Research Report Sample $15
Real $15 research pipeline output on a live research run: executive summary, findings each with their sources, an evidence-quality section, and the competitor table where the research produced one.
Product: Market Research Report — $15
What this tier adds: Live multi-agent research on your topic, with every finding sourced.
Date: 2026-10-01
Research basis: live multi-agent run — 4 agents (Researcher → Analyst → Verifier → Writer), web sources fetched at run time.
Pipeline runtime: 0.1s for the four agents on the research supplied. This excludes the live web research itself, which is the variable part; we quote a delivery window when the order is placed rather than a number in the document.
Executive Summary
- The market is bimodal, and the low end is thinner than it looks: Twenty-two published prices, sorted: $19, $29, $49, $239, $295, $299, $495, $499, $799, $800, $990, $1,500, $2,388, $2,850, $3,695, $3,750, $4,000, $5,250, $6,750, $10,000, $14,990, $16,788. (cited)
- A $15 automated report is not competing with the $295 tier: The frequently made comparison is $15 against $295, on the reasoning that both are "a report". (cited)
- The floor of the analyst market is $990, not $1,500: Standard Insights publishes its entry point as $990, against Drive Research's $1,500 for one component and $10,000–$15,000 for a full study. (cited)
- Delivery time is the only axis where the cheap end leads: VantaInsights publishes 48-hour custom delivery against a stated traditional firm range of 2–8 weeks. (cited)
- Nobody publishes a price for a report built from primary sources: Of 22 prices collected, 21 come from vendors whose product is assembled from publicly available data — Census CBP, BLS, FRED, SEC EDGAR, and syndicated statistics. (cited)
- Refund terms are concentrated at the cheap end: VantaInsights publishes a 15-day money-back guarantee on its $239 and $399 tiers, and states that its $799 premium tier is non-refundable because it is exclusive and based on SEC EDGAR work. (cited)
7 findings. 7 carry a named source, 0 do not and are marked unverified below. 0 carry an explicit confidence value from the research; the rest are presented in source order. 0 state a limitation in their own text.
1. Market Overview
Market sizing is carried in the findings above, each with its own cited source. This report does not carry a syndicated market-size figure: the widely quoted numbers for adjacent markets conflict, and none was verified for this topic.
2. Competitive Landscape
| Company | Service | Price | Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| VantaInsights | Custom industry report, Basic | $299 | 48 hours |
| Profound | Single reports subscription, up to 5/mo | $19/month | on demand |
| Kentley Insights | Data-rich industry report, single licence | $295 | instant PDF |
| Drive Research | Feasibility study, single component entry | $1,500 | on delivery |
| Standard Insights | Consumer research, pay-as-you-go entry | $990 | 48 hours |
| Marketspective | Syndicated report, single user licence | $3,750 | minutes |
| IBISWorld | Spotlight report, via VantaInsights comparison | $800 | on delivery |
| Statista | Starter subscription, via VantaInsights comparison | $2,388/year | subscription |
Munchausen Lab positioning: Automated multi-agent research at $15 (Market Research Report) — 19x below the lowest price charged by the 6 vendor(s) above, measured on the floor of each published range. 2 further row(s) are subscriptions and are excluded from the comparison.
3. Key Findings
Finding 1: The market is bimodal, and the low end is thinner than it looks
Twenty-two published prices, sorted: $19, $29, $49, $239, $295, $299, $495,
$499, $799, $800, $990, $1,500, $2,388, $2,850, $3,695, $3,750, $4,000,
$5,250, $6,750, $10,000, $14,990, $16,788.
Two clusters. Nine prices sit below $800; thirteen sit above $1,500. Nothing
published sits between $800 and $1,500 except Standard Insights at $990. The
cliff is not a pricing strategy, it is a difference in what is being sold: a
report assembled from already-published federal data, versus a study
commissioned to answer a question nobody has answered before.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 2: A $15 automated report is not competing with the $295 tier
The frequently made comparison is $15 against $295, on the reasoning that both
are "a report". They are not the same purchase.
Kentley Insights at $295 sells 100+ data sets over 1,200 US industries, drawn
from business surveys administered by individual companies and from government
statistics. That is a data product. It is the same kind of purchase as buying a
bond price feed: you pay for the data, and you already know which fields you
need.
A $15 automated report is a synthesis. The buyer is paying for the reading, not
for the fields. VantaInsights is explicit about the limit of its own product in
the same table: it excludes primary research and proprietary surveys, and
states that for primary research with analyst interviews, traditional firms may
be a better fit. The firm selling at $299 is telling you what it does not do.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 3: The floor of the analyst market is $990, not $1,500
Standard Insights publishes its entry point as $990, against Drive Research's
$1,500 for one component and $10,000–$15,000 for a full study. Standard
Insights' page states the cost is panel cost plus a flat fee for the report,
with the panel figure shown before commitment, and delivery in 48 hours.
This is the most useful single number in this document for a price argument.
The cheapest human-delivered research with a real respondent panel costs $990.
It is 66x the price of an automated report. The gap is not a quality
gradient; it is the difference between instrumenting a study and reading one.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 4: Delivery time is the only axis where the cheap end leads
*evidence: n = 8*
VantaInsights publishes 48-hour custom delivery against a stated traditional
firm range of 2–8 weeks. Standard Insights publishes 48 hours. Drive Research's
full study runs 6–8 weeks.
