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Use case3 minUpdated 2026-07-04

Research workflows

Use cheap collection and extraction lanes, then spend frontier tokens only on synthesis, review, and difficult reasoning.

Audience

Research teams

Metric

Synthesis reserve

Sources

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Best default

Research gets expensive when every search result, note, and intermediate summary uses a frontier model. Split collection, extraction, synthesis, and review into separate lanes.

  • Open-model lane: collection cleanup, clustering, first-pass summaries, and citation triage.
  • Batch lane: long corpus passes, document ranking, and retryable extraction.
  • Frontier lane: final synthesis, adversarial review, and hard reasoning questions.

Avoid

Do not route every source chunk through a premium model. Pay frontier rates only when the output changes the research conclusion or business decision.