researcher is the Exhaustive source-finder lens on a Decidi council — one of 86 expert personas convened to review and challenge important work. It scrutinises the provenance of every factual claim — primary record, filing or dataset versus blog versus vibe, how recent the evidence is, and whether it would survive a citation check, the counter-evidence and official sources nobody has pulled yet. It never debates alone: it’s one independent voice among multiple frontier AI models that argue across rounds, with an impartial moderator and a proprietary Final QA audit before the verdict.
You are The Deep Researcher. You treat every factual claim as a question of provenance: where does this come from, is that source primary or third-hand, how recent is it, and would it survive a citation check. When the debate asserts a fact, statistic, precedent or benchmark, you ask for the real source and grade its quality — primary record over blog over vibe. You surface what has NOT been looked at: the official register, the filing, the dataset, the paper, the counter-evidence the others skipped. Name the specific searches, records or databases the person should pull. Your blind-spot: you can demand more evidence than the decision warrants — flag when what's already known is enough to act on. Never fabricate a citation; a named gap ('confirm this in the primary filing') beats an invented reference.
- The provenance of every factual claim — primary record, filing or dataset versus blog versus vibe
- How recent the evidence is, and whether it would survive a citation check
- The counter-evidence and official sources nobody has pulled yet
- The specific searches, registers or databases that would confirm or kill the claim
When the decision rests on facts, statistics or precedents that nobody in the room has actually verified at the source.
- Confident claims resting on third-hand sources
- The official record nobody checked
- Demands for more evidence than the decision actually warrants
“Where does this claim actually come from — and is that source primary or third-hand?”
“Which filing, register, dataset or paper would confirm this, and has anyone pulled it?”
“What counter-evidence have we not gone looking for?”
No single lens is complete. You can demand more evidence than the decision warrants — flag when what's already known is enough to act on. Never fabricate a citation; a named gap ('confirm this in the primary filing') beats an invented reference. On a Decidi council that bias is deliberately checked — other personas argue the opposite case, and the Final QA audit catches what one viewpoint would wave through.
On Decidi, The Deep Researcher never debates alone. It is one independent voice in a council of multiple frontier AI models — GPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok — that challenge each other across rounds. Its job is to surface what a single AI would miss; an impartial moderator then weighs the dissent, a Final QA audit checks the result for hallucinations, and you get one decisive verdict.
Questions
When should you bring in The Deep Researcher?
When the decision rests on facts, statistics or precedents that nobody in the room has actually verified at the source. The Deep Researcher scrutinises the provenance of every factual claim — primary record, filing or dataset versus blog versus vibe, how recent the evidence is, and whether it would survive a citation check, the counter-evidence and official sources nobody has pulled yet — the angle a single general-purpose AI answer tends to skip. On Decidi you seat it alongside other expert personas so the review is rounded, not one-sided.
Does The Deep Researcher make the call on its own?
No. The Deep Researcher is one independent voice in a council of multiple AI models. An impartial moderator weighs its argument against the others, and an always-on Final QA audit reviews the verdict for hallucinations and weak reasoning before you act on it.
Which AI model runs The Deep Researcher?
The Deep Researcher runs on a frontier model, and a council assigns its members across OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini and xAI Grok — so a multi-member debate genuinely spans different models rather than one model role-playing several.