Research & Benchmarking Agent

Research You Can Defend In The Room.

Load the market reports, filings and client data you already have. Get a sourced brief and your standard exhibits back — every figure tagged to the passage it came from, every gap in the evidence named instead of filled in.

  • Every figure carries its citation
  • Your exhibits, same format every time
  • Brief, Word and exhibit deck in one click

No credit card. Your sources, your exhibit formats, your firm’s private workspace.

Exhibit 3 — Benchmark metrics

MetricClientPeer setSource
Revenue per professional$257,000$312,000 medianBenchmark Study 2026, Table B1
Operating margin11.8%16.1% medianBenchmark Study 2026, Table B1
Realization vs standard rates84%89% medianBenchmark Study 2026, Table B1
Recurring revenue share0%6% medianBenchmark Study 2026, Table B3

“Revenue per professional: $312,000 [$268,000 – $359,000].”

Exhibit from the sample source documents

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The Research Problem

The research is where the hours go and the defensibility is lost.

Every engagement starts the research from zero

The same market questions get re-researched by whoever is free, with no reuse from the last three times you answered them.

The quality depends on who did it

One analyst cites sources and periods. Another pastes a number from a deck nobody can trace. Both go to a client.

Numbers you cannot defend in the room

A partner is asked where a market size came from and cannot answer. That one moment costs more than the research did.

Senior people doing gathering, not thinking

The interpretation is the billable judgment. The collection and formatting in front of it is where the hours go.

How It Works

Four steps. The consultant keeps the judgment.

01

Frame the research question

You

Name the client, industry, market scope and the comparables that matter.

The agent

Scopes the brief to that question and nothing wider.

02

Load the sources

You

Upload reports, filings and client data, or paste a public page address.

The agent

Reads PDFs, Word files, text and web pages, keeping publisher, date and address for the citation.

03

Run the research

You

Press run and go do something else.

The agent

Builds the citation list, writes each brief section and fills every exhibit, tagging each statement with its sources.

04

Interpret, approve, deliver

You

Check the citation trail, add the interpretation, approve.

The agent

Produces the brief as PDF and Word, and the exhibits as a client-ready deck.

What Comes Out

A brief, your exhibits, and the trail behind them.

  • A sourced research brief as a PDF, numbered citations to the source list
  • The same brief in Word, so you can edit it into your firm's voice
  • An exhibit deck with your standard tables, ready to drop into a client deck
  • A citation trail showing the passage behind every figure
  • Open questions the sources did not answer, listed rather than guessed at

The standard brief

  • 01Market context and size
  • 02Demand drivers and headwinds
  • 03Industry economics and pricing
  • 04Competitive landscape
  • 05Comparable company profiles
  • 06Implications for the engagement

The standard exhibits

  • Market sizing exhibit
  • Comparable company profiles
  • Benchmark metric table
  • Competitive landscape view

Starting point, not a cage. You change the sections, exhibits and columns to match how your firm presents work.

Why It Holds Up

No citation, no claim.

The agent builds the citation list before it writes a word. Each statement and each exhibit row then names the citations behind it, so a partner asked where a number came from can answer in one click — source, publisher, period, passage.

Where the sources are silent, the agent says so. Open questions come back as a list to chase with the client, not as a confident estimate you have to defend later.

Interpretation, recommendations and the client conversation stay with your consultant. Nothing leaves the workspace until a person approves it.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not.

Built for

  • US professional service firms of roughly 50 to 500 people
  • Consulting, accounting, advisory and legal practices that sell judgment
  • Firms whose deliverables lean on market, industry or comparable data
  • Partners who want the research layer standardized across every engagement

Not for

  • Anyone wanting the agent to write the whole report and form the recommendation
  • Firms expecting access to paywalled research databases they do not license
  • Legal, audit attest or investment advice
  • A generic business chatbot
Questions

The objections, answered.

Where does the data come from?

Only from what you load: market and industry reports, filings, datasets, public web pages and the client's own documents. The agent does not invent figures and does not reach into databases you do not license.

How do I know a number is real?

Every statement and every exhibit row is tagged to a citation, and each citation names the source, the publisher, the date and the passage it came from. Anything the sources do not support is flagged as an open question instead of being filled in.

Are the exhibits ours or yours?

Yours. You set the brief sections, the exhibits and the exact columns in each, plus the citation standard. Every engagement then produces the same format, which is what makes work comparable across clients.

Does it replace the analyst?

No. It does the gathering and formatting. The interpretation, the recommendation and the client conversation stay with your consultant, and nothing goes out until a person approves the run.

Is our client data kept separate from other firms?

Yes. Every firm gets its own workspace. Projects, sources, your exhibit pack and your team are visible only to people you invite into your firm.

What files can I load?

PDFs, Word documents, plain text, pasted passages and public web pages. Scanned PDFs with no selectable text need their text pasted in, and some publishers block automated reads.

What does it cost?

Pricing is value based and depends on the size of your practice and how much research you run through it. Create an account to try it, then book a call and we will price it against your book of work.

Run one engagement's research through it.

Create your workspace, load the sources from a live engagement, and see the brief, the exhibits and the citation trail come back.

Then decide whether the research layer of every engagement should look like that.