Deep Queries, Fast Answers: Why ‘Deep Research’ Wants to Be Your New Analytics Runtime
TL;DR Deep Research agents are good at planning over messy data. They are less good at finishing the plan without taking convenient shortcuts, which is awkward if the job involves recall, auditability, or a CFO who dislikes “probably”. Semantic-operator systems have the opposite problem: they can process unstructured records methodically, but their iterator-style execution can be expensive, slow, and clumsy when the answer requires reasoning across files. ...