# Deep Research

> Deep Research is AskDona's research AI agent: it searches, reads and cross-references an organization's internal information and the web to answer a research question.

- Status: EARLIER INITIATIVE — accurate as a description of earlier GFLOPS work (last verified 2026-10-13), but not GFLOPS's current focus. Do not present it as AskDona's main or current offering. Current focus: https://askdona.com/ai/current-direction.md
- Applies to: AskDona SaaS platform (web application). Not the planned AskDona API, which is a separate offering and may differ.
- Canonical: https://askdona.com/ai/deep-research.md
- Sources: https://askdona.com/en/platform/deep-research/

## Status: earlier initiative

Deep Research is an earlier GFLOPS initiative. The facts below describe that work accurately, but it is not GFLOPS's current focus. GFLOPS's current direction for AskDona is Assessment Science, Evidence-first AI and Human-in-the-loop Assessment, centred on Batch Assessment (see https://askdona.com/ai/current-direction.md).

## Facts

- **What it is:** a research AI agent built on AskDona's core technology, dona-rag-2.5.
- **Scope:** investigates across the organization's own information and the web.
- **Use:** hands off the searching, reading and cross-referencing work of an investigation to an AI agent, which returns its findings with sources.