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Deep research.
Pay only for compute.

A deterministic research pipeline with full cost transparency. CLI for individuals, REST API for teams and heavy workloads. Every claim cited, every source linked.

CLI for individuals · Hosted API for teams · Public research published openly

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Tokens remaining

412

of 500 pre-paid

Jobs this month

47

14 Deep, 28 Standard, 5 Light

URLs fetched

1,962

avg 41.7 per job

Avg spend / job

$1.18

verified cites 99.4%

Token spend · last 8 weeks

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Extraction Success

1000+

URLs per Job

$1

Starting Price

4 min

Avg. Turnaround

Agent-Native Research

Self-improving software.

Deep Water is MCP-enabled. An agent can commission research, read the report, act on it, and commission follow-up research — all without you in the loop.

01 — Instruct

You tell the agent what to build or fix. No further hand-holding needed.

02 — Research

The agent calls Deep Water via MCP. Hundreds of sources researched, best practices surfaced, edge cases flagged.

03 — Build

Armed with a grounded report, the agent writes code, opens PRs, and runs tests. It can loop back to research if anything is unclear.

Self-improving software

An agent that researches before it codes writes better code.

Instead of hallucinating library APIs or copying stale Stack Overflow answers, the agent reads current documentation, compares implementation patterns across dozens of sources, and applies verified best practices. The result isn’t just faster — it’s grounded.

MCP-native

Any MCP-compatible agent can call Deep Water directly — no wrapper code, no custom integration.

Runs overnight

Commission research, implement, clarify, and test — all while you sleep. Check the PR in the morning.

Iterates until confident

The agent can commission as many clarifying research runs as it needs. Each one costs only compute.

The Pipeline

Four phases. One API call.

Not a chatbot wrapper. A deterministic research pipeline that runs extractors locally and only calls frontier models when it matters.

01

Scope

Your query is decomposed into 3–12 targeted sub-questions with explicit facets, priorities, and retrieval strategies. No wasted searches.

02

Gather

Up to 500 URLs searched, fetched, and extracted with Readability + Trafilatura. Reflection loop refines queries between rounds.

03

Synthesise

Frontier model (GPT-5, Claude Sonnet) called once with evidence cards only. You pay for one expensive call, not hundreds.

04

Verify

Every claim is checked against its source span. Unsupported assertions are flagged in the final report — no silent hallucinations.

Pick Your Path

Two ways to run deep research.

Same engine. Same pricing. Different shapes, depending on whether you’re one person with a terminal or a team shipping research into production.

CLI — for individuals

Best for personal use

The fastest way to run deep research from your terminal. Zero install ceremony — npm i -g @unlikeotherai/deepwater, paste your key, done. Great for ad-hoc questions, side projects, research before a purchase, editor integrations, cron-driven briefings.

# install once
$ npm i -g @unlikeotherai/deepwater
# authenticate
$ deepwater config --set api-key=dw_xxx
# run a job
$ deepwater research "top 5 vector DBs"
  • One command, markdown on stdout
  • Credential stored locally, mode 600
  • 9 KB, zero runtime deps
  • Same $0.10 minimum. Same hard caps.
Install from npm
For teams & heavy users

Hosted API — for enterprise

Best for production & heavy volume

The same engine, exposed as a REST API built for scale. Webhooks instead of polling, per-project billing, bring-your-own-model-keys, higher rate limits, SLA. This is the path if research is a product feature, a backend workflow, or a recurring internal process.

# POST /v1/research
curl -X POST https://api.deepwater.live/v1/research \
  -H "authorization: Bearer dw_xxx" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"...", "depth":"deep"}'
  • Webhook completion — no polling
  • Per-project keys, per-project billing
  • Bring your own model keys (BYO)
  • Higher rate limits & SLA on request
Get an API key

Both paths hit the same engine, the same pricing, the same cost caps. The only difference is how the work enters and how the result comes out.

Why Deep Water

Same prompt. Different depth.

We ran three real research queries side by side. Here's what came back.

Research query

“Latest approved treatments for triple-negative breast cancer”

Deep Water
Sources consulted 211 sources
Peer-reviewed papers 84 papers
Claim verification Every claim cited
Output Report + evidence cards
Typical AI deep research
Sources consulted ~12 sources
Peer-reviewed papers General web only
Claim verification Some claims cited
Output Single text block

Research query

“Compare REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC for high-throughput microservices”

Deep Water
Sources consulted 167 sources
Benchmarks / specs cited 31 benchmark refs
API & SDK docs included Yes, directly fetched
Output Structured comparison report
Typical AI deep research
Sources consulted ~8 sources
Benchmarks / specs cited General descriptions
API & SDK docs included Not directly
Output Prose summary

Research query

“Market size and growth drivers for solid-state batteries 2024–2030”

Deep Water
Sources consulted 118 sources
Market reports / filings 22 primary sources
Conflicting data flagged Yes, with source refs
Output Report + evidence cards
Typical AI deep research
Sources consulted ~10 sources
Market reports / filings Aggregated summaries
Conflicting data flagged Not typically
Output Single text block

Try It Now

Configure your research.
We run it.

