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Describe the goal
Write it the way you would brief a colleague. Attach PDFs, documents, or data, and the team reads everything before it plans a single step.
A team of AI specialists, on call for your research
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research task.
Get the report.
Describe what you need and attach your files. A collaborative team of AI specialists takes it from there. You watch them work live, and the finished report lands in your inbox.
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How it works
Three steps.
Zero babysitting.
You brief the team once. Everything after that happens in the background, and you can watch as much or as little as you like.
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The team ignites
Confirm the run from your inbox. A Lead breaks the goal into subtasks, specialists collaborate on a shared board, and a reviewer checks the claims.
03
The report lands
One assembled deliverable, emailed to you with the complete activity log attached. Plus a live page with every result file the team produced.
Vatra · Croatian for fire
One spark.
A whole team.
Captain Spark runs on Vatra, the collaborative multi-agent engine inside Captain Claw. Your task is not handed to a single model and hoped for. It is planned, split, owned, checked, and assembled.
- A Lead plans. It reads your brief and files, then decomposes the goal into owned subtasks.
- Specialists collaborate. Analysts, researchers, and fact checkers post findings to a shared board instead of working blind.
- A Reporter assembles. One coherent deliverable, not a pile of fragments.
A
Researchgather & read
B
Buildproduce the work
C
Reviewverify claims
D
Deliverassemble report
Optional · with an account
Or steer it
yourself.
By default the team plans and runs on its own. Signed in, you can tick "Let me review the plan first" — the team drafts its plan and picks the specialists, then pauses. Nothing runs until you approve.
- Edit every task. Rewrite each specialist's mandate, what they produce, and their hand-off notes.
- Reorder the phases. Move work between phases A–D, or run them all at once.
- Approve or cancel. One click to run the plan as edited, or drop it before it costs a thing.
Review the plan before it runsAwaiting your approval
How the team will work together
The Researcher gathers and cites the sources; the Analyst quantifies the findings; the Writer assembles one report. Each hands its work to the next.
The team & their tasksOrdered phases
Gather & cite sources
Mandate
Find authoritative sources and extract the key claims, one citation each.
Quantify the findings
Mandate
Turn the researcher's claims into figures and a metrics table.
Execute this planCancelNothing runs until you click Execute.
What you get
Not a chat window.
A finished piece of work.
Every run produces a report, the files behind it, and a complete record of how the team got there — and you can turn it into working code, carry it forward, or build it on top of earlier runs.
Watch it work, live
A clean activity feed streams every step as it happens: which specialist is doing what, phase by phase. Keep the tab open or close it. The run does not care.
Group B · Build
Technical Researcher · searching the web
Market Analyst · posted 3 findings to the team board
Reporter · assembling the final report
Your files, read first
Upload briefs, PDFs, spreadsheets, and transcripts. The team examines them before it plans, so the research starts from your context rather than a blank page.
brief.pdf
interviews.docx
pricing.xlsx
+ up to 25 MB each
The full activity log
Timestamped, filterable by phase, agent, and type. Download it or find it attached to your result email.
actionreviewwaitingnarrationGroup CFact Checker
Result files, not just a summary
Browse and download everything the team produced alongside the report, tables and drafts included.
comparison.md · sources.md · report.md
A public gallery
Free runs are public and searchable. See what others asked, and what came back, before you write your own brief.
Vector DB comparisonRunning
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Build it, don't just describe it
Switch a run to Build and a coding team plans, writes, reviews and fixes real code in a git repo. You get the commits and the working files, not a description of them.
Architect · drafted the module plan
Implementer · wrote 6 files, 2 tests
Reviewer · fixed 1 issue · committed ✓
Carry the research forward
A finished run isn't the end. Continue it, revise the report, or fill the gaps it flagged. The same team picks up in the same workspace, building on everything so far.
ContinueReviseFill gaps
Build on earlier runs
Fold previous research — public runs or your own — into a new brief. The team gets those reports and files as source material instead of starting from a blank page.
Vector DB comparisonIncluded
On-device speech modelsIncluded
Research types
Pick a type.
Get a class-A structure.
Beyond a freeform brief, choose from 58 archetypes across 10 fields — from market and technology research to a newsroom set on the 5 W's, and a fiction studio from fantasy to mock biography. Each hands the team a proven structure and a higher bar: the research types demand named sources, comparison tables and a decision-useful conclusion; the fiction types demand scene, voice and finished, readable prose.
Market & Competition
Size a market, size up the competition, and find the opening.
- Market landscape & sizingDefine, segment and size a market with drivers and player map.
- Competitive analysisProfile the players, their positioning, features and pricing; find the whitespace.
- Product / vendor comparisonCompare named options head-to-head and recommend by scenario.
- Pricing & packagingHow the market prices and packages, and where the gaps are.
- Customer & audience researchWho the customer is, what they need, and how they decide.
- Trends & forecastSeparate durable signal from hype and give a grounded outlook.
Technology & Engineering
Survey the state of the art and make sound technical choices.
- Technology landscape / state of the artThe main approaches, leading tools and open problems.
- Tool / library / vendor evaluationScore candidates against explicit criteria and recommend.
- Architecture & design trade-offsLay out the viable designs, weigh them, and recommend.
- Build vs buyCompare building against adopting, with TCO and a recommendation.
- Security & threat reviewAttack surface, threats, mitigations and standards — defensively.
Academic & Scientific
Review the literature and synthesize evidence rigorously.
- Literature review (systematic)Themed synthesis of the key works, consensus, debates and gaps.
