Quick start: speak these
Do a deep research on Notis competitors and send me the report when it is ready.
Compare the pricing of HubSpot, Pipedrive, and Salesforce, including hidden enterprise fees.
Find recent academic papers on retrieval-augmented generation and summarize the key takeaways.
Research what’s been said about us online in the last 30 days.
Notis turns one prompt into a structured research brief — without you opening 40 tabs.
Research workflow
1. Frame the question
Be specific about what you want to learn:
Research the top five YC-backed AI productivity companies. For each, list pricing, target persona, and recent funding.
Investigate why customer churn spikes after month two for SaaS in our category.
Build a market map for AI meeting assistants released in 2026.
The clearer the framing, the sharper the output.
2. Scope the question
Deep research currently searches the public web. It does not use your Notion
workspace or attached documents as research sources, so keep private-workspace
questions and document analysis in a separate request.
Use current public web sources and compare the pricing of these three tools.
Look for recent academic papers and give me three sourced findings.
Deep research uses public web sources only. If you need Notion pages or an
attached document included, ask Notis to read those separately and then use the
result as context for a follow-up. Read more in the Deep Research reference. 3. Let it run
Deep research usually takes a few minutes and can take up to 60 minutes for a
large request. It runs in the background, so you can keep talking to Notis
while it works.
Heads up — this one’s a deep one. Let me know when it’s done.
You’ll get a notification when results are ready.
4. Save the output to Notion
Persist the findings:
Save the report to my Research database under “Competitive landscape”.
Create one Notion page per competitor with the structured summary.
Append the new findings to my existing market map page.
Notis can write the finished report where you tell it, with the source links
preserved.
5. Iterate
Research is rarely one-shot. Push for more depth:
Go deeper on the pricing strategies — I want to see the discount mechanics.
Re-run this for the European market only.
Pull the actual quotes from each source instead of summaries.
Each follow-up builds on the prior context.
Set up your Research database in Notion
The Notis Second Brain template includes a Research database where Notis can save investigations.
Add a description to the database explaining your preferred output format. Example: “Each entry should have: title, public-web sources cited, key findings (bullets), open questions, and recommended next step.” Notis follows the description on every save.
Recommended Integrations
Automations
Weekly competitor scan
Use this automation to monitor competitors automatically and surface anything new.
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In the Notis portal, open the Automations tab and create a new scheduled automation.
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Set the schedule to Every Monday at 8:00 AM.
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Paste and adapt this instruction:
Pre-meeting account research
Pair this with calendar triggers to research accounts before sales calls.
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Create a new automation with trigger Calendar Event Starting (15 minutes before).
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Paste and adapt:
Pro tips
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Specify sources every time: Say “use the public web only,” or ask Notis to read a Notion page or document separately before you request a follow-up comparison.
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Set the scope of your asks: “Quick scan focused on pricing” vs. “Full deep research across competitors”. Notis uses the requested breadth to shape the report; every background run remains bounded and can take up to 60 minutes.
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Chain research → output: “Research X, then draft a blog post about it” runs both steps in sequence.
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Save the prompts that work: Once you find a research prompt you like (competitor pulse, customer interview synthesis, etc.), turn it into an automation so you never rewrite it.
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Cite-or-fail: Ask Notis to “include sources for every claim” — anything without a citation gets removed.
