assafelovic/gpt-researcher

GPT Researcher is an AI agent that does deep research for you automatically. You give it a question or topic, and it goes off on its own, searching the web, reading multiple sources, filtering out unreliable information, and then writing you a detailed, cited research report. The whole process that might take a human researcher hours or days can be done in minutes. The key insight behind it is that regular AI chatbots have two problems for research: they only know what they were trained on (which gets outdated), and they can only process a limited amount of text at once. GPT Researcher works around both issues by actively searching the web in real time and running multiple searches in parallel, gathering 20 or more sources before synthesizing everything into a coherent report of 2,000+ words with proper citations. It's built in Python and works with different AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others), so you're not locked into one service. You can run it locally on your own computer, use it as a library inside a larger app you're building, or connect it as a plugin to AI tools like Claude. Reports can be exported as PDF or Word documents. For founders and vibe coders: if you're trying to research a market, understand a competitor landscape, due diligence a technology, or gather background on any topic, this is the kind of tool that can dramatically speed up the research phase. Instead of spending hours tabbing between browser windows, you describe what you want to know and get back a structured, sourced document. It's open-source and free to run with your own API keys.