Your workspace for deep research

Your workspace for deep research

Your workspace for deep research

Backed by Y Combinator

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Finally, research that
thinks like you do

The best decisions require the deepest understanding.

You shouldn't have to choose between speed and substance.

Venture Capital & Private Assets

Investment & diligence

Your next fund-returner is buried in thousands of data points across hundreds of sources. Spine maps entire sectors, from TAM analysis to competitor landscapes to technical moats, synthesizing primary sources into investment-ready insights.

Portfolio intelligence

Turn portfolio monitoring from reactive to predictive. Continuously analyze market movements, strategies, and emerging threats Surface strategic opportunities and risks while they're still actionable, not after they've impacted metrics.

Product marketing

Competitive intelligence

Your competitors aren't waiting. Neither should you. Track product launches, messaging pivots, and strategic moves across your competitive set, then synthesizes patterns that inform your next positioning play. Define your market, don't just react to it.

Product positioning

The best positioning comes from understanding not just what exists, but what's emerging. Spine analyzes customer conversations, analyst perspectives, and market signals to identify the narratives that will define your space, before they're obvious to everyone else.

Why Spine exists

Why Spine exists

Why Spine exists

We’re building Spine because thinking deeply still matters and research isn’t a task you complete once. Research is an ongoing process of noticing, questioning, connecting dots, and sharpening judgment.

Most tools treat research like search: transactional, shallow, disposable. But serious work needs something different. Something structured enough to scale, flexible enough to evolve, and smart enough to stay out of the way.

Spine uses AI to support the way people already think, not to replace it. We automate the grunt work, help you map ideas as they grow, and make it easier to get from messy input to clear insight.

This is how better decisions get made. Not by shortcutting the process, but by giving people better tools to do it well.

We’re building Spine because thinking deeply still matters and research isn’t a task you complete once. Research is an ongoing process of noticing, questioning, connecting dots, and sharpening judgment.

Most tools treat research like search: transactional, shallow, disposable. But serious work needs something different. Something structured enough to scale, flexible enough to evolve, and smart enough to stay out of the way.

Spine uses AI to support the way people already think, not to replace it. We automate the grunt work, help you map ideas as they grow, and make it easier to get from messy input to clear insight.

This is how better decisions get made. Not by shortcutting the process, but by giving people better tools to do it well.

We’re building Spine because thinking deeply still matters and research isn’t a task you complete once. Research is an ongoing process of noticing, questioning, connecting dots, and sharpening judgment.

Most tools treat research like search: transactional, shallow, disposable. But serious work needs something different. Something structured enough to scale, flexible enough to evolve, and smart enough to stay out of the way.

Spine uses AI to support the way people already think, not to replace it. We automate the grunt work, help you map ideas as they grow, and make it easier to get from messy input to clear insight.

This is how better decisions get made. Not by shortcutting the process, but by giving people better tools to do it well.

Start with a topic.
Spine builds the plan.

Enter any research question or area of exploration

Enter any research question or area of exploration

Enter any research question or area of exploration

No complex queries or set up required

No complex queries or set up required

No complex queries or set up required

Your knowledge + the world's

  • Upload your internal documents, memos, and research

  • Upload your internal documents, memos, and research

  • Upload your internal documents, memos, and research

  • Spine searches across millions of public sources

  • Spine searches across millions of public sources

  • Spine searches across millions of public sources

  • Combines your proprietary context with market intelligence

  • Combines your proprietary context with market intelligence

  • Combines your proprietary context with market intelligence

  • Works with PDFs, docs, presentations, and notes

  • Works with PDFs, docs, presentations, and notes

  • Works with PDFs, docs, presentations, and notes

Visual canvases

Infinite canvas for non-linear exploration

Infinite canvas for non-linear exploration

Infinite canvas for non-linear exploration

Pick up topics, put them down, make connections

Pick up topics, put them down, make connections

Pick up topics, put them down, make connections

Organize research the way you actually think

Organize research the way you actually think

Organize research the way you actually think

Zoom in and out to see patterns and details

Zoom in and out to see patterns and details

Zoom in and out to see patterns and details

Dive deep when you need to

  • Expand any topic for comprehensive analysis

  • See exact sources and AI reasoning with "View Process"

  • Track how insights evolved with version history

  • Go deeper with one click for exhaustive research

Built for collaboration

Share a link, research together in real-time

See team members' contributions and notes

Add comments and annotations

Like Figma or Miro, but for deep research

Artifacts

  • Generate memos, competitive analyses, and strategic reports

  • Export to your preferred format

  • Skip the manual synthesis

  • Share polished deliverables

Frequently asked questions

Why not just ChatGPT Deep Research?

