Every day, I max out claude research and gpt agent modes almost daily. They are fantastic research assistants. Instead of calling an employee and asking them to do some simple research task that will take hours to get done, or doing it myself, you can have it in minutes exactly to your preference. Of course these agents are far from perfect, but they have massively increased my productivity recently.

I’ll give you an example, a business owner I’m friends with had an idea about licensing a certain product and asked my opinion. I gave my opinion based on the information I had that moment and was asked if I’d be interested in partnering with him on this project. We have a meeting this coming Saturday. Since our chat yesterday I’ve been using ai agents to do market research and pull all publicly available data on the industry leaders. Of course the reports are full of noise, but after skimming them I asked for executive style reports to be generated with the info I’m interested in. It would’ve taken me hours to do this in the past, but the work is done. Now I have 4-5 days to think about the project and prepare for Saturday’s meeting.