> For the complete user guide index, see [llms.txt](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/llms.txt).

# Deep Research

[Canonical page](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/)

Define a research scope, run a structured report, and inspect its supporting evidence.

- [Deep Research overview](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/research.md): Understand the Deep Research pipeline, define an appropriate scope, inspect the Portrait Review and Appendix, and verify the evidence.
- [Create a Deep Research report](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/create-a-deep-research-report.md): Define a Deep Research scope, run the report, and verify its companies, sources, period, citations, and output sections.
- [Choose Easel or Deep Research](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/deep-research-vs-quick-search.md): Choose Easel for conversational, evolving research or Deep Research for a scoped report, and understand how legacy chats are handled.
- [Select Deep Research companies and sources](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/select-companies-and-sources.md): Set the company universe, supported source types, project documents, and period for a Deep Research run, then verify the scope.
- [Improve a Deep Research prompt](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/improve-prompt.md): Use Improve prompt to restructure a research request, then review its scope, assumptions, sources, exclusions, and requested output.
- [Use Deep Research prompt templates](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/select-from-prompt-library.md): Start a Deep Research request from a Portrait prompt or saved template, then review its scope before running it.
- [Share or export a Deep Research report](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/export-output.md): Share a Deep Research report with teammates inside Portrait, or export a completed report to PDF and copy supported sections.
- [Deep Research status and recovery](https://portraitresearch.com/documentation/research/research-status-and-recovery.md): Distinguish a refused request, active research, unavailable progress, and a failed run before retrying or exporting Deep Research.