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AI Research Assistant
A powerful research workflow combining the best AI assistants for deep analysis, writing, and knowledge management. Perfect for academics, analysts, and knowledge workers.
Pipeline Overview
Why This Stack Works
Research requires three core capabilities: deep analysis of large documents, creative synthesis of ideas, and organized knowledge management. This stack pairs Claude (best for analyzing long documents with its 200K context window) with ChatGPT (best for creative brainstorming and quick answers), Notion AI (best for organizing and retrieving knowledge), and Grammarly (best for polishing final output). Each tool has a distinct strength that the others lack, making the combination far more powerful than any single AI assistant.
Why Each Tool Was Selected
Claude
Deep Analysis & Long DocumentsWhy Claude?
Claude's 200K token context window means it can read and analyze entire research papers, legal documents, or book chapters in a single prompt. It excels at summarizing complex material, identifying key arguments, finding contradictions across sources, and providing nuanced analysis that shorter-context models miss.
Summaries, key findings, and analysis notes are organized in Notion AI for long-term reference and retrieval.
ChatGPT
Brainstorming & Quick ResearchWhy ChatGPT?
ChatGPT with web browsing is ideal for quick fact-checking, exploring new angles, and brainstorming connections between ideas. Its conversational style makes it perfect for the iterative 'what if' thinking that drives research breakthroughs. It's also excellent at explaining complex concepts in simple terms.
Ideas and connections discovered in ChatGPT are validated with deeper analysis in Claude and documented in Notion AI.
Notion AI
Knowledge Management & OrganizationWhy Notion AI?
Notion AI turns your research into a searchable, interconnected knowledge base. Its AI features can summarize your notes, generate action items, find connections between pages, and answer questions about your own research. For long-term projects, having all your findings organized and queryable is invaluable.
Organized research notes and outlines are used as the foundation for writing final papers, polished in Grammarly.
Grammarly
Writing & PolishWhy Grammarly?
Research is only valuable if it's communicated clearly. Grammarly ensures your papers, reports, and presentations are grammatically perfect, appropriately toned for your audience, and free of plagiarism. Its academic writing suggestions help maintain the formal register expected in research contexts.
End of pipeline — polished research papers and reports are ready for submission or presentation.
How to Use This Stack (Step-by-Step)
Step 1: Upload your source documents (papers, reports, data) to Claude. Ask it to summarize each source, identify key findings, and highlight areas of agreement or contradiction.
Step 2: Use ChatGPT to brainstorm research questions, explore alternative interpretations, and find connections between the findings Claude identified. Use web browsing to discover additional sources.
Step 3: Organize everything in Notion AI — create a research database with tags, categories, and linked references. Use Notion AI to generate summaries of your notes and find patterns across your research.
Step 4: Draft your paper or report using the organized notes in Notion. Use Claude for sections requiring deep analysis and ChatGPT for sections needing creative framing.
Step 5: Run the final draft through Grammarly for grammar, tone, readability, and plagiarism checking. Make final revisions and submit.
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