- State of the art surveyLeading approaches and results, how they compare, open directions.
- Evidence synthesisWeigh the strongest evidence to a confidence-rated conclusion.
- Deep concept primerRigorous first-principles explanation with mechanism and examples.
- Methodology reviewHow the methods work, when to use them, and their pitfalls.
Journalism & Reporting
Answer who, what, when, where, why and how — with sourced rigor.
- Background brief (5 W's + H)The whole picture on a story — who, what, when, where, why and how, sourced.
- Key players — who's whoProfile the people and organizations involved, their roles, stakes and ties.
- Timeline & chronologyReconstruct the sequence of events as a dated, sourced timeline.
- Fact-check & claim verificationVerify specific claims and rate each against the evidence.
- Source & document trailFind and map the primary sources, records and data behind the story.
- Why it matters — context & stakesExplain the significance, background, precedents and who's affected.
- How it happened — mechanismReconstruct the process behind the event, step by step.
- Local angle & impactLocalize a wider story — local data, local voices, local impact.
- Story angles & questionsSurface the newsworthy angles and the questions still to answer.
- Impact & stakeholdersWho is affected, by how much, and how they're reacting.
Strategy & Operations
Frameworks that turn a question into a decision.
- Business case / feasibilityCosts vs quantified benefits, feasibility, risks, go/no-go.
- SWOT analysisAn evidence-backed SWOT synthesized into strategic moves.
- PESTLE / macro-environmentPolitical/economic/social/tech/legal/environmental factors and impact.
- Opportunity assessmentWhat the opportunity is, its size, how to capture it, and the risks.
- Risk assessmentA ranked risk register with likelihood, impact and mitigations.
- Benchmarking studyLike-for-like comparison against peers, with the practices behind leaders.
Finance & Investment
Diligence, theses and sector analysis on public information.
- Company deep-dive / due diligenceBusiness, traction, competition, risks and red flags.
- Investment thesisThe bull case, the drivers, the bear case, and signposts to watch.
- Sector / industry analysisStructure, dynamics, players and outlook, quantified.
- Valuation comparablesA true peer set with standard multiples and what they imply.
Policy, Legal & Compliance
Map the rules, weigh the options, check the requirements.
- Regulatory landscapeThe rules that apply, who's in scope, obligations and timelines.
- Policy analysis / briefThe issue, the options with evidence, and a clear-eyed assessment.
- Compliance & standards mappingMap controls to obligations with gap prompts and evidence needed.
Product & UX
Understand users, tear down products, prioritize opportunities.
- User research synthesisTurn scattered signal into prioritized needs and insights.
- Product / UX teardownCore flows, standout and weak patterns, what to learn or avoid.
- Feature & opportunity researchDemand evidence, how others solve it, and what's worth doing.
- Best-practice / pattern reviewEstablished patterns, when they apply, and the anti-patterns.
Learning & Decision Support
Buyer's guides, decisions, explainers and learning paths.
- Buyer's guide / product comparisonWhat to look for, the options compared, and picks by need and budget.
- Options analysis / decision matrixWeighted criteria, a scored matrix, and a conditional recommendation.
- Learning path / how-to deep diveAn ordered path with resources, milestones and common mistakes.
- Explainer / primerA clear, accurate, jargon-light explanation for a smart non-expert.
- Pros & cons / should IAn even-handed weighing, who it suits, alternatives, a bottom line.
Fiction & Creative Writing
Turn a premise into finished, class-A prose worth reading.
- Short storyA complete, unified short story with a real arc and a resonant ending.
- Fantasy taleHigh or dark fantasy with a world revealed through story, not info-dumps.
- Science fictionOne strong idea, dramatized through character — not lectured.
- Mystery & thrillerTension from the first line; a payoff both surprising and inevitable.
- Historical fictionA period rendered convincingly, research worn lightly.
- Flash fiction / vignetteVery short, complete and resonant — compression and suggestion.
- Character monologueA voice so complete the author disappears; self-revealing subtext.
- Scene / chapterOne vivid, self-contained scene, written to novel standard.
- Mock biographyA deadpan, fully-invented life story in the grand biographical register.
- Fable, myth & fairy taleThe timeless cadence of the oral tradition; simple surface, deep meaning.
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- Attach files, up to 25 MB each
- Report and activity log by email
- Live run page with result files
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- Higher daily limits
- Runs start instantly, no email confirmation
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- Continue, revise or fill the gaps of any run
- Fold your own past research into new runs
- Review & edit the plan before each run
- Private history, in-app
- Everything in Free
Questions
Before you
light it up.
How long does a run take?
A couple of minutes for a simple question, longer for heavy tasks with many files. You can watch progress live, and the email arrives the moment it finishes. There is no need to keep the tab open.
Who pays for free runs?
We do. Free runs use our own model keys, which is why there is a daily limit. It keeps the service open to everyone without asking for a card.
Are free runs private?
No. Free runs appear in the public gallery, with your email address obscured. For research that should stay private, create an account.
What can I upload?
Any documents the team should read: PDFs, Word files, text, spreadsheets, transcripts. Up to 25 MB per file. The team examines them before planning the run.
What do I actually receive?
An email with the finished report and the full activity log attached, plus a link to the run page where you can read the report, browse and download every result file, and replay the log with filters.
What is Captain Claw?
The agent platform Captain Spark is built on. Vatra is its collaborative team mode, where a Lead, specialists, and a Reporter work a task together on a shared board. Captain Spark is the simplest way to put that team to work.
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Ready to
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