Guide
Scheduled research
How to design recurring ResearchAO jobs: cadence, effort, credit planning, and keeping reports comparable.
Author: ResearchAO Editorial · Published 2026-06-22 · Updated 2026-08-02
Why schedules beat re-prompting
Manual research drifts: different wording, different effort, different days. Schedules lock the brief and cadence so you can spot change over time — useful for competitors, markets, and regulatory themes.
Choose a cadence
- One-time — deferred run without recurrence
- Daily — fast-moving topics (use Lite/Standard to manage credits)
- Weekly — default for many monitoring briefs
- Monthly — slower categories and executive summaries
Plan credits
Each run consumes credits by effort (Lite 5, Standard 10, Deep 20, Exhaustive 40). Multiply by cadence before picking a plan. The pricing calculator helps estimate monthly use.
API schedules
The same capability is available programmatically — see API docs and Deep Research API.
Product page
Overview: /scheduled-research.
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