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Why we picked Verified Research as our first wedge

Five mission types ship with Mission Control. Why Company Research is the one we point sales at first, and why the audit trail matters most for that customer.

By Hekate Gate Team · 2026-04-12· Markdown
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The market: who pays for verified research

Sales teams pay for company briefs before pitches. Investment funds pay for memos before allocations. Strategy consultants pay for competitive scans. Every one of those buyers already has a budget, already runs the workflow with humans, and already files away the artifact for compliance.

Replacing that workflow with an agent saves money. Replacing it with an agent that produces a tamper-evident audit trail saves the compliance team's job. That's the wedge.

Why Company Research, specifically

Five vendor categories: search, company-data, news, social, verification, inference. Six steps. $3–$10 budget. Output is a memo with citations and a confidence score.

It's the smallest mission template that exercises every part of the platform — Smart Router has multiple candidates per step, Verifier runs the cross-source consistency layer, Audit ledger seals 25–35 events per mission. Buyers see the whole product on the first run.

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