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.