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# Research Agent

10–15 live tool calls per topic — competitor pages browsed in full, search intent mapped, content gaps extracted, structured into a strategic brief before the writer runs.

> **The first page of Google reverse-engineered into a strategic brief — before a single word of the article is written.**

Most AI writers generate from training data. The Oodlz Research Agent does the opposite — it reads the actual ranking content for the topic, extracts what works, and builds a strategic content brief that every downstream stage of the article pipeline depends on.

## How It Works

For each approved topic, the agent fires 10–15 live tool calls before producing any output. Tavily deep search returns adjacent context and supporting sources. DataForSEO SERP scraping surfaces the current top-ranking pages. Full-page browsing reads the top 5–7 ranking competitors end-to-end — not just snippets, the actual articles.

The agent then synthesises the research into a structured brief: search intent classified, funnel stage identified (TOFU / MOFU / BOFU), real statistics extracted from competitor articles, content gaps identified where competitors are weak, mandatory sections determined, and the unique angle the new article will own. The brief is not an outline. It is the strategic foundation every subsequent stage builds on.

The brief is written to Airtable as the article's research data. Image generation, thumbnail generation, writing, and the link pipeline all reference it.

## What You Get

* Real research from the actual top-ranking competitors — not training data, not hallucinated citations.
* Search intent and funnel stage classified before writing — articles are aimed at the right reader posture.
* Content gaps surfaced — the article is positioned to win on what competitors miss, not just match what they cover.
* Real statistics extracted — concrete numbers the writer can cite without inventing them.
* Strategic brief reused downstream — every other agent in the pipeline reads from the same source of truth.