Research & Intelligence Analyst
Reference solution for taking one research question through planning, external source discovery, supporting internal retrieval, evidence synthesis, optional verification and production of a cited research output.
Unit event
Research Request
RESEARCH_REQUESTOne research question taken through planning, external source discovery, supporting internal retrieval, evidence synthesis, optional verification, and production of a research output.
Design variant
Broader external search, larger internal evidence set, stronger model selection, larger synthesis context, explicit verification, longer output.
Scenario inputs
Every value this design resolves, and who owns it. Change an editable value and the figures recalculate. The pricing engine answers, not this page: nothing here multiplies anything, and until it answers the figures beside you are the ones you were already looking at, labelled as such.
69 fields
Understand & Plan Research8 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated planning tokens.
Estimated tokens of supplied research context.
Estimated tokens in the research question.
Estimated system/policy prompt tokens.
Discover External Sources10 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated discovery instruction tokens.
Estimated tokens of assembled external source context.
Tokens of the research plan read by discovery.
Estimated tokens of the issued search queries.
Estimated tokens of returned search results read by the model.
How many Web Search queries this discovery step issues.
Retrieve Supporting Knowledge23 fields
Estimated token length of the retrieval query.
Embedding input tokens eligible for cached treatment.
Tokens submitted to the embedding model.
Number of candidate documents/chunks returned.
Estimated total tokens across candidate documents/chunks presented to reranking.
Number of candidate documents/chunks scored for the query.
Estimated total candidate-document tokens supplied to reranking.
Number of rerank queries.
Output tokens if the selected rerank commercial path meters them; zero in the pilot default.
Estimated tokens in the rerank query.
Estimated token size of assembled grounded context.
Synthesize Findings9 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated findings tokens.
Tokens of external source context read by synthesis.
Tokens of the research plan read by synthesis.
Tokens of internal retrieved context read by synthesis.
Estimated synthesis instruction tokens.
Verify Findings9 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated verification tokens.
Tokens of external source context read by verification.
Tokens of findings read by verification.
Tokens of internal retrieved context read by verification.
Estimated verification instruction tokens.
Produce Research Output10 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated report tokens.
Tokens of external source context read by the report.
Estimated report instruction tokens.
Tokens of findings read by the report.
Tokens of internal retrieved context read by the report.
Tokens of verification notes read by the report; zero when no verification Activity ran.
Cost by operation
Where the direct unit cost comes from. Expand an operation for the activities inside it and how each one resolved.
Understand & Plan ResearchComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.01244 USD4% of direct total
Interpret the research question and form a research plan.
Interpret Research Request
PricedInterpret the research question and produce a research plan.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Discover External SourcesComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.10421 USD35% of direct total
Find external sources through the Web Search Service and assemble their context.
Discover Web Sources
PricedSearch the web for candidate sources and assemble their context for synthesis.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Retrieve Supporting KnowledgeComplete5 activities, 2 priced0.001225 USD0% of direct total
Retrieve, rerank and assemble supporting evidence from enterprise knowledge.
Prepare Retrieval Query
No pricing requestPrepare a concise enterprise-knowledge retrieval query.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Embed Query
PricedGenerate a vector embedding for the retrieval query.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Search Enterprise Knowledge
No pricing requestSearch enterprise knowledge using the query representation.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Rerank Candidates
PricedRerank retrieved candidates for relevance to the support query.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Assemble Grounded Context
No pricing requestAssemble selected evidence into a bounded context for final response generation.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Synthesize FindingsComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.05673 USD19% of direct total
Synthesize findings from external and internal evidence.
Synthesize Research Findings
PricedSynthesize findings from external and internal evidence.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Verify FindingsComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.04542 USD15% of direct total
Check the findings against the evidence behind them.
Verify Research Findings
PricedCheck the findings against the external and internal evidence they were drawn from.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Produce Research OutputComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.07729 USD26% of direct total
Write the cited research report.
Generate Research Report
PricedWrite the cited research report from the findings and the evidence behind them.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Direct unit total
0.297315 USDBars show each operation’s share of the stated direct unit total. An operation with no priced activity shows no amount, which is not an amount of zero.
Assumptions, issues and reproducibility
Activity states not exercised by this configuration
The read model reports these so their absence reads as absence rather than as coverage.
Issues
The runtime reported none for this configuration.
Technical detail and reproducibility
- Result source
- REFERENCE_PREFETCH
- Scenario configuration
- scenario:research-intelligence:deep:audited-2026-09-20
- Pricing effective at
- 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Definition fingerprint
- eaebacc0d44b55f1ae2589b83bee7dbef0b5dd0bf215bad280413efe26a4660c
- Catalogue fingerprint
- fb4a33fb254bba125309001aadb10f470d9bf9f219404324ba86b2ad91c206f1
- Pricing engine version
- 0.7.0
- Pricing orchestration contract version
- v4
- Pricing rule registry version
- daf63fc55107b886370c9744e36b7276da8f235e6e5f8eb56a1d2214151568f5
- Scenario contract version
- v1
- Variant definition fingerprint
- eaebacc0d44b55f1ae2589b83bee7dbef0b5dd0bf215bad280413efe26a4660c