Ask Sim to investigate a topic, read a URL, or compare sources. Specify the question, time range, and output you need. Web research is available when the deployment provides the required search or page-reading tools.
Ask a research question
Include enough scope to identify useful sources:
- "What did Salesforce, HubSpot, and Gong ship in the past 30 days? Cite the product updates."
- "Find Acme Corp's public tech stack information, recent hires, and open engineering roles."
- "Research [competitor]'s press, product changes, and job postings from the past 90 days."
- "Check Anthropic's API documentation for its current rate limits."
- "Read [URL] and explain what changed in this release."
- "Check Stripe's documentation for webhook retries and idempotency handling."
- "Compare the main providers of AI for revenue operations and explain their differences."
Sim can search web sources, read pages, and look up technical documentation. It returns an answer in the chat; ask for a saved file when you need a longer deliverable.
Save a report
Name the comparison criteria, intended audience, and destination. For example:
- "Compare 10 AI sales development tools on pricing, features, positioning, and customer feedback. Save a cited competitive analysis as ai-sales-tools.md."
- "Map AI in healthcare diagnostics: major providers, funding, use cases, and the regulatory context. Save a report with sources and open questions."
- "Research how our top five competitors handle multi-tenant authentication. Compare public architecture details, pricing, and documented vulnerabilities."
- "Find public case studies on AI agents in financial compliance from the past two years. Summarize the reported outcomes and save a Markdown report."
- "Create a battle card for [competitor] covering positioning, pricing, strengths, weaknesses, and our differentiators."
Ask for citations and for missing or conflicting evidence to be identified. Sim can combine the findings into a workspace file and open it in the resource panel. Find the saved report later in Files, or ask Sim to turn it into a presentation.
Check source access and freshness
Hosted web research reads publicly accessible pages. In Sim Desktop, the built-in browser can also work with websites you sign in to when browser tools are available. A link to a private page does not itself give Sim access.
For connected organizational sources such as Slack or Google Drive, use Search or ask Sim to inspect those sources under your current permissions.
Check the cited source and publication date when freshness matters. Search results can be incomplete; a report should distinguish what the sources establish from what remains unknown. Request a specific site or documentation page when that source is required.