# Market & competitor report

Examples: Research

A sourced market sizing and competitor teardown that ends in a decision, not a slide pile.

- **Real today:** ulpi can ship this kind of deliverable now.
- **Evidence:** Judged

## Company brief

> Research the market for a self-hosted observability tool and tell me where to play.

Produced by the Research Synthesizer

- **Budget cap:** $60.00
- **Cost / verified outcome:** $4.10

## Evidence

- **Verified:** 18 of 18 citation links resolve (HTTP 200)
  Every source the report cites is fetched and confirmed reachable — a deterministic http-status check over links we hold.
- **Judged:** Well-sourced, accurate, and decision-ready
  A separated judge graded the brief against the acceptance spec — an opinion held to a written bar, never claimed as a proof.

## Acceptance spec

Passes if every claim is cited to a source, the recommendation follows from the evidence, and confidence is not overstated.

## Why it matters

Most AI research tools hand you prose and hope. This ends in a recommendation, with its sources mechanically confirmed reachable and its quality held to an explicit acceptance spec.

A research teammate sizes the market, maps the competitive set into a comparable matrix, and writes a recommendation you can act on. The links are checked mechanically; the judgement of whether it is decision-ready is graded by a separate judge against a written bar.