350 AI Prompts for Research

The best Research prompts across 6 subcategories. Tested on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and every major model.

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## Role
You are an expert market analyst creating a comprehensive target market analysis to support business strategy and planning.

## Task
Analyze the target market by identifying and organizing key characteristics across four dimensions: demographics, psychographics, behaviors, and needs. Provide actionable insights that will inform business decisions and competitive positioning.

## Context
{{business-context}}

## Research Focus
For the specified target market, examine:
- **Demographics**: Age ranges, income levels, education, occupation, household composition, geographic concentration
- **Psychographics**: Values, lifestyle preferences, attitudes, interests, pain points, aspirations
- **Behaviors**: Purchasing patterns, brand interactions, media consumption, decision-making processes, loyalty drivers
- **Needs**: Unmet needs, primary motivations, problems seeking solutions, desired

Target Market Analysis Prompt

Generates a structured four-dimension target market analysis examining demographics, psychographics, behaviors, and needs. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to produce a markdown table of actionable market insights.

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## Role
You are a research analyst investigating how recent scientific or technological developments reshape academic fields.

## Task
Analyze the impact of {{event-or-discovery}} on {{field-of-study}}. Uncover both direct and indirect effects on research directions, methodologies, and funding priorities. Prioritize depth over breadthβ€”dig into mechanisms and causality. Support every finding with credible sources.

## Output
Structure your analysis with the following sections:

**Event/Discovery:** Provide a brief description of the development being analyzed.

**Field of Study:** Confirm the academic field under examination.

**Impact on Research Directions:** List 3–5 specific ways the event has redirected scholarly inquiry, opening new questions or making previous lines obsolete.

**Methodological Changes:** Identify 3–5 shifts in tools, techniques, protocols, or experimental designs t

Research Impact Trend Analysis Prompt

Generates a structured analysis of how recent scientific or technological developments reshape academic research directions, methodologies, and funding priorities. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

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Competitive Analysis Report Builder

Generates a structured competitive intelligence report that maps competitors, identifies market gaps, and recommends strategic opportunities. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Market Risk Assessment Prompt for Business Planning

Generates a comprehensive risk management table identifying financial, operational, strategic, and compliance risks with likelihood ratings and mitigation strategies. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Market Share Distribution Analysis Prompt

Generates a comprehensive market share report identifying key players, their market positions, and growth opportunities for any industry and region. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are an interdisciplinary research analyst synthesizing insights from multiple fields to solve complex problems.

## Task
Investigate how {{interdisciplinary-approach}} can be applied to solve {{problem-statement}}. Analyze each discipline's unique contribution, discuss integration challenges, and present successful real-world case studies with proper citations.

## Output
Provide a structured research report:

**Interdisciplinary Approach:** {{interdisciplinary-approach}}
**Problem Statement:** {{problem-statement}}

**Disciplines Involved:**
β€’ List 3-5 relevant disciplines
β€’ For each, explain its unique contribution to solving the problem

**Integration Challenges:**
β€’ Identify 3-4 key difficulties in combining diverse disciplinary perspectives
β€’ Address methodological conflicts, communication barriers, or conceptual incompatibilities

**Successful Case Studies:**
β€’ Present 

Interdisciplinary Research Analysis Prompt

Generates a structured research report synthesizing insights from multiple disciplines to solve complex problems. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are an expert literary agent researcher specializing in the publishing industry.

## Task
Compile a comprehensive, well-organized table of literary agents with proven track records in {{genre}}. Research reputable agencies, verify agent credentials and client lists, review current submission guidelines, and gather accurate contact information.

## Context
Authors seeking representation need reliable, up-to-date information to target the right agents for their work. Your research should focus on agents actively acquiring manuscripts in the specified genre, with demonstrated success placing books with publishers.

{{research-requirements}}

## Output
Present your findings as a markdown table with these columns:
- Agent Name
- Agency
- Notable Clients
- Submission Guidelines
- Contact Information

Include 10-15 agents unless otherwise specified. Prioritize agents currently open 

Literary Agent Research Table Generator

Generates a structured markdown table of literary agents with verified credentials, notable clients, submission guidelines, and contact details for a specified genre. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and similar text models.

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Influencer Research and Brand Partnership Prompt

Identifies and evaluates influencers across social platforms based on content quality, engagement metrics, and brand alignment. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to produce a ranked comparison table of strategic partnership candidates.

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## Role
You are an education researcher specializing in peer support systems and student collaboration tools.

## Task
Research and analyze peer support platforms for students, then compile your findings into a structured comparison table. Evaluate each platform based on effectiveness, user reviews, accessibility, and relevance to the target education context.

## Context
Peer support platforms help students connect with classmates for academic help, mentorship, study groups, and emotional support. Your research should cover platforms appropriate for {{education-context}} and include both established and emerging options. If applicable, prioritize platforms relevant to {{area-of-interest}}.

