Week 45, updated 2 Nov 2026

AI use cases Research & web data Write cited, long-form articles with AI

Write cited, long-form articles with AI

Use research-to-article systems that outline a topic, gather sources and draft a long report with citations. Prompts, workflow and ranked tools.

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16 Oct

For: Researchers and analysts · Marketing and content

Best-scored tools for this jobscore, safety
  1. 1GPT ResearcherAI tool31Caution
  2. 2STORMAI tool26Caution
What the score and shapes mean

Score = public maintenance, adoption and docs signals, as a percentile of 52 tools. Nobody here tested these hands-on. Shapes are the separate safety label: No issues found, No dependencies scanned, Caution.

What it does for you

Researchers, writers and analysts who need a structured, referenced draft.

  • Draft an encyclopedia-style article on a topic
  • Generate an outline from multiple perspectives
  • Produce a bibliography you can verify
  • Create a briefing document for a new subject
  • Turn research notes into a structured report
More about this job

Some systems follow a human-like process: research a topic from several angles, outline, then write a long article with references. The output is a strong first draft that still needs fact-checking and an editor.

Workflow in 5 steps

  1. Narrow the topic so the system can cover it in depth.
  2. Generate the outline and edit it before drafting.
  3. Run the drafting step and export the references.
  4. Check each reference exists and supports the sentence.
  5. Rewrite in your own voice and disclose AI assistance where your audience expects it.
Full steps
  1. Narrow the topic so the system can cover it in depth.
  2. Generate the outline and edit it before drafting.
  3. Run the drafting step and export the references.
  4. Check each reference exists and supports the sentence.
  5. Rewrite in your own voice and disclose AI assistance where your audience expects it.

Prompts to copy

Starting points we wrote, not tested results.

Outline an article on topic X from three perspectives (technical, economic, social). Under each heading list the questions it should answer.

2 more prompts

Draft section 2 using only the sources listed below, citing each claim with a number. Say where sources disagree.

Review this draft for claims without a citation and list them.

Watch out for

  • AI output can be fluent and wrong.
  • Check each tool's licence before commercial use, and check the licence of any code or text the AI reproduces.
  • Treat AI changes like a pull request from a new colleague: read the diff, run the tests and keep a human sign-off before anything ships.
  • Do not copy generated text verbatim into published work without checking it for accuracy and for passages that closely follow a source.
  • CautionGPT Researcher8 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
  • CautionSTORM9 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
Why these warnings?
  • AI output can be fluent and wrong. Check facts, code and citations yourself before you rely on them or publish them.
  • Check each tool's licence before commercial use, and check the licence of any code or text the AI reproduces.
  • Treat AI changes like a pull request from a new colleague: read the diff, run the tests and keep a human sign-off before anything ships.
  • Do not copy generated text verbatim into published work without checking it for accuracy and for passages that closely follow a source.
  • GPT Researcher: 8 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
  • STORM: 9 critical-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)

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Sources for tool facts

assafelovic/gpt-researcher · stanford-oval/storm. Data fetched 2 Nov 2026. Scores and labels are automated, relative and not a hands-on test.

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