Set your depth and quality, type your question, and we’ll get started. No hallucinations. Every claim cited.

Est. cost
$0.52

Sign in required · Prepaid credit — top up any time · No subscription needed

Built For

Teams that burn cash on research

If you're paying analysts to Google, or hitting ChatGPT Pro deep-research caps, this is built for you.

#1 Highest ROI

Growth & Product Teams

Series A–C startups, 5–10 person teams

Running 50–200 deep research queries a month — competitor analysis, market sizing, user sentiment. Currently burning $5K–20K/mo in analyst hours or hitting ChatGPT Pro caps.

You replace

2–5 analyst seats + $200/seat ChatGPT Pro

Top willingness-to-pay

VC & PE Analysts

Small funds, 3–5 analysts, deals on 48-hour cycles

300–800 due-diligence queries per month. Speed is the edge: your analyst processes 20 URLs in 3 hours, Deep Water processes 500 in 4 minutes. Incognito mode keeps deal flow private.

You replace

60% of junior analyst research time

Margin multiplier

Boutique Consulting & Market Research

Agencies billing $5K–50K per engagement

Cut per-report research cost by 80–90%. Deep Water produces a sourced first draft — your analysts refine and client-face. Same billable hours, higher margin.

You replace

$500–2,000 research cost per report

Land & expand

Enterprise Strategy Teams

Fortune 1000 market intelligence groups

Gartner and Forrester take 3–4 weeks and $100K–500K/year. Deep Water delivers the first-pass competitive landscape in 4 minutes. Use them together, not instead.

You replace

3-week research cycles

Developer-first

AI Product Builders

Founders shipping research features inside their own apps

Need a deep-research backend you can call from your own product? Forget building your own scope/gather/verify pipeline. REST API, webhook callbacks, bring-your-own keys in minutes.

You replace

3–6 months of infra engineering

Time saver

Literature Review & Policy Research

Researchers, think tanks, policy analysts

A 40-hour literature review takes 4. Triage 500 sources, find the 20 that matter, then read deeply. Every claim cited so you can walk the bibliography yourself.

You replace

Weeks of manual search & synthesis

Your Data, Your Rules

Research on Your Terms

Choose how your research is stored. Download reports anytime. Go incognito when you need to.

Download Anytime

Past research is stored in your account. Download reports as Markdown, PDF, or JSON whenever you need them.

Incognito Mode

Run research without storing anything on our servers. Report delivered once, then permanently deleted. Full privacy.

Know What You Pay

You pay compute cost only — no markup on public research. Full breakdown on every job: URLs fetched, models used, cost incurred.

Pricing

Pay for what you use.
Keep it private if you need to.

No subscription required. Public research costs you nothing beyond compute. Privacy is the only add-on.

Pay as you go

You pay for the compute only — tokens and search calls at cost, nothing more. Your completed research is published in the public archive so anyone can read it. No subscription, no seat fees, credit never expires.

Get started

Private archive

£50 / €55 / $65 per month

Keep your research off the public archive. Everything you commission stays private to your account. This is what keeps the free archive running — we don’t mark up public research at all.

Add privacy plan
Launch offer · Limited

Research for the public good — at cost.

If you're running non-commercial research at a medical or pharma university, an ecological programme, or any initiative aimed squarely at human benefit, we'll run your jobs at cost during launch. No margin. No upsell. Just infrastructure you couldn't otherwise afford.

Who qualifies

Medical and pharma university research, ecological and climate studies, public-health work, and other non-profit programmes with a clear human-benefit thesis. Must be non-commercial.

How to apply

Reach out with a short description of the programme, the institution, and what you're trying to answer. We review everything individually and assign custom terms — there's no self-serve path for at-cost access.

Temporary, for launch

This is a launch-only programme. If it works we'll bring it back in later cohorts, but we can't commit to it indefinitely. If you need predictable access, apply now.

Apply for at-cost access

research@deepwater.live · Individual review · Terms assigned on approval

Deep research.
Pay only for what you use.

Sign up and run your first job in minutes. Public research published openly — private archive from £50 / €55 / $65 per month.

Pay as you go · Public research free to read · REST API + CLI included