Read and share a report

A report separates what the research measured from what it recommends. Read the status labels and evidence before treating a position in the page as a verdict.

Rank is not always row position

The number beside an idea is its score rank. Some views move a row for context without changing that number.

In Check my idea, your submitted product is pinned at the top for comparison. If it carries a #4 marker, it still ranked fourth by score. Pinning keeps the subject easy to find; it does not promote it.

Product-thesis views can also group related variants under one buyer job. Each variant keeps its original score and rank even when the group changes where it appears.

Score and recommendation answer different questions

A score estimates how well an idea could work if its assumptions hold. The adversarial review asks whether a decision-critical assumption has evidence behind it.

That is why the highest score and the recommendation can sit on different ideas. A high-scoring candidate marked Premise unproven stays visible and selectable, but it should be tested before it is treated as the leading recommendation. Discovery guidance never rewrites the scores.

For current reports, stored recommendation prose is only usable when it is safely tied to the current idea records. If it is not, the page tells you the Discovery take is unavailable and points you back to the current scores and evidence.

Product shape and delivery form

Product shape describes the business archetype, such as SaaS, directory, comparison tool, or marketplace. Delivered as describes the primary thing the buyer uses, such as a web app, browser extension, API, report, or service.

Older reports may have only Product shape. The interface does not guess a delivery form for them.

Sharing Discovery and an idea check

A shared Discovery or Idea Check link is marked Voting enabled. A visitor can review the shared evidence, vote for a ranked idea, and leave a rationale for the report owner. They do not receive the owner's paid controls.

You can turn sharing off. Generating a new link invalidates the old one and deletes its votes. A Discovery sharing link also closes when Deep Research is successfully queued, because the decision phase has ended.

The blurred Key Influencers and Source Posts rows in a shared Discovery view are placeholders, not obscured copies of the owner's records. The shared page marks those sections as locked instead of exposing their underlying data.

Sharing a completed report

A completed Deep Research share is marked Read-only copy. It presents the completed report without owner-only actions. Share links should still be treated as access links: send them only to people who should see the report.

When a section is absent, read the page's unavailable or locked state literally. Missing data is not the same as a finding of “none.”