> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.clearcue.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Web Research

> Check your tracked companies against the open web — news, press releases, and coverage that never reaches social.

Web research asks your question of the open web: news, press releases, company sites, and any other coverage about each tracked company.

It runs **monthly** and counts as **5 signals** against your allowance. On a signal it appears as **Premium Research**.

## When to use it

Reach for web research when the evidence lives outside LinkedIn:

* A funding round covered by the trade press before anyone posts about it
* An acquisition, partnership, or contract win announced in a press release
* Expansion, certification, or regulatory news published on the company's own site
* Anything about a company whose team barely posts at all

This is the one that reaches quieter companies. Plenty of good accounts publish almost nothing socially and are still written about.

<Note>
  Web research counts as 5 signals rather than 1. Aim it at behaviours where outside coverage is genuinely the better source, rather than adding it to everything by reflex.
</Note>

## What you configure

| Field | What it does |
| - | - |
| **Research question** | What you want answered about each tracked company. Written for you from the behaviour, and editable. |
| **Frequency** | How often each company is revisited. Monthly by default. |

Ask for something that would be *published* — an event, a milestone, a decision. A question about private internal detail has no public evidence to find, so it comes back empty however often it runs.

## What you get back

Each finding states what was found and cites the pages it came from, so you can open the source and verify it before using it in outreach. One finding can carry several sources when more than one outlet covered the same event.

Findings appear on the company alongside everything else that behaviour has detected.

<Tip>
  Pair it with [social research](/research/social-research) on the same behaviour. The web tells you a round closed; social tells you which of your contacts is celebrating it — and that's the one to reply to.
</Tip>

## Related

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Research overview" icon="telescope" href="/research/overview">
    What research needs, and how to add it to a signal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Social research" icon="linkedin" href="/research/social-research">
    The same question, asked of a company's own social activity.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


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