A Comprehensive Guide
To get you started, we tried some current popular AI research tools. We tested them with the prompts we are providing here for enterprise software shopping with a few composite company use cases. Everything in AI is changing rapidly. We expect your experience will vary from ours, depending on what tools you use, the prompt changes you make, when you make your calls, and your specific use case. By sharing our experiences, we hope to illustrate the variances you might see across AI tools, encourage you to experiment, but also always ensure humans are in control. For our tests, we successfully ran the prompts using free versions of these platforms (except Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher, where we used our corporate domain license).
Claude Sonnet 4.0
None
ChatGPT
Deep research mode
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Use Researcher agent if available
Google Gemini
Deep Research option