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Research shouldn’t end in a deck

Research shouldn’t end in a deck

How I use Claude Code to challenge assumptions and turn research into a living artifact

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Claude Code can already do plenty of basic research work. It can search the web, compare products, synthesize documents, and organize the result into a template. These are useful capabilities, and by now, many of us use them almost every day.

I use them too, but they are not what I want to focus on here. The more interesting change in my own work has happened at two other points in the research process: How I think while the research is still open, and how the result enters a product team once the research is done.

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In those two moments, I use Claude Code in two different roles: as a thinking partner and as an artifact maker.

A thinking partner should interrupt your habits

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Diagram illustrating Claude Code acting as a thinking partner that helps researchers challenge assumptions instead of simply accelerating existing workflows.

Every researcher develops habits. We become good at certain questions, trust certain methods, and learn to…

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