Business Decision Research
Business research needs to answer one question: what should we do? Structure accordingly.
Convert this research into a decision brief.
Decision to make: [specific decision]
Decision maker: [who will decide, their context]
Timeline: [when the decision is needed]
Research: [paste your research]
Brief structure:
1. The Decision (one sentence)
2. Recommended Option (state it upfront)
3. Key Evidence Supporting the Recommendation
4. Key Risks and How to Mitigate Them
5. What We Don't Know Yet (key uncertainties)
6. Conditions Under Which We Should Reconsider
One page maximum. No academic hedging. Make a call.
Technical Evaluation Research
Create a technical evaluation of these options for
our specific use case.
Options to compare: [list them]
Our use case: [describe specifically]
Our constraints: [team size, existing stack, budget, timeline]
Evaluation criteria (weighted):
- [Criterion 1]: [weight]%
- [Criterion 2]: [weight]%
- [Criterion 3]: [weight]%
Research on each option: [paste research]
Produce a scored comparison matrix and a
recommendation with rationale.
Academic Literature Review Structure
Organize this research as a literature review.
Topic: [your topic]
Purpose: [what question you are trying to answer]
Sources: [paste summaries of papers/articles you have read]
Organize the literature by:
1. Historical development of thinking on this topic
2. Current theoretical frameworks (areas of agreement)
3. Active debates and controversies
4. Methodological approaches and their limitations
5. Gaps in the literature — what has not been studied
Identify which sources represent foundational work
vs recent extensions.
Day 4 ExerciseBuild a Use-Case-Specific Research Output
- Pick the research context most relevant to you: business, technical, or academic.
- Take a real research question you face in your work.
- Use Perplexity to gather research, then apply the appropriate Day 4 prompt.
- Compare the output to what you would have produced without the AI workflow. What is better? What would you add?
Day 4 Summary
- Business research: lead with the recommendation, support it with evidence, flag uncertainty.
- Technical evaluation: use a weighted scoring matrix against specific criteria.
- Academic reviews: organize by theoretical development, debates, and gaps.
- Format determines usefulness — the same research structured differently serves different audiences.