Run your first research task

A task spends credits. Your balance shows at the top right of the start page, and Add more credits at the bottom of the sidebar is where you top it up (accounts still on a subscription plan see Upgrade there instead). Settings, then Billing, is where the spending shows up: research job costs land under ACTIVITY, and once you have paid for something an INVOICES section lists those charges too.

The start page asks "What's next?" above a single box. Grep works best when the question says what to look at, what to hand back, and what to leave out.

• Compare the top five vendors for fraud detection in fintech, with pricing and customer examples.
• Research recent regulatory updates affecting stablecoin issuers in the United States.
• Create a market map for AI voice agents serving healthcare providers.

• Tell me about AI.
• Research competitors.
• Find everything about this company.

Effort is the dial under the composer. It sets how long Grep spends and how much checking it does. Higher effort takes longer and costs more.

Press RUN. The task opens as a chat: Grep says what it is about to do, shows RUNNING with a timer while it searches and reads sources, and posts a card for the finished report.

You do not have to wait on the page. The task keeps running if you navigate away. It stays under RECENT in the sidebar, and the finished job is listed in Job History.

When the task finishes, the chat gives a short summary of what the report found — including what it could not find — and a report card showing the effort level, the number of sources and DONE with the time it took. OPEN on the card puts the report beside the chat.

The report's SOURCES tab carries the count, like SOURCES · 18. Open it and check anything load-bearing before the answer leaves your hands.

Ask a follow-up in the same chat. It continues the task you already ran, so Grep reopens what it found rather than researching from scratch.

• Turn this into a table with pricing, target customer, and proof points.
• Go deeper on companies founded after 2022.
• Summarize only the risks and open questions.