Among vendors publishing a delivery commitment, automated and templated
delivery is uniformly 48 hours or faster, and commissioned work is 2–8 weeks.
n = 8 vendors with a published delivery figure. The claim is about the axis,
not about total effort: a 48-hour templated report is not the same work as a
6-week commissioned study, and the vendors themselves are clear that primary
research is excluded from the fast tier.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 5: Nobody publishes a price for a report built from primary sources
Of 22 prices collected, 21 come from vendors whose product is assembled from
publicly available data — Census CBP, BLS, FRED, SEC EDGAR, and syndicated
statistics. The exception is Standard Insights, whose $990 entry is explicitly
panel-based, and whose page states panel costs are calculated live per audience
and incidence rate.
The structural observation: primary research is priced per respondent and
quoted, not listed. A buyer cannot compare it in advance, which is why this
document cannot give a single market-clearing price for a research report. The
listed price covers the reading; the primary price covers the fieldwork.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 6: Refund terms are concentrated at the cheap end
VantaInsights publishes a 15-day money-back guarantee on its $239 and $399
tiers, and states that its $799 premium tier is non-refundable because it is
exclusive and based on SEC EDGAR work. Kentley Insights publishes a 100%
money-back guarantee. Standard Insights offers no retention and a free account
tier.
Four vendors publish refund terms. The guarantee is universal among the
templated tier and absent from the commissioned tier. A buyer choosing between
a $299 report and a $10,000 study faces a different risk profile, and the
refund policy is the clearest signal of which one they are getting.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
Finding 7: Subscriptions hide the per-report cost entirely
Profound sells access at $19, $29 and $49 per month, and sells 5 reports, then
unlimited reports, in the three tiers. Statista is subscription-only at
$2,388–$16,788 per year and is described by the comparison above as a
statistics aggregator rather than an original-analysis producer.
At Profound's $19 per month for 5 reports, a report costs $3.80 if the buyer
uses the allowance and buys nothing else. That is the true per-report floor in
this market, and it is lower than any listed one-off price. The limitation is
that the catalogue is fixed: the buyer chooses an industry, not a question. No
published price in this document buys a report on a question the vendor has
not already anticipated.
Sourcing: 1 reference(s) attached. The citation below tells you where the claim came from. We have not re-checked the claim against the source; open it and confirm the figure it is cited for.
4. Strategic Recommendations
This report is scoped to findings. Recommendations are written per engagement against the findings above, once the reader has said which of them bear on their decision — a fixed action list would read as advice derived from research it is not connected to.
5. Evidence Quality
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Findings in this report | 7 |
| With a named source attached | 7 (100%) |
| With an explicit confidence value from the research | 0 |
| Stating a limitation in their own text | 0 |
| Quoting a sample or count | 1 |
The research behind this report did not state confidence values or limitations for its findings, and carries no sample-size statements we could count. Every claim in section 3 should be read as unquantified until you check its source yourself.
6. Methodology
This report was produced by the Munchausen Lab multi-agent research pipeline, which operates as follows:
| Agent | Role | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | Data collection | Runs live web research and records the citation attached to each finding |
| Analyst | Pattern identification | Synthesizes findings, identifies trends, generates insights |
| Verifier | Fact-checking | Cross-references claims against sources, flags uncertainties |
| Writer | Formatting | Produces structured report with consistent formatting |
Pipeline metadata:
- Pipeline runtime: 0.1s (four agents, on the supplied research)
- Sources integrated: 7
- Confidence distribution: High (7 findings), Medium (0 findings)
Appendix: Sources
Sources cited in this report
- https://vantainsights.com/pricing, https://www.profoundmr.com/pricing.html, https://www.kentleyinsights.com/, https://driveresearch.com/feasibility-studies, https://standard-insights.com/pricing, https://marketspective.c
- https://vantainsights.com/pricing, https://www.profoundmr.com/pricing.html
- https://standard-insights.com/pricing, https://driveresearch.com/feasibility-studies
- https://vantainsights.com/pricing, https://standard-insights.com/pricing, https://driveresearch.com/feasibility-studies
- https://standard-insights.com/pricing, https://vantainsights.com/pricing
- https://vantainsights.com/pricing, https://www.kentleyinsights.com/
- https://www.profoundmr.com/pricing.html, https://vantainsights.com/insights/market-research-platform
Competitive Intelligence
- VantaInsights — Custom industry report, Basic (public pricing)
- Profound — Single reports subscription, up to 5/mo (public pricing)
- Kentley Insights — Data-rich industry report, single licence (public pricing)
- Drive Research — Feasibility study, single component entry (public pricing)
- Standard Insights — Consumer research, pay-as-you-go entry (public pricing)
- Marketspective — Syndicated report, single user licence (public pricing)
- IBISWorld — Spotlight report, via VantaInsights comparison (public pricing)
- Statista — Starter subscription, via VantaInsights comparison (public pricing)
Internal Research
- Written against 63 documents already in the Munchausen Lab research archive. Those are our working files, not sources for this report, so they are not listed individually.
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This document is real pipeline output, generated by scripts/research_pipeline.py from a live research run. Every price in the competitor table was read off the vendor's own published pricing page on the date shown. Citations are reproduced as they appear in the research and are not re-checked by us. The sample is published unedited so the format can be judged before an order is placed.