Use case: a research analyst for your niche

Two ways to get one

• Install Eden's built-in. Explore ships a research specialist that carries a full research method — source-quality rubrics, synthesis playbooks, worked examples. Fastest start, and its methodology notes are worth reading on their own.
• Build your own niche analyst. Create a Custom AI and load it with your material. Better when the value is in what you've collected rather than how to analyze it — and you can do both: save the built-in's method docs to your Library and attach them to your own analyst.

The niche-analyst build

Connect:

• Your research board(s) — articles, studies, and posts you've saved on the topic, as live sources that grow as you keep saving.
• Your highlights — the passages you marked while reading are the densest signal you have.
• The creators who matter in your niche — attached as research sources, so "what's the current thinking on X?" consults the specific people who'd know.

Instructions like:

You are a research analyst for [niche]. Answer from the connected sources first and say which. Distinguish evidence from opinion. When my sources disagree, show me the disagreement instead of smoothing it over. When my sources don't cover something, say so.

What it's good at

• "What do my sources say about…" — synthesis across everything you've saved, in seconds instead of an afternoon of re-reading.
• Finding the disagreement. Ask where your saved experts contradict each other — that tension is usually the most interesting content angle in your niche.
• Gap-spotting. "What questions do my sources raise but not answer?" is a content-idea machine for creators and marketers alike.
• Grounded briefs. "Summarize the three strongest arguments for X from my material, with sources" produces something you can actually stand behind, because every claim links back.

The flywheel: the more you save into your boards, the sharper the analyst gets — which makes your reading habit compound instead of evaporate.