30 AI Research Tools That Live Inside Claude & ChatGPT (No Tech Skills Needed)
Stop double-checking fake AI links. 31 research tools across YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, Google, Company Registry, and the open web, built into Claude and ChatGPT.
Short version: AI research collection is broken in two ways. Web AI hallucinates fake links and articles. Social platforms research require API keys, n8n workflows, and technical knowledge. Amplifiers fixes both:
31 research tools across 9 platforms and the open web — YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, Company Registry, and the open web.
All inside Claude and ChatGPT — just ask in natural language
Zero API keys, zero technical setup, less hallucinations
Below: what each tool does, what it would cost you to build yourself, and how to set it up in 2 minutes.
The research collection problem (and why AI alone can't solve it)
We all do research. Tracking what’s happening in your industry, monitoring social platforms, studying competitors, keeping up with trends, understanding a topic well enough to make a decision or create something from it. It's one of the most time-consuming things we all do.
In my last article I talked about using Cowork to glue workflows and automations together into full systems, and I mentioned that research is one area where I never managed to do that until now. There are too many variations, too many platforms, too many ways you might need to approach it.
Part of why it’s so hard to systematize is that research has two distinct phases:
There’s the collection phase, where you go out and search for things across platforms.
And there’s the processing phase, where you read what you found, save it, synthesize it, and turn it into some kind of output or understanding.
For processing, AI has made things significantly easier. I use Cluing for saving ideas I come across. NotebookLM for answering questions from my sources only. And Claude for working with what I've collected, connecting ideas, and turning them into something useful.
But research collection? That part is still painful. And it’s just as time-consuming as processing, if not more.
Most of our collection happens in two places: the web and social platforms. And neither has a good solution yet.
For web research, we increasingly rely on AI to search for us because doing it manually takes too long. But our AI assistants make things up. Fabricated news, invented links, presented with full confidence.
I saw this firsthand when I built the same news app in Perplexity, Cowork, Claude Code, and Manus and they returned fabricated articles or broken links. And it’s not just anecdotal. A recent BBC-led study I came across through Mia Kiraki 🎭 confirmed it at scale: 45% of AI answers about news had significant issues.
For social platforms, it’s a different problem. You either scroll manually and spend hours on it or you build complex automations: get an API key for each platform, figure out authentication, create a workflow in n8n, and maintain it when something breaks.
I did this once for Reddit and never got around to building the rest. Most people wouldn’t either, whether because of time or the technical knowledge needed.
That’s the research collection problem: unreliable on the web, too manual or too technical on social platforms.
Because I was dealing with this, and because I know it’s a problem for everyone, we built research collection tools directly into Amplifiers, the AI Blew My Mind MCP that gives your Claude and ChatGPT capabilities they don’t have on their own, along with over 90 expert prompts across work domains.
But I'd rather show you than tell you, so let's get into it.
What’s inside this article:
The research collection problem (and why AI alone can’t solve it)
YouTube research tools: transcripts, trends, and channel analysis
Reddit research tools: conversations, communities, and ad intelligence
LinkedIn research tools: company profiles, creators, and content strategy
Instagram research tools: reels, engagement data, and transcripts
Twitter/X research tools: profiles, top tweets, and engagement data
Google search inside your AI chat: organic results, instantly workable
30 research tools across 9 platforms, no setup needed
Amplifiers now includes 30 research tools across YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, and the open web.
What makes all of these different (and much better) from asking an LLM to search for you: they are APIs to each platform. They pull data exactly as it exists, directly from the source, the same way you’d get it if you built the automations yourself.
The research tools are currently in beta and available to Premium subscribers only.
Each tool costs money to run, so expect a credit system or similar usage model once we move past testing.
Let me now walk you through what each platform gives you.
YouTube research: transcripts, trends, and channel analysis
YouTube is where a huge amount of valuable content lives, but getting data out of it programmatically has always been difficult. Even Gemini, Google’s own model, won’t give you a video’s transcript. You can only ask questions about it.
With the YouTube tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it in Amplifiers:
Competitor and creator research: Search for videos by keyword or hashtag to see what’s being published in your space. Pull a channel’s full profile, browse their video library by latest or most popular, and check their linked socials.
Content analysis: Get any video’s complete transcript with timestamps, read the top comments to understand audience reactions, and pull full metadata like views, likes, chapters, and keywords.
Trend monitoring: See what’s currently trending in YouTube Shorts, with a fresh batch of ~48 videos every time you ask.
