Researchers — do you still need an external team for even the basic analysis/research work?
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Curious to crowd-check something — any researchers/analysts here who still have to loop in an external team (or a colleague) just to get basic data pulls, literature reviews, or first-pass analysis done? Not the deep, judgment-heavy stuff — just the grunt work that eats days before the "real" research even starts.
If that's you — what's the actual bottleneck?
Is it that the tooling/agents just aren't there yet?
Is it trust — you don't believe the output without a human checking it?
Or is it that setting up an agent/pipeline yourself takes longer than just asking a person?
Trying to figure out where an out-of-box research agent would genuinely save time vs. where people still want (and will keep wanting) a human in the loop.
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from what I've seen it's mostly the trust bottleneck, not the tooling one. the pipelines can pull data and draft a first-pass summary fine now, the actual holdup is that nobody wants to be the one who shipped a number nobody double-checked. so people still ask a colleague, not because the colleague is faster, but because a human catching a mistake before it goes out feels different from a pipeline catching it. that gap closes slower than the tooling gap does.
This reminds me of the "copilot" discusssion. Most people seem happy letting prepare the work they just don't want it making the final judgment.