Cole is your new Research & Analysis expert

Ask a question in the chat and Cole searches the web and answers with the sources it used. It can look into competitors, companies, products, markets, news, research papers and public LinkedIn profiles, read a page you send as a link, and search posts on X when you want to know what people are saying about a topic or an account. The answer comes back in the same chat, with links so you can check them.

Write it the way you would brief a colleague. For example: "Compare the three biggest meal-kit companies in the UK: prices, delivery areas and what reviewers complain about. Send it as a PDF." Cole runs several searches, reads the pages that matter and replies. Follow-up questions in the same chat keep the context, so "now add one more company" works without starting over.

Short answers arrive as a chat message. For longer work, ask for a file: Cole can make a PDF or Word document laid out as a report, a spreadsheet, or a web page link that puts options side by side, which is easier to read on a phone than a long message. How the report is organised is up to your request, so say if you want a table, a ranking or a recommendation at the end.

Cole uses several search services, including Google Search, a search engine that can narrow results to certain sites, dates or kinds of source (company pages, news, research papers), and X search for posts. When a site blocks automated readers, Cole reads a stored copy of the page instead. It does not have access to subscription databases or paid reports.

Yes. Searching and reading pages work in group chats on WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, iMessage and Slack. Tag Cole or reply to one of its messages, and everyone in the group sees the answer. On WhatsApp, LINE, iMessage and Slack, calling it by name works too; on Telegram, tag @Cole_chief_of_staff_bot. The one thing that stays out of groups is Cole's own browser, used for sites that need a login: it runs only in a private chat, on a paid plan.

Cole's answers are written by an AI model from what the searches return. Search results can be out of date or wrong, and a summary can miss a detail, so open the linked sources before you act on a number, a price or a claim about a company. Pages that need a login are not visible to search.

Yes. Send the website of a company you know and ask for others like it: "find ten companies similar to this one, in Southeast Asia." Cole can search for similar pages, read up to five pages at a time in full, and narrow a search to news from a date range or to particular sites. For posts on X, it can look at what up to ten accounts said about a topic.

Yes. Paste a link and ask about it ("what does this pricing page include?"), or send a PDF, Word file or spreadsheet and ask Cole to compare it with what it finds on the web. That is a quick way to check a supplier's claims against reviews, or a report against more recent news.

There is no fixed price per request: Cole uses credits from your plan based on the work involved. The Free plan gives you 150 credits once, with no card. Paid plans start at $19 a month with 2,000 credits.