Choose between collecting social or website evidence, analyzing creative and performance patterns, or answering a question from an existing dataset.
Where: Flowgen → Add → Research
Key ideas
- Collection nodes: Trend Scan, Content Harvest, Creator Scan, and Website Inspiration collect bounded datasets and also produce readable reports.
- Analysis nodes: Hook Miner, Performance Insights, and Website Audit analyze upstream datasets; Ask the Data answers one focused question about one.
- Reusable outputs: Research-family runs can expose structured dataset outputs for downstream analysis and can optionally persist the produced dataset as a Brain record.
Steps
- Start with the decision you need to make and choose the narrowest matching node.
- Set the platform, time, count, mode, or model controls owned by that node.
- Run a small sample and inspect both the report and structured output before increasing scope.
- Connect the dataset to another analysis node or save it to Brain when it should outlive the current run.
Quick chooser
- Trend Scan: ranked themes for a topic over 7, 30, or 90 days.
- Content Harvest: collect individual posts for keywords or hashtags.
- Creator Scan: discover profiles in a niche or watch known handles.
- Website Inspiration: collect curated design references or direct URLs with optional quality evidence.
- Hook Miner: find recurring opening patterns in connected content data.
- Performance Insights: explain performance signals in connected data.
- Website Audit: compare design patterns with performance, accessibility, SEO, and production evidence.
- Ask the Data: answer a specific question about a connected dataset.
Tips
- Collect the smallest dataset that can answer the question; larger is not automatically more representative.
- Treat platform data as evidence with sampling limits, not a complete census.
Related guides
- Find emerging topics with Trend Scan
- Collect posts with Content Harvest
- Discover or monitor creators with Creator Scan
- Collect standout websites with Website Inspiration
- Find recurring openings with Hook Miner
- Explain performance data with Performance Insights
- Turn website evidence into a build brief with Website Audit
- Answer a focused question with Ask the Data