ChatGPT Deep Research is great for linear Q&A, but research isn't linear. Spine gives you an infinite canvas to explore multiple threads simultaneously, upload your proprietary documents for context, collaborate with your team in real-time, and maintain full visibility into sources and reasoning. It's the difference between having a conversation and building a knowledge graph.

How is this different from Perplexity or other AI search tools?

Search tools give you answers. Spine helps you build understanding. While others optimize for quick responses, we optimize for comprehensive exploration, letting you see connections between ideas, track your research journey, and collaborate with teammates on complex problems.

What kind of sources does Spine use?

Spine searches across millions of public sources, from academic papers to news articles to company websites, while also incorporating your uploaded documents, memos, and proprietary research. Every insight is traceable back to its original source.

Can my team use this together?

Yes. Spine is built for collaboration from the ground up. Share a canvas link and research together in real-time, see each other's contributions, leave comments, and build on each other's work. Like Figma transformed design collaboration, Spine transforms research collaboration.

How long does it take to get results?

Initial insights appear in seconds, with deeper analysis available in minutes. A comprehensive market analysis that might take weeks manually can be completed in 2-3 hours on Spine.

Is my data secure?

Your uploaded documents and research remain private to your workspace. We never train on your proprietary data, and you can delete your research at any time. Enterprise plans include additional security controls and compliance options.

What types of deliverables can I create?

Spine can generate investment memos, competitive analyses, market landscapes, positioning documents, and custom reports based on your research. Export in multiple formats or share directly from the platform.

Who is Spine built for?

Spine is designed for professionals who need deep, nuanced understanding of complex topics, particularly private markets investors conducting diligence and product marketing managers developing positioning. If you're making strategic decisions based on market intelligence, Spine is built for you.

Why not just ChatGPT Deep Research?

ChatGPT Deep Research is great for linear Q&A, but research isn't linear. Spine gives you an infinite canvas to explore multiple threads simultaneously, upload your proprietary documents for context, collaborate with your team in real-time, and maintain full visibility into sources and reasoning. It's the difference between having a conversation and building a knowledge graph.

How is this different from Perplexity or other AI search tools?

Search tools give you answers. Spine helps you build understanding. While others optimize for quick responses, we optimize for comprehensive exploration, letting you see connections between ideas, track your research journey, and collaborate with teammates on complex problems.

What kind of sources does Spine use?

Spine searches across millions of public sources, from academic papers to news articles to company websites, while also incorporating your uploaded documents, memos, and proprietary research. Every insight is traceable back to its original source.

Can my team use this together?

Yes. Spine is built for collaboration from the ground up. Share a canvas link and research together in real-time, see each other's contributions, leave comments, and build on each other's work. Like Figma transformed design collaboration, Spine transforms research collaboration.

How long does it take to get results?

Initial insights appear in seconds, with deeper analysis available in minutes. A comprehensive market analysis that might take weeks manually can be completed in 2-3 hours on Spine.

Is my data secure?

Your uploaded documents and research remain private to your workspace. We never train on your proprietary data, and you can delete your research at any time. Enterprise plans include additional security controls and compliance options.

What types of deliverables can I create?

Spine can generate investment memos, competitive analyses, market landscapes, positioning documents, and custom reports based on your research. Export in multiple formats or share directly from the platform.

Who is Spine built for?

Spine is designed for professionals who need deep, nuanced understanding of complex topics, particularly private markets investors conducting diligence and product marketing managers developing positioning. If you're making strategic decisions based on market intelligence, Spine is built for you.

Research at the speed of now