deep
Generates a deep company research document — funding history, leadership, recent press, product trajectory, comp band signals, red flags. Use it before you apply to a Series B+ company you do not already know well.
What it does
The deep mode generates a structured research prompt for a company you are evaluating, organized around six axes: its AI strategy, its moves in the last six months, its engineering culture, the technical challenges it likely faces, its competitors and differentiation, and your angle as a candidate. You paste that prompt into a research tool — Perplexity, Claude, or ChatGPT — and it returns a brief you can read before the interview. deep personalizes each axis with the specific role and company.
When to use it
Use deep when applying to a company at Series B or later where the decision to apply — or how to interview — needs more than the JD tells you. The candidate-angle axis pulls from your cv.md and profile.yml, so the returned brief closes on what you specifically bring rather than on generic company facts.
What a run looks like
Give deep a company and role and it writes a ready-to-paste research prompt. Each of the six axes is a checklist of questions the research tool should answer, and the final axis turns the findings back toward you.
> /career-ops deep notion
Deep Research: Notion — Applied AI Engineer
Paste the block below into Perplexity, Claude, or ChatGPT.
1. AI strategy — which products use AI/ML, the stack behind them,
the engineering blog, any papers or talks.
2. Recent moves (last 6 months) — AI/ML hires, acquisitions,
product launches, funding or leadership changes.
3. Engineering culture — ship cadence, monorepo vs multirepo,
languages, remote posture, Glassdoor/Blind signals.
4. Likely challenges — scaling, reliability, cost, latency, any
migration in flight.
5. Competitors and differentiation — main rivals and the moat.
6. Candidate angle — given my cv.md and profile.yml, the unique
value I bring and the story to tell in the interview.Gotchas
The brief is only as good as the public information the research tool can find. Stealth-mode startups produce thin results, and any tool can hallucinate a funding round or a leadership name. Verify everything against primary sources before you make a high-stakes decision on it.
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