April 16, 2025
The Illusion of Insight
By Michael Frank
Why "Deep Research" models collapse under the weight of their own vagueness, and why enterprise users need structured insight, not summaries.
We have seen a flood of "autonomous research agents" hitting the market. They all promise to "write a report on X." The problem is that "X" is usually ill-defined.
"Write a report on the future of AI" is a bad prompt. "Summarize the last 3 months of export control amendments in the Federal Register relating to Gallium" is a good prompt.
The value isn't in generating text. It's in the rigorous structuring of unstructured data. You don't need a chatbot; you need a query engine for reality.