Gen AI App Series

Google Gemini Deep Research [Gen AI App Series]

Mike Kaput
Duration: 17 minutes
Date Released: August 2025
Course Level: Beginner to Intermediate
What if you could turn hours, or even days, of complex business research into a task that AI completes for you in just a few minutes? That’s the promise of Google Gemini’s Deep Research feature, a tool that goes far beyond simple search to act as an autonomous research analyst on your behalf.

Welcome to the Gen AI Apps Series—rapid-fire, expert reviews designed to help you make fast, informed decisions about the latest AI tools. In this installment, we explore one of the first mainstream agentic AI tools: Google Gemini Deep Research. We'll show you how this system can take a complex business query, create a multi-step research plan, scour hundreds of sources, and deliver a polished, multi-page report with citations. This is a must-watch for any knowledge worker looking to dramatically compress research time and get to decision-ready intelligence faster than ever before.

What You’ll Learn

This course will teach you how to:

- Understand what makes Deep Research an "agentic AI tool" and how it differs from a standard chatbot.
- Evaluate its ability to create a research plan, synthesize findings, and generate a polished report.
- Assess if Deep Research is the right tool to aid your research process.

Key Questions Addressed

This review is structured to give you answers to the most important questions about this new technology, including:

- Is this just another chatbot, or is it a genuinely new category of AI tool?
- How does Deep Research handle a truly complex, multi-step business research query?
- Can the AI deliver a polished, well-cited report that's ready for a leadership audience?

Who It’s For

This course is designed for:

- Knowledge workers buried in research, such as market analysts, marketers, and sales teams.
- Business leaders looking for tools that offer a significant competitive advantage in speed and intelligence when doing any type of research.

What You’ll Do

During this course, you will:

- Watch a hands-on demo where we task Gemini Deep Research with a complex, real-world business query.
- See AI create a multi-step research plan for approval.
- Analyze the final, multi-page report generated by the AI on which professional jobs are most and least susceptible to disruption from AI, based only on high-authority sources.
Meet Your Instructor

Mike Kaput

Mike Kaput is the Chief Content Officer at SmarterX and a leading voice on the application of AI in marketing. He is the co-author of Marketing Artificial Intelligence and co-host of The Artificial Intelligence Show podcast.

Chief Content Officer, SmarterX