Day 03 Applied Practice

Claude for Deep Analysis: Beyond Summarization

Summarization is the lowest-value AI research task. Day 3 shows you the higher-value uses: finding patterns across sources, stress-testing arguments, and generating new hypotheses.

~1 hour Hands-on Precision AI Academy

Today’s Objective

Summarization is the lowest-value AI research task. Day 3 shows you the higher-value uses: finding patterns across sources, stress-testing arguments, and generating new hypotheses.

These prompts produce analysis that would take a good researcher days to do manually.

1. Cross-Source Pattern Analysis
1. CROSS-SOURCE PATTERN ANALYSIS
I have collected information from multiple sources.
Identify the patterns and tensions across them.

[PASTE YOUR RESEARCH]

Find:
1. Claims that appear in multiple sources (stronger signal)
2. Claims that contradict across sources (investigate)
3. The underlying assumptions common to all sources
4. What perspective is conspicuously absent from these sources
2. Devil's Advocate Analysis
2. DEVIL'S ADVOCATE ANALYSIS
Play devil's advocate on this argument or conclusion:

[State your conclusion or argument]

Identify:
1. The weakest assumptions this argument depends on
2. Evidence that contradicts this conclusion
3. Alternative explanations for the same data
4. Who would disagree with this and why they might have a point
3. Hypothesis Generation
3. HYPOTHESIS GENERATION
Based on this research, generate 5 testable hypotheses
that follow logically from the data.

[PASTE RESEARCH]

For each hypothesis:
- State it as a falsifiable prediction
- Explain what evidence would confirm or disprove it
- Rate confidence that it is true based on current data
4. Implications Analysis
4. IMPLICATIONS ANALYSIS
If the following finding is true, what are the
second and third-order implications?

Finding: [state the key finding]
Context: [your field or organization]

Identify implications that are:
- Immediate (happen in 0-12 months)
- Medium-term (1-3 years)
- Long-term and potentially transformative (3+ years)
- Counterintuitive or non-obvious
Day 3 ExerciseDeep Analysis on a Real Research Question
  1. Take the research brief from Day 2.
  2. Run the cross-source pattern analysis on the raw Perplexity outputs. What contradictions or tensions does Claude find?
  3. Take the main conclusion of your brief and run the devil's advocate analysis. What weaknesses does it surface?
  4. Run the implications analysis on the most important finding. Which implications surprised you?

Supporting Resources

Go deeper with these references.

Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI AI-powered search engine that synthesizes answers with citations.
Anthropic
Claude Documentation Official reference for Claude's extended context window and document analysis.
Elicit
Elicit — AI Research Tool AI research tool that automates parts of evidence synthesis and literature review.

Day 3 Checkpoint

Before moving on, make sure you can answer these without looking:

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