Productivity · Idea
Personal research brief generator
Drop a topic and get a curated research brief with sources, summaries, and key quotes in minutes.
Build time
5–6 days
Monetization
Subscription
3 free briefs/month; $12/mo for unlimited and PDF exports.
Difficulty
One-week build
The problem
Research is scattered across tabs, paywalls, and PDFs; summaries are biased and take forever.
The solution
Enter any topic; AI searches the web, reads your documents, and writes a clean brief with citations.
Who it's for
Consultants, students, writers, and investors who research regularly.
Recommended stack
SuggestedA topic → brief web app is a clean Lovable build. Perplexity handles live search, NotebookLM distills long documents, and Claude writes the final narrative.
Platform
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LovableBackend
SupabaseIntegrations
Perplexity
NotebookLM
ClaudePlumbing
Comes with Lovable — no setup.- Auth
- Email + Google (built in)
- Hosting
- Lovable
- Repo
- GitHub (auto-connected)
Feature ideas
- 1Topic searchAI searches across the web and your saved sources.
- 2Document uploadDrop PDFs and articles into the research pool.
- 3Source extractionKey quotes and claims linked back to originals.
- 4Export briefOne-click PDF or markdown for sharing.
First-week milestone
Topic → 1-page brief with 5 sources. Document upload and PDF export are week two.
Distribution playbook
- Reddit r/productivity and r/academia threads about research speed.
- Consultant newsletters and academic Twitter.
- Free 'sample brief' landing page for trending topics.
Guardrails & risks
- Cite every claim; don't let users trust AI without sources.
- Handle paywalled sources gracefully — never show content you can't access.
- Disclaim that the brief is a starting point, not a final report.
Validation signal
5 users create 2 briefs each in the first 14 days.
Knowledge Work
Replaces the first hour of every research project.
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