What if you could have a personal assistant that would go through all the data Vainu has for a prospect and build a perfect sales email template? Or score the prospect based on how well matches your ICP? Or help you identify industry trends? All of that and a lot more is now possible by using Vainu Research Agent, the first member of our Vainu Agent family, and your personal AI assistant in Vainu.
How to use Vainu Research Agent?
Vainu Research Agent is available within all company profiles on Vainu's new platform. Just open up any company card and find the 🪄 Research Agent button in the top-right corner.
You can ask Vainu Research Agent anything about the company. We have a set of ready-made prompts in English and Finnish, but you can also write your own prompts or fine-tune the existing ones to get exactly the information you are looking for. You can also write your prompt in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish to get Vainu Research Agent's answers in those languages.
By default, Vainu Research Agent uses all of our primary data sources to formulate the answers, but you can also toggle any specific subsets like website content or financial statements off or back on.
Vainu Research Agent's analysis has also been included as a native part of all of our Nordic databases. When you open a company card, Vainu will auto-generate an analysis on the company based on your default prompt.
By clicking on Create/Edit prompt, you can work on your own prompts or browse our library of prompt templates. Use the available options to share your best prompts with your colleagues and to define the default prompt that Vainu will use in the future to create the analyses on company cards.
What data does Vainu Research Agent use?
Vainu Research Agent uses our proprietary company data when answering your prompts. This data is categorized under four main groups:
Basic data: all the information Vainu collects from local business registries, such as official industries, address, foundation date, company status, auxiliary names, employee count etc.
Website content: all the information Vainu has detected from the company's official website. This includes text content from the website, Vainu Custom Industry analysis, website technologies, news articles and blog posts, company descriptions and more.
Financial statements: all the latest financial figures reported by the company including the most commonly requested line items from income statements and balance sheets. We will be soon including all text content from financial statements as well.
Events: all the trigger events Vainu has connected to the company. These events can include anything ranging from news articles, press releases, meeting minutes, recruitment ads, tenders etc. At the moment, Vainu Research Agent is only using events from the past 12 months to focus only on the most relevant events. You must select the specific event types that you are interested in.
Potential use cases
The pre-designed prompts will give you a good idea of what kind of prompts we and our users have successfully been using. Examples include:
company research
sales meeting preparations
credit score analysis
account scoring
finding similar companies
understanding industry trends
researching on a specific company such as sustainability strategy
recruitment volume estimations
competitor or industry analysis
Feel free to test the default prompts to get ideas for your very own prompts which is a logical next step for many users once they want to find answers to their specific use cases. We have a separate article on how to write good prompts.
Frequently asked questions
What does it cost to use Vainu Research Agent?
The current version is included in all subscriptions using our new platform. If you are only using our older platform and don't have access to the new platform, you can reach out directly to your CSM or use our support chat to get you upgraded to our new platform.
Can I use Vainu Research Agent to research multiple companies or an entire list at once?
Yes, that is possible using the second agent of our Vainu Agent family, namely Vainu Enrichment Agent. Note that unlike Vainu Research Agent, Vainu Enrichment Agent usage is limited by an organization-wide quota.
Can I send you feedback or ideas for prompts?
We would love to hear your feedback and most successful prompts! Send us a message using the support chat and we'll make sure to review them with our product team.
I can't seem to find Vainu Research Agent?
You are most likely still using our older platform (identifiable by the URL app.vainu.io), whereas Vainu Research Agent is only available on our new platform (https://vainu.app/). You can try signing in on the new platform using the same login credentials.
I remember you spoke about Vainugent earlier, what is that?
Vainu Research Agent used to be called Vainugent, but we renamed the Agent to better describe it's core benefit and to better differentiate it from other Vainu Agents. You might still find mentions on Vainugent here and there, but nowadays we talk about Vainu Research Agent.
👨💻 Contact Vainu Support if you have any questions! You can send an email to support@vainu.io or send a message through chat.