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title: "Planning & Ideas"
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published_at: "2026-09-20T20:56:09+00:00"
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url: "https://xedant.com/agents/research/docs/planning"
markdown_url: "https://xedant.com/agents/research/docs/planning.md"
excerpt: "The Research Agent does not stop at collecting information. The gathered facts turn into ideas,…"
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# Planning & Ideas

[https://xedant.com/agents/research/docs/planning.md](https://xedant.com/agents/research/docs/planning.md)

The Research Agent does not stop at collecting information. The gathered facts turn into ideas, strategies, development plans, and interface descriptions — documents you can hand straight to development agents and save on prototyping.

## From facts to decisions

Deep research gives you the full picture of the market: competitors, prices, customer reviews, documentation. On this foundation the agent generates ideas and strategies — not invented ones, but grounded in the collected sources, with numbers and links to the originals.

## How plans are structured

Plans are written as Markdown files: a main file and per-stage files (`plans/NAME.md`, `NAME_1.md`, `NAME_2.md`…). Every plan carries a mandatory Verification & Validation section — the criteria for checking that the result is correct. This structure reads well for humans and development agents alike.

## Scenario: competitive analysis → architecture

Our typical scenario: ask it to “collect the competitors, their customers’ reviews, and the documentation” — and in 30–60 minutes you have a detailed application architecture and interfaces built on facts: who does what, what users are missing, and what they pay for. From there, implementation takes a few hours in plan-then-execute mode, with quality good enough for a prototype.

## Example plans

Live examples ship with the product: research roadmaps, development plans, and a business strategy. See the [Built-in Research](/agents/research/docs/built-in-researches)
 section — the planning documents are part of the library.

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