## Output
Present your findings as a markdown table with three columns:
- **Platform Name**: The service or application name
- **Key Features**: Core functionality, unique offerings, and notable tool

Peer Support Platform Research and Comparison Prompt

Generates a structured markdown comparison table of peer support platforms for students, analyzing features, user reviews, and target audiences. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are a market research analyst identifying emerging trends and actionable opportunities.

## Task
Conduct research on market trends in {{industry}} and analyze their implications for {{company-context}}. Identify specific opportunities each trend creates and assess their potential impact on operations, revenue, or market position.

## Context
Focus on trends with meaningful potential for sales growth and competitive advantage. Prioritize developments that align with {{area-of-focus}} and can be acted upon within a 12–24 month horizon.

## Output
Present your findings as a markdown table with three columns:

| Trend | Opportunity | Impact |
|-------|-------------|--------|

Each row should:
- **Trend**: Describe the emerging development or shift (2–3 sentences)
- **Opportunity**: Specify the actionable business opportunity it creates
- **Impact**: Assess the potential effect on

Research Emerging Market Trends Prompt for ChatGPT

Generates a structured table of emerging market trends, actionable opportunities, and business impact assessments. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to inform strategic planning with concise, decision-ready insights.

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Influencer Comment Sentiment Analysis Prompt

Analyzes influencer audience comments to detect genuine support, performative positivity, sarcasm, and hidden criticism. Built for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to surface authentic engagement patterns and brand-partnership risks.

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Labor Market Analysis Prompt for Emerging Job Roles

Generates a structured 3-5 year forecast of the top 5 in-demand and emerging job roles in any field, complete with key responsibilities, required skills, and cited sources. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Technology Impact on Profession Analysis Prompt

Generates a structured workforce impact analysis examining how an emerging technology will transform a specific profession, identifying new roles, evolving skills, and obsolescence risks. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are a pragmatic market segmentation analyst with expertise in dissecting market segments and audience data for real-world applicability.

## Task
Analyze the provided target audience and business context, then deliver a comprehensive, step-by-step segmentation strategy with clear, actionable recommendations.

## Context
**Business:** {{business-context}}

**Target Audience:** {{target-audience}}

Focus on objective analysis considering demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and geographic factors. Base all recommendations on evidence and avoid unsupported generalizations.

## Output
Provide a complete market segmentation strategy structured in five steps:

**Step 1: Define Your Target Audience**
- Identify key demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and geographic factors

**Step 2: Gather and Analyze Data**
- Conduct market research and analyze customer data
- Identify patt

Market Segmentation Strategy Builder

Generates a five-step market segmentation strategy with actionable recommendations tailored to your business and audience. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to deliver demographic, psychographic, behavioral, and geographic analysis.

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## Role
You are a business analyst creating a structured consumer purchase pattern analysis that tracks trends, motivations, and high-value segments.

## Task
Create a table with these 5 columns:

Consumer Type | Product | Frequency | Motivation | Purchase Value
--------------|---------|-----------|------------|---------------

For each row, include:
- **Consumer Type**: Detailed description of the consumer segment
- **Product**: Product name and category
- **Frequency**: Purchase frequency and notable trends
- **Motivation**: Primary and secondary purchase drivers
- **Purchase Value**: Average purchase value and estimated lifetime value

Populate the table with {{number-of-rows}} rows focused on {{analysis-scope}}.

After the table, provide a summary covering:

## Key Consumer Segments
Defining characteristics of each major segment

## High-Value Products
Products generating highest val

Consumer Purchase Pattern Analysis Generator

Generates a structured table analyzing consumer segments, product preferences, purchase frequency, motivations, and lifetime value, followed by actionable insights and growth recommendations. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Customer Persona Role-Play Interview Prompt

Generates an in-character customer persona that answers questions from the target audience's perspective, surfacing deep insights about problems, goals, objections, and buying triggers. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok.

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Social Media Trend Research Prompt for ChatGPT

Generates a structured report of trending topics and hashtags across Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, sorted by engagement and relevance. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

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## Role
You are a researcher and networking expert who identifies niche-specific platforms where solopreneurs can connect and collaborate.

## Task
Research and identify 30 platforms and websites where solopreneurs in {{niche}} can effectively network and collaborate.

## Output
Deliver your findings as a table with three columns:

| Platform Name | URL | Key Features |
|---------------|-----|-------------|
| Platform 1 | https://... | Feature summary |
| Platform 2 | https://... | Feature summary |

(Continue for all 30 platforms)

**Sources:**
1. Source citation
2. Source citation

(List all sources used in your research)

## Criteria
- Focus on platforms specifically relevant to the niche
- Include the platform name, URL, and a concise summary of key features for each entry
- Cite all sources at the end

Niche Networking Platform Research Generator

Generates a table of 30 niche-specific networking platforms and websites where solopreneurs can connect and collaborate. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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## Role
You are an expert focus group facilitator specializing in gathering comprehensive feedback to guide iterative improvements.

## Task
Compose a detailed guide for conducting effective focus groups to elicit actionable insights on the given product or service. Structure the guide with logical flow and clear dependencies between phases.

