Synthesize Industry Research with AI
Industry and market research in hours, not weeks. Compound reads across your documents, public filings, and the web, then produces structured, cited briefs, every claim traced back to its source.
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How Industry Research Works
Add your sources
Upload the documents you already have (filings, reports, expert-call notes) and let Compound draw on public filings and the web for the rest.
Ask your research question
Define the scope: market size, competitive landscape, growth drivers, regulatory backdrop. Describe the brief you want in plain English.
Get a structured, cited brief
Receive a Word document or Excel workbook organized to your outline, with every figure and claim cited back to its source document or filing.
Why Industry Research Is Slow and Fragmented
The signal exists across filings, reports, and the web, but pulling it together into something defensible is the bottleneck.
Sources are scattered everywhere
The picture lives across 10-Ks, industry reports, expert-call notes, news, and your own files. Gathering it means jumping between tabs, PDFs, and terminals with no single view.
Synthesis is manual
Reading each source and distilling it into a coherent landscape or market-sizing takes days of note-taking, and the structure has to be rebuilt for every new question.
Claims are hard to defend
When a partner or client asks where a market-size figure came from, tracing it back through weeks of scattered reading is slow, and undermines confidence in the whole brief.
Research goes stale fast
By the time a landscape is assembled, a new filing or data point can change the story. Refreshing a static deck or doc means redoing the work.
Why Compound Excels at Industry Research
Your files plus public data
Compound reads across the documents you upload and draws on public filings and the web, so a single brief combines your proprietary sources with the broader market picture.
Every claim cited
Market sizes, growth rates, and competitive facts each link back to the source they came from, so the brief is defensible to partners, clients, or IC on first read.
Structured output, not a wall of text
Get a brief organized to your outline (landscape, sizing, drivers, risks) as a Word document or an Excel workbook, ready to drop into a memo or deck.
From scattered sources to a structured, cited brief
What Compound draws on
- Your uploaded reports and expert-call notes
- Public filings (10-Ks, 10-Qs, annual reports)
- Web sources and news
- Prior research decks and models
What Compound produces
- Structured market and landscape briefs
- Market-sizing tables in Excel
- Competitive positioning summaries
- Citations back to every source
Why teams switch from manual research and generic search
For research that informs an investment, the difference is grounding, citations, and structure.
Source coverage
- Manual research
- Tab-by-tab, file-by-file
- Generic AI search
- Web only, misses your files
- Compound
- Your documents plus public data
Citation traceability
- Manual research
- Manual note-taking
- Generic AI search
- Often unsourced
- Compound
- Every claim cited to source
Output structure
- Manual research
- Assembled by hand
- Generic AI search
- Freeform prose
- Compound
- Structured Word or Excel brief
Synthesis across sources
- Manual research
- Days of reading
- Generic AI search
- Shallow summaries
- Compound
- Cross-source synthesis in minutes
Refresh and iterate
- Manual research
- Redo the work
- Generic AI search
- Re-prompt from scratch
- Compound
- Refine and update in conversation
Built for teams who turn research into conviction
Private Equity
Build sector maps, competitive landscapes, and market-sizing for a thesis or a live deal, grounded in filings, expert materials, and your own notes.
Hedge Funds
Synthesize industry dynamics, supply chains, and demand drivers across filings and the web to underwrite a position, with cited evidence behind each point.
Equity Research
Produce initiation-quality industry sections (TAM, growth drivers, and competitive positioning) with sources you can defend to clients.
Strategy & Consulting
Assemble market landscapes and benchmark analyses for client work, pulling from documents and public data into a structured, cited brief.
Ask a research question and get a cited brief in minutes
Frequently Asked Questions
Compound reads the documents you upload (reports, filings, expert-call notes) and draws on public filings and the web. A single brief can combine your proprietary sources with the broader public market picture.
Yes. Every market size, growth figure, and competitive fact links back to the source it came from (a specific filing, report, or web page) so you can verify any claim before it reaches a partner or client.
Compound produces briefs as Word .docx documents, market-sizing and comparison tables as Excel workbooks, and summary decks as PowerPoint, structured to the outline you specify.
Yes. Compound can build TAM, SAM, and SOM estimates in Excel with the underlying assumptions and formulas visible, each figure cited to its source, so you can audit and adjust the model.
Yes. Define the scope in plain English (a region, sub-sector, value-chain segment, or set of competitors) and Compound structures the brief around exactly that question.
Compound draws on the latest public filings and the web, so briefs reflect recent data. You can refresh a brief in the same conversation when new information becomes available.
Generic search reads only the public web and often returns unsourced summaries. Compound also reads your own documents, cites every claim to its source, and delivers a structured Word or Excel brief instead of freeform prose.
Yes. That combination is the point. Upload your expert-call notes and internal reports, and Compound synthesizes them alongside public filings and the web into one cited brief.
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