# deep

Source: https://career-ops.org/docs/reference/modes/deep (canonical HTML, identical content)

> 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 [#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 [#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 [#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.

```txt title="Example"
> /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 [#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.

## Related [#related]

* [oferta](https://career-ops.org/docs/reference/modes/oferta.md)
* [contacto](https://career-ops.org/docs/reference/modes/contacto.md)
* [interview-prep](https://career-ops.org/docs/reference/modes/interview-prep.md)