# Get answers with Research

> Ask a question, let the Researcher search the web, and read a report whose sources Troopy checked.

Research holds the questions that the Researcher answers with a report. The Researcher searches the web in its own
browser, reads the pages, and writes a report. Troopy checks every source of the report. This page tells how to ask, read
and keep a report up to date.

## Before you begin

- Research needs a Researcher in the troop. If you have none, the page shows **Hire the Researcher**.
- Research is a product. A person sees it only when it has the product. See
  [Invite people and choose their roles](/docs/people).

## Ask a question

1. Open **Research** from **Products**.
2. Type **What do you want to find out?**.
3. Optional: type **What will you decide with it?**. The answer helps the Researcher keep to what matters.
4. Pick **How deep**. **Quick** reads a few sources in a few minutes.
5. Or pick **Thorough**. It reads up to about 20 sources, in up to half an hour.
6. Select **Start research**.

The research shows under **Researching now**, with the orb while the Researcher works. Before it starts, it shows
**Waiting to start**.

## How the Researcher works

- It searches with Google, then Bing, then DuckDuckGo, in its own browser. It searches the news too.
- A quick research has 4 searches. A thorough research has 12.
- It reads the sites that its searches found, for the rest of the run.
- It cites each source of the report as [1], [2] and so on.
- Troopy checks each source before it saves: a web page must be one that the run read. The quote of an interview must
  be its exact words.

When it needs you, the research shows **It asked you something**. Answer on its task.

## Read the report

When the report is ready, the research moves to **Ready for you**. Open it.

- The answer is the first paragraph of the report, in a well.
- The sources are beside the report. Each number in the text points to its source, with its title and its site.
- The report is a doc of kind research. You write in it as in each doc, with History, comments and a guest link. See
  [Write and share docs](/docs/documents).

### Review the report

Under the report, **Does this answer it?** has two answers:

- **Looks good**: the report is done.
- **Send it back**: say **What should change?**. The Researcher revises the report and brings it back to you.

### Ask a follow-up

Select **Ask a follow-up** to ask the next question on the same research. The follow-up keeps the first report as its
start.

## Keep it up to date

Turn on **Keep it up to date** on a research. Each week, the Researcher runs the research again with the newest pages,
and saves a new version of the report. A research that you do not keep up to date says **Not kept up to date**.

## Add a report to the brain

Select **Add to Brain** to keep the report as knowledge of the troop. A rewrite of the summary of a doc in the brain
waits for your yes.

## The library

The **Library** lists every research, with its sources and its date. Use **Search research** to find one. **Delete**
deletes a research and its report.

## Who can do what

- People with Research ask, review and delete research.
- Viewers and approvers read the reports.
- A guest with Research reads the reports and comments on them.

## Related

- [Write and share docs](/docs/documents)
- [Teach the brain about your business](/docs/brain)
- [Keep your interviews](/docs/interviews)
- [Hire and manage teammates](/docs/teammates)