Reddit research: conversations, trends, and ad intelligence
Reddit is one of the richest sources of unfiltered opinions, product feedback, and market signals. But accessing it at scale has gotten harder, not easier. Reddit changed their API policy, making it significantly more expensive and complex to build automations. I built a Reddit market research automation a while ago and today it would be even harder to set up.
With the Reddit tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the Reddit amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it:
Market research: Search across all of Reddit or within specific subreddits to find what people are saying about your industry, your competitors, or your product category. Filter by time and sort by relevance, top, or newest.
Community monitoring: Browse any subreddit’s posts by hot, new, top, or rising. Get subreddit details like subscriber count, active users, and community rules to evaluate whether a community is worth tracking.
Ad intelligence: Search Reddit’s Ad Library by keyword and filter by industry, budget level, and format. Get full ad creative details with an AI-written analysis of headline effectiveness and media strategy.
LinkedIn research: company profiles, creator activity, and content strategy
LinkedIn is essential for competitive research, prospecting, and understanding what companies and creators are doing in your space. But LinkedIn makes it notoriously difficult to extract data. There’s no public API for most of what you’d want to research. You either scroll manually, pay for Sales Navigator, or use scraping tools that break regularly.
With the LinkedIn tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the LinkedIn amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it:
Competitor research: Pull a company’s full LinkedIn profile including industry, size, headquarters, funding stage, and similar companies. Browse their recent posts to see what content they’re publishing and how they’re positioning themselves.
Creator and prospect research: Get any person’s public profile with their experience, education, follower count, recent posts, and articles. Useful for prospecting, partnership research, or studying what creators in your space are talking about.
Content strategy: Browse paginated company posts to analyze publishing frequency, content themes, and engagement patterns over time.
Instagram research: reels, engagement data, and content transcripts
Instagram is one of the hardest platforms to research. Almost everything is locked behind a login wall, there’s no useful public API, and even basic things like searching for reels by keyword require you to be logged in. If you’ve ever tried to systematically study what creators in your niche are posting, you know the drill: scroll, screenshot, repeat.
With the Instagram tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the Instagram amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it:
Content discovery: Search for reels by keyword without needing an Instagram account. Filter by date to find what’s trending right now or what was popular last week. This bypasses Instagram’s login gate entirely.
Creator analysis: Browse any user’s public reels with full engagement data: play count, likes, and comments. Useful for studying competitors, potential collaborators, or creators in your niche.
Post deep-dive: Pull the full details of any Instagram post or reel, including caption, creator info, engagement metrics, video URL, and top comments.
Transcript extraction: Get an AI-generated speech-to-text transcript for any reel or video post under two minutes. Turn spoken content into text you can analyze, quote, or repurpose.
Facebook research: ad library, competitor ads, and creative analysis
Facebook’s Ad Library is one of the most powerful competitive research tools available, and it’s completely free and public. The problem is that using it manually is painfully slow. The interface is clunky, filtering is limited, and there’s no way to pull data out at scale. If you’ve ever tried to systematically analyze a competitor’s ad strategy, you know how long it takes to click through ad after ad.
With the Facebook tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the Facebook amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it:
Competitor ad research: Search the entire Meta Ad Library by keyword with filters for country, ad status (active or inactive), and media type. See exactly what copy, creatives, and CTAs your competitors are running right now.
Advertiser discovery: Find any advertiser by company name and get their page ID. Use that to pull their complete ad history, not just what’s currently running.
Creative analysis: Get the full details of any ad, including all creative variations and optional video transcripts. Useful for studying what messaging approaches, formats, and hooks other companies are testing.
Twitter/X research: profiles, popular tweets, and engagement data
Twitter/X is where industry conversations happen in real time. But extracting data from it has become increasingly difficult. The API is expensive, third-party tools keep breaking, and even basic things like pulling someone’s top tweets with engagement metrics require paid access or workarounds.
With the Twitter/X tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the Twitter amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s everything you get access to:
What you can do with it:
Profile research: Pull anyone’s public profile with their bio, follower and following counts, location, verified status, and join date. Useful for prospecting, partnership evaluation, or studying how people in your space position themselves.
Content analysis: Get a user’s ~100 most popular tweets with full engagement metrics: likes, retweets, replies, and view counts. See what topics and formats get the most traction for any account you’re researching.
People and brand tracking: Keep up with the people and brands you care about most. Pull their latest popular posts anytime to stay current on what they’re publishing, what’s resonating with their audience, and what direction they’re moving in.
Google search: organic results without the noise
You can already search Google in your browser. But the value here is in what happens after the search. When you run a Google search through the amplifier, Claude gets the results directly and can immediately work with them: summarize, compare, extract patterns, filter for what’s relevant, or combine with data from other platforms in the same conversation.