## Context
Product or service: {{product-or-service}}

## Output
Provide a comprehensive focus group guide in markdown with these sections:

### 1. Focus Group Overview
- Objectives
- Target participants
- Ideal group size
- Session duration

### 2. Planning and Preparation
- Step-by-step instructions

### 3. Participant Recruitment
- Screening criteria
- Recruitment channels
- Incentives

### 4. Session Structure
- Introduction (duration and details)
- Warm-up (duration and details)
- Main discussion (duration and details)
- Wrap-up (duration and d

Focus Group Facilitation Guide for Product Research

Generates a step-by-step guide for planning, conducting, and analyzing focus groups to gather actionable product or service feedback. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Customer Needs and Preferences Assessment Prompt

Generates a structured market analysis identifying customer segments, their needs, and preferences for any product or service. Outputs a markdown table for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok.

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Literature Review Prompt for Academic Research

Generates a structured academic literature review that identifies key researchers, major findings, and real-world applications for any topic and field. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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Customer Value Strategy Generator for Retention

Generates unconventional strategies to increase customer lifetime value through core product enhancements and complementary offerings. Built for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to deliver actionable retention and growth ideas.

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## Role
You are an expert business analyst providing a step-by-step guide to conducting a gap analysisβ€”identifying unmet needs and opportunities in a target market.

## Task
Deliver a comprehensive, actionable guide structured around these eight stages:

**Introduction**
β€’ Brief overview of gap analysis and its strategic importance

**Step 1: Define the Target Market**
β€’ Identify key characteristics and segmentation criteria
β€’ Create buyer personas

**Step 2: Assess Current Offerings**
β€’ Research existing products and services
β€’ Analyze competitor strengths and weaknesses

**Step 3: Gather Customer Insights**
β€’ Conduct surveys, interviews, and feedback analysis
β€’ Identify pain points and unmet needs

**Step 4: Map the Customer Journey**
β€’ Break down journey stages and touchpoints
β€’ Pinpoint gaps and opportunities at each interaction

**Step 5: Analyze the Gaps**
β€’ Categorize gaps (produc

Market Gap Analysis Guide for Business Analysts

Generates an eight-step methodology for conducting gap analysis to identify unmet needs and opportunities in any target market. Runs on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

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What are AI prompts for Research?

AI prompts for Research are engineered instructions that already work. These are not one-line questions. Each one fixes the role, the context, the task and the output format before you type a word, so you get a usable result on the first run instead of the fourth.

They cover the work Research actually get asked for: research and briefs, copy and content, analysis and reporting, planning, outreach and the admin that eats the day. Open a card to see the full prompt and the output it returns.

The deepest areas here: Market Research (116 prompts), Competitive Analysis (59 prompts), Trend Analysis (50 prompts), Literature Review (47 prompts), Deep Research (40 prompts).

Popular on this page right now: "Target Market Analysis Prompt", "Research Impact Trend Analysis Prompt", "Competitive Analysis Report Builder".

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Why these prompts work for Research

A weak prompt costs you the hour you were trying to save: you rewrite it three times, get something generic, then finish the job by hand. An engineered prompt front-loads that thinking once.

In Research that means first drafts you can send, analysis you can act on, and the repetitive work handed off, so the time goes into judgement instead of typing.

Every prompt here was written for a real job and tested against the models people actually use. Nothing scraped from a thread.

How to use these prompts

Open a prompt, copy it, and replace the [bracketed] variables with your own product, audience or topic. The structure around them stays as is. That structure is the part doing the work.

Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or the model you already use. If the output drifts, tighten the context line instead of rewriting the whole prompt.

No account needed to copy one. No setup, no extension, nothing to install.

Which AI tool works best for Research prompts?

Text prompts here run well in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok; image prompts target Midjourney and Nano Banana. Each card lists the models it was tested with.

Are these AI prompts free to use?

A big part of the library is free: open a prompt, copy it, use it. Premium packs and the Complete AI Bundle unlock the full collection with lifetime updates.

How do I adapt these prompts to my use case?

Start with the [variables]: niche, audience, constraints. If the result still misses, add one example of the output you want. A single good example beats three extra instructions.

For a prompt built from scratch, the Start Now card above opens the custom prompt generator.

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Keyword research prompts

A model cannot see search volumes, so a keyword research prompt should ask for what it can do: expand a seed into the questions people ask, group them by intent and name the page type each group needs. Take that list into your keyword tool for the numbers. The prompts in this category follow that order and skip the fake volume estimates.

Seed keyword: [keyword]. Audience: [who]. List 40 related queries people type into Google, grouped into: informational, comparison, transactional, problem. For each group, name the page type that would rank (guide, list, tool page, product page) and the one query to target first. No volume numbers.

Research paper prompts

Research paper prompts do the slow parts: turning a question into a searchable set of terms, summarising a paper into claims and evidence, and drafting a literature review paragraph from your notes. They never invent citations, because the prompt tells them not to.

Here are my notes on five papers: [paste]. Write a literature review paragraph for each theme you find, citing only the papers in my notes by author and year. Where two papers disagree, say so in one sentence. Flag any claim in my notes that has no source attached.