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Synthesize a brief
5 min read·Lesson 2 of Research and synthesis
Gathering sources is only half the job. A pile of links and quotes isn't a brief — someone still has to distill it into something you can act on. That distilling is where Cowork earns its keep: ask it to turn many sources into a tight, one-page synthesis with the sources listed.
The trick is to spec the deliverable. Don't just say "summarize this." Say what shape you want, who it's for, and how long it should be. A brief for your CEO reads differently from a brief for your engineering team — same research, different framing, different level of detail.