With the Google tool in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the Google amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s what you get:
What you can do with it:
Targeted search: Run Google searches with region targeting and date filtering. Narrow results to the last hour, day, week, month, or year. Target specific countries for localized results.
Research at scale: Run multiple searches in the same conversation and ask Claude to compare, summarize, or cross-reference the results. Combine Google results with data from other amplifiers (Reddit discussions, LinkedIn profiles, YouTube videos) to build a complete picture without leaving the chat.
Company registry: global business data across 244 countries
If you’ve ever needed to verify whether a company is real, check when it was incorporated, or look up its legal status, you know how painful it is. Every country has a different registry, a different website, a different interface. Some charge for access. Some are barely searchable.
With the company registry tools in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the company registry amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s what you get:
What you can do with it:
Company verification: Search over 521 million legal entities across 309 jurisdictions and 244 countries. Find any company by name or registration number, check its legal status, incorporation date, legal form, and registered address.
Due diligence: Pull the full registry record for any company, including identifiers like LEI numbers for financial lookups. Filter by jurisdiction and registration status to narrow results.
Open web research: grounded search with the highest accuracy available
This is the newest tool in Amplifiers and I’m very excited about it. When you search the web through Claude or ChatGPT normally, you’re relying on the LLM to find and summarize sources. And as we covered in the intro, that’s where hallucinations happen: fabricated links, invented articles, confident nonsense.
The grounded web search in Amplifiers works differently. It’s powered by You.com’s Research API, which currently ranks #1 on DeepSearchQA with 83.67% accuracy, the highest publicly reported score.
Every result comes back with a real source URL, title, and text snippets. No hallucinated links. No fabricated articles. Just real sources you can verify.
With the open web tool in Amplifiers, you just ask Claude or ChatGPT to use the web search amplifier, and describe what you need in natural language.
Here’s what you get:
What you can do with it:
Grounded research: Search the web and get results with real, verifiable source URLs. Every result includes title, description, and text snippets you can cite. Less checking if a link is real before sharing it.
News monitoring: The tool automatically detects when your query has news intent and returns both web results and news articles. Filter by freshness (last day, week, month, year) to stay current on fast-moving topics.
Domain control: Include or exclude specific domains from your results. Search only within trusted sources, or block low-quality sites. Supports search operators like site:, filetype:, AND/OR/NOT for precision research.
What else is in Amplifiers
Research tools are the newest addition, but there’s a lot more inside.
Image generation and editing
Claude can now generate images natively using Amplifiers. Amplifiers includes five image generation prompts designed for professional outputs: infographics, podcast cover art, and structured prompt-to-image workflows.
In ChatGPT, the same prompts work with GPT’s image model.
The difference from just asking for an image: these prompts guide you through style selection, content confirmation, and aspect ratio before generating. You get consistent, professional results instead of random outputs.
You also get a new background removal tool that strips any photo to a transparent PNG in seconds.
And since image generation is built into the same tool, you can turn your research directly into infographics and visuals for your content without leaving the conversation.
92 expert prompts across 11 work domains
Business, Marketing, Writing, Operations, Thinking, Teaching, Coding, Prompting, Image Generation, Life Design, and Learning.
These aren’t generic prompts. They’re structured workflows that interview you, adapt to your context, and produce outputs you can use immediately.
You don’t need to memorize prompt names. Just mention Amplifiers and either ask for a specific prompt or describe what you’re trying to do.
If you know which prompt you want:
“Use the Brainstorm Partner amplifier to help me think through my next product launch”
“Use the Voice DNA amplifier to analyze my writing style”
If you don’t know which prompt fits your task, just ask:
“I need to write a client proposal. Is there an amplifier that can help with this?”
“What amplifier should I use to prepare for a negotiation?”
Claude or ChatGPT will search the Amplifiers catalog and suggest the right one.
Save and customize prompts
The biggest problem with prompts is that you never save them where you use them. They end up in notes, bookmarks, or screenshots, and you never find them when you need them.
With Amplifiers, you save prompts directly inside Claude or ChatGPT. Just say “save this to my prompt library” and it’s there next time you need it.
You can also take any prompt from the Amplifiers catalog, adapt it with your own context, and save that customized version. Next time you use it, your context is already built in. No re-answering the same questions every time.
Your personal library is private. Other users can’t see your saved or customized prompts.
What all of this would cost you without Amplifiers
Building just the research tools yourself would cost you hundreds of dollars a month in API fees across platforms (n8n at $20/month to run the automations, Apify or similar scraping tools for platforms without public APIs, X API that can reach hundreds per month for read-heavy research).
