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Generate a Research Report While You Sleep

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You need a competitive analysis by tomorrow morning. Normally that means hours of tab-hopping, note-taking, and formatting. What if you could delegate the entire thing to an AI agent that works while you sleep?

Spawn a background research task

Computer, research the top five project management tools, compare their pricing and features, and save a report on my Desktop.

Vox — Background Agent
Task spawned via spawn_task — running in backgroundDone
Phase 1: Planning research strategyDone
Searching web for "project management tools 2026"Done
Fetching pricing pages for Asana, Monday, Linear, Notion, ClickUpDone
5Analyzing and comparing featuresRunning

The moment you say this, Vox spawns a background agent via its task engine. You can close your laptop, go to dinner, and come back to a finished report.

How background agents work

Vox's task engine is built on BullMQ and runs in two phases:

  • Planning phase — The agent breaks your request into steps, identifies which tools it needs, and creates an execution plan
  • Execution phase — It works through each step, using web search, page fetching, file creation, and other tools as needed
Note

Agents maintain a journal with checkpoints. If something goes wrong, they can roll back to the last good state and try a different approach — automatically.

Check in anytime

You

How's that research task going?

Vox

I've completed research on 4 of 5 tools. Currently fetching ClickUp's enterprise pricing. Estimated completion: 8 minutes.

Use search_tasks or get_task to check on any running or completed background task. Vox tracks status, progress, and output for every agent.

The finished product

When the agent completes, you get a full research report — not bullet points or raw data, but a structured document comparing pricing tiers, feature matrices, pros and cons, and a recommendation based on the criteria you specified.

Computer, take that research report and turn it into a presentation for the team.

Chain the output into document generation. The report becomes a slide deck in seconds.

Agents learn from past tasks

Vox's background agents store trigger-solution patterns from completed tasks. The next time you ask for a similar report, the agent already knows which sources were most useful, which format you preferred, and which comparison criteria matter to you.


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