Five High-Value Claude Research Prompts
These prompts produce analysis that would take a good researcher days to do manually.
I have collected information from multiple sources.
Identify the patterns and tensions across them.
[PASTE YOUR RESEARCH]
Find:
1. Claims that appear in multiple sources (stronger signal)
2. Claims that contradict across sources (investigate)
3. The underlying assumptions common to all sources
4. What perspective is conspicuously absent from
these sources
Play devil's advocate on this argument or conclusion:
[State your conclusion or argument]
Identify:
1. The weakest assumptions this argument depends on
2. Evidence that contradicts this conclusion
3. Alternative explanations for the same data
4. Who would disagree with this and why they might
have a point
Based on this research, generate 5 testable hypotheses
that follow logically from the data.
[PASTE RESEARCH]
For each hypothesis:
- State it as a falsifiable prediction
- Explain what evidence would confirm or disprove it
- Rate confidence that it is true based on current data
If the following finding is true, what are the
second and third-order implications?
Finding: [state the key finding]
Context: [your field or organization]
Identify implications that are:
- Immediate (happen in 0-12 months)
- Medium-term (1-3 years)
- Long-term and potentially transformative (3+ years)
- Counterintuitive or non-obvious
Day 3 ExerciseDeep Analysis on a Real Research Question
- Take the research brief from Day 2.
- Run the cross-source pattern analysis on the raw Perplexity outputs. What contradictions or tensions does Claude find?
- Take the main conclusion of your brief and run the devil's advocate analysis. What weaknesses does it surface?
- Run the implications analysis on the most important finding. Which implications surprised you?
Day 3 Summary
- Summarization is table stakes. The value is in patterns, contradictions, hypotheses, and implications.
- Devil's advocate analysis is one of the most valuable research prompts — run it on any conclusion before presenting it.
- Hypothesis generation turns descriptive research into predictive analysis.
- Second and third-order implications are where strategic value lives.