And that's before you factor in the social listening tools you'd need for platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram that don't offer public APIs for this kind of data.
Plus the time and technical knowledge to build and maintain everything. And if you don't have the technical skills, you're paying an expert thousands of dollars to build all of these automations for you.
With a Premium subscription to AI Blew My Mind at $12/month (or $100/year), all of this is included:
Inside Amplifiers:
30 research tools across eight platforms and the open web. No API keys, no technical setup, no maintenance.
The most powerful prompts in the catalog: skill builders, negotiation coaches, structured workflows.
Professional image generation directly in Claude, plus background removal.
The newsletter:
Three deep dives per week on how to use AI for your work. Practical use cases and beginner-friendly how-to guides so you’re never left wondering how to implement something.
AIBMM Lab and perks:
Full access to every premium resource in the AIBMM Lab resource library.
Discounts to AI Blew My Mind tools: 50% off AI Migrator, $100 in credits for MyGhosts.
Exclusive partner discounts: 20% off Cluing, 25% off HeyReach. These discounts alone can cover the cost of the subscription.
I'm not one to brag, but try putting together everything you get here from somewhere else for $12 a month.
Even when we introduce a credit system after the testing period, the cost will still be a fraction of what you'd pay setting all of this up yourself.
How to set up Amplifiers
Setup takes just a few minutes, whether this is your first time or you already had it installed. Below, I’ll walk you through both paths, plus a few things some of you have been asking about when it comes to logging in.
How to set up Amplifiers in Claude
Step 1. Add the connector
Open Claude in the desktop app. Go to Customize in the left side panel, click Connectors, then the + icon. Select Add custom connector. Name it “AI blew my mind” and paste this URL: https://mcp.aiblewmymind.com. Click Add.
Step 2. Connect it
Go back to the Connectors section and scroll down to Not Connected. Find the AI blew my mind MCP and click on it. Hit Connect. This takes you to auth.aiblewmymind.com where you’ll create your account. Make sure you use the same email you subscribed to AI Blew My Mind with. Then click Always allow for all tool permissions.
Step 3. Add your Gemini API key (optional, for image generation only)
Your first 3 image generations are on me. After that, you need to add your own API key to keep generating images. All prompts and research tools work without it.
Go to Google AI Studio and sign in with your Google account.
Click Get API key in the left menu.
Click Create API key, then Create API key in new project.
Copy the key and store it somewhere safe.
Head to auth.aiblewmymind.com and add your API key there.
Done. You only pay for credits on the images you generate. Nothing else.
How to set up Amplifiers in ChatGPT
Go to chatgpt.com in your browser.
Open Settings → Apps → Advanced Settings.
Toggle on Developer mode.
Click Create apps.
Name it “AI blew my mind”.
In MCP Server URL, paste: https://mcp.aiblewmymind.com/
Set Authentication to OAuth.
Click Create, then Connect.
Create your account on auth.aiblewmymind.com using the same email as your AI Blew My Mind subscription to connect.
If you already had Amplifiers installed
If Claude or ChatGPT can’t find some of the new tools, you need to do a quick reconnect.
In Claude: Go to Customize → Connectors, find the AI blew my mind connector, disconnect it, remove it, then add it again and connect it from scratch.
In ChatGPT: Go to Settings → Apps, find AI blew my mind app, disconnect it, remove it, then re-add it following the steps above.
This refreshes your connection and pulls in all the latest tools.
One thing to keep in mind
Both Claude and ChatGPT sometimes default to using their own built-in tools instead of the amplifiers (like web search). If you notice the results aren’t coming from Amplifiers (you can check by expanding the activity messages in the chat), just be specific. Say “search with the Reddit amplifier” or “use the web search amplifier” and they’ll use the right one.
If you run into any other issues with setup, accounts, login, or access, I’ve put together a detailed FAQ document that covers everything.
Your turn
Research collection has been the missing piece for a long time. Too manual, too technical, or too unreliable.
Now it’s built into the same place where you already do your work.
Set up Amplifiers, try the research tools, and see what happens when your AI can pull real data from real platforms instead of making things up.
I’d love to hear how you use them. Drop a comment and tell me what you’re researching, which tools you tried first, and what surprised you.
And if you found this useful, sharing it would be the best gift you could give me.
The AIBMM tool is consistently rejecting Claude's request to connect, even though I'm a premium subscriber (month to month). Do you know why that might be?
This is some really cool and innovative stuff Daria. I can see how useful this all is. Well done. No one you are in the bestseller list. Your offering is amazing.