AI Market Research That Pulls Live Data — Not a ChatGPT Paraphrase

Most 'AI market research tools' take your niche and paraphrase what ChatGPT already knew in 2024. Cortex AIF scrapes 40+ live sources per report — Google, Reddit, forums, gov registries — and extracts numbers with Python regex before the LLM writes anything.

What AI market research tools usually miss

Two problems with most AI market research products:

• Training-data lag. An LLM's knowledge cutoff is 12-18 months old. Market research from 12-18 months ago is fiction for most niches.
• Number hallucination. LLMs confidently invent plausible-sounding market-size numbers. "$4.2B growing 18% CAGR through 2028" — with no source. You paste it into your pitch deck. It's fake.

Cortex AIF solves both. Every number in a Cortex report comes from a live web source. Every link is shown. If we can't find an independent source, the LLM is instructed to write around the gap instead of inventing one.

What a Cortex market research report contains

• TAM/SAM/SOM — with direct source links. If three sources disagree, you see all three ranges.
• Competitor landscape — top 5-8 competitors with pricing, traffic estimates, differentiation, and weaknesses pulled from G2/Capterra review text.
• Customer pain points — real quotes from Reddit, forums, review sites. Not made up.
• Pricing signals — how comparables price, and where your proposed price lands.
• Growth trends — Google Trends direction, hiring signals, funding activity in the niche.
• Channels — how competitors acquire customers, inferred from their public backlink profiles and content strategy.

Who this is for

• Solo founders pre-commitment to a niche, deciding between two or three ideas.
• Pivot decisions — founders with a product that isn't working, considering an adjacent market.
• Early-stage investors who want to sanity-check a pitch deck's TAM claims before the first meeting.
• Corporate intrapreneurs evaluating